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Radio Ephemera

June 7, 2008 7:57am

The link to the Prelinger Library is http://www.prelingerlibrary.org.

Czech futuristic kitchen video from 1957

April 30, 2008 7:30am

This is the Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, and the footage is probably a newsreel handout (what we would now call a video news release). See Design for Dreaming at archive.org/details/prelinger.

UPA's "Man on the Land" industrial cartoon

March 17, 2008 5:29am

There's an incomplete but fully downloadable and unrestricted copy of this public domain film at the Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org/details/ManOnTheLand. -- Rick P.

Pro-tech/anti-commie vid from the 1939 World's Fair

December 3, 2007 11:21am

In his book "Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1933–1955," William L. Bird discusses this film and others, placing them in the context of industry's New Deal-era attempt to capture the hearts and minds of Americans back from government. The Great Depression was widely seen as a case of "industry caused it, government fixed it," and industry, especially the National Association of Manufacturers, wanted to regain the high ground.

Bird's book is an interesting read for those wanting to follow up on CelSe7en's remarks and review past culture wars and ideological conflicts.

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