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The World Of Ephemera #5: Into the future- let's escape! Plus: How to trick men!
Private Snafu goes in search of booby traps, a sex education film from 1966 & other films that weren't supposed to last. But did.
Private SNAFU - Booby Traps (1944)
Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way.
"Year 1999 AD" - A 1967 Film Imagines the Future
They got some things wrong, they got some things right. One thing they most definitely got right: casting actress Marj Dusay:
A Word to the Wives (1955) with Darren McGavin
How two women trick a husband into buying a new kitchen. Svelte, perfect-looking Jane Peters and her equally svelte, perfect-looking friend are sipping coffee in their Paris original housedresses in the unnamed friend's modern kitchen. "I'm so proud of it it's almost indecent!" Jane's friend proclaims, wiggling one of her perfectly-shaped nails. She suggests that Jane go shopping with her on a spur-of-the-moment "small spree" (to buy more stunning housedresses, no doubt), but Jane sadly refuses. "I haven't got a dream kitchen to make things easier," she sighs. "Mine's strictly the nightmare-type."
Amazing Short Film on Old Time Radio Sound Effects: "Back of the Mike" (1938)
Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects. A boy lies on his bed (wearing a white shirt and a necktie), listening to a radio western. We see the images the radio creates in his mind, then we cut to the studio, where we see that this whole fantasy world is created at a frantic pace by announcers in three-piece suits and sound-effects technicians operating incredibly complicated jury-rigged devices.
Vintage 1966 Sex Ed Film: "Parent To Child About Sex"
A film on how to talk to your children about sex. Horrifying depiction of one's most awkward years. While this films producers should be applauded for their sensible approach in teaching parents how to talk to kids about sex, the embarrassing situations will produce nervous giggles among even the most jaded audiences. Click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Time Out for Trouble (1961)
This 1961 safety film is the epitome of suburban horror. Housewife Jane is tormented by a clock in her home that was a gift from her mother-in-law. The clock somehow sets up accidents and then blames the victims for "letting their emotions run away with them." The point is supposed to be that emotionally volatile situations often result in accidents because people act irrationally and ignore safety precautions they usually follow. It's a sound mental health message, but it's undercut by the fact that we're supposed to accept at face value Jane's obvious hallucinations. This absurd premise, along with the poor production values, bizarre soundtrack (only organ and Spanish guitar appear to be used), grainy black-and-white photography, and sparse sets all add up to one dark, weird, creepy film.
A Coach for Cinderella (1936)
A Cinderella cartoon to promote a car company - a very early example of advertising aimed at children. Gotta get them brand loyal while they're still young! This is one of the cartoons produced by Jam Handy for Chevrolet as theatrical shorts -- probably the most beautiful industrial cartoons ever made. The story lines in these shorts are mostly reworkings of children's fairy tales, but they are so artfully executed that you won't mind.
In this cartoon, Cinderella looks like a stylish late '30s flapper and her "finest coach in the land" looks like a Chevrolet. A Coach For Cinderella was the first Technicolor sponsored film. Inspired, in part, by George Pal's advertising films for Philips Petroleum.
Cinderella set a standard for quality to which other American advertising animation would aspire. Indeed, it is rumored that the scene in which birds wrap Cinderella's gown around the wooden dummy was appropriated by Walt Disney for his own Cinderella. The other Technicolor cartoons that Jam Handy produced for Chevrolet (most of them have not been seen in over fifty years) were A Ride for Cinderella, One Bad Knight, Peg-Leg Pedro, Nicky Nome Rides Again, The Princess and the Pauper, and Jumping Beans. Hints in the trade papers suggest that the animation was supervised by Frank Goldman.
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