Eat your K rations and like it
February 15, 2014 12:54 AM Subscribe
Hundreds of newsreel and publicity films from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s -- the golden era of instructional, scientific, government, and industry films -- are now available on YouTube via users like Ella's Archive (focusing on transport and technology), Val73TV4 (British Council portraits of English towns & more), NuclearVault (war and diplomacy) and others.
How about starting with The Big Delivery Wagon (1951) a Heinz-sponsored spot about nationwide food distribution? Or Native Foods: Commandments For Health (1945), a U.S. Navy animated training film featuring Private McGillicuddy, who neither likes Vienna sausage nor seems to know that local foods are full of "poison more treacherous than a Jap warlord." Maybe Choosing For Happiness (1950) has some choice dating tips for even today's women? Or show your kid Defense Against Invasion (1943) in which a doctor explains to a fearful child exactly why he ought to get immunized.
How about starting with The Big Delivery Wagon (1951) a Heinz-sponsored spot about nationwide food distribution? Or Native Foods: Commandments For Health (1945), a U.S. Navy animated training film featuring Private McGillicuddy, who neither likes Vienna sausage nor seems to know that local foods are full of "poison more treacherous than a Jap warlord." Maybe Choosing For Happiness (1950) has some choice dating tips for even today's women? Or show your kid Defense Against Invasion (1943) in which a doctor explains to a fearful child exactly why he ought to get immunized.
Mike Nelson just awoke from a deep sleep, uncertain why but knowing that there is work to be done.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:17 AM on February 15, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:17 AM on February 15, 2014 [3 favorites]
Holy cow. Choosing for Happiness was mild enough, except for this scene:
SHE: You're so inconsiderate!
HE: Look who's talking! Why, someone oughta take you across his knee and give you a good spanking. Might make you more human.
SHE: Maybe you're the one to do it!
HE: Maybe, but I doubt it.
HER FRIEND: He sounds like the best of all!
These are the moments where I thank the stars that I did not have to live through that era.
posted by Miko at 7:50 AM on February 15, 2014
SHE: You're so inconsiderate!
HE: Look who's talking! Why, someone oughta take you across his knee and give you a good spanking. Might make you more human.
SHE: Maybe you're the one to do it!
HE: Maybe, but I doubt it.
HER FRIEND: He sounds like the best of all!
These are the moments where I thank the stars that I did not have to live through that era.
posted by Miko at 7:50 AM on February 15, 2014
Commandments For Health had a very unexpected last two seconds. No wonder Private McGillicuddy doesn't care for those suspicious Vienna sausages....
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 8:51 AM on February 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 8:51 AM on February 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
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