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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas)
- Year
- 1937
- Abstract
- Produced to convince Depression-weary Americans that new frontiers still lay ahead. Excellent compilation of stock shots of 1930s-era manufacturing, research laboratories and industry.
- Notes
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Produced: Audio Productions, Inc. in collaboration with National Industrial Council
Sponsor: National Industrial Council
Run Time: 9:57
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Great Depression (1930s);Manufacturing;Manifest Destiny;Manufacturing;Manifest Destiny
- Theme
- This plane smells....
- Review
-
Ultra bizarre short featuring everyone's favorite spokesman of the 50's, Lowell Thomas explaining to what new boundaries man has come, and has yet to accomplish. Mr Thomas first says "I'm going to ask you one or 2 questions.." The first question I had is. "Is that your real hair Loweell?" anyways, he goes into a great diatribe of the US Patent office saying years ago that everything that could be invented, has. Ha! Lowell says, why we have vulcanized rubber! Oil! Rubber! Look at all the things we can make out of Petroleum! (What exactly is 'Coke'?) and goes on about the many more progresses being made, why we're making airplanes out of sour milk! (really, he says that) and pretty soon, don't be surprised to find farmers fields of automobiles! A mix of the what was then, what could have been, and what definitely is not.
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F