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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- American Harvest (Part I)
- Year
- 1955
- Abstract
- This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. While it forcefully demonstrates how central automobile manufacturing is to the American economy, it even more strikingly shows the effects of the automobile upon our landscape. Bombastic narration is accompanied by excellent images of automobile manufacturing, the extraction and processing of raw materials from the earth, and mid-1950s consumerism. Cinematography: Gordon Avil, Pierre Mols and Robert Tavernier. Music: Samuel Benavie. Narrator: John Forsythe. Revised from the original 1951 version.
- Notes
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Produced: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Handy (Jam) Organization
Run Time: 13:11
Audio/Visual: Sd, C - Keyword
- Manufacturing;Automobiles: Economic effects;Sustainability: 1950s;Automobiles: Economic effects;Sustainability: 1950s
- Theme
- Ohhhh! Manufacturing is GOOD! NOW I understand!
- Review
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The American Harvest celebrates every (and I mean every) person out there manufacturing products. Of course, this being a Jem Handy picture, that 'manufacturing person' out there seems to tie into the manufacture of Chevrolets. I did like the beginning, with it's salute to all sorts of working men, to the sheep herder to the cotton rancher. Soon, it envelops, as it should, to how they're tied in to the glorious manufacture of automobiles. There are some great scenes of assembly line workings, with some highly questionably dangerous activities. But this movie seems to keep driving the same point over and over again, which hurts it's chances of getting higher star rating.
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F