Name: 1930s-60s General Motors Company Auto Manufacturing and Futurism Films on DVD
Brand: gm
Price: 14.97 USD
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Description

From Dawn to Sunset (1937)

Learn more about the men and women who build your Chevrolets in this short film. It follows a variety of people in the workplace and at home so you can see how they work and how they enjoy their leisure time after a satisfying day at the factory building new Chevrolets for everyone in America.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 24:56

General Motors News Parade

This is a newsreel showing the contributions of General Motors during World War II. It includes teh celebration of GMs 100,000th Detroit Diesel engine, a look at GM war machinery circa 1944, the 2500th Wildcat plan being christened by Mary Martin and many other interesting clips depicting GM during the war.

Audio/Visual: sound, B&W
Run Time: 17:05

Achievement USA (1955)

General Motors celebrates the production of its 50 millionth automobile with a presentation of the car as it is being built and rolled off the assembly line and a parade through GMs hometown of Flint Michigan with a variety of fascinating GM car-centric floats.

General Motors celebrates production of 50 millionth automobile with a parade through Flint, Michigan.

Producer: Sound Masters
Audio/Visual: Sd, C
Run time: 10:45

Design for Dreaming (1956)

General Motors, in one of its Motorama productions, shows futuristic cars and the kitchen of the future.

Producer: MPO Productions
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 9:16

A Touch of Magic (1961)

This 1961 General Motors Motorama film presents the latest cars and appliances and a glimpse of what is coming in the future.

Producer: MPO Television Films, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 10:35

To New Horizons (1940)

This film documents General Motor's contribution to the worlds fair - GMs Futurama exhibit in its Highways and Horizons pavillion. It showcases the wonderful future world of 1960 - which given the mental state of the American people during this time of war was quite a marvel and momentary escape from a world that had just rolled from a depression to a war.