Classic General Motors Auto Manufacturing Films DVD: 1930s Automobile & Car Manufacturing Industry Films
This DVD contains two brilliantly made industrial propaganda films produced by General Motors Co. used to promote the continued growth of the automobile industry. Packed full of footage of automobile manufacturing plants and workers in action these films bring the history of auto making back to life. Table Of Contents: (1) From Dawn To Sunset (1937) - General Motors propaganda film promoting industrial manufacturing as the key to America's success. Includes great footage from some of the 12 plants located in different cities across America including, Tarrytown NY, Flint MI, Oakland CA, Detroit MI, Atlanta GA, Buffalo NY, Janesville WI, Norwood Cincinnati OH, Baltimore MD, & St. Louis MO. Begins with this exert "Day breaks in the East and the mighty Army rises. Not an Army marching to the deep and desolate roar of shells, but a mighty army of workers who go forth accompanied by the whistles from America's greatest factories - While their giant smoke stacks write across the skies promise of a new prosperity in a land where that prosperity brings a fuller life to every man who labors and who serves. And as each builder marches forth to shape his destiny tens of thousands more go with him, side by side - and so each one is multiplied" - 22 Minutes (2) Master Hands (1936) - Spectacular film filled with general motors manufacturing plant workers in action. Film begins with the following exert "Today twenty five million people are driving motor cars on the streets and highways of America. To provide this transportation over 5,060,000 skilled workers are occupied. The twenty five million drivers and their families who depend on these workers for personal transportation have little opportunity to see at work the skilled craftsmen whose master hands command the great machinery of production. But day after day this great drama goes on in the foundries and factories and the assembly plants in which these cars are made" - 27 Minutes