What Did 1950s Inner-City Young Men Do & Think?
Melvin considered himself an ordinary 1950s Washington DC guy. We interviewed him as one of the characters for my television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. He was frank and honest about what he remembered and how he felt about it at the time and in 1989 when this interview was made. You can ...
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1950s TV Pushed Viewers To Become Consumers
The speaker is J. Fred McDonald, a leading academic in the field of popular culture. He wrote many articles on pop culture and collected one of the largest archives of 16mm films in the United States from that era. It is now housed at The Library of Congress. I interviewed him in 1989 on the sub...
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Hidden Killers Of The Post War Home (Social History Documentary) | Timeline
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb looks at the hidden dangers of the British postwar home. In the 1950s, people embraced modern design for the first time after years of austerity and self-denial. The modern home featured moulded plywood furniture, fibreglass, plastics and polyester - materials and technologies t...
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1958 - America Needs To Keep Its "Moral Toughness"
This “documentary” appeared on national TV back then. Propaganda it is. But propaganda and the time right after Sputnik was launched and America felt threatened by the Soviet Union and what they had accomplished. I made a feature-length documentary on the American reaction to the launch of Sputnik w...
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Railroad Town
This short documentary is a delightful trip back to an era in which railroad was king. Directed by Don Haldane About the NFB The National Film Board of Canada produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries and fiction. Our stories explore the world we live in from a Can...
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At This Moment (1956) - Unusual Railroad movie explained!
This remarkable movie from the mid-1950s was made at a critical moment in railroad history. The country was about to be connected by efficient highways (Eisenhower Interstate System) and the dominance of railroads was going to be challenged. And while I don't get into it, the specter of privatiza...
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Let's Make A Sandwich (1950)
Sally Gasco (short for "gas company") and her mother make tuna rarebit for their young boy guests. Thanks to their gas stove, this process is quick and easy. This short features both the mother, daughter, and kitchen from "A Date With Your Family." As well as a "recipe" for tuna rarebit (which f...
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1957 Ford Fairlane, Gateway Classic Cars Louisville #2021
This 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 is for sale in our Louisville KY showroom. The Fairlane was Ford’s full size offering in 1957 and was the first time Ford outsold Chevrolet since 1935. This Fairlane may look relatively stock as you walk by it but once the ignition hits and the beast come to life you can ...
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The Last Command (1955 Western film )Sterling Hayden, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine
In this fact-based film, legendary Texan Jim Bowie (Sterling Hayden) attempts to come to a nonviolent compromise with Mexican President Santa Anna (J. Carrol Naish), but the negotiations soon turn sour. Consuelo de Quesada (Anna Maria Alberghetti), a Mexican girl with close ties to Jim, then warns h...
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The White Baby Boomers Had So Much Money
The speaker is Theodore Rozsak, author, historian, unique philosophical thinker. I loved interviewing him in 1989. He coined the phrase counterculture and had unique insights into the baby boomers without being one himself. If you found this of interest, please subscribe as I will present and futur...
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