Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance (1949)

A short that teaches you how to stand as you give a speech. Don't miss the hilarious "knees test." This short was shown on MST3k.

This short is a public domain film and is part of the Rick Prelinger archives.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Speech
• Platform
• Posture
• and
• Appearance
• 1940s
• Knees
• Test

[kaliyarivet]

This guy's tone is a little accusatory...

[smartz100]

I tried giving a speech with my hands on my knees and rotating. But people just laughed at me.

[cybervegeto]

I kept wanting to rewind every time the video skipped or the audio went out in the beginning there..

[MstGuy1]

"She keeps her feet clamped tightly together."

"Nuff said."

[BerkhaimPartner]

Haha...that´s great!^^

Very educational and kinda funny...

My Favorit

"he´s the Turtle-Type" xD

[popegrutch]

5:05 "Do you find me pleasing?"

(alternately) "be sure to use plenty of lip and tongue action..."

7:13 "it's just a jump to the left..."

[gargos25]

this is genius... all the US and even Soviet films from the 50s are of the highest quality!! what went wrong with the world that we stopped producing quality like this?

[littlevolcano]

"I will NOT make the knee test!"

[Beast9156]

*mst3k's this to himself*

[jfulbright]

Was the bad posture guy drunk? Was he coming off a 3-day meth bender?

OTOH, the "good" speaker guy looked a lot like Joseph Goebbels.

Gosh, the world was so much more hide-bound back then! How conformist.