American Harvest 1955 Chevrolet Film

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.

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Here is 50's American pride and optimism at its best. Harmless upbeat corporate propaganda from yesteryear. Sure, they don't talk about the 'negative environmental impact' of the progress shown in this film clip, so what? You'd have to be a bold person in the current economy to argue environment vs. jobs. America needs to bring it's jobs back home from China and India and get moving and progressing again. Remember 2 million extra people will be without unemployment checks by the years end !!