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For the Very Best in Exploitation Cinema from the 1930s to 70s! Something Weird Video was founded by the late great Mike Vraney (1957-2014) in the early 1990s. Featuring the Films of Legendary Exploiteers David F. Friedman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Doris Wishman, Joe Sarno, Michael & Roberta Findlay, Barry Mahon and so many more! Classic Sexploitation, Horror, Seventies Sleaze, Roadshow Rarities, Nudie Cuties, Burlesque, Campy Educational Shorts, and Americana! Something Weird for Everyone!
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 11
Every day is the 4th of July with our Lifestyle U.S.A. series of 16mm Americana, and this 11th volume highlights shorts celebrating the two star-spangled pillars this nation is founded upon: freedom and finance!
YOU'RE AHEAD, MR. X (b&w) gets things off to a great start as car salesman JEFFREY LYNN sells a 1952 Chevrolet to...The Invisible Man! No kidding. An invisible customer strolls right into a Chevy salesroom (with a godawful special effect providing his footsteps on a carpet), plays with a car’s handles and pedals, and then takes it out for an invisible spin. He is, of course, "a symbol of millions of satisfied Chevrolet owners" and no doubt ready to make the world grovel at his feet.
ROOM FOR DISCUSSION (b&w) demonstrates the value of gab. High-schooler Dennis can’t solve a pent-up problem until he talks it out with Mom and Dad. And a factory averts a strike by talking grievances with management. Fair enough. But then things go a little too far by showing how various people’s lives are quickly improved when they get involved with community Discussion Groups: "Talking it over can be effective whether it concerns personal problems, family problems, or problems of society at large!" Blah, blah, blah, blah....
FREEDOM TO READ (b&w) is a surprisingly thoughtful discussion on book banning (from JULIAN ROFFMAN, director of the 1961 "The Mask") which pits a strong-willed librarian against an over-zealous group of patriots who want books on Communism removed from a local library. And though it leaves the questions it raises unanswered, it tips the scales with a major endorsement from President Eisenhower "We must be alert not only to the fanatic cunning of the Communist conspiracy, but to the grave dangers in meeting freedom with ignorance!" We like Ike!
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (b&w) is not only the longest film on this collection but a 31-minute costumed mini-epic about...food preservation (!) starting with Napoleon worrying about feeding his soldiers, through Peter Duran’s 1810 experiments with cans of exploding peas, to the American Civil War - with a cameo from a wildly over-acted Louis Pasteur-and ending with the humble beginnings of ketchup-king Henry Heinz and his first bottles of horse radish: "Good home cooking put up in cans!" Your assignment, class: list all 57 varieties!
IMMIGRATION (b&w) short and sweet: problems in Europe lead to Ellis Island and the wonderfully ethnic slums and ghettos of America! Hurray for Foreigners!
SUCCESS STORY (color) shows what it takes to have "a tremendous and exciting career in retail selling" by zeroing in on Miss Barrie, a very-impressed-with-herself fashion saleswoman who’s not only "honestly interested" in the clothes she sells, but possesses that "extra bit of enthusiasm that means so much." And do we detect a lesbian undercurrent wafting through this one... or is that just wishful thinking?
WORKING DOLLARS (color) is a cartoon for grown-ups from 1956 suggesting that the best place for those extra dollars is the New York Stock Exchange. Just ask for a Monthly Investment Plan and watch those "satisfactory dividends" roll in. Insert your own topical joke here.
YOU'RE AHEAD, MR. X (b&w) gets things off to a great start as car salesman JEFFREY LYNN sells a 1952 Chevrolet to...The Invisible Man! No kidding. An invisible customer strolls right into a Chevy salesroom (with a godawful special effect providing his footsteps on a carpet), plays with a car’s handles and pedals, and then takes it out for an invisible spin. He is, of course, "a symbol of millions of satisfied Chevrolet owners" and no doubt ready to make the world grovel at his feet.
ROOM FOR DISCUSSION (b&w) demonstrates the value of gab. High-schooler Dennis can’t solve a pent-up problem until he talks it out with Mom and Dad. And a factory averts a strike by talking grievances with management. Fair enough. But then things go a little too far by showing how various people’s lives are quickly improved when they get involved with community Discussion Groups: "Talking it over can be effective whether it concerns personal problems, family problems, or problems of society at large!" Blah, blah, blah, blah....
FREEDOM TO READ (b&w) is a surprisingly thoughtful discussion on book banning (from JULIAN ROFFMAN, director of the 1961 "The Mask") which pits a strong-willed librarian against an over-zealous group of patriots who want books on Communism removed from a local library. And though it leaves the questions it raises unanswered, it tips the scales with a major endorsement from President Eisenhower "We must be alert not only to the fanatic cunning of the Communist conspiracy, but to the grave dangers in meeting freedom with ignorance!" We like Ike!
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (b&w) is not only the longest film on this collection but a 31-minute costumed mini-epic about...food preservation (!) starting with Napoleon worrying about feeding his soldiers, through Peter Duran’s 1810 experiments with cans of exploding peas, to the American Civil War - with a cameo from a wildly over-acted Louis Pasteur-and ending with the humble beginnings of ketchup-king Henry Heinz and his first bottles of horse radish: "Good home cooking put up in cans!" Your assignment, class: list all 57 varieties!
IMMIGRATION (b&w) short and sweet: problems in Europe lead to Ellis Island and the wonderfully ethnic slums and ghettos of America! Hurray for Foreigners!
SUCCESS STORY (color) shows what it takes to have "a tremendous and exciting career in retail selling" by zeroing in on Miss Barrie, a very-impressed-with-herself fashion saleswoman who’s not only "honestly interested" in the clothes she sells, but possesses that "extra bit of enthusiasm that means so much." And do we detect a lesbian undercurrent wafting through this one... or is that just wishful thinking?
WORKING DOLLARS (color) is a cartoon for grown-ups from 1956 suggesting that the best place for those extra dollars is the New York Stock Exchange. Just ask for a Monthly Investment Plan and watch those "satisfactory dividends" roll in. Insert your own topical joke here.
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LIFESTYLES USA Volume 10
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Don’t think of this as simply Vol. 10 of our Lifestyles USA. series.Think of it as a visual instruction manual on how to be a Good American. Three cheers for the red, white, and blue! IT'S EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS (color) as great stylized animation describes the perils of building up a business only to be clobbered by the competition. Comes complete with "money trains," the effects of war (seen as...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 9
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Think of America and you immediately think of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and Chevrolet Motors, who produced four of the seven shorts in this 9th volume of our Lifestyles USA. series. THE IMPORTANCE OF SELLING (b&w) is a celebration of Capitalism, 1952. A montage of Americans buying things from stores, catalogs, and vending machines is meant to convey the ...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 8
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Uncle Sam Wants You... to take another tour of Nostalgic Americana with this 8th volume of Lifestyles U.S.A., the series that will turn you into Good Americans and Better Consumers (which are, of course, synonymous) WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN (color) mixes picture-postcard views of America with powder-puff propaganda to explain how great it is to live here and how rotten it is to live over th...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 7
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Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies, for bed sheets, steaks, Cypress Gardens, and U.S. Royal Tires. And Volume 7 of our Lifestyles U.S.A. series shows you why... BATES 11th BACK TO SCHOOL PROMOTION 1949 (color) is a sales pitch for shop owners to stock Bates Fabrics and their line of "campus-tested, campus-approved Bates products" because "the Young Market is a Bates Market!" And what’s the very ...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 6
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This sixth volume of red-white-&-blue Americana takes us from countryside to chemical plants and from picking cotton to selling Pontiacs. Put it all together and it spells U.S.A.! THE RIVER (1937, b&w), "a U.S. Documentary Film" made by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S.D.A., is "a record of the Mississippi: what it has meant to us - and what it has cost us." It’s that last phrase tha...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 4
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Inflation, neurotic parents, angry bosses, sloppy posture, Ronald Reagan, and the Space Needle are just part of the American Scene on display in this fourth volume of our star-spangled series. LEGEND OF KIP VAN WINKLE (1951, b&w) offers a twist on the famous legend as Kip Van Winkle, Rip’s descendant, does some window shopping in his 1939 Hudson Valley town. A lawn mower costs $9.95. A can of p...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 3
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Volume 3 of SWV’s Lifestyles U.S.A. series features three lengthy shorts and one quick cartoon that spotlight various aspects of the American Dream, with two of the films centered around that all-purpose microcosm of America, the gas station. BORN TO SELL (1951, color) is a slick commercial for Triton oil disguised as a film about gung-ho Charlie learning to be a gas station attendant under the...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 2
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How do you define America? As this second volume of our Lifestyles U.S.A series clearly shows it’s a combination of railroads, Investment bankers, office manners, correct public speaking, Thanksgiving, and Formica. MAINLINE U.S.A. (1955, color) isn’t about shooting heroin but, rather a celebration of choo-choo trains sponsored by the Association of American Railroads: "the strong throbbing rhyt...
LIFESTYLES USA Volume 1
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What makes America great? Why, business, of course! And as the following time capsule proves, a Good American is a Good Consumer. All we have to do is put our faith in American Industry and Everything Will Be Fiiiiiiine... TO NEW HORIZONS (1940, color) shows us The Future -which officially began at the 1939 World’s Fair with a filmed version of General Motors "Futurama" exhibit. "The greater an...
HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 10
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WHAT TO DO IN A GAS ATTACK (1953; b&w) asks if you would know what to do if an enemy should suddenly attack us with poison gas. If not, follow the instructions detailed in this classic Cold-War paranoia short such as: close all windows and get upstairs, remove outer clothing, rinse eyes, wait for the de-contamination teams, and keep that hammer and metal pan handy…. FIRST AID: INJURIES AND ACCI...
HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 9
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Though there are only four films on this 9th volume of Something Weird’s Health and Safety series, each is a mini-masterpiece ranging from off-kilter weirdness to doom-laden morbidity, and encompassing everything from how to stand upright to death hovering over our heads…. TIME OF OUT LIVES (b&w) - Time is “ticking inexorably on” and so are our lives. “However it is counted, time measures the d...
HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 8
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Here’s another delightful compilation of Health & Safety shorts reminding all of the various deaths and dismemberments eager to pounce on us as we blithely glide through life…. THE LOADED GUN (color) - What’s worse than two little boys finding a loaded gun? Why, driving your car without General Tires! Obviously. So don’t die “a mangled screaming death in a mass of twisted steel” and, instead, m...
HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 7
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It's simply amazing how difficult it is to get through a normal, ordinary day without risking death, defilement, or dozens of other horrible fates waiting to pounce upon us. Fortunately, this 7th volume of Something Weird's Health & Safety series can help you survive for at least another couple of hours... NAME UNKNOWN (b&w): SID DAVIS, the man who gave America the Scariest Classroom Scare Film...
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HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 4
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HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 3
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HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 2
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HEALTH AND SAFETY SCARE FILMS Volume 1
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CRIME PREVENTION SCARE FILMS Volume 4
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I’m set-AGAINST book- banning!
Success Story: The teenage girl is named Mimsy, :) Also, the fake finishing-school accents are *chef's kiss*
Grandma, no!!!
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Thanks for posting.
Say what you will about the mid 20th century, it provided the highest standard of living the American middle class ever would have. It'll never be that good again; in a few decades there may no longer even be an American middle class.
What was her full name? I'm doing research on an item that has a photograph of her. I can't find anything, where she was from, when she passed, etc. I appreciate your time. Thank you.
Watching this made me very happy
Time passes, and nothing changes.
Thanks for posting
Superb animation aside: this propaganda shows us that the key to getting ahead in business is for upper management to huddle together and come up with ways to improve efficiency. This is what they came up with - eliminate jobs, taking people OUT of the Economy, reducing wages - see above, and raising management salaries - which actually encourages hoarding of wealth. Basically, who has any money to buy a product that you have a business to produce? Unless you factor in usury, which means most people will be in debt for the rest of their lives. And the sheer wastefulness of production for production's sake. SO you have underpaid workers, fearful of losing their jobs, that still must participate in the economy to eat, live under a roof, and perhaps raise a family, to never expect that their labour will earn them a better future. Gosh, it sounds like we haven't learned the lesson of the Great Depression at all. It's just that we have more stuff. Couple that with the fact that medical debt in this country is enough to dwarf any mortgage on a home.
So you want more government control, right?
You must be fun at parties 🎉 I bet people love having you around, always bringing the joy!
Marxists always have complaints. No solutions, but plenty of whiny complaints.
Is that mr cleaver?
Hugh Beaumont
There needs to be a return to this.... though not as extreme!
We're doomed...doomed...oh! The pain of it all!
Please buy our oil... we're better now!
Damn! This is pretty good! Always loved films in school.... would've done better!!!
While stop the oil protesters wear clothes made from petroleum!
Awesome! Thanx !!!
These are solid gold 😁 thank you❤
Wow, it is remarkable to me how strangely nurturing I find old school media like this. I don't know what it is about it, I mean it's clearly before my time and yet I feel this crazy affinity. Anyway, thank you so much for posting
Fascinating glimpse into the last century. Thank you. ❤
I dont know why, I just want to say RIP Howie Pyro
Great stuff
crony capitalism=oligarchy
Yep lets bring back the 50's taxes! Musk would paying 90%!
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:19 - 00:14:04 Legend Of Kip Van Winkle 1951 00:14:05 - 00:42:46 Preface To A Life 1950 00:42:47 - 00:58:07 Planning Your Career 1953 00:58:08 - 01:07:56 Discipline Part 2: Reprimanding 1943 01:07:54 - 01:25:21 Speech: Using Your Voice 1950 01:25:22 - 01:36:00 Propaganda Techniques 1949 01:36:01 - 01:41:38 The Ultimate Weapon 1955 01:41:39 - 01:54:58 Seattle World's Fair 1962
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:19 - 00:10:21 Lest We Forget 1941 00:10:22 - 00:14:55 You Auto Know 1958 00:14:56 - 00:34:44 Pick Your Tomorrow 1954 00:34:45 - 00:43:49 Speech: Stage Fright 1950 00:43:50 - 01:18:36 A Coin With Two Heads 1964 01:18:37 - 01:27:36 A New Day In Agriculture 1961 01:27:37 - 01:42:36 Hair Styles and Fair Styles 1964
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:19 - 00:30:31 The River (Western Electric) 00:30:32 - 01:06:48 Decision for Chemistry (Monsanto Chemical Company / MPO Productions) 01:06:49 - 01:19:33 One-Two Punch (General Truck Tire / Kraft System Recapping) 01:19:33 - 01:40:12 Destination Dotted Line: Men of Pontiac (Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors Corp) 01:40:13 - 01:54:20 Marriage and Divorce (Uncredited Production Company)
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:19 - 00:22:38 Bates 11th Back To School Promotion 1949 (Bates Fabrics) 00:22:39 - 00:36:28 With An All Star Cast 1956 (National Live Stock and Meat Board / Wilding Picture Productions) 00:36:29 - 00:49:06 ? Unk Title (Voting, Elections, Etc)? (Detroit Public Schools) 00:49:07 - 01:11:05 Life Protection Tests of Death Valley U. S. Royal (Wilding Picture Productions) 01:11:06 - 01:30:52 Our Changing Family Life (McGraw-Hill Book Company) 01:30:53 - 01:56:10 The Greatest Show On Water (?Uncredited Production Company?)
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:20 - 00:19:43 The Importance of Selling (Encyclopedia Britannica Film) 00:19:44 - 00:31:33 The Head Man (Your Chevy Dealer / Jam Handy) 00:31:34 - 00:42:39 Velvet Glove (Your Chevy Dealer / Jam Handy) 00:42:40 - 00:56:36 Voting Procedures (Department of Government Indiana University) 00:56:37 - 01:07:25 What Mr. Bell Had In Mind (Your Chevy Dealer / Jam Handy) 01:07:26 - 01:20:19 What Is A House (American Institute of Architects) 01:20:20 - 01:31:20 Help Yourself (Your Chevy Dealer / Jam Handy) 01:31:21 - 01:48:17 Defying Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica Film)
00:00:00 - 00:00:19 Intro 00:00:19 - 00:21:10 ? Unknown title (Freedom, US areas, climate, work, people, etc) 00:21:10 - 00:33:48 Our Basic Civil Rights (Coronet Film) 00:33:49 - 00:51:48 The Revolt of Charlie Winters (M.E.L. Parts and Accessories Sales) 00:51:49 - 01:10:19 Too Good To Be True (Association of the Better Business Bureau) 01:10:20 - 01:25:14 The Enchanted Pot (Karo Syrup) 01:25:15 - 01:44:15 This Is My Land (Title Insurance and Trust Company)
5:00 “Okay, Eddie…”
Take me back now please! Wonderful content, thank you!
Have I ever mentioned that I hate your screechy intro music? Even cutting it down to half-duration would be a big improvement.
Who cares what you think 💪🏾💪🏾
Its in trumps bathroom under abunch of crap that says top secret
Higherrr!
Somewhere, an Indian is crying."😅
good one !
Who is the pretty blonde in pink panties?
when did the frilly slips come out--mid 50's?
Who is the cute blonde!
Redhead in sheer light blue acetate panties with gusset very special!!!
Love that 50's sheer slip and panel red acetate panties view--SEXY!
EVE IN SHEER WHITE NYLON BRIEFS FRONT GUSSET WOW WOW WOW!
white liberal women teachers are ruining our children today
She doesn't have to worry her pretty little mind . . [][][] Lazy men want women to work [][][]
I (Heart) Something weird!
I love you so much weird
The Enchanted Pot! I love that.
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