Films in the archive: : Hollywood in Detroit

• Autores: Hanna Rose Shell
• Localización: Technology and Culture, ISSN-e 1097-3729, Vol. 55, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 711-715
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Prelinger Archives, a collection of over 60,000 so-called ephemeral films, approximately 6,500 of which are freely available online for viewing and public download, is an amazing resource for research and teaching in the history of technology. Here, Shell highlights two sponsored films from a Prelinger sub-collection that have special relevance to the site of the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Dearborn MI. Both films were produced by the same company, the Jam Handy Organization in the same year, 1936, and were commissioned by a single operation, the Chevrolet division of General Motors. These are the animated short A Coach for Cinderella and the half-hour symphonic film Master Hands. Coach and Master Hands appeared in 1936, the year of the first sitdown strikes in the auto industry.