The Educational Archives, Vol. 4 - On the Job

Starring:Skip Elsheimer
Studio: Fantoma
Product Type: DVD

Description

A guided tour through the darkened classrooms of the past. Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks, a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Fantoma Films continues it's acclaimed series of educational and industrial shorts with Volume 4, "On the Job." Learn about workplace safety, the insidious nature of office gossip, and how to fire someone without being shot. Films include: Shake Hands with Danger, The Grapevine, Promotion By-Pass, The Trouble with Women.

Customer Reviews:

More More More!.......2004-12-26

I just loved these DVDs, we bought every one that's been released and want more! Many of these we remember from our grammar school years. I can hear the clik-clik of the old projector, and smell the classroom scents of crayons and paste. These films don't have commentary, they are shown as they were intended to be seen. They are hysterically funny, and since they weren't meant to be funny, that makes it MORE funny! Anyone who watched films in schoolfrom the 50s through the 70s will get a kick out of these DVDs.

Unique, nostalgic, and totally hilarious!.......2003-01-25

This collection of vintage shorts is so goofy and fun to watch that you may want to play it for friends and share a good laugh.

"The Trouble With Women" tries to address sexism in the workplace with terrible overacting and dated dialogue. Listen carefully to the voice of the actor who plays the boss. I could swear that's Thurl Ravenscroft who later supplied the voice of Tony the Tiger for Frosted Flakes and became a singing bust in Disney's Haunted Mansion.

"When You Grow Up" and "Purely Coincidental" both revel in bad music. The first is so mellow that it would put the children of today asleep. The later zaps us with bursts of electrified panic to indicated that food preparing machinery has not been properly sanitized.

The best segment has to be "Shake Hands With Danger". Professional stuntmen play out a series of on the job mishaps that are sometimes unintentionally funny. Look for Cliff from the International House of Pancakes commercials. He was going by the name Cliff back then too. This time he's having his truck flipped over instead of his pancakes. Ultimately, it's the "Shake Hands With Danger" theme song that steals the show here...and I'm still singing it.

Good campy stuff. Especially 70's and 80's........2002-09-19

This is the first DVD in this series that I have watched, and I was blown away.

My two favorites have to be "Shake Hands with Danger" a Caterpillar-financed safety film featuring countless construction mishaps set to a country western soundtrack, and "Purely Coincidental" featuring some of the most earnest over-acting you'll ever see in an educational film.

Also not to be missed is "All Together" a 1970 Lou Rawls narrated recruitment film trying to get more African Americans into the Navy. Right on!

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