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An advertisement for Playtex Magic Cling Bra in which an offscreen female narrator describes how the new bra stays in place for three cheerleaders performing at a sporting event. A split-screen contrasts the qualities of the Playtex product against an ordinary bra. Finalist for the 1961 Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Playtex Sarong girdles in which a woman models the product and explains its capabilities. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
Discusses man's use of planned outdoor spaces in art and architecture, emphasizing that people need more well-planned, attractive, open spaces in cities. Compares spaces in such paintings as Mondrian's "Composition London" and "Broadway Boogie" to the open, planned areas of a city. Contrasts the piazza of Portofino, a small fishing village, with the plaza of St. Peter's in Rome.
An advertisement for Pledge all-purpose cleaner in which an animation of a housewife talks to her husband about Pledge. Then both the husband and wife clean the house while singing a jingle about the product. Jingle and dialogue are in French.
A percussion beat begins the ad as an announcer sets up the reveal of the car and the color grading gets lighter as it comes into frame. Emphasis it put on how this Plymouth is "solid" and a unibody car that offers great economy for a full-sized vehicle, is good on gas saving, easy maintenance, and offers a new speedometer and wheel design. Throughout the ad we see a well-dressed couple in the vehicle and the driver points out some of the new features with his hand as he drives.
A person in a suit looks to the camera with an audience off-screen while talking about the new Plymouth cars. A man comes onscreen wearing a long coat and talks about road testing all the Plymouth cars and deciding the Fury V-8 was the best one. The man has an accent that's hard to decipher and each time he talks the audience laughs, at some point the presenter has a hard time understanding him too.
The main Plymouth announcer greets Don Knotts and they perform a small sketch. Knotts jokes about how he likes planning out trips but not going on them, so he's just putting bags in his car. They discuss how the Plymouth is good for 200,000 miles and another man comes in as Knotts and the announcer disappear briefly. The new presenter describes the unibody design and mechanics of the car. There's an audience laugh track for some jokes and applause at the end of the ad.
Someone in a suit walks in and talks to the audience as he prepares himself to sit down at the piano. He begins playing and singing about Plymouth. A full band joins in and he stops playing and starts singing to camera while snapping his fingers. While he's singing he's in a small screen in the upper left as you see a couple driving around a Plymouth on the full screen. A crowd off-screen applauds him as he ends his song.
An advertisement for the Plymouth 60 sedan in which a couple drives around a countryside singing about how the Plymouth improves upon the common "shake, rattle, and roll" problem of other vehicles on the market with a more solid alignment. The advertisement features a jingle based on the 12-bar blues song "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Charles E. Calhoun. Submitted for Clio Awards category Autos.
A man in a suit steps out of a Plymouth car while he's parked next to a ranch-style house. He starts talking about the great features of the car and its solid build when a copy of him walks on screen and argues with the original version talking. His double says that the car is the perfect performance car and they both go back and forth over the unique features and build of the car. The original opens the door for the double who takes a seat in the car. They both say in unison to camera it is Chrysler engineered.
Discusses Poems by Emily Dickinson. Considers her skill as a poet, and the effectiveness of her poetry. Traces the publishing and editing history of her poems. Emphasizes the significance of the 1956 Harvard edition from the standpoint of both publication and scholarship. (Syracuse University) Kinescope.
Episode 47 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.
Shows Ansel Adams photographing an old house and its inhabitants from many perspectives and with many purposes in mind. He explains that sensitive photographers can become photo-poets.
Discusses the economic, political, and moral aspects of the use of insecticides on a wide scale by public agencies. Discusses effects of insecticides on insects, birds, and fish. Interviews public health authorities and Audubon Society leaders on the economic consequences of using insecticides. Makes a strong plea for more careful government control of wide-scale spraying.
E.J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, helps us ring in the 50th episode with a discussion on the polarization of politics and the importance of empathy.
