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Disc 1
Pop Culture - Clothing &
Fashion
7 DVD Box Set
Disc 1: Textile Industry & Textile Mill History
Films (1940s - 1950s)
  
  
  
   
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
These two films both are high on content and offer
an inside look at the manufacturing of cloth, thread, cotton and much more. Of
note is the assembly line footage showing factory practices in the textile field
in the 1950s. All in all, this is a solid and unique collection, the only one of
its kind covering the textile industry.
Title #1: The
Greater Goal: The Human Dividends from American Industry Production Date:1953 Running Time: 24 minutes Brief Description:
Excellent assembly line footage of cloth and thread being mass produced.
Southern textile mills are showcased as an advanced form of industrial efficient
and we are taught that the future success of our economic is partially dependent
on a thriving textile industry.
Title #2: How
Textile Mills Are Modernizing Production Date:
1958 Running Time:
26 minutes Brief Description:
Nice
educational movie about how electricity is adding a new dimension to textile
manufacturing. Nice footage of textile processing and cotton mill production
with narration that is sometimes very technical.
Disc 2: Models & Modeling, Fashion, Lingerie, &
Swimsuit Bikinis Films (1935-1950)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: The beginning of the objectification of women.
These films document some of the first cases women were used to sell cars,
games on television, and the desire to become famous models.
Title #1:
The Bongo Board Production Date:
1950 Running Time:
32 seconds Brief Description:
One of the best 30 seconds of film ever made. You have to watch it to
understand, but this short ad is selling a new toy the bongo board....
Title #2:
Girl On The Cover Production Date:
1940's Running Time:
9 minutes Brief Description:
Film aims to show the basics of the modeling industry, while on a visit to a
modeling agency. The narrator makes dozens of sexist remarks and seems to
have never seen a pretty girl before. A must see film about gender roles
in the the 1930's and 40's.
Title #3:
Tomorrow Always Comes Production Date:
1941 Running Time:
20 minutes Brief Description: A little girls dream of getting married takes this
film on a journey through departments stores and more importantly to a wedding
fashion show full of models, which ironically shows women in slips and lingerie
more than in gowns.
Title #4:
Miami Beach Production Date: 1935 Running Time:
48 seconds Brief Description:
Models ride on a new Chevrolet to the beach......nothing gets you women like a
new car, or so they want you to think.
Title #5:
Golf Instructor on Beach with Models Production Date:
1937 Running Time:
1 minutes Brief Description:
Golf Instructor hitting balls off of the roof a car and a models foot while he
teaches the models how to hold a club.
Title #6:
Snap Shots Production Date:
1938 Running Time:
1 minutes Brief Description:
How a good snap shot with a model is taken in a professional photography studio.
Title #7:
Fencing Models
Production Date:
1939 Running Time:
1 1/2 minutes Brief Description:
Models fence one another and then suddenly the models throw one of the girls
into the ocean.
Disc 3: Clothing Design & Designer Films (1940s
- 1950s)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: This compilation of fashion and design films is
filled with spectacular footage of vintage fashion shows, interviews,
advertisements, promotional, high fashion, western wear, dresses, fabrics, and
so much more.
Title #1:
Union Square Fashion Show Production Date:
1950 Running Time:
1 minute Brief Description:
A wonderful short newsreel covering
an outdoor fashion show.
Title #2:
Modes Of The Moment
Production Date:
1917 Running Time:
4 minutes Brief Description:
A silent fashion advertisement from the early days.
Title #3:
Story Of A Star Production Date:
1956 Running Time:
8 minutes Brief Description:
Tells the story of the development of a new stretch
material for women's stockings.
Title #4:Western
Fashions Production Date:
1940s Running Time:
1 minutes Brief Description:
Short show piece with excellent footage of vintage Western American fashion.
Title #5:
Fashion Favorites
Production Date:
1940 Running Time:
31
minutes Brief Description:
This is a Dupont promotional video, similar the modern day BASF commercial, in
that they both promote how they make the world a better place. In this
film Dupont explains there contributions in the development of fabrics which
have led to new fashions and better lifestyles.
Title #6:
Fitting Faces
Production Date:
1940 Running Time:
8 minutes Brief Description:
Fun eye glass fashion film in which a woman discovers how nice glasses can make
you feel good.
Title #7:Hair
Dress
Production Date:
1950 Running Time:
10 minutes Brief Description:
Amusing that journeys through time and how hair styles have
changed over the past centuries.
Title #8:
Pattern for Smartness
Production Date:
1948 Running Time:
18 minutes Brief Description: This
film encourages people to make their own clothes and follows a girl as she
designs her own dresses and puts on a fashion show.
Title #9: Fashion Horizons Production Date:
1940 Running Time:
19 minutes Brief Description:
An interesting fashion and travelogue film that
shows some beautiful women and their clothes as they vacation.
Title #10: Aristocrats of Fashion
Production Date:
1940s Running Time:
7 minutes Brief Description:
(Incomplete ~ No Ending) (1940s) - Bemberg, producers of Rayon, sponsored this film about the elegance and fine
stylings of rayon clothing.
Title #11: Harpers Bazaar Talks Fashion Production Date:
1970s Running Time:
10 minutes Brief Description:
(Incomplete ~ No Ending)
Interviews with famous fashion designers including Geoffrey Beene, Betsey
Johnson, Bill Blass, & Anne Klein.
Disc 4: Department Stores Films (1960's)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Classic
department store films with great footage of the manufacturing of merchandise
and merchandise on the shelf.
Title #1:
Quality Control In Modern Merchandising
Production Date:
1960s Running Time: 24 minutes Brief Description:
Film presents the quality standards
for JC Penny's clothing. Footage includes factory
scenes such as workers on the job and textile mill equipment, and the finished
touches of the product as it gets its final packaging and inspection.
Title #2:
Dollar Store
Production Date:
1960s Running Time:
3 minutes Brief Description:
Silent footage of a woman browsing a dollar store's
merchandise including fishing tackle, clothing, electronics, kitchen items, and
more.
Disc 5: Cotton Industry & Plantation Films
(1920's - 1950's)
  
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This compilation features films about the American cotton
industry. Cotton has always been an important commodity for America, both
as a producer, a consumer and a manufacturer. America currently is the
worlds second largest cotton producer and cotton was the single most important
crop of the Southern United States for much of the 19th century, which is when
it came to be know as "King Cotton." These films explore cotton farming,
manufacturing, processing, cotton gins, cotton mills, cotton products, and
cotton production in general.
Title #1: California
Cotton Mills Production Date:
1924 Running Time: 6 minutes Brief Description:
This film, although silent, presents a fascinating look at a Cotton Mill in
California during the 1920s. The film features various scenes from the
factory floor such as, unloading bales of cotton from train cars, lots of
processing machinery, yarn winding, and folding newly made towels.
Title #2:
King Cotton Production Date:
1930s Running Time: 16 minutes Brief Description:
This in-depth look at the cotton industry is a beautiful propaganda piece
produced by Chevrolet. The film follows the complete lifecycle of
cotton from farming to harvesting to manufacturing. The films theme is,
"Science and Cotton," and focuses on the many products derived from cotton that
are used in auto manufacturing such as lacquer, plastics, tires, and upholstery.
Title #3:
How Textile Mills Are Modernizing Production Date:
1948 Running Time: 25 minutes Brief Description:
This color film journeys through the technological advances in textile
manufacturing and discusses advancements in cotton mills. The film
presents new automated machinery of the day available for the production of
cotton and explains how they increase production, quality, and employee moral.
Title #4:
Plantation System in Southern Life, The Production Date:
1950 Running Time: 10 minutes Brief Description:
Cotton was one of the staple crops of the 20th century southern plantation.
This film reenacts the lifestyle and culture of the Deep South including the
social hierarchies on plantations as African Americans moved from slavery into
tenant farming. Includes lots of scenes of cotton fields, cotton laborers,
and cotton picking.
Disc 6: Beauty Salon & Barbershop Films (1940s -
1950s)
  
  
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This compilation explores hair style fashion trends from
the 1940s to the 1950s. This (5) five film collection visits beauty salons
and barbershops for a rare look into the hair fashions of the
40s and 50s which were dominated by waves, curls, shoulder length hair and
intricate up-dos for formal occasions.
Title #1: Caroll's
Beauty Salon Production Date:
1941 Running Time: 3 minutes Brief Description: This silent film features scenes
from Caroll's Beauty Salon in Hamtramck, Michigan. This film shows
a variety of 1940s women's hair styles and hair styling techniques and equipment such as pin
curls (pincurls), rolls, and dryers.
Title #2:
Much Ado About Hair-Do's Production Date:
1950s Running Time: 1 minutes Brief Description:
This short newsreel clip features a hair stylist who uses feathers in his
fashionable hair-do's.
Title #3:
Hair Dress Through the Ages Production Date:
1950 Running Time: 10 minutes Brief Description:
This bizarre film explores the history of hair styles starting with cavemen and
ending in the 17th century. This hilarious film is filled with fantastic
and imaginative hairstyles, hats, and hair-dos from Egyptian, Babylonian, Middle
Ages , Roman, English & Greek traditions.
Title #4: Care
of the Hair and Nails Production Date:
1951 Running Time: 9 minutes Brief Description:
A fairy teaches young children how to wash their hair and how often to do it.
Title #5: Barbers Production Date:
1959 Running Time: 13 minutes Brief Description:
This fantastic vocational propaganda film stresses the importance of barbers,
beauticians, and hair stylists to maintaining a happy and beautiful America.
The film follows a father and son to a barber shop and a mother and daughter to
a beauty salon. The film features a variety of salon hairstyles,
barbershop haircuts and scenes of women getting facials and manicures.
Disc 7: Shoemaker & Shoe Salesman Films (1930s -
1940s)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Take a step back in time with this vintage DVD collection of
films showing the arts of shoemaking and shoe selling in their finest era. This
is a rare video collectible for shoe lovers everywhere!
Title #1: You
And Your Work Production Date:
1948 Running Time: 10 minutes Brief Description: A Coronet instructional film. A young man seems to hate his job selling shoes,
but has the revelation that he must change his attitude or else he won’t find
any work he can enjoy. This is a testament to the life of a shoe salesman.
Title #2: A
Story Of Shoes Production Date:
1930s Running Time: 24 minutes Brief Description:
This is a silent color film from the 1930s that shows the handmade production of
a pair of leather shoes. It offers an interesting glimpse into an earlier era of
craftsmanship. Presented by Thom McAn Shoe Stores. A
William J. Ganz Production.
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