Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell (1950)

Synopsis

Hand cut out of cardboard rips through newspaper and rings doorbell Door opens, there stands sticklike figure with SATURDAY EVENING POST cover for an abdomen Covers of magazines, SATURDAY EVENING POST, HOLIDAY, LIFE, TIME Door opens, there stands same stick like figure with newspaper for abdomen front page of "Daily News Gazette" Series of newspapers are thrown neatly on top of each other, last headline reads: $2,000,000 RACKET BROKEN Door opens, there stands stick-like figure with movie marquee: "NEW TUXEDO / ROADS TO ROMANCE" as abdomen Door opens, stick-like figure with radio as abdomen Door opens, stick-like figure with newspaper as abdomen to that shows newspaper - AKRON BEACON JOURNAL Door opens, stick-like figure with CHEVROLET SALES SERVICE as abdomen, CENTRAL CHEVROLET CO. as knees of superimposed stick figures with other Chevrolet signs attached to them. Cardboard hands ringing doorbells Door opens Pink sti¢k-like figure with newspaper as abdomen Blue stick-like figure with SATURDAY EVENING POST cover as abdomen Pink stick-like figure with marquee - NEW TUXEDO / MINUTE MOVIES - as abdomen Pink stick-like figure with radio as torso Orange stick-like figure with newspaper as torso 2 stick like figures in succession with CHEVROLET signs Bells and gong Main title: CHEVROLET ADVERTISING RINGS THE BELL! LARGE swinging bell breaks through sign Hand taking out file cards, putting it back in file box Man looks up from raking cover of LIFE magazine man reading LIFE magazine…

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Running time

11 minutes

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Prelinger Archives