Synopsis
• - Great high angle driving of a suburban street. • - Shot of car driving by "roadside businesses" (as the narrator dubs them) which look like earlier incarnations of today's strip mall.
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Details
- Running time
- 16 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Jam Handy Hits the West Side · JayKay49 · 2014-01-21
Ford corporate headquarters in Dearborn and the newly opened Westland Shopping Center in Livonia with its Hudson's store sporting a variant of the classic architecture used in Northland and Eastland. Shots of Telegraph Rd. Film cuts off at a Shell station. May be close to the end of the film though. 1958 - in SE Michigan. Nostalgic for some.
★★★ · The Machine That Refreshes · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-03
Ah, everything is so modern in 1960. Ranch houses on curved streets. Office buildings covered with glass windows (and not in a crowded downtown area). A woman staring at a Coke display in a supermarket (which has only two customers) for 14 seconds before deciding to buy. A Pontiac Bonneville (fins are dead!) pulling into a Shell station. After we all this, we're introduced to Clare Hodgeman, stiffly reading cue cards (you'll love his unenthusiastic reading of the term "merchandising umph") to an off-screen narrator . This introduction leads us to the point of the film. The Vendo Company is…