It Figures

★★★★ · From your nightmares to the big screen · mandrakes · 2014-09-05

Ostensibly a salesmans film about dairy product placement in the grocery store, someone at Jam Handy decided to use gruesome paper mache masks for the secondary characters. The effect is that it looks like the first victims face has been stretched across the head of the second victim. Don't let your kids watch. A true gem of Prelinger and reminder why this resource is so valuable.

★★★ · Find a Place For Your Cheese-Like Spread · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-09-06

Kraft goes for "komedy" in this short film that starts with the wrong figure. We get actors in masks acting like robots as a narrator urges stores to get rid of those horrible unadvertised items and sell foods that are well-advertised. Like, uh, Kraft, maybe? At the ten minute mark, there's a cue from either the Sam Fox or Langworth music library (I can't find my reference copy for a title). Jam Handy used it as the opening them to "According to Plan: The Story of Modern Sidewalls for the Homes of America."