The Wonderful World of Tupperware (1959)
1959 · Ephemeral film · 28 min · dir. George J. Yarbrough
- Documentary
Synopsis
Tupperware's story from lab to living room: chemistry labs, engineers drafting plastic molds, a machine shop, women operating molding machines and testing finished products, IBM punch-card processing, warehousing, and Tupperware home parties and a sales jubilee with Anita Bryant and Johnny Desmond.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Director
- George J. Yarbrough
- Writer
- Patrick E. Tahaney
- Released
- 1959-01-01
- Running time
- 28 minutes
Cast & crew
- George J. Yarbrough Director
Anita Bryant
Johnny Desmond- Russ Blair
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · 1964 looks about right · floridacracker8188 · 2014-09-28
This film is from the middle sixties. I found it iteresting.
★★★★ · not the goods i'm looking for · Spuzz · 2020-08-16
First half of this is a neverending production line sequence of the manufacture of Tupperware, nothing wrong with that, but the fun of Tupperware is the culture of it, and the final 3/4 of the film delves into that, and it's great, but not enough! A much better film on the subject is "Arabian Nights Jubilee", which documents an incredible weekend for Tupperware dealers.
★★★ · Again and Again and Again and Again and · Dodsworth the Cat · 2021-09-22
As the Capitol Hi-Q production library flows in the background, we see endless, repetitive dead-end jobs in Tupperware industrial plants. The best part of the film comes about six minutes before the end where we see parties! A Christian fundamentalist song with lyrics re-written, a guy crowned with a tiara, lily white older suburbanites dressed as Mexicans, with an appearance by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant and the ultimate '60s lounge act, Johnny Desmond. The blue rinse set is in ecstacy. Direction and camerawork are well done. The (anonymous) narration is quite serviceable.
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