Another Cup Of Coffee (1948)

★★★★ · What was in that coffee? · lil_wing · 2006-06-01

Something that I love to look out for in the Prelinger Archives is movies that feature cigarettes. I find it really interesting to see how society has done a complete turn around as far as smoking goes. You can't even smoke in many bars today, but in these movies i've seen: a guy smoking during his job interview. A man that is so satisfied with the election ballot he casts, he pulls back the curtain and lights up right in the voting booth. And now this, maybe my favorite, the insurance salesman that, upon being asked to speak with a potential client (or "prospect"), stands up from the lunch…

★★★★ · Waiter, There's a Head in My Coffee · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-10-27

Not only do we get an insurance agent with an echoing voice talking to his own head in a coffee cup, we watch him pull a sales pitch on a perfect stranger in a drug store that isn't his. If this were made today, not in the censor-filled '40s, I know what the woman would say to Mr. Sales Weasel. This, as you can see, is not ordinary coffee. It's Alphabet Coffee, with letters swirling around. And it beams scenes like a crystal ball. What kind of drugs does this drug store put in its coffee? To him, people are only cyphers to whom he can sell more and more and more insurance. He's so cheap he…

★★★★ · Sam needs to cut down on his coffee intake. · Spuzz · 2003-08-21

In this really strange short, a Prudential insurance salesman wonders how he can get more prospects, when, of course, images in his coffee start talking to him. This is a sure sign of course for company leave.. a long long one. Anyways, the man in the coffee cup tells Sam of what leads to future prospects and getting customers to buy more insurance that they don't need. Scary pitches all around. Make sure you don't get a house, have the flu, get a raise or go to college, because those pesky prudential people will start wearing out the door.

★★★★ · Another Cup of Coffee · Christine Hennig · 2003-09-04

A Prudential insurance salesman stops by a drugstore soda fountain for a cup of coffee, calling the waitress, affectionately I'm sure, "Greasy". You can tell Greasy appreciates her nickname, because she slips some LSD into the coffee at no charge. This causes the salesman, who is obsessing about finding more prospects, to see Twangy, the magic pixie that lives in his head, appear in the cup of coffee and start talking to him about his prospect problem. Twangy uses insidious mind control to get the salesman to see everybody he has a relationship, or even the least acquaintanceship, with as a…

★★★★ · I Don't Like the Look of This Coffee · Retrojunkie · 2007-10-23

I know someone who thinks his coffee talks to him. But I sure wouldn't buy any insurance from him. And here's a sure way to get the store owner on your side: throw your cigarette on the floor and step on it. Gracie (or is it Greasy) sure seems to have a crush on him, though. So did the teenage gal sitting to his right. Or maybe she just thought he was funny, talking to his coffee cup like that. Great fun!

★★★★ · Oh Oh! · donwert · 2010-05-31

A training film for Prudential insurance salesmen (it goes without saying that in 1948 women were wives or waitresses) encouraging them think about virtually every human interaction they have as a chance to sell insurance. There's a reason why most of us freeze when introduced to an insurance salesman and this film shows what that reason is....