Auto-Lite on Parade (1940)

★★★★★ · Really enjoyed this · HappySwordsman · 2018-08-22

I felt the narrator was kinda annoying, but I love vintage manufacturing footage so I really enjoyed this. The stop-motion parade at the end was also very cool.

★★★★ · Sparkplugs Away! · Christine Hennig · 2003-10-17

This bombastically-narrated 30s film is all about the Electric Auto-Lite Company, which makes things like sparkplugs, batteries, headlights, gages, and bumpers for automobiles, as well as leather goods, pots and pans, and, well, let's just say they make everything under the sun. Most of the film is an ultimate factory tour of every department in every plant. If you like factory footage, then this is your film. The narrator goes on and on about the "men" of Auto-Lite despite the fact that most of the workers seen are women. The real highlight of the film, though, comes at the end, when we get…

★★★★ · The title says it all · Spuzz · 2003-01-08

A exhaustingly comprehensive overview of the Auto-Lite Corperation, and just about every product that they create is analyzed here. It's great actually, as opposed to the usual Jem Handy production line scenes of men putting cars together, we're treated to to manufacture of auto parts, like spark plugs, wire, lights and other auto parts. The narration and film has a newsreel type quality, and the narrator never lets up on the exciting high pitched narration. At the end, of course, is the parade, and oh what a parade it is :)