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Family Portrait

Ephemeral film · 32 min · dir. Charlie Egleston

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Director
Charlie Egleston
Running time
32 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · Song O' the Insurance Men! · Christine Hennig · 2006-05-30

This 40s film profiles the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, going into a great deal of detail about how the company is run and how it benefits its policy holders, employees, and society as a whole through its investments. This is all told very straightforwardly and in a way that is neither dry nor bombastic, making this a very well-made film overall. Which is pretty amazing considering how negatively I generally view insurance companies. Again, Jam Handy did a very good job with this one, though that makes it somewhat less interesting from an ephemera standpoint, since there are no real…

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