From Dawn to Sunset (1937)

★★★★★ · Not for everybody. · autoguy · 2006-09-18

But definately for ME! Yes folks, the pleasure of buying! The spreading of money! And the enjoyment of all the things that paychecks can buy! Chevrolet paychecks of course! An awesome assemblage of auto factory, street, and retail scenes from the era. A must-see for any auto enthusiast. Very highly polished with dramatic, hard hitting narratives, and loaded with sexist fun. Post-depression USA hits a peacetime boom of prosperity, and it's time to consume and be merry. This wave of prosperity due to manufacturing of course, and the army of workers that head to the factories every morning. We…

★★★ · From Dawn to Sunset · Christine Hennig · 2002-10-29

An idealistic portrayal of the "typical work day" of the typical worker at the Chevrolet plants in cities around the nation. First the all male workers kiss their wives goodbye and leave for work, while a chorus sings about "the beginning of a perfect day". Then they work for a little while (but not long). This "typical work day" happens to be payday, so there's a very long sequence of workers in each city where there's a Chevrolet plant getting paid and then going to the local stores and buying stuff. That's rightÃÂÃÂfor each city you see a "Welcome to..." sign, hear the city's anthem sung…

★★★ · How much for that accordion in the window? · Spuzz · 2005-05-16

A movie which promises stgrongly then becomes a shill for the American Consumer, 'From Dawn To Sunset starts off Baraka Style, more accurately, Koyannaquatsi style, with americans waking up, going to work at their gm plants, getting ready etc. So far so good, while I was watching it, I was actually please this wasnt a repeat of 'Master Hands' where it was celebrating a birth of a car. This looked to me more about the people (again Koyanaquaatsi), but then this film COMPLETELY falls apart in the second half, where the film just gets obsessed with the fact that these men have all this money to…

★★★ · 1937 Depression Year and nuthin but. Working class did'nt vote against their own interests the. · tribtower · 2013-06-20

Puff piece from the P.R. types. Year of the sit-down strike by the United Auto Workers in Flint Michigan. Police called in and used mega-force against the strikers. Life looked too good the workers homes looked middleto-upper middle class to me. And lo and behold they were all driving new Chevies! Kinda like the TV shows of today wherein everyone has ALL the upper middle class material stuff. GM was fighting it out with unions at the time. Shortly after the this 2nd World War led to a bonanza of Tank and Jeep building in their Chevy plants and much of the strife of the 30s' was put aside.…