From the Ground Up (1954)

★★★★★ · Altogether now "...added crystiline vitamins and vitamin concentrates" · compoundeye · 2011-06-05

Note these words well, because by the time you've finished watching you'll know this mantra by heart. I have to say FTGU is one of my all-time favourites. Right up there in my 'Top 5' with the likes of This is Hormel... FTGU is a lovely little film and well worth every one of the 18 and a half minutes of it's running time, even the detailed footage and descriptions of compost [pronounced 'com-poe-st'] preparation using sort sort of weird daddy-long-legs muckspreader for lack of a technical name for it. Initially I was a touch sceptical that a sales film about dietry suppliment quackery could…

★★★★ · Nutri-what? · JayKay49 · 2015-05-28

Never heard of it. All that work must've costed a bundle. Yet everybody drives to work in a old jalopy. The parking lots look like something in Cuba. So like, do those folks make like 15 cents an hour? That Hemet scene. Just over those mountains is a desert with < 5" of precipitation/year (namely, Palm Springs). Wonder how many of those employees (wholesome as they look) visited the "keyed resorts" on their days off. Amway, huh? Gets a B+ .