The Girl on the Magazine Cover (1940)

★★★★★ · Get OUT of there! · Spuzz · 2003-07-04

This surprisingly great film made about photographic processes features a VERY tongue in cheek narrator popping into a studio to find out how they make those dames look so good in photographs. To do this, we meet quite possibly the funniest character ever introduced in a Jem Handy film. This VERY disgusted photographer grudgingly lets us take a tour while he photographs his latest model, but the narrator's camera always seems to get in the way, and the photographer yells at us. A very well put together short, this is a MUST SEE on this site!

★★★★★ · Humorous but informative · ERD · 2005-11-16

While this film is humorous and entertaining, it does explain things well. Excellent job.

★★★★ · A interesting slice of history. · Soujurn · 2009-07-07

Watching this old film, one is taken back and given a good lesson on how American's thought and expressed themselves. Some things were just accepted as being the normal events of life in America. It's also interesting to see Millard Mitchell in an early role (as the photographer), before he became a better known character and second lead player later in the 1940's and 50's. Like Winchester 73, Twelve O:Clock High, and Singing In The Rain.

★★★★ · LMAO · Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid · 2009-02-01

excellent visual gimmickry in this film almost makes you overlook its rampant sexism How come, according to you, porno is "free speech", yet this film is "sexist"?