Synopsis
Visual perception in animals, humans, and from the driver's seat of a Chevrolet.
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- HeresLoo1939
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Perception: Vision
- Natural history
- Automobiles: Engineering
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Fun and VERY Underrated · Robin_1990 · 2008-04-22
I love this short, since it's got great footage of the time. More Jam Handy Please!
★★★★★ · BEST FILM EVER · Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid · 2009-02-01
I LOVE THIS FILM SO MUCH. THANKS RICK.
★★★★ · I Love It, Thank You Rick!! · Classic_TV_and_Radio_Fan · 2008-09-27
I love this film because it's old. Old films are awesome.
★★★ · "Here's Looking" a 1939 movie infomercial · ERD · 2007-06-14
Jim Handy used animals' vision in the first part if the film to get the audience interested and then uses it as a transition to show improvements in the 1939 automobile's windows. What do you expect from a movie infomercial?
★★ · Eyes of Jem Handy · Spuzz · 2003-07-22
The never ending absurdity of Jam Handy comparing the most ridiculous things to automobiles is continued here as we are treated to some observations about animals and how they see. We get explanations of how Water Hawks, fish and, apparantly making it's motion picture debut, the quite ugly Tarsius. As I was watching this, since I'm used to this sort of thing, I wondered "when are they going to bring the cars into this?" and sure enough, shortly after, the narrator explains that this can be tied in by the way we see out of cars (mmkay, I'll buy that). We then see improvements in window…
