International Moves The Browns To Sterling Street (1941)

★★★★★ · Sterling Silver has never been so cheap! · Spuzz · 2003-09-02

This is an epic of unbelievable proportions.. I am agog as to what to say. I will try though. This is probably the cheapest looking Jam Handy short film I have ever laid my eyes on. Let's start at the very beginning! From the start, we see some very badly lit cards, poorly chosen music etc etc. A couple get married, then a husband gives his wife a dimaond ring that clearly is 2 sizes too many. The film then focuses on the history of people buying silver (using cheap cards again) and a VERY badly done set, with actors in cheap costumes.. Is this supposed to represent 1920?? The wife wants…

★★★★★ · Not sure I agree with the others. · Paul M. · 2010-04-30

This film is about designer clothing, $1,000 + ugly purses,spinning rims. It may have its early roots on Sterling street but that is about it. This is just my simple view as I"m often wrong but that is fine. Very educational

★★★★ · Try To Sell Something Impractical and Unnecessary · JayKay49 · 2012-12-31

Less then 7 years out of the dreary days of the depression the drive is on to sell sell sell - this time, sterling silver - even though one place setting costs over one half of a weeks pay for the typical (still often laid off) worker bee. But those womens' hats and through-the-roof wedding gowns du jour showed what drama queens they were and so what's a better thing to hawk to them then perenially corny, understood-by-few used-by-even-fewer; sterling silver tableware. And OH! Even peasants can afford it, right now - on time, of course, where they actually deduct it from your paycheck! How…

★★★ · Spooning · donwert · 2010-03-20

The International Silver Co. wanted everyone to know that sterling silver wasn't just for successful---almost any schmuck can afford it through the magic of installment credit! You see, the industry was plodding along selling to the rich and ignoring everybody else until 1938 when International hit upon an ingenious way to market their wares. You won't believe it: ADVERTISING!!!! On CBS and in Life Magazine and lots of other magazines too! With a collective palm to the forehead, the rest of the industry said, "Why didn't we think of that!?" The couple getting married at the beginning of the…

★★★ · Sad in retrospect. · JonathanDP · 2010-02-23

This film goes on and on about how the silver industry has been expanding their consumer base and talking like every home in America will soon have their own big old boxes of silverware. 1941 is touted as the next big year. You just have to wince at them not knowing what's just around the corner. It's even worse than that, since Wikipedia says the entire silver market went on a downward slide after the war due to raising labor costs and changing fashion. So this entire film promoting the future of silverware was made at the peak before the decline. That's just sad. And to me, the whole thing…

★★ · Film made for salesman of International Sterling SIlver · ERD. · 2010-05-04

Of course with World War II, this whole concept of selling sterling silver using the installment plan fell apart. The film itself, repeats the same information over and over again. The entire production (Probably made in 1940 and released in 1941) is stilted, even using the refined voice of actor Conrad Nagel and color.