Jerry Pulls the Strings (1938)
1938 · Feature film · 42 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
Advertisement for vacuum-packed canned coffee that was produced primarily for screening at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. In the narrative a young puppeteer proves to his prospective father-in-law, a coffee packer, that puppeteering is a viable occupation by using International Maple 50 marionettes to tell the story of coffee. The young man uses 80 string puppets and deep, dimensional sets to explain how coffee is grown, harvested, roasted, and packed in vacuum cans to retain flavor.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Studio
- Caravel Films Inc.
- Released
- 1938-01-01
- Running time
- 42 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
- Internet Archive item
- JerryPullsTheStrings
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Watch Out for the tiny spiders! · Spuzz · 2016-08-30
A bit of a never ending moving about a boy who wants to marry a girl, but the girl's father, an owner of a coffee company, doesn't like the boy's chosen profession… Puppetry!! To convince the father, a boy puts on a puppet show about the history of coffee and how it's made!! As looney as that sounds, it gets boring quite quickly with never-ending gabathons. It does get a little surreal in the end though.