Much Better (1990)

★★★★★ · Anne is grooming her pig · MediaWhore · 2004-11-30

Excellent quirky video montgage that shows off some of the more humorous material available on thie site. Aside from being a good laugh this video offers great insight into 1950's American culture. This film is for me what the Perlinger Archives are all about!

★★★★★ · The original Prelinger mashup! · uniQ · 2011-05-03

Ken Smith, best known for writing the somewhat bizzare "original" reviews for these films, but this together from various stock footage. There is a story, sortof. There are too many good lines to pick one of them. MediaWhore noticed my favorite: "Ann is busy grooming her pigs [snort!]" "Would you like to see Wagon Train at the movies?" "What's chemistry like? It's right, said Jane!"

★★★★★ · Ken made this in 1990... · Rick Prelinger · 2004-01-12

or so when we were working for the Comedy Channel in NYC. The network licensed a bunch of films from me to slice and dice, as well as a number of complete shorts that were "repurposed" by Best Brains for MST3K. Some films also came from other archives, like F.I.L.M. Archives (then called Streamline Films), which was the source for the excellent "Mr. B Natural."

★★★★ · A goofy romp · Voynich · 2003-12-20

An excellent use of archival footage! Disconnected images and phrases are held together well with the rhythm of an introduced score. A fine introduction to what the Prelinger Archives have in store for everyone through a few of the quirkier scenes contained therein. Ken Smith is also the author of another excellent introduction to much of the Archives, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970, which catalogues and reviews hundreds of the instructional movies Mr. Prelinger has gathered. I too hope more of the Archives' holdings can be brought online, but think what's already been made…