Rochester: A City of Quality (1963)

★★★ · I want to go to Rochester now!... Wait, I've already been there! LOL · Spuzz · 2012-07-21

TOTALLY overwritten film about the many 'wonders' that Rochester offers the potential person who would want to visit/live there. There are two emphases pointed out here, clean people and plenty of parking. First the clean people comment. I have never had a film that demonstrated such hidden agendas as this film had. The clean people comments spring up all over this film. Case in point, the scene where shipping is explained. "What kind of products are shipped? CLEAN products, compatible for the community" (as opposed to what?) The other bizarre thing is it's hammering down that Rochester…

★★★ · Now This is Corny! · JayKay49 · 2012-08-25

This film is so much ado about a very average city in the early 60's and had it not been for the intensity and musicality of the announcer's voice, one could easily fall asleep almost instantly. Like Spuzz, I have to agree - what was the point, Jam Handy? The Clock of the Nations is really corny to the max and did anybody notice in the beginning that the old codger meeting the old codgeress for "the rendezvous" is wearing a wedding band? So Rochesterites do adultery? Even old ones? But why not anything about the one thing Rochester was certainly famous for in the 1960's - Eastman Kodak? That…

You want to complain about Rochester? · Refined Taste · 2023-08-06

I will harangue to anyone that Rochester is a golden place to live and the idiots who live there don't even know it. Now, all these things I am going to mention existed when I left, and may not exist any more. But here: Rochester has a world-renowned music symphony and music school that runs free student concerts every weeknight all during the school year. Record stores include the nationally-famous Bop Shop, the nationally-famous House of Guitars, and the supermarket-sized Record Archive. There is a world-famous jazz festival, and in the Eighties there was a very active New Wave scene.…