The Factory

★★★★★ · Just Like a Belly Button... · JayKay49 · 2017-05-22

...everybody has one! In those days everybody had a Jack In The Box...so I don't think they exaggerated the output numbers one bit. Like a former commentor noted, I cant for the life of me see how someone could listen to "Pop Goes the Weasel" repeatedly for 8 hours a day - probably 500 + times....without eventually being hauled out of the factory in a straight jacket. But maybe it was plants like these in California that ushered in the mind altering drug era. Some of those dames don't appear to be too fazed by that racket. Just wonderin' Great film that accomplishes what it sets out to do in…

★★★★ · Yes Sir, No Sir, Yes Sir, No Sir, Yes Sir, No Sir, WORK!! · Christine Hennig · 2006-06-04

This 50s educational film for children shows us in detail how a jack-in-the-box was made at the Mattel toy factory. This process is well and simply presented, in a way that holds interest. The guy in the engineering department looks like heâs having way too much fun making the prototype, while you wonder how the women who test the jack-in-the-box can listen to the same tinkly rendition of âPop Goes the Weaselâ over and over again, 8 hours a day, without going crazy. The whole film has a wonderful innocent quality, and I bet the 50s kids who watched it at school enjoyed it, assuming that it…

★★★★ · Where's Will Farell? · Spuzz · 2005-03-12

Argh!!! They're telling me how they build Jack-In-The-Boxes!!! LOL Anyways, in a film I'm 95% sure I've seen before, the creation of a Jack In The Box toy is explained, from it's highly complicated drawings, experimental stage, blueprinting then production. This movie, if you havent totally figured it out, is made for kids, so this is dumbed down a little bit. But it's still fun, with plenty of amused adult and kid folk looking pleasantly amused at the toy. One thing though, I wouldn't wanna be the woman testing out the songboxes on the JintheB's all day long on the production line..

★★★ · You Can Tell It's Mattel · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-08-11

I feel sorry for these factory workers, doing the same repetitious job day after day after day. The narrator assures us all factories operate the same way as this Mattel plant. Here I've been calling it a Jack-in-the-Box all these years when, according to the narrator, it's a Jack-in-the-Music-Box. They were already ubiquitous when this short was made, considering Tex Avery used a jack-in-the-box "Pop Goes the Weasel" sound in his Chilly Willy cartoon "I'm Cold" (1954). In case you fell asleep during the film, the salient points (with the same footage) is repeated at the end.