Details
- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- how_to_read_a_map
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · There's that fly again.... · Wilford B. Wolf · 2008-09-22
Cheaply made silent film from the mid to late 1930s depicting how to read a map. There are a few other examples from this era in the Prelinger collection of instructional films as late as 1940 shot silently; sound projector equipment hadn't quite trickled down to all in the educational segment, so there was still call for silent versions of films. This particular film is about twice as long as it should be. Most of the information conveyed would be equally (and perhaps more effectively) conveyed in a book. The only thing that saves it is an impressive comparison of a map of the lower Hudson…
★ · Unbearably dull. · JonathanDP · 2010-02-24
I'm sorry but I just found this film too elementary and boring to even finish. It spends time explaining symbols that you'd think even children could figure out the meaning of on their own. The fly's pretty funny though!