Synopsis
Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1959-01-01
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- reasons_why_1
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Marketing is lies, but it's fashionable lies, and isn't that the real truth? The answer is no. · Steve Nordby · 2003-10-16
A Jam Handy film promoting RCA television sets that makes you long for the days when American companies actually built things instead of just re-marketed them. Of course, probably even then this was all fiction: "highest standards" = minimum government requirements. The narrator says "quality" more than Bill Gates says "innovation" or Donald Rumsfeld say "liberated". Sure, that hand-made prototype is perfect, but that isn't what the consumer gets! But the color of this film is beautiful, and that alone probably sold lots of RCA TV's.
★★★ · Geek Power Rules! · Spuzz · 2004-04-21
After a rousing beginning, with a "____ is connected to the _____ " song variation, the film then gets down to business, and tells us how each and every beautiful RCA television is designed and built. A little more then a follow the assembly line film, what I found hilarious about this film was RCA's insistence of hiring EVERY LIVING NERD POSSIBLE. I mean, counting all the bow ties, glasses and ducktails forever. Other then that, as I said, it's the power of the assembly line (oh and test after quality test). Great color too.