Asychronous screening program for "Petrocinemas: Wheels of Progress to Auto-Apocalypse," February 19th, 7pm. Broad Underground Film Series
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Pete-Roleum and His Cousins (1939) -- Joseph…
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Great film of how a gasoline engine works. Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the…
Down the Gasoline Trail (1935)
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Puits de pétrole à Bakou, vue de…
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Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's…
To New Horizons (1940) GM Futurama
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The film Requiem, which George Nelson presented in 1960 as a component of the multimedia show "U.S. Versus Us," was filmed at auto scrap yards with New York…
Requiem
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“Industrial film detailing the manufacture of automobiles at Chevrolet’s Flint plant, Master Hands shows tool and die making, founding, casting, welding,…
Masterhands (1936).mp4
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A theatrically distributed advertising cartoon by the pioneering Fleischer Studios, the film deploys the Fleischers' typically rough humor and sexual innuendo to…
In my Merry Oldsmobile (1931).mp4
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Made in the wake of the 1921 Federal Highway Act’s efforts to construct a robust network of roads in the US, this educational film works to bind cars and roads to…
Wheels of Progress (ca. 1927).mp4
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Alain Resnais was commissioned by the French industrial firm Pechiney to make a film highlighting the merits of plastics. The commentary, narrated by Pierre Dux, is a…
La chant du Styrène/The Song of the Styrene
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