Last year I posted a failed thread for the short, Santa In Animal Land (1948). I’ll try something similar for this thread, but not as specific. Let’s share vintage Promotional, Industrial, Educational films, and other vintage shorts that are just weird.
I’ll start out with this promotional film from 1968: MatchYour Mood with Westinghouse (1968). Who knew Westinghouse was so groovy?
Here’s one.
And if you want the Rifftrax treatment:
I’ve seen this one on both TCM, and C-SPAN 2’s “About Books.”
Didn’t someone here ask about this educational film parody fairly recently? I first saw it on the inimitable “Night Flight” in the 1980s. May be NSFW.
In the educational category, the first two that come to mind are Disney’s The Living Desert and The Restless Sea.
I know this ain’t what you are looking for, but it’s “topic adjacent”. Winnebago Man
If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a kindness and check it out.
I watched the Westinghouse one earlier this evening.
Crazy. My Sister actually covered her fridge with contact type stuff once. Looked pretty cool.
I never had much luck with Contact paper except for temporary masking.
Oh my, want a Night of the Lepus-sized rabbit hole to go down? Have a look at the Prelinger Archives:
https://archive.org/details/prelingert
For general WTF there’s:
Also topic adjacent: This movie, which also got aired on Night Flight. Its plot was described as “Aliens steal the formula for a popular soft drink” and that just about sums it up.
I definitely noticed myself that the cars are all from the 1950s, while the hair and clothing styles are all from 1982, when this film school project was made. The monster puppet was reused a year or two later in a ZZ Top video, because one of the people who worked on this worked on that video as well.
To those who clicked on the Prelinger link in the Internet Archives: it originally had scads of videos, but a few minutes later was denied access. I went back and regained access via the main menu
Did you use this link? Yes, I know it looks like it hasn’t been updated since about 1995, but it has been.
Here’s the FAQ page.
“I’ll show Coily! I’m gonna digitize everything!”
No time to check for individual films, but those that MST3K featured were great! Especially A Date With Your Family…
teaching kids to plan a date, but with their parents and siblings. Awkward.
Bicycles Are Beautiful, hosted by Bill Cosby who is famous for loving bicycles and nothing else.
Here’s a film made by the Chicago Board of Education in '45.
That may have been me. I remembered pieces of it but not the complete short. Also, I had no idea it was the girl from Airplane!
