American Maker

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"Here's another of the industrial films made by Jam Handy for the Chevrolet division of General Motors. Ford had its own film-making unit, but GM farmed out the work. Like many of the films that were by by GM, there was little in it to indicate that's it's meant to huckster the company's products. Instead, it starts by talking in general terms about how Americans make great products -- this was 1960, recall -- and then shows the evolution from the individual craftsman to a vignette about how Eli Whitney invented the assembly line. With a constant barrage of glassware and ri..."