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Film, Video Flight to the future-- to the world of plastics

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Title

  • Flight to the future-- to the world of plastics

Summary

  • "Promotional film for the pioneering American plastics company that surveys the contribution of plastics to everyday life. Flight to the future is stuctured as a discussion on a transcontinental flight, during which three plastics experts (a manufacturer, an engineer, and a designer) tell the flight attendant about their industry. Over the course of the film, a multitude of plastics products are shown"--The field guide to sponsored films, p. 33.

Names

  • Kenton, Erle C., 1896-1980, direction
  • Blake, B. K. (Ben Kahn), -1954, production
  • Warner, Jerry (Director), writing
  • Neill, Noel, cast
  • Lowery, Robert, 1916-1971, cast
  • Wallace, George, 1917-2005, cast
  • Kaleb Film and Television Corporation
  • Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. Bakelite Company
  • Modern Talking Picture Service
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Modern Talking Picture Service, 1952.

Headings

  • -  Plastics
  • -  Plastics industry and trade--United States

Genre

  • Educational films
  • Sponsored films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  MP2736 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Bakelite Co., a division of Union Carbide Corp.; 10Jun52; MP2736.
  • -  Noel Neill, Robert Lowery, George Wallace, Helen Winston, John Eldredge, Charles Evans, Tom Wilde, Lyle Talbot.
  • -  Photography, Sam Leavitt; aerial photography, William Clothier; sound, Earl Crain, Sr., Roger H. White; art director, Dan Hall; color director, James Sullivan; editors, Lawrence F. Sherman, Jr., Ray Sandeford; original musical score composer and director, Morris Mamorsky; script and production supervision, J.M. Mathes, Inc.
  • -  Source used: MBRS Film and Television catalog card.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (ca. 39 min.) : sd., col.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020600748

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Warner, Jerry , Writing, Noel Neill, Robert Lowery, George Wallace, Kaleb Film And Television Corporation, Union Carbide And Carbon Corporation. Bakelite Company, Modern Talking Picture Service, and Copyright Collection. Flight to the Future-- To the World of Plastics. directeds by Kenton, Erle C., Ection, produceds by Blake, B. K. , -1954Uction United States: Modern Talking Picture Service, 1952. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600748/.

APA citation style:

Warner, J., Neill, N., Lowery, R., Wallace, G., Kaleb Film And Television Corporation, Union Carbide And Carbon Corporation. Bakelite Company [...] Copyright Collection. (1952) Flight to the Future-- To the World of Plastics. Kenton, E. C., dir, Blake, B. K., prod United States: Modern Talking Picture Service. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600748/.

MLA citation style:

Warner, Jerry , Writing, et al. Flight to the Future-- To the World of Plastics. dir by Kenton, Erle C., Ection, prod by Blake, B. K. , -1954Uction United States: Modern Talking Picture Service, 1952. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020600748/>.