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Film, Video Jerry pulls the strings

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About this Item

Title

  • Jerry pulls the strings

Summary

  • Marionettes are used to tell the story of coffee as it has never been told before through scenes dramatizing legends, dances, literature, history, and industrial development. The story of Kaldi and his goats, the Dance of the Prince and Princess from the ballet Scheherazade, and the coffeehouse meetings of historical figures David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Siddons, James Otis, John Adams, and Paul Revere are depicted. How coffee is grown, harvested, roasted, and packed in vacuum cans is also explained.

Names

  • Pincus, David I., 1894-1972, film director
  • Weiler, Harold L., contributor
  • Schoolman, Ralph, screenwriter
  • Rose, Rufus, 1904-1975, puppeteer
  • Rose, Margo, puppeteer
  • Baird, Bil, 1904-1987, puppeteer
  • Nef, Evelyn Stefansson, 1913-2009, puppeteer
  • Stevens, Martin, 1904-1983, puppeteer
  • Stevens, Olga, 1899-1983, puppeteer
  • Sullivan, Frank, 1907-1983, puppeteer
  • Sullivan, Fania, 1906-1986, puppeteer
  • Meredith, Sylvia, 1907-1985, puppeteer
  • Morgenstern, Sam, composer
  • Sindic, Jules, 1899-1971, cinematographer
  • Karson, Nat, set designer
  • Platt, Joseph Brereton, 1895-1968, art director
  • American Can Company, sponsor, film distributor
  • Caravel Films, production company
  • National Tie-Ins, Inc., contributor

Created / Published

  • United States : American Can Company, 1938.

Headings

  • -  Coffee
  • -  Coffee--Harvesting
  • -  Coffee--Processing

Genre

  • Puppet films
  • Sponsored films
  • Educational films
  • Promotional films
  • Short films
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  In English with some songs and dialogue in Spanish.
  • -  Parts of summary from Business screen, 1938, v. 1, no. 3, p. 22 and National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site.
  • -  Puppetry: Rufus Rose, Margo Rose, Bil Baird, Evelyn Baird, Martin Stevens, Olga Stevens, Frank Sullivan, Fania Sullivan, Sylvia Meredith.
  • -  Music, Sam Morgenstern ; photography, Jules Sindic ; settings, Nat Karson ; art direction, Joseph B. Platt.
  • -  Production personnel credits are from the longer version of the film viewed online via the A/V Geeks 16mm Films YouTube channel. Puppetry credits are from the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry WWW site and a 1998 Puppetry journal article.
  • -  Filmed at the Caravel Films Inc. studio in Hempstead, New York.
  • -  "The major part of the film is devoted to a series of puppet shows, constructed and manipulated by the well known puppeteers, Rufus and Margo Rose. Animal puppets used were done by Bill Baird"--Montclair times (Montclair, New Jersey), March 3, 1939, p. 9, viewed April 4, 2024 via Newspapers.com
  • -  Sources used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed April 4, 2024; Business screen, 1938, v. 1, no. 3, p. 22, viewed online April 4, 2024 via Media History Digital Library; Business screen, 1940, v. 2 no. 3, p. 15, viewed online April 4, 2024 via Media History Digital Library; Montclair times (Montclair, New Jersey), March 3, 1939, p. 9, viewed April 4, 2024 via Newspapers.com; New York times, September 10, 1938, p. 27, viewed online April 4, 2023 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers; Thompson, F. Margo Rose: part 1. Puppetry journal, spring 1998, vol. 49, iss. 3, p. 9, viewed online April 4, 2024 via ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database; Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry WWW site, viewed April 4, 2024; YouTube WWW site (A/V Geeks 16mm Films channel), viewed April 4, 2024.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (31 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024603137

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Pincus, David I., Film Director, Harold L Weiler, Ralph Schoolman, Rufus Rose, Margo Rose, Bil Baird, Evelyn Stefansson Nef, et al. Jerry Pulls the Strings. composeds by Morgenstern, Sam, , produceds by Caravel Filmsuction Company United States: American Can Company, 1938. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024603137/.

APA citation style:

Pincus, D. I., Weiler, H. L., Schoolman, R., Rose, R., Rose, M., Baird, B. [...] National Tie-Ins, I. (1938) Jerry Pulls the Strings. Morgenstern, S., comp, , Caravel Filmsuction Company, prod United States: American Can Company. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024603137/.

MLA citation style:

Pincus, David I., Film Director, et al. Jerry Pulls the Strings. comp by Morgenstern, Sam, , prod by Caravel Filmsuction Company United States: American Can Company, 1938. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024603137/>.