Coronet Instructional Films

[gluegungeisha]

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=coronet+instructional+films

Vintage entertainment at it's finest!

Pardon me if a post about them has already been made.

 

[Doh!]

Back in the '80s, Night Flight used to run these and I've loved them ever since. Thanks for the link -- it never occured to me to look for them on YouTube!

Of course, you've just cursed me from getting a good night's sleep tonight...

 

[imoldfashioned]

I've got a couple dvds worth of these, I love them. They're even better with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment!

 

[Fletch]

Jam Handy

Keep him handy!

Detroit-based industrial filmmaker, primarily to Ford and GM, but also produced general education films and even animated shorts.

We Drivers (General Motors, 1936)

Looking Ahead Thru Plexiglas (Rohm & Haas Co., 1947)

A Coach for Cinderella (Chevrolet, 1936)

 

[LizzieMaine]

I love Coronets -- I remember seeing them presented, entirely unironically, in class, and it was where I learned that splicing film with masking tape is not a good idea.

I've still got a few very faded 16mm prints of these -- "How To Write a Report," "How to Use Verbs," and similar English class subjects. Very educational!

 

[Fletch]

How to Use Verbs? You meaning I are dood it wrong all these years?

Ironically, Handy's We Drivers, with its safe-and-sensible advice to motorists, holds up better after 70-plus years than a lot of those postwar mental-hygiene pieces. I guess stupid drivers are stupid drivers no matter how much society changes.