After listening to the unnamed narrator of this film that was apparently made for a distributors' convention, the only thing I am certain of is that as of 1940 there were twenty-three Auto-Lite plants across the nation producing a vast variety of parts for the automobile industry. The script is floridly written. No one makes anything. Instead, everything is produced by the vast army of skilled workman under the rigorous supervision of trained technicians. After twenty minutes of having this ground into your head with pictures of machines doing things with only occasional shots of people -- peripheral profile shots for women while the machines are central, three-quarters profile for men examining little gadgets and lots of hands putting things together -- we get a stop motion parade like George Pal producing a Soviet Army Day parade -- in fact, I'd be willing to wager that's Pal's work, uncredited like the narrator.
See if you can skip the first twenty minutes.
See if you can skip the first twenty minutes.
