[Jukebox-list] 1950's promotional film visit to the Wurlitzer plant

[Ray Finch]

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Wurlitzer/News/

I was googling for something else and happened to bump into this. I 
thought the list might find this interesting.

This film has a rather 1950's "educational film" feel to it and it is very 
"company-centric".  In that respect it is almost laughable (actually I did 
laugh at a couple of parts).  But it is interesting to see how incredibly 
massive the Wurlitzer plant was and the hundreds (thousands perhaps?) of 
people that were employed there.  The weekly Wurlitzer payroll must have 
been huge!

Wurlitzer seemed to go out of their way in the film to show "Wurlitzer 
Quality" and how extra modern the plant was and how safe and happy the 
Wurlitzer employees were. From a 1950's standpoint the plant did seem 
modern, but the employees didn't look happy or sad, they were just average 
factory workers putting in their 40 hours.  It was also funny to see 
company the executives trying so hard to sound sincere while reading from 
queue cards.  Anyway, I though it was interesting.


Ray Finch