If you can make it through the glacially paced intro and can put up with the typically clunky, often laughable and jingoistic fifties-style narration, this 1958 film from Chevrolet,
The American Look is worth viewing. Chock full of futuristic telephones, toasters, blenders, office machines, architecture and more, it's a mid-century design lover's dream. The film is visually striking and elegant, and presented in widescreen format. Here's part
2 and part
3. Or see it here in its
entirety.
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posted by flapjax at midnite
on May 12, 2008 -
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Hey daddy-o, when you hear that big brash horn section pump out that
oddly familiar riff, only to stop cold and make way for that that prescient single note from an electric guitar, followed straightaway by a twangy voice in
perfect rockabilly delivery proclaiming "
well, she's got a dress that looks like a sack!", then brother, you're listening to the hoppin' boppin' sound of
Wally Deane's
Drag On. Once you hear it, you'll wonder why Quentin Tarrantino never put it in a movie.
Wally Deane: one of the greatest rockabilly acts you never heard of.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Dec 8, 2007 -
21 comments
