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LIFESTYLES USA Volume 10

Don’t think of this as simply Vol. 10 of our Lifestyles USA. series.Think of it as a visual instruction manual on how to be a Good American. Three cheers for the red, white, and blue! IT'S EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS (color) as great stylized animation describes the perils of building up a business only to be clobbered by the competition. Comes complete with "money trains," the effects of war (seen as a blood red tidal wave), and a berserk tax vacuum. Odd that something as important and cruel to this country as dollars and cents is made palatable by goofy cartoon characters. PROSPECTING (b&w) is a creepy cartoon for salesmen that offers tips on how to find new customers...which, in essence, recommends eavesdropping, snooping around, and butting in on people’s privacy. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (color) mixes the grim facts about inflation, rising costs, the national debt and the shrinking dollar with Saturday-morning-style cartoon animation so as to not frighten impressionable adults. TALKING OF TOMORROW (color) is a Jetsons-style cartoon peek into the future as a mad scientist calls his nephew at Bell Telephone and gets the lowdown on flying cars, picture phones, heli-cycles, wrist-watch radios, and calls to outer space via an "optical laser." By the way, exactly when is The Future supposed to start? TREAT HER WITH CARE (b&w) is Sixties sexism set to musk which strongly suggests that women customers be treated as if they were an alien life form: "Who ever figured out women?" And isn’t that ALAN MOWBRAY cleaning a window?! HELP WANTED: SECRETARY (color) is a similarly sexist view of secretaries as a sobbing boss is driven to a psychiatrist because of bad ones he’s hired. The first, "a real looker," was given the job because she’s good looking; unfortunately she has the brains of a toaster. Number Two is so inexperienced, she’s even dumber, And the third is a terrifying, ball-busting old pro who out-bosses the boss. Obviously, office politics were so much simpler back then... AGE OF SPECIALIZATION (b&w) shows a farmer at a general store in 1900 telling two old coots about the "social revolution" in industry that’s about to occur which leads to a number of great stock-shot montages of the 20th century: "The whole country’s gonna be just like a beehive!" Instead of being inspired, the two coots mock him. O’MARA’S CHAIN REACTION (b&w) stars Hollywood veteran VICTOR McLAGLEN ("The Quiet Man") as a short-tempered Irish cop in An Average American Town who unexpectedly gives a motorist a break one morning and unintentionally creates a chain reaction of people treating each other right. Oh please. Made by Chevrolet for its salespeople, this one strains so hard for a Capra-esque feel-good flavor that one prays a bomb will quickly drop and blow these damn fools off the face of the earth. THE AMERICAN FAMILY (b&w) is a somber family portrait of Small Town U.S.A. Mom and Granny want to buy a new sewing machine but Dad can’t afford it, so when daughter Mary spends a wad on a dress, Dad screams and Mary runs away. An interesting fusion of sitcom values with a scary noir-ish world.