When It Felt Great To Be An American Factory Production Line Worker
634 views · Published 4 December 2014 · 1:51 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: David Hoffman · 2014 · Film & Animation
What a different time it was. The 1950s. 1958 to be exact. This clip presents a feeling that American auto companies were showing the world about how it felt to be an American automobile worker on the production line. And in many ways, from the people I have interviewed, it did feel that way. You made a good living – middle-class or even upper middle class. People got along. The work was clean and your job meant something. Someone drove an automobile that you helped make and if it was safe and efficient, it felt good. At the time, the Detroit automobile manufacturers were making lots of money and they spent lots of money on advertising and public relations and publicity. This is kind of like a mini opera done by first rate talented advertising folks mixed with talented filmmakers, scriptwriters, composers, etc. I don't know that anywhere in the world you could find a group of production line workers today who feel like this film presented the car production line workers back then.
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