New NJB: Reacting to 1950s Automobile Industry Propaganda
Added 2023-01-07 12:23:48 +0000 UTCHello wonderful Patreon supporters, and happy New Year!
After a short vacation and some travel over the holidays to see family, my latest video is now available. It's something a bit different: a sort of 'reaction' video, to a 1954 film by General Motors entitled, "Give Yourself the Green Light".
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/n94-_yE4IeU
You've seen clips from this film before, especially in my Strong Towns videos, because it's in the public domain, and provides some great visuals of 1950s American streets and roads. But I really wanted to dissect it in more detail, because it talks about all the things that Strong Towns talks about ... except when this film talks about things like highway building and paying for infrastructure on debt, it's talked about as how great it will be, while Strong Towns talks about as the disaster it became.
Enjoy!
Comments
It took me way longer than it should have for me to realize that you used the "old fashioned" 4:3 video format for your entire video.
Jeff Doll
2023-02-04 04:00:18 +0000 UTCSigh... this was the embodiment of the town where I grew up. To crystallize it... brace yourself, I'm serious, this is pretty terrible: one of the main bits of asphalt in the area was called Street Road. Yes, I'm serious. It could not be any more on the nose. Though, that said, I do think the cars back then were prettier than the ugly samey boxes we have today.
Luna
2023-01-10 01:42:59 +0000 UTC
