Flight to the Future with Noel Neill 1952
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2022
- "Promotional film for the pioneering American plastics company that surveys the contribution of plastics to everyday life. Flight to the future in the World of Plastics is structured as a discussion on a transcontinental flight, during which three plastics experts (a manufacturer, an engineer, and a designer) tell the flight attendant about their industry. Over the course of the film, a multitude of plastics products are shown".
- Noel Neill, Robert Lowery, George Wallace, Helen Winston, John Eldredge, Charles Evans, Tom Wilde, Lyle Talbot.
- Photography, Sam Leavitt; aerial photography, William Clothier; sound, Earl Crain, Sr., Roger H. White; art director, Dan Hall; color director, James Sullivan; editors, Lawrence F. Sherman, Jr., Ray Sandeford; original musical score composer and director, Morris Mamorsky; script and production supervision, J.M. Mathes, Inc. 
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Noel Neill is so adorable, what a doll.
She was cute.
Her smile, that voice, and those legs! Yeah, she sure was something else; not a lot of women like that around these days, unfortunately. Maybe that's why the divorce rate keeps climbing, lol?
@@rickporvaznik5030 Noel of course, was in most of the Superman episodes from the 1950s...but the first year of that series, had another, knockout woman playing Lois Lane--Phyllis Coates!...She was somewhat taller, and more "sexy" than cute...But she made a poor decision after the first season....she was caught up in a pay increase situation--so she took on another film project, and decided to leave the Superman series...She tried to become an "A-lister" movie star in the 50s, but never really made it...She had the great looks, hot body, etc.....but truthfully, she was not an actress of much range. Noel Neill suffered a similar fate, after hanging in with the Superman series...Both ladies lived a very long time...Ms. Coates was still alive, the last time I looked...into her 90s. I often wonder how women made the grade in Hollywood, back in those days. We know the casting couch existed--not so much now...I hope!...Anyway; Phyllis, in the first year of the Superman series, was "allowed" to play her part more aggressively, because the directors were going for a more "film noire" affect for the series. Noel was told to tone her role down, in the ensuing years of the series, as the producers realized the show was better off catering to a younger, more impressionable audience...that is how it was for women characters in those days! As a kid, I thought both ladies were attractive as heck!
Noel was born in 1920, and died in 2016....95yold!....wow...and Phyllis Coates, born in 1927, is still living, at 95!.....another wow!...It did not seem like Noel was looking seven years older than Phyllis was, back in that day...Ms. Coates BTW, was a "pin-up" model in the later 1940s, while trying to break into the movies....she made several movies after leaving Superman....but she retired and raised a family eventually. Jack Larson, who also was in Superman, lived well into his 80s, and became an eventual spokesman for the emerging Gay culture...poor George Reeves probably committed suicide, though there is some controversy surrounding his crazy wife's involvement...the actor who played Perry White, died of a heart attack in his early 60s.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Check out the movie Hollywood land, a book also I think. It makes a good case George had unwanted help in his apparent suicide. I believe his body was quickly cremated without permission as well. Enough questions still to make one wonder how it actually happened.
I love Noel Neill. great actress of a bygone era and she fit in perfectly for Lois Lane in the Superman movies and series.
when i was a little boy, i had such a crush on Lois lane ....
@@davediamond7228 hands off. Lois Lane is mine. Sassy independent with great legs.
Superman movies? You mean, back in the day?? What superman, movies 🤔?? There was the series with George Reeves, (that everyone knows), but WHAT movies??
@@rogerrendzak8055 There was the one about the ‘attack of the mole men’, I believe…
@@rogerrendzak8055 In the 40's there were serials movies with 13 to 15 chapters. These were shown in movie theaters to get customers to "come back next week to see the next exciting chapter." There were several. Later on, these movies were spliced together to make a full movies. So a 4 hour movie was cut down to 1.5 to 2 hr movie.
Pure 1952 Americana made brighter with that smile from Noel Neill. Good one.
The Golden Age of American know-how.
Before Noel Neil was.a Daily Planet reporter, and worked with Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen. " Look up in the sky......its a bird,,,, it's a plane !!!!,.......... It's Lois Lane ????."
This a repertoire company of actors from "B" westerns and TV shows of the period. Of course you can't (I can't) actually name them but you've seen all of them a hundred times. The backbone of the acting industry. I'm sure several of them were in "Superman" episodes with Noel Neill. The pilot was a Doctor on a 50's TV series.
@@trimule Did you know that the piot Robert Lawey ( I might have misspelled) was Batman in the 1949 serial, Batman and Robin.
At the end of 1952 I was 5yrs old. I love old films that depict that era. It was innocent. People had respect for others and for law and order. Downtown had department stores filled with beautiful things. And often the store had a tea room for luncheon. Ladies wore gloves and hats to go downtown. At Christmastime, downtown had sparkly overhead decorations.
It was a wonderful time in our history. The best of times.
every word you said is true
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman might disagree.
MAGA again 2024
Absolutely!
LOVE YOUR COMMENT.
2:37 Pretty cool being able to park your car right there in front of the airport, leave the top down, and not have to be concerned that it may rain or anyone will mess with it.
It never rains in Southern California. Sorry... wrong decade.
@@gearheadgregwi ⛈
I laughed , I cried , my emotions ran wild .
🤣
At last is a film about everyday life not only in America but all over the world
@@nallo69 Life as it was in 1952, not as life is today.
I like the "music of progress" that introduces this film. The early 1950s was a time of optimism that seems to be absent now.
yeah they killed that
Thanks the to Regressive Democrat Party
@@knerduno5942 And there it is, the inevitable political comment on a video that has nothing to do with politics. 🙄
@@jacksons1010 His comment does. "Politics Really is Downstream from Culture"
Well it was because the optimism was reserved only for white, middle class, Protestant men. Women were included but only so far as it supported and celebrated the married or in the pursuit of becoming a married man. Even Marge, our flight hostess, is only working this job until she finds a man. Sure, it was ok to be a "working girl" (a new term that wasn't nearly as nice as it sounds) as long as you were in your very early 20s and unmarried. The "optimism" of the 50s turned out to be born out of racist and misogynistic ignorance and so yes, that specific dream for America died a quick death.
She will always be the absolute best Lois Lane, absolutely! That TV show, 1956 saved this 6-year-old. The characters were beyond incredible, Noel Neill was the numero uno.
She's the most beautiful woman ever lived! RIP Lois Lane. 💋🔥🇺🇲🏙️
@@bjornsanjuan1846 Yes, totally simple, sincere, and stunning.
She did a cameo in the 1978 Superman film. 💓
Wow, flying in 1952 is almost unrecognizable.
They had not yet foreseen having the man get drunk and start a fight with the flight attendant. Nor having the man dressed in baggy rumpled clothes with dirty sneakers for shoes.
@@trainliker100 or being treated like crap by the check in personnel and being crammed in like cattle on seats that a child wouldn't fit un
@@admiralcraddock464 Fortunately, airline flights are short. The seat on a Conestoga wagon is wider, but the time is longer measured in weeks or months. And that's only if you aren't traveling overseas.
And it seemed that everyone took a shower/bath before traveling. Those days are gone. :(
@@thomashorton4435 You are right. The majority of the travelers look as if they are going to a sleepover at a friend’s house.
As a 73 year old young man this film brought back many wonderful memories.
I also remember, as a young EE student at GWU, taking a Material Science course . I wish I had paid greater attention.
Yes ,And Ia'm 72 , I Love These Things That WE lived.
As an EE you are already an outlier in this society. Regards.
There goes a sound I will never forget, a propeller airplane. We lived in Woodside near La Guardia Airport in NYC boroughs of Queens.
I lived next to LAX back in the day.
To quote the movie The Graduate, "One Word: Plastics!"
Don't forget the 1946 classic It's A Wonderful Life. George Bailey gets the same advice. Plastic!
"I've got one word for you Benjamin" , "Yes sir". "you listening, Ben?" "Yes sir". "Plastics! Ben" "Yes sir"
Gotta love it ! Radial engines and overhead compartments with no doors. Those were the days. Always loved Noel Neill.
And square windows.
Nice DC 3 and the '51 V8 Ford convertible 👍😊
That beautiful DC-3 was filmed in my hometown.
Burbank, California where the Lockheed Airport was located.
Also love the fact that the Stewardess (what they were called in 1952) could afford a brand new Ford convertible with a classic Flathead V-8.
And DC 3's were nearly indestructible, in peace and war.
My aunt bought a basic, but new 1951 Ford, for $1,650. One of the best looking cars, that year!
Now I know what Pulitzer prize winning reporter Lois Lane of the Metropolis Daily Planet did before she was a newspaper reporter.
She was a flight attendant!
You know, she looked familiar. That's who she is!
In those days we called those women ...stewardesses.
I dont think the news story about plastics made the cut for morning edition.
@@luislaplume8261 or hostess
@@luislaplume8261 Or airline hostesses.
Couldn't help thinking of the line from The Graduate.
Unlocked car, unlocked gate to the airplane, unlocked cabin door - wow those were the good ol' days for sure.
YES THEY WERE.
That was the norm through the early '70s I recall.
I walked daily from the parking lot across an open tarmac ramp to B727 gates , no outside security, at Wash Nat'l Airport, outside DC.
Also was unlimited access to private acft on General Aviation Ramp where I often flew rental acft (1970s).
I won't fly commerical today, not since Gulf War-I '91? (cattle car class with incompetent cabin attendants and those awful TSA molesters). No way.
@@pmullins8821 I haven't flown since 1982. Never will thank God.
Not just an unlocked car, but left with the top down. Well, we all know "it never rains in southern California", just like the song says.
Love this video. Thanks for posting. I am 81 and remember these items. And we had a 1951 Ford like hers! Union Carbide was my employer's (of 39 years) largest customer! I was 11 when this was made.
I lived through this shift in society. Born in the mid 50's. When you wanted to mock or disdain any product, you called it "Made in Japan", or "Made of Plastic".
When I was a child, grandfather bought me a toy sherrif's set. Cap pistol, hand-cuffs, and sheriff's badge. All cheaply made in Japan. Stamped out of scrap metal from the U.S. On the back of that shiny badge were painted words. It said "Campbell's Tomato Soup" !
when it's made in Japan now you know it will be superb quality
@@admiralcraddock464 Yes, because they stole the technology from us. And added a stronger personal work ethic. Using strategies which they learned from American industrial genius, W. Edwards Deming. The father of Quality Control Metrics.
Wow, I remember that!! My sheriff's badge from Japan, was made from, a 'sardine', can 🥫😁!!
@@rogerrendzak8055 Do you remember the 1958 movie "The Fly"? With Al (David) Hedison and Vincent Price? Andre sent a ceramic ash tray through his teletransporter. When it emerged on the other end, it looked fine. When he flipped it over, on the bottom it said "Made In Japan". BUT, the words were spelled Backwards! Ooops!
@@bradfordrusso7480 I have "THE FLY"🪰!! Excellent movie 😉!! I just happen, to be a sci-fi/horror afisonado, with a sizable film🎞️ collection. Have the sequel, and the third one, also.
Previous designers were limited by the materials available. To be able to shape plastic into anything imaginable is a modern marvel. I really enjoyed this video especially Noel Neill and the orchestra music. Thanks for sharing.
Plastics have contaminated the planet, and you can carve wood into the same shapes as plastics (especially now with CNC machines). Heck, even a video was recently recommenced to me in which someone had made a mini Mercedes sports car for their son in which the whole body was made from carved wood.
@@knerduno5942 sure, let's cut the wood for all appliances, destroy forests, they're not important, they just create oxygen. The problem is the consumer economy. Over the last couple of decades, we even don't repair things, we just throw them and buy new ones.
@@MladenPostruznik Destroy the forests?? LOL!! The environment is getting destroyed due to too many plastics. Also, a lot of the fires of California is because of too much forest growth. LOL!! We have more trees than two hundred years ago.
@@knerduno5942 In 2021 there was 79.1 million cars produced in the world. Now, make them wooden and see what would happen. And that's just cars. I am not advocating for plastic, but replacing it with wood as you suggested is also a catastrophe. And don't mix tree cover and forest cover. That is not the same, OK?
@@MladenPostruznik I am not saying make them out of wood, but look at all the literal plastic throw away crap made out of plastic now days. Many parts of the interior could be made with wood instead of plastic, or "carbon neutral" plant seed based oils. I saw some history on Henry Ford were they were trying to make parts out of seed oils, but then cheap oil came along. Bamboo has been a popular cellulose as of lately (cutting boards? Disposable cutlery?), and it is classified as a grass if you are worried about forests.
Even though it was an advertisement, I thought it was excellent. And I am old enough to have flown several times on a DC3 and a DC4. And they did not fly as smoothly as in this film!! But well done, well done.
I have been in several Dc3s but as of yet, not been able to fly in one. Perhaps one of these days as the DC3 is still flying.
Like how she parked in the lot, left the top down and went right to the plane.
Up through the 80's we didn't bother locking cars or houses...
Not true in big cities!....but true in small towns.
So you see why the big city has often been unpopular...
@@starmnsixty1209 In a suburb but yeah...I never go to the crime-ridden city close by, even though they just got 900 million federal bucks to help...well...the people in power and their business associates of course
Kind of cool to see Lois Lane and Batman together. Robert Lowery (the pilot) played in 1949’s Batman and Robin movie serial.
Robert Lowery was considered the "B" movie "Clark Gable", during the 1940's! I sure wish they didn't
do away with "double features"! Some of them were really great!
Batman and Superman. She gets around.
@@rongendron8705 And I miss the showing of a cartoon before the movie.
@@rongendron8705 I watched some pretty fun Ronald Reagan "B" movies.
Even as a young kid in the '80s when I first saw Ms. Neill in a B&W film, I fell in love with her. More so than my beloved Jane Powell, Shirley Temple or Veronica Lake, lol. I was born in the wrong decade; women today just aren't put together like the ladies of the '40s and '50s.
They were Zoftig back then!
@@drpoundsign And it was all natural too, add seamed stockings, a veiled pillbox hat and some gloves to the equation and it's game over.
If you'd like to see a flight attended from 1963, go to RUclips and type in:
"Candid Camera Classic: First Female Pilot"
Go to 1:35 in the video and you'll see a really cute flight attendant that is being "pranked"
@@im1who84u Oh yeah, you have good taste my friend! Definitely would've requested her presence in the cockpit on long flights, lol.
You may like these movies then.
"A Date with Judy"
"The Female Animal"
The actor examining the tray is Lyle Talbot which many will remember as playing a neighbor "Joe Randolph" in the Ozzie and Harriet show for many years. Prior to that, the most seen neighbor had been "Thorny" played by Don Defore. Strangely, we don't see his character get on the airplane. He is just suddenly there. He had a long and busy career as a character actor.
His son, Steve, played Gilbert on Leave it to Beaver.
@@ronaldringler1497 I did not know that. I feel "Gilbert" was excellently done as sort Beaver's Eddie Haskell, only smoother and smarter and Beaver unable to resist Gilbert's instigating. While Gilbert side-steps getting into trouble himself. I looked him up at the IMDB site and he had 27 acting credits, 26 as a child actor. Then went behind the camera doing writing and producing of all sorts of documentaries and shorts. It seems his later work, which shows right up to 2022, is mainly producing social commentary documentaries, even politically tinged. Big long career. I once thought such folks had their career because of their celebrity parent. But Josh Brolin said something that made sense. That a celebrity parent can get you a job but can't get you a career.
@Charles Kinzer. Strangely, we don't see his character, get on the plane?? What do you call him doing @3:36, then??
@@rogerrendzak8055 I checked it. I don't see the character played by Lyle Talbot get on then. I only see "Mr. Arnold", flight attendant, pilot, and copilot. I don't see the character "Mr. Casey" played by Lyle Talbot get on the plane at any time.
@@trainliker100 Sorry, that was my fault!! I thought you meant Mr. Arnold, in the beginning. You're pointing out scene, @16:11. I guess we have to assume, he just does get on.
Oddly enough I also work and own a plastics manufacturing company, I have since I was 22 years old! It’s so crazy that this particular video is so similar to my own life! What a great old film, I’m going to show it to all my friends!
I take it you have not seen the recent reports that plastics have been found in human organs and in the blood. Plastics have contaminated the planet
@@knerduno5942 yes I’m very well aware that microfiber plastics are everywhere and in everything, what I do in a plastic fabrication facility is quite different, plastics have many many uses and the things that I make are not disposable, in fact they’re super expensive one off prototype sort of things, medical prototypes or electrical enclosure prototypes, things that advance the well-being of humans in general, just so happens that plastics are most useful in those areas for material science purposes. That does not excuse the gratuitous destruction of our planet with plastics materials that have been recklessly used, overused and abused, my biggest concern is the microfiber plastic content found worldwide as it seems to be causing the most trouble. I point my finger primarily at corporate greed, profits above life sort of attitude… Monsanto, Dupont and others, but at the same time they’ve done remarkable things to extend life, not that that’s an excuse just that they can do good things, when greed does not worm its way into the hearts and minds of greedy bad people.
@@jackierabbit450 I appreciate the lengthy and informative response. Glad you are not involved in those disposable plastics area. I would like to see many industries switch back over to glass and cardboard. Milk for example was in cardboard containers. As well as washing detergents in powder in boxes. Now its all liquid in plastics. Egg cartons no longer in paper, instead Styrofoam.
Wow! Awesome!
Hilarious! Noel Neill stuck on the flight from hell with guys obsessing about the wonders of plastic. Besides John Eldredge and his Adventures of Superman connection, you also had character actor Lyle Talbot, who played Atom Man in the 1950 Superman serial starring Neill and Kirk Alyn.
Lyle Talbot's son, Stephen, (Gilbert from "Leave it to Beaver"), was my guest teacher in my
"Investigative Reporting" class in college in 1975!
Man you’re an expert.
And Robert Lowery played Batman in a 1949 movie serial, as well as appearing in an episode of Superman, as a friend of Clark Kent, who is also vulnerable to kryptonite.
@@13thwho Good one! Yeah, knowing all this, it was no coincidence that all these super hero actors were cast in the same film.
You are officially amazing! I thought Lyle looked familiar.
That apartment in NYC is now $10K a month
How did he KNOW Lois drives a convertible! CLEARLY he must be stalking her! This sounds like a job for SUPERMAN!
She parked her convertible at the airport with the top down. Hope it doesn't rain. LOL!
Well, they were pretty shady misogynist types back then when fact rather than rose tinted glasses are involved, condescending bastard as well!
Two points for you.
The 2nd, Lois Lane!!
It's ok, it was ok to stalk women in 1952. It was called being charming to a woman playing hard to get. They made a game of cat and mouse out of it until she developed stockholm syndrome and married him.
Noel Neill - I recognized her voice right off the bat - she played Lois Lane in the '50s TV series Superman.
Yes and wasn't she soooooo pretty?
Phyllis Coates played Lois in Superman's first season and then Noel replaced her in the second season, as Phyllis wasn't available to continue the role then.
Yes really nice little film.. love Noel Neal... I sold so many Bake lite purses and beautiful colorful. Bake lite Jewelry while I was an antique dealer over the years.. I liked it when America could pretty much take care of itself..
Nice film. Thank you for posting it.
Quietest DC3 I've ever heard :)
Bakelite is a high temperature plastic that is used in certain high temperature applications. It is strong and very durable under a wide range of temperatures. I found that JB weld will glue it when cracked or broken real well. Forget super glue to repair it when the bakelite is under high heat temperatures. My Weller 8200n 100/140watt soldering gun case is made of black Bakelite plastic.
we used to live near union carbide , dad worked at JM in Manville , he brought home big tubes of UC epoxy that was used to bond bakelite . It smelled awful , and it smoked when it was mixed , and got so hot it would melt a dixie cup . It hardened like a rock in 10 minutes...........
And my old Argus cameras are of Bakelite. Or as a friend calls it, bake-a-heavy.
But why make phones out of Bakelite? Seems like overkill.
@@kurtreber9813 It was cheap and quick to make in huge quantities, and thus more phones could be churned out at lower cost.
I half expected Noel to get Superman to fly her to work. At the end, I thought the plane would either get a monster on the wing, or land in the actual future. Too much TV in my childhood, I guess.
What a great tie Lyle Talbot has!
...and whatever happened to Bakelite? It was pretty good stuff back in the day. Home phones were made of it.
Bakelite was very common for a while. Very useful, but stank to high heaven if it got too hot. Ture of other plastics as well, but Bakelite had its own unforgettable phenolic stench.
Twilight Zone!! Great episode's. And you can NEVER have, too much TV in your/my childhood 😁!!! Lyles' tie, caught my eye, also!!
This from back in the day when people thought plastics and petrochemical companies were our friends. 😵
Such items are still important--but properly disposing of this stuff is the huge problem now.
Loved her in The Adventures of Superman with George Reeves.
Being a Flight Attendant from back in the day (not 1952) I would have slit my wrists with these guys...lol Nice presentation and Noel was perfect.
Connie's and DC 7s eh...
So before she worked for the Daily Planet, she was a flight attendant!
The video I’ve been looking for all my life. Thank you for your video
Thanks for the memory!
The Wonderful World of Plastics --- everywhere, everything, including plastic personalities with plastic ideas, until it morphed into a term associated with the Cheap and Banal. Great Caesar's ghost!
Noel Neill had a terrific figure! And very pretty too. Still enjoy seeing her in the Superman reruns.
what a treasure! thanks for posting.......and Noel......what a wonderful person she was!
only lois lane could have a fridge that neat and organized
Native Californian. Always wondered what Los Angeles in the 1950s and early 60s looked like. I remember the late 60s a bit and the 70s. Would have liked to have seen it when it was still something of a boom town.
You can watch old movies from the 1920 in which most of LA area is basically open fields. Now drive east towards Arizona and it's endless urban sprawl.
Lois thinks to herself “all this talk of phenolic resins….he is sweeping me off my feet”
I drive the sedan model of her car every day! That I’ve got to hurry and get ready to go to my job, I’ll be driving my 1951 Ford custom two-door sedan just like her!
Honest, honest ... i know I'm supposed to be learning about plastics and all, but i couldn't stop geeking out over the Ford. Glad you have one 🙂
Her convertible appears to have an automatic. Ford-o-Matic, I presume?
@@paulsemeraro I’ll be driving my 51 Ford two-door custom to work this morning to cover for one of my friends at the medical practice who’s out today… I drive that car nearly every single day now! I had the carburetor rebuilt and adjusted last month and she drives sooooo perfect! After adjusting the throttle linkage, the transmission shift point changed but I realized on the other side of the linkage there is another adjustment with a clevis pin and rod assembly, I made a guess at which way it needed to go, unclipped the clevis pin and screwed in the fork several times, after three attempts I got it just perfect, and now my 51 Ford is cruising down the road and shifting so smoothly and so perfectly I couldn’t want for more!
I could never dream of doing something like that to my Volvo SUV, I really love the idea that I actually understand how that Ford works, how the mechanisms makes sense to me, I realize I can do things to that car and keep myself on the road! It’s a shame that we’ve lost some of that mechanical simplicity along the way but technology marches forward! I would much rather be stuck in 1959 and stay right there! except of course for all the social injustice!
@@8avexp yes! Ford-O-Matic! This automatic transmission was sourced from Borg warner, and while they actually had three forward gears for some reason they decided to only use second and third during forward driving! It actually makes me a little nuts, there are three good gears in there yet they chose to put a tall rear gear in that differential and only use second and third when you drive around. You could shift into first, then shift into second once you’re rolling along and it does help but it’s such an annoyance I don’t bother. I heard somebody tell me once that the reason they only used second and third had two explanations, one was the fact that there was no Sprag in first gear, only second and third gear had a Sprag for shifting, the other is that at the Dearborn plant where these were made was often cold and icy, and they didn’t want the cars spinning their wheels all over the place so they decided to always have them start rolling in second, seems like a weird reason to me since they sell these cars nationwide. Having driven mine all over the place my opinion is that they should’ve used all three gears and lowered the gear ratio in the differential to something more reasonable for freeway speeds, well I can drive my car 65 or 70 miles an hour it’s not economic, it’s turning too many RPMs and could certainly come down 1000 or even 1500 RPM and be far more economic. I get about 15 miles to the gallon driving up and down the freeways between here and San Francisco, I recently drove to Sausalito from The south bay area near Newark, and again from Pacifica to Milpitas and back, and on both trips I got it fairly steady 15-ish miles per gallon, those are fairly up and down some steep hills once in a while, so flat ground traveling I’m sure it would be better, I’m guessing between 16 and 18 miles to the gallon. Honestly that’s pretty darn good for something that’s not very aerodynamic and has way too tall of a rear gear. My six speed Volvo turbo SUV cannot seem to get better than 21.1 average miles per gallon, with all the technology and me just barely tickling the throttle to try to get every drop out of that gasoline efficiency, you would think it would do much better than a 1951 Ford with a V-8!
@@jackierabbit450 AMC had a Flash-o-Matic transmission in the early 60s that had both D2 and D1 ranges. Normally you used D1, starting in first gear and upshifting to 2nd and finally 3rd. D2 was there if you needed to get going on a slippery surface. You'd start in second and the transmission would upshift to 3rd. Our '62 Rambler station wagon had Flash-o-Matic and I don't ever remember either of my parents ever using D2. My mother learned to drive on that car.
She's the most beautiful woman ever lived! RIP Lois Lane. 💋🔥🇺🇲🏙️
The Christmas scene has a Lionel train set. Lionel trains (and some others, but Lionel was by far the largest) were a huge thing in the 1950's. In 1953, Lionel was actually the world's largest toy manufacturer.
I still have my set to this day
In the mid-1950s, my Christmas gift was a Lionel train set. The plastic used was Bakelite.
@@outlet6989 Lionel used molded Bakelite pre-war, but postwar was switching to styrene for such things (like most everybody else, such as the AMAN plastic bugle that was made of Tenite - a brittle thermoset plastic something like Bakelite and after the war styrene). Then again, the little black bins Lionel made to go along with their coal loaders were Bakelite up to 1957,
Pegs personal "" massager "" was made of plastic 5 D batteries . Score 10 points lmao 🤣
Bakelite was the world's first synthetic plastic-created in 1907. in the 50s and 60s it was commonly used for cups, mugs and ashtrays, still is. It's a hard plastic that can crack or chip if dropped
Bakelite is a choice material for gun stocks too, oh and also those heavy telephones that angry women used to throw at their drunken husband.
Having the right amount of hardness is a key aspect of designing with plastics.
@@paulmorley1225 And printed on the inside of the handset, was 'Western Electric'!!!
@@rogerrendzak8055 Im missing something with that comment I know it and I bet its funny too
@@paulmorley1225 No, nothing missing. I just literally meant on those old, hard plastic phones (whether wall, or desk models, and any color) from back in that time period, on the inside of the handpiece, was the manufacturer 'WESTERN ELECTRIC'. I was just trying to show my age, by knowing that 🙄.
I love these films....I remember them many years ago....even in school.
The Mauretania, 520 North Rossmore Avenue. Nice.
Although Talbot once starred in the film Trapped by Television (1936), the invention of TV actually revived his acting career after the quality of his movie roles began to decline. Talbot was a frequent presence on American television from the 1950s well into the 1970s with occasional appearances in the 1980s. From 1955 to 1966, he regularly appeared in episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as neighbor Joe Randolph. He also had a recurring role (1955-58) as Paul Fonda in numerous episodes of The Bob Cummings Show.[26]
Talbot also acted in a variety of early television Westerns. He played Colonel Billings three times on The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-1955), appeared four times as a judge on the syndicated series The Cisco Kid, guest-starred in four episodes of Gene Autry's The Range Rider in 1952 and 1953, was cast five times in different roles on The Lone Ranger between 1950 and 1955, and played Sheriff Clyde Chadwick in the 1959 episode "The Sanctuary" on Colt .45. In the 1950s and beyond, he performed as well in a wide range of other drama and comedy programs. In 1955 he portrayed the character Baylor in six episodes or "chapters" of the early sci-fi series Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe. From 1953 to 1957, he was cast as different characters in four episodes of the anthology series Lux Video Theatre. In 1967, he played Colonel Blake three times on The Beverly Hillbillies and appeared three times between 1965 and 1971 on Green Acres. On one episode of Green Acres Talbot played himself but in the fictional role of a senator, spoofing actors such as Ronald Reagan who actually became politicians later in their careers.[27]
Some examples of other series on which Talbot made guest appearances include Annie Oakley; It's a Great Life; The Public Defender; The Pride of the Family; Crossroads; Hey, Jeannie!; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Broken Arrow; The Millionaire; Richard Diamond, Private Detective; Tales of Wells Fargo; Buckskin; Cimarron City; Angel; Hawaiian Eye; 77 Sunset Strip; Surfside 6; The Roaring 20s; The Restless Gun; Stagecoach West; The Red Skelton Show; The Lucy Show, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok; Topper; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin; Laredo; Perry Mason; The Real McCoys; Rawhide; Wagon Train; Charlie's Angels; Newhart; The Dukes of Hazzard; St. Elsewhere; Adam-12, and Who's the Boss?.
Talbot continued to act on television into the 1980s. He also narrated at that time two televised PBS biographies, The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982) and World Without Walls (1986) about pioneering female pilot Beryl Markham. Both PBS programs were produced and written by his son Stephen Talbot, a former child actor who portrayed the recurring character Gilbert Bates on Leave It to Beaver, another series on which his father performed in several episodes.
Thanks for posting this great vintage film! I’m hoping to find a 16mm print of this Industrial film.
HM, founder & projectionist
Highway Cinema
Wow, would be cool to see a documentary on the Bakelite company.
ruclips.net/video/L3PVRxRTP1Q/видео.html Here's a reel from 1942 about Bakelite.
4:31- John Eldredge would appear opposite Noel in three episodes of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN".
Wasn't Johm Eldredge Mr. Big the head of the crime syndicate in the first season? He was always the bad guy and here is Lois stuck with him on the plane. Robert Lowery was also on Superman.
YES! At the end of "Crime Wave", Superman brings him to Perry White's office, throughly beaten up.......
SUPERMAN: "Would you accept delivery on this package, Mr. White?"
PERRY: "What? What's that?"
SUPERMAN: "Clark Kent's 'page one' story- in the flesh!"
LOIS: *"WALTER CANBY?????"*
PERRY: "You mean he's-----?"
SUPERMAN: "YES, *Walter Canby!* Eminent attorney......chariman of the 'Metropolis Citizen's Committee for Clean Government'......AND the number one man behind crime in Metropolis! Now you can print that statement Mr. Canby *wanted* you to print- 'There IS no 'Number One Crime Boss' in Metropolis, *ANYMORE'!"*
@@jamesdugan3079 I think he also appeared during the final season.
I clicked to watch this video because I thought it´s a Sci-Fi movie. But I stayed and watched the whole video. Nice!
I learned a lot, this was very interning. I did not know that plastics could be used in metal objects such as propellers.
They weren't describing, that plastic's were in the propellers, just that the metal 'lead', wasn't. They meant just like different plastics, there's different metals, used.
@@rogerrendzak8055 Thanks for helping me understand better.
In the Graduate, the future is in plastic.
Plastics are wonderful. I can’t wait until the world and oceans are full of them.
Ideat. FACT - your footprint on Earth is larger than it need be.
The plastics industry did not get up and dump plastics in the ocean. Man did.
Of course, many will remember her best from "The Adventures of Superman" TV series. But maybe not everybody remembers she wasn't the first actress to play that part in the series. The first 24 episodes had Phyllis Coates playing Lois Lane. I felt her portrayal was rather wooden and stern and devoid of any personality. Noel Neill was quite the opposite and really put some life into the character. Noel Neill started in the series in 1953 which would be just after this. Maybe somebody saw her pleasant and perky style in this and maybe it helped her get the part.
Noel Neil also played Lois Lane in the Superman chapter serials featuring Kirk Alyn as Superman in 1948 & 1950. I think that is what helped her get the role in the TV series.
@@pogwo1968 That makes sense. I assume she wasn't at the start of the TV series due to other commitments.
See my earlier post....Noel's portrayal was re-cast, to be less aggressive and more personable. Ms Coates was allowed to play her character more aggressively....and she gave it a good effort!...She even got knocked out for real, when she missed her mark during a fight scene! I agree with you, that Noel had more charm as Lois Lane--but Ms. Coates was definitely more sexy!
@@curbozerboomer1773 I read once that the producers wanted Lois to be more the damsel-in-peril type that Supie would then rescue, so they made her more weak.
@@pogwo1968 probably so.
Cute … I see a future part on Superman L. L. Thanks I need this! I fell in love again with a special star! RWB
I remember her best from Superman ,,,, but I remember that bakelite was the garbage they made a lot of radios out of , over time it would break down and crack and literally fall apart, it was also very flammable, it caught fire easily and once on fire it would burn like plastic ,,,, I think it was something developed right before the modern plastic we know today.
You’re thinking of some other plastic. Bakelite doesn’t burn, it just chars and makes a bad smell.
I noticed 4 actors had a connection to Superman. The serials and TV series 👌 !!!
Very spacious DC-3 interior..
Wow, big comfy seats, lots of room and pillows, blankets wow! Now you are crammed into tight hard seats with ZERO leg room, no blankets or pillows. Just cram as many in as you can and charge HUGE.
Ohh gettgarip and start your own airline...
they charge you nothing compared to what the ticked was back then I believe
3:00 DC3 engines running, Noel going through non-TSA gate and by the time she goes the 75 feet to the door of the plane the engines are stopped dead.
3:22 “…and serve the Cool Whhhip to the passengers.”
4:02 “Thank you. And don’t call me Shirley.”
5:58 “ I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.”
19:21 “…please God, crash this plane…”
36:48 Gorbachev and Politburo meet discreetly to discuss world domination through Plastics.
@TC. Hmm...Cool Whhip! Isn't that made of plastic too!?!
I think you accounted for all the highlights. I was going to comment on the DC-3 engines running but you beat me to it ;-)
Nice Family Guy and MST3K references :)
@@marknesselhaus4376 Continuity, fuck up!! The engine's we're running before, she got to the plane and then, shut off?? They weren't supposed to be running, to begin with!! That's a major screwup🙄!!
@@rogerrendzak8055 True to a large extent. Even today, many twin engine aircraft either radial or turboprop might have the one engine on the opposite side of the aircraft of the entry door running ahead of boarding but not the one on the same side as passengers board. This would be done usually for a commuter flight with a very short turn around time of minuets.
Just want to wish you both good luck, we're all counting on you.
Flying was so much fun when I was a kid back in the 1960s, but today it's more like being on a bus.
A dirty crowded uncomfortable bus
Half way through the flight with these guy, Lois started looking for the nearest parachute
At around 5 minutes, Lois Lane enters the cockpit and joins pilot and copilot Batman and Commando Cody. A 1940s / 1950s sci-fi trifecta!
Then she goes back to the cabin and suffers torturous brainwashing about plastics at the hands of Superman villains Eldridge and Talbot.
But wait, later pilot Lowery (Batman) enters. Now is Talbot the Atom Man, or is he Commissioner Gordon? This now becomes a “Flight to Confusion “.
Lyle Talbot also played Lex Luthor.
I’ll say this… She looks super hot in that Stewardess Uniform!! LOL
Check out some photos of her on the Internet...she was very attractive, and so was Phyllis Coates!
Americans never locked our cars…or our houses…in the ‘50’s.
Our neighborhood was a true neighborhood. We all knew each other and yes, we didn't need to lock our doors at night.
Culture is such a weird thing!...I follow a dude on Twitch, who streams his life in Japan...he can leave his camera gear in a mall table situation, in the open, while he orders food, hits the bathroom, etc. No one steals his stuff! And their streets are super-clean, well-lit at night, hardly any crime at all!...Used to be that way in the USA I grew up in.
Good to see Noel Neill outside her role in first the Superman serial and then the TV show.
There should be a sequel to this film showing all of the plastic floating around in the oceans.
4:41 Wow!
That's a pretty spacious cockpit.
I mean the one on the plane.
John Eldredge was in Meet Corliss Archer, and Lyle Talbot was in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. And of course Noel Neil was Lois Lane after the first season of The Adventures of Superman.
Wonderful to see the late Noel Neill, she was a wonderful actress, but I was hoping Superman would fly by one of the plane's windows.
Very nice production film starring the second Lois Lane from "The Adventures of Superman" (1951-57).
Isn’t “plastics” the same mesmerizing advice given in “The Graduate?” I love movies made in the Fifties. You woke up with your makeup freshly applied and everyone knew only men could be pilots and women were there to serve. Still, taken at face value, this was charmingly didactic.
Not always didactic. Many science fiction Horror films had lady scientists for instance. Them!, Revenge of the Creature, Rocketship X-M, others. Shouldn't ever paint everything with the same brush...
@@starmnsixty1209 Painting with the same PLASTIC brush!
And, NO black people ever shown!!
@@starmnsixty1209 Yeah, but has anything really, changed?? NO!!
And, it NEVER will. Women will ALWAYS, serve. It's part of the female 'nuturing', instincts.
Just look at waitress's 😉.
Absolute doll. ❤NN❤
How I miss those times...even though I was born 1969.
Dang Noel was such a hottie. I had a crush on her when she played Lois Lane and she was probably one of the few female actors who spoke with a neutral, standard American accent rather than with the Mid-Atlantic also known as the Transatlantic accent most actors spoke in at the time.
Kudos to that guy for being that jolly after not being able to "sleep a wink".
To those of you who did not realize it, Noel Neill, the flight attendant is Lois Lane from Superman.
Oh boy the speed at which the women sprang into action to clean up the spill that guy made, incredible! :P I'd be clawing my eyes out if I had to sit and talk to someone about plastics :(
Beautiful building for 1952 When LA was beautiful
We take so much for granted today.
Hey it's Lois Lane!
YEP! She started filming the second season a year later.
@@fromthesidelines ❤
Yes, but not the real Lois Lane. That's Phyllis Coates.
She declined to return to the series after the first season was completed; Phyllis wanted to "move on".
@@fromthesidelines This was 1952. She replaced Phyllis Coates this same year.
That passenger (John Eldridge) was 'Mr. X' from "The Adventures of Superman" episode 'Supermans Wife'.
Interesting film. Can anyone out there who is old enough to have seen it in the 50's tell us who the target audiance was meant to be and where it would have played? I just can't imagine the general public watching this during a saturday matinee.
Most people didn't have tv's, they were hungry for ANYTHING. And the latest commercials were always the talk of the cocktail party. For YEARS people were fascinated by the multi colored socks in the Burlington commercials (early-mid 60's). I still have fond memories when I see one. .
I was nine when this short film was made. We loved industrial films: railroads, ships, industry, the lot. Mostly they were shown in schools and this always meant a break from class. KIds were curious and hungry for the world being served up as entertainment. My generation was yet preserved from the jaded, cynical and uninterested ones to follow.
You'd see films like this in assembly at school. We all liked it because it got us out of class. I'm not as old as this film, but it was still probably kicking around the AV rooms in 1970 when I was in elementary school.
Fell in love with Lous Lane at 4 now I see why.
So, if she was living at 520 North Rossmore, and had to make it to LA International within an hour or so as indicated by the clock and flight time... she'd have had roughly a 30-minute drive (if she was really booking it with no traffic and the fact she could park practically right next to the plane). Could have done it, but she'd only have had half an hour in her apartment to shower, etc. But all perfectly feasible and realistic. And people on here are saying they didn't care about the details back then! They worked out all those minute details perfectly. And yes, they did care about details back in the day, even in industrial films.
The airport in the film is what was then the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank. Driving there from 520 N. Rossmore may have taken less time than to L.A. Int'l.
@@dalecomer5951 Good place for a stew to live, right between the two airports.
@@james5460 The film doesn't explain how Marge and Peg could afford to live there and that looks like a new '52 Ford Marge is driving.
Onward…
… to the wonderful world of plastics, with Big Bill as your pilot.
I saw her as an elevator operator in a movie from 1948, The Big Clock. I recognized her immediately.
Great find. I don't know much about Neill's life but her career seemed to stop dead after The Adventures of Superman ended. I remember seeing her on Mike Douglas in the 70's, she was promoting a speaking tour she was doing on college campuses. She never had another IMD credit that wasn't somehow related to Superman, and all came from 1978 on.
I'm 76 & saw "Superman" from Day 1 at age 6-7! My younger brother, born 1953, is even named "Kent"!
Noel Neill remained youthful & beautiful, throughout her life, but somehow couldn't shake her Lois Lane
image! Too bad!
Noel Neill visited my alma mater in the fall of 1978. Very pleasant lady who had a question and answer session after an episode from the show was played. I met her afterwards and got her autograph. She embraced the role of Lois Lane and never let go of it.
It's the Superman Curse. "The Superman curse refers to a series of supposedly related misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of the DC Comics character Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and television."
@@8avexp Actually, she got what is called "typecast" and couldn't let go of it. Same thing happened to George Reeves. They became too identified with their TV character roles and couldn't get other work.
For now just going to write _wow_ !