New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: It Can't Last!

Odd little mid-war film warning about waning concern for our boys overseas. Inexplicably follows three stories, a cherubic New Englander more concerned about his morning coffee than the hard-fighting boys overeas, Quince an incompetent bomber crew member and an Army Chaplain who mysteriously appears to chastise us all.  Oh and buy war bonds.  That's where this was going all along after all. 
 
Runtime: 19:02

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Tippy The Town Dog!

Jimmy wants a dog more than anything and likes to visit Mr Black's house to see his pet dog Tippy every day after school. Mr. Black's motives seeme pretty suspect but hey this is the fifties and no reason to think this bachelor means anything but friendship to a lonely dim-witted preteen who comes to his house daily and lets himself into the house with the familiarity of a maid. 

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Gateways to the Mind w/ short: Fitting Faces!

In 1958 curious young minds wondered; how do we know the things we know? 

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Holiday for Bill!

From the makers of "A Case of Spring Fever" and "Hired!" parts one and two, comes "Holiday For Bill", a thirty minute commercial for Ford tractors featuring about twenty seconds worth of tractor footage.  Meant to appeal to the ego of hillbillies, it shows how fussy city-slickers just need to keep it real and chill with the salt of the earth rural farmers to find true happiness.  Length 31:50

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Bookkeeping and You!

Another in the long line of Coronet films teaching young baby boomers about how to be responsible.  No, you won't see the adventure of "What to do on a Date" or the dramatic performances of "Shy Guy" but what you will get sir is a decent helping of dry as sawdust talk talk and more talk about keeping up with your expenses and costs and just kill me now.  Despite Coronet's best efforts we still got the housing crisis.  Thanks boomers!  I'm gonna be honest, this was the most boring painful short I have tried to riff so please buy it.

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Double Feature - "Turnabout Man" and "It Can't Last"!

Odd little mid-war film warning about waning concern for our boys overseas. An interesting juxtoposition to the "Go to Disneyworld" philosophy from G Bush about the current war and Americans attitudes.  At the end we see our "hero" shot down in war thus making him a viable candidate for future president.

"Turnabout Man" is supposed to show us what would happen if people took their everyday bad driving habits into their daily pedestrian lives. Instead it only makes us want to kill the grumpy hate filled protagonist.

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: The Lost City Part One!

In the 1930's Scifi was in it's first awkward steps but one set of serialized films combined exciting stories, dramatic acting and, for it's time, impressive special effects.  That was of course, Flash Gordon.  Unfortunately, we have here a lame ripoff of Flash Gordon, The Lost City.  Sort of an "Oliver and Hardy" meets "Lost Horizon" meets "Commando Cody".  Make sure to look out for the extra good-natured racism that was only slightly offensive for it's time <cough>American nazis<cough>.

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Double Feature - Bright Young Newcomer and Hidden Grievance!

In Bright Young Newcomer we meet G. Bennet Barnes, a manager guy of some sort who is just trying to do his darndest to run his office but oh boy - here we go with these darn girls in the office!  Fer crying out loud can't a man just get some work done without these lousy girls ruining things?

In Hidden Grievance an oddly accented worker can't quit his bellyaching and tries to get some changes made at work buit for some reason can't figure out to just say what's on his mind.  If only his manager had watched these McGraw Hill Text Films for managers.

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Angry Boy!

The depressing story of a boy who's angry (as already alluded to) and it is up to a team of child psychiatrists to find out what's bothering him.  Yes, Tommy is so messed up that he needs a team of skilled therapists working on him.  The film ends on a hopeful note but it's clear to everyone that Tommy is a year from animal torturing and a road towards becoming a notorious serial killer.  32 minutes. 

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Day of Thanksgiving!

Baby Boomers have grown through a series of changes: detatched hippies in their twenties, jaded young parents in their thirties, greed-driven investors in their forties and granola eating, yoga practicing new-agers in their fifties.  Watch this film and see how their generation began, as spoiled whiny kids in the fifties.  Oh and there's something about being thankful and the Pilgrims in there somewhere.  Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!  And remember to only eat the truly patriotic Thanksgiving side item: cornbread dressing.  If you are eating that disgust

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: Behind the Freedom Curtain!

This film sheds light on a little known phenomenon that worried Americans of the past:  Election errors.  It seems that for a time election errors led to miscounts, recounts and such that caused problems with the election process.  Fortunately, voting machines came along to solve every single one of those problems so that in the modern day such a thing is completely unheard of and elections take place with little if any mention of problems and of course require no such drastic measures as recounts or going to the Supreme Court for a decision on who won an election.  It&r

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New iRiff: Atomic Treatment: To Enrich Mankind!

In the rich tradition of Night at the Museum, Mannequin.. uh, Mannequin 2... comes the "educational" film, "To Enrich Mankind" in which a statue of Archimedes comes to life and teaches a valuable lesson about mechanical engineering to Gus the Curator, a man so cranky he makes Archie Bunker look like Fred Rogers.Runtime 23:10.

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