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Thunder Rod!!!! (1971)
🕑 Added 2022-11-21 00:44:42 +0000 UTCThis 16mm film from my archive is supposed to be a parable... So here it is: Work hard washing cars, and you can buy the most awesome build-it-yourself 1971 Daytona Charger SST (On Sale!), put it together in your basement, race it with your best friend, smash it to bits against the wall, and you get to put it back together and do it all over again. So... That's the parable! Honestly, every kid knows that smashing Thunder Rod was the best part! Worth a week washing cars. And aren't there rules about child labor and low pay? Anyway - The moral of the story is have fun, work hard, demand a living wage, and don't be a sour puss just because you don't think that repairing things is the most fun of all. As usual I transferred this reel with my own Telecine and corrected color to taste. Enjoy!
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Rocky is going to be there all day trying to get that wheel off if he doesn't block it. And put some elbow into it, man! Neat film, I was in first grade in '71. I can't quite get the theme either. Modern society produces junky products ranging from plastic models of cars to real cars? At first, I thought it was caveat emptor, then the need for consumer protection, combined with some anti-consumerism. The mind runs free, since there was no narrator and minimal dialog. The setting was very cool, though.
Matt Wietlispach
Manual labor? No seat belts used? No sales tax? Manual assembly of a multi-part model? I loved the director's name "Skeets McGraw" I think it was. I had those pull the plastic cord and flywheel cars. Smash-up-derby I think it was called and they were designed to blow apart on impacts. No all the parts would be considered a "choke hazard". I really liked this one Fran!
