Art Gilmore goes on for almost a quarter of an hour. He talks about America and the pioneer spirit. He talks about industry and mining pits. He talks about maple syrup, for gosh sake. He talks about unions and skilled labor and agriculture. Crane Wilbur, who directed this two-reel Technicolor movie for Warner Brothers, shows us vistas of America, and steel mills and so forth in an endless succession of bright-lit images.
And i sat there for the length of it, wondering what the point was. "Well done America!" I wondered at first. Later I thought it was a plug for the electrical industry.
In the end, it was an exhortation to buy savings bonds lest it all go away.
