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- 1940 (Accumulation)
- 1940 (Accumulation)
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Video
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Scope and content
Film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: Yes; Online archive: Yes; Television: Yes
Conditions governing reproduction
public domain
Language of material
English
Script of material
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Llengua: Inglés. Països: United States of America
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images/posters/2649_0055_LEAVE_IT_TO_ROLL-OH.jpg
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Versión original en archive.org: 8.42 min.
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- Prelinger Archives (Accumulator)
- Jam Handy Organization for General Motors (Accumulator)
- Prelinger Archives (Subject)
- Jam Handy Organization for General Motors (Subject)
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Catalan
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Latin
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creative common/public domain