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Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas (1937)

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Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas (1937)
Sponsor: National Industrial Council. Production Co.: Audio Productions Inc. Narrator: Lowell Thomas. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 10 minutes.

Short sponsored by a manufacturers group to improve the public image of industry during the Great Depression. “Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking into the future, Thomas predicts economic revitalization made possible through industrial research. The “frontiers” are emerging fields such as aviation and television broadcasting that will create new opportunities and products for Americans.

Note: The National Industrial Council comprised representatives of state manufacturers associations. Shot in 35mm and also released in 16mm, the film was sold to corporations in a kit with film strips and a projector.

Resources
Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1939), 83; General Motors Film Catalog, 1943–1944, prepared by General Motors Corporation, Department of Public Relations (Detroit, MI: General Motors Corp., 1943), 15.