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Roush (Leslie) Productions, Inc.Speaking of Rubber (Part I) (1951)

Narrated by a retired "rubber man," this classic industrial film shows the uses and manufacturing of rubber products. With excellent images of making boots, tire manufacturing, traction tests, and innovative uses of rubber.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: Roush (Leslie) Productions, Inc.
Sponsor: U.S. Rubber Company
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Rubber; Occupations: Rubber workers; Chemistry

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: KOBUN - - November 9, 2008
Subject: rubbery
'you go upstairs and get me an egg..'

Reviewer: xtiml - - June 5, 2008
Subject: rubber man
he no look like a rubber man.he be out in de forest tappin terss if he was.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - June 13, 2005
Subject: Gramps shows Junior his rubbers
Gramps, a retired Rubber man lays it THICK into Jimmy how important Rubber is. Now, if you laughed at that sentence, well, you better download this film, as it's just as preposterous as it sounds. You see Gramps and his son worked in the rubber business, so they KNOW all about Rubber shoes, tires, army parts, stoppers etc. Just about the hootiest dialogue you'll ever hear pass between Gramps and Jimmy about the wonder rubber, and yes, a lot of it CAN be construed as sexual,
Jimmy: "Got this sure is springy"
Gramps: "Let me show you something that's springier!" (yikes!)

A hoot and a half! Very very funny. Highly reccomended!

Reviewer: trafalgar - - April 2, 2004
Subject: And speaking, and speaking...
Kindly old Gramps, a veteran of the local rubber factory, talks annoying little Jimmy's ear off for a half hour about...rubber! "You know, after 40-odd years, rubber still fascinates me," he says, explaining the various rubber products, until Jimmy exclaims "it's in everything!" Rubber is of course called a "miracle", and is somehow responsible for our freedom. Though it doesn't exactly conform to the description below (I only wish Jimmy would say "Aw, who cares about RUBBER anyway?"), it's still pretty much the classic formula industrial film. The acting is appropriately cornball, as is the sappy hometown-America pitch at the beginning and end. As Ms. Hennig would say, this would be good for MSTing...

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All the script clichŽs are here: junior sitting in the kitchen complaining, "Aw, who cares about RUBBER anyway?" and gramps, the appreciative rubber factory retiree, on hand to set him straight. "Why, without rubber, the world wouldn't be as nice a place to live in!" Cut to a ten-minute manufacturing montage....


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