“ THE MAGIC KEY “ 1950 U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANIMATED FILM POST-WWII PROSPERITY XD38414

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, this highly optimistic, 1952 full color animation/live-action hybrid film presents the USA in the forefront of the world. It examines the medium of advertising as “the magic key” to continued American economic prosperity in the post-war era, suggesting a relationship between ads and modern refinements to household appliances (TRT 21:54). It was produced by the Raphael G. Wolff Studios. Animated searchlights over a city skyline. Opening credits (0:26). A painterly interstellar atmosphere. Comets, stars and planets with towers and craters (0:44). Earth appears (1:08). A man and woman cast shadows on a stone wall. A man with a scythe. Classical architecture (1:20). Stone doric columns crumble and fall (1:32). A surreal landscape of ancient ruins (1:44). A hand with a signet ring stamps a wax seal. A man in chainmail swings a