The Internet Archive Moving Image Archive seems to have undergone a recent redesign, including the ability to browse by subject and a review system. Lots of fun stuff in there. The evening I watched Choosing for Happiness, a 1950 film in the “Marriage for Moderns” series in which a young woman repremands her friend for expecting men to change to meet her fancy rather than understanding that you can only change yourself. Like the other films in this series, there’s a lot of truth in it, but there’s also a lot of out-datedness. I particularly like the scene portaying a date to the park, in which the woman wears a bathing suit and sunbathes, while the man is wearing pants and a long-sleeved plaid shirt. Oh, and the nerd who complements a girl by saying she’s so smart, it’s like she’s a man.
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