More recommended fun films from the Internet Archive Moving Image Archive: In the “social guidance” genre, Dating: Do’s and Don’ts from Coronet Instructional Films, circa 1949, is a charming story of a boy’s first date, including how he chooses the girl to invite and alternate-world demonstrations of what not to do, such as lunging in for a goodnight kiss. For the absolutely surreal, check out A Case of Spring Fever, a 1940 Handy Jam Organization film in which an animated spring punishes a man who curses out his broken sofa springs by forcing him to live in a world without any springs, thus converting the poor guy into a pro-spring evangelist who begins lecturing his friends on the merits of springs as well. The question remains why GM, the film’s sponsor, felt the need for a film promoting the virtues of the mighty spring.
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