" FAMILY OF CRAFTSMEN " 1953 STUDEBAKER AUTO CORPORATION PROMOTIONAL FILM MD61384

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5 ай бұрын

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This black and white 1953 “Family of Craftsmen” film is sponsored by The Studebaker Corporation and produced by Louis de Rochemont Associates. It portrays the lives of a family with multiple members who work for Studebaker. It has great clips of houses, furniture, and clothing from the early 1950s. The film opens with a great visual and sound of a factory steam whistle (:54). Workers leave the Studebaker factory on Friday afternoon in early 1950s sedans (1:00-1:25). A night security officer checks the manufacturing facility in South Bend, Indiana (1:26-1:52). A punch time clock is shown (2:06). The Saturday activities begin. Grandfather hoes in his garden, young grandchildren helping (2:59-3:15). Grandmother, wearing an apron over her dress, brings out the laundry basket and hangs clothing on a clothes line (3:16-3:56). One son, smoking a pipe, turns on a mechanical sprinkler system (3:57-4:20). His sister shows a baby (4:21-4:30). Her husband solders a radio set (4:39-5:05). Another son raises minks, shown in cages (5:07-5:29). Another son works in his machine shop (5:35-6:19). A 1950s family with a boy, girl, and baby eat lunch together (6:26-6:40). A daughter feeds a toddler in a high chair (6:47). A young boy naps in a lawn chair (7:26). A group of women arrive to plan the 100th anniversary company events (7:46-8:13). The men work on building a house (8:26). The church bell rings (8:40). Grandpa adjusts his tie in a mirror before his wife fixes it (9:03-9:20). Studebaker cars leave for church (9:25-10:12). At home, one daughter reads to the children on the lawn (10:17-10:29). A Granite Ware enamel roaster is pulled from the oven and the women in aprons prepare the Sunday meal (10:47-11:10.) Leaves are put into the dining room table (11:11). A man and woman peek through a curtain (11:20). The entire family sings Happy Birthday to grandpa (11:36). The women bring in the meal (11:55-12:40). A son uses what might be a Paillard Bolex movie camera (12:45-13:08). The women are in the kitchen washing dishes (13:10). A child sits in a metal wagon and a tricycle is nearby (13:17). A daughter’s wedding is shown via a 1950s 16-millimeter film projector and recording (13:34-15:05). Monday morning the cars return to work (15:06-16:38). The car assembly line is shown in action (16:39-17:53). Draftsmen work on new designs (17:54-18:07). The assembly line is again shown in action (18:09-18:40). A woman types on a typewriter (18:55-19:00). People leave the factory at the end of the day (19:16-19:30). People find seats at the 100th anniversary celebration (1852-1952) ‘History of Fashion’ and the show begins (19:33-20:53). A man in a white tux sings as the women wear fashions that match the Studebaker products over the last 100 years, including an 1852 wagon (21:34), an 1884 carriage (21:57), an 1902 electric car (22:54), the 1920 Big Six (23:01), the 1939 Champion (24:08), and the 1952 Starliner Hardtop (24:30). The crowd rises to its feet to sing the official Studebaker song, “Rolling Along” (25:00-26:15).
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@olivedarb03 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

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@garylangley4502 5 ай бұрын

This film was the introduction of the 1953. This was the first time it was shown anywhere! I knew the family of William "Bill" Bokon in the 1970's. I was attending San Bernardino Valley College, and met Bill's sons, becoming good friends with them. I had a '62 Studebaker Hawk at the time, and one day Bill asked for a ride in it. As I drove, he had a bit of a far away look on his face. He said that riding in my car brought back pleasant memories.

@mitchelldakelman7006 5 ай бұрын

Is this the first time you are seeing this, or did it first get shown in 1953...and you knew the family depicted in the film? Wow!!

@garylangley4502 5 ай бұрын

I first saw this film in about 1974 at Bill Bokon's house. He had a 16mm copy of it and showed it on the projector shown in the film. It was first shown in late 1952 to introduce the '53 shown at the last of the film. Yes, I was good friends with them. We were always working on cars, doing different things.@@mitchelldakelman7006

@randallbargar348 5 ай бұрын

I knew families like this growing up in rural Western New York state in the 50's and 60's. Wonderful days.

@whatsamattayu3257 5 ай бұрын

The Studebaker Museum in South Bend has a nice exhibit telling the history of the storied car maker.

@tomtbi 5 ай бұрын

I've been there.. I highly recommend it..

@garylangley4502 5 ай бұрын

I was visiting my brother in Chicago in 1976, and on July 4th, we took the South Shore - South Bend Railway to visit the Studebaker Museum. We enjoyed it very much. The train goes through a cemetery, it stopped briefly for the track to clear, and I looked at a stone monument. It was Joe Bokon's headstone!

@BR-bj3ot 14 күн бұрын

One need only watch one film like this to see the progression of mankind’s Sin and moral decline through the years. God be with us!

@asteverino8569 Ай бұрын

This film reminds me of the movie 'The Truman Show'. Everything so nice and neat.

@user-kd4ir7dk1s 5 ай бұрын

I have a late 1955 Champion 2 door sedan ( 16G6 ) with the Ultra Vista ( wrap around ) windshield in my garage here in California's gold Mother Lode that I've had for 24 years now, it is my daily driver when the weather is nice. Studebaker's attract all the right people.

@tedlawrence4189 5 ай бұрын

That was a different America shown on this film. My paternal grandfather worked at Stude's from 1943 to 1956. For several years he hung doors. They were good cars for the $.

@williamwoods8970 5 ай бұрын

My dad hung doors as well.

@loumontcalm3500 5 ай бұрын

Filmed in 1952. Little did they know, but the Studebaker party was about to hit the skids. By 1963, it was all but over.

@bradmad8346 5 ай бұрын

A sad end to a once proud company.

@Airpang100 5 ай бұрын

As the US auto industry at whole, except Teslas here imported from PRC or Germany. No new passenger cars made in the US any longer.

@Oldcarnut63 5 ай бұрын

Actually auto production ended in Canada 1966 but the Studebaker corporation went on for many more years .

@loumontcalm3500 5 ай бұрын

@@Oldcarnut63 yes, but I'm referring to the South Bend assembly line workers.

@Oldcarnut63 5 ай бұрын

@@loumontcalm3500 you didn't say that 🤔 but thats ok👍

@joeguzman3558 5 ай бұрын

What a beautiful Time in America

@TheBinderBoneyard 5 ай бұрын

Pretty neat to see a tight knit family like that. Great film.

@jeffashley5512 5 ай бұрын

Great Video. The birthday portion was apropos for today January 11th as my grandson and I celebrated our birthdays today. 😊

@Nunofurdambiznez 5 ай бұрын

Peri ! This is one of your all-time BEST you've put out for quite some time!! I thoroughly enjoyed each and every minute of it from start to finish!! JOB WELL DONE!!

@USAACbrat 5 ай бұрын

my favorite was the 53 coup, my uncle a stand up base player fit him and his base, in that little car. I also raced a 58 Lark in small sedan races. USSCA

@tedcole9936 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I remember when my parents had a Studebaker Sedan. I was born in 1953. After it died in the driveway, it was a long string of Fords. Fairlane, Galaxy wagon, a couple Mustangs, a couple Pintos, and after that I can’t remember… my grandfather had invested in Studebaker stock… he lost his shirt. Them was the days.

@otisarmyalso 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful times sadly gone except for the 52 i hold

@Nunofurdambiznez 4 ай бұрын

There's an entire website set up for the Bokon family, a memorial really, telling when Joe Sr, his wife Mary, and all of their children and their spouses were born, married and passed. Some of the children have obituaries attached to their names.. It's quite touching.

@ericfillmore7262 4 ай бұрын

Where can I see this? I would like to k ow of the family farm still stands.

@boballmendinger3799 Ай бұрын

I haven't located the website yet, but that's fascinating. I was shocked to discover they used a real family.

@otisarmyalso 4 ай бұрын

I still have a 52 studebaker 6cvl engine and truck

@Merseysiderful 5 ай бұрын

Very 1950s cosy and wholesome, until the part where the son did the side hustle of raising Minks for the fur trade.

@joegoldman3065 25 күн бұрын

This was the time obviously were 100% of daily existence in America was cheerful cheerful going to work cheerful at work cheerful at home just cheerful cheerful cheerful cheerful no alcoholism no strife no dysfunctional households and God forbid no black people to get in the way of anything

@mexicanspec 5 ай бұрын

I wonder what happened to that property and all those houses.

@fujifrontier 5 ай бұрын

Boring strip malls or ugly expensive apartments probably

@skibee50 5 ай бұрын

6:03

@radbond1 5 ай бұрын

The film portrays the average Studebaker Auto Corporation employee as a member of a family of Studebaker Auto Corporation workers. This sounds good but the company's bankruptcy left the entire family out in the cold. The family should have diversified.

@garylangley4502 5 ай бұрын

A few years after this film was made, William Bokon left Studebaker and went to work for Rambler.

@OldsVistaCruiser 5 ай бұрын

At 2:08, above Rudy Bokon's name appears to be his Social Security number!

@lwilton 5 ай бұрын

Yep, probably. In those days not a lot of people had SSNs. They were not mandatory, and were not used all that much. Also it was a politer age, and the urge to steal that is an ingrained part of the modern American only existed in a very few, and usually not the cleverest of people. Someone knowing your SSN was no big deal. It was a very different age that is pretty much incomprehensible today.

@Dadsezso 5 ай бұрын

@@lwilton Really, even up to the early 70's when I entered the USMC, your SSN was plastered all over everything you had. Never heard of anyone experiencing identity theft.

@OldsVistaCruiser 5 ай бұрын

@lwilton - In those days, everyone had a Social Security number. It had been like that since the mid-'30s.

@mexicanspec 5 ай бұрын

I was wondering what kind of cars this family would drive.

@Franaflyby 5 ай бұрын

FYI. I am a 64 year old female single empty nester. I must tell you that I find this life so hard and wish I could have been born and raised back in those days . I know life had its own struggles, but still. People nowadays are so mean and selfish.

@otisarmyalso 4 ай бұрын

God bless u