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Jerry Pulls the Strings
About this film
Advertisement for vacuum-packed canned coffee that was produced primarily for screening at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. In the narrative a young puppeteer proves to his prospective father-in-law, a coffee packer, that puppeteering is a viable occupation by using marionettes to tell the story of coffee. The young man uses 80 string puppets and deep, dimensional sets to explain how coffee is grown, harvested, roasted, and packed in vacuum cans to retain flavor. Note: Also distributed in 16mm. Written and supervised by National Tie-Ins Inc. For more about Caravel Films, see “Opening of Production Center Marks Caravel’s 37th Year,” Business Screen 18, no. 6 (1957): 20.
Directors & creators
Caravel Films Inc.
Subjects
sponsored film
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