Your Life Work, by Moray Newlands

Your Life Work

by Moray Newlands

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1.	Are you a Quitter? 03:25	buy track
2.	Pick Your Tomorrow 03:13	buy track
3.	The Pharmacist 03:22	buy track
4.	No More Funnies 03:09	buy track
5.	That's Selling 03:26	buy track
6.	Radio and Television 03:19	buy track
7.	A Love For Books 03:46	buy track
8.	The Secretary 03:30	buy track
9.	Electronic Data Processing 03:28	buy track
10.	Good Home Management 03:30	buy track

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The 1940s and 1950s were a boom time for the creation of industrial, human relations, classroom training and social guidance films in the USA. Organisations such as Burton Holmes Films Inc and Coronet Instructional Media Inc helped shoot and distribute documentary shorts for a developing post World War II society. Film subjects were wide-ranging and included zoology, science, geography, history and mathematics, but many had a more social focus and included guidance topics such as dating, family life, courtesy and citizenship.

Film makers and directors such as Burton Holmes, Ted Peshak and Henry Strauss also recognised a need to provide vocational guidance and inspiration for young post-depression workers. The film series ‘Your Life Work’, produced by Vocational Guidance Films Inc is one such example, with shorts designed to inform young people about job responsibilities in a variety of careers.

The films sampled here can be found on the Prelinger Archives, an expansive collection of US Cultural History founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. The archive’s goal is to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. Many of the films are now in the public domain with physical films now held in the US Library of Congress.

Track 3, The Pharmacist, was featured on BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone on 10 December 2023.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t02q

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released August 4, 2023

All tracks: Moray Newlands
newlandsmusic.bandcamp.com

Mastered by: SEODAH
soundeffectsofdeathandhorror.co.uk.

The digital archive can be accessed on the Internet Archive site archive.org/details/prelinger?tab=collection

CD released on Wormhole World, August 2023
wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/your-life-work-2

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