When a pre WW2 ad turns out to be more entertaining and educational than many modern videos.

Man I'm addicted to these old videos!

These old Chevy videos are still gold!

“To aid him in determining the extent of his possessions and purchases”. Ah man these videos are truly from another era, I love it.

I’m 26 and I love watching these!

I love how stern the narrators were back then, how optimistic they were.

Measuring is what I do for a living, and the tools you see in this video are still in use today as well as computer controlled CMM measuring machines, which I program. When you watch this video, please consider how just a few years earlier people were getting around using horses!! The technology developed fast........

I definitely would have felt very certain of choosing a career path in mechanics or machining if I had been shown films of this type and caliber while in grade school. Instead we had directionless and meaningless curriculum.

Back from an era when a skilled Tool & Die Maker was a master craftsmen!

They say cars have improved since the 30s and Im sure in many respects that is true. I know one thing that has degraded since then and its the ability to produce a well edited, simple to understand, and extremely informative film such as this one. Nowadays Kids think the earth is flat and have no idea how anything works.

The ending was one of the most charming and adorable things iv'e seen in a while! It's like a little parade of instruments! Precision st. gauge ave. I love it! hehehe!

Okay after watching this, Now have to go watch a old machinist film. Seeing them machining things to those tight tolerances by hand is always good.

This is a chronicle of the "American System" of manufacturing that was pioneered by Eli Whitney and his system of interchangeable parts whose sizes were qualified by master gages. That system was perfected by the gun industry of Connecticut through the 1800's and transferred to the auto industry when GM hired Henry Leland to be chief engineer at Cadillac. If you walk through an inspection department at any manufacturing or engineering facility today, you can still see Rockwell hardness testers, precision dial indicators, and go/no-go gages. This is the bedrock on which America's industrial strength was built. By this system, auto manufacturers were able to build cars at low enough cost that anybody could afford to buy them.

There are so many things to say about this beautiful 1937 series of videos that I don't know where even to start. The tools to create the videos themselves weren't very advanced, yet you see cute marching tools at the end. Someone had to think of that. And if one transcribed the narration, it would forrm beautiful, proper writing. Then there's the perfect elocution of the narrator. And then, of course, the excellent educational subject of the recordings. Who would not be proud to have lived and contributed to that era. One can imagine families gathering around their TV sets or radios to see / hear one of these episodes. They are high quality productions, each beginning with a little story to inspire why the subject matters at all. They never insult your intelligence. And finally, the feats of technology themselves (i.e. the subjects of the recordings): Brilliant! All of these foundational things and pride in them have been lost. (._.) Thank you for these videos uploader. ❤️😊🙂

Wow, even the arabic bazaar sketch has them speaking proper arabic (at least when they're counting). Attention to detail!

I googled "Jam Handy." He was actually an Olympic Swimmer (who lived to age 97) who got into communications later. His professor, at the University of Michigan, lived almost as long.

When I worked at Boston Scientific, despite all of the digital instruments, we always used Go/No Go pins to measure the I.D. of the catheters we made.

This was back in the day when the average Joe would marvel at such technology. Now, we just take it for granted.

In his later days , my grandfather was a security guard at a chemical fertilizer company. I used to go to work with him at night , and we rode around on the golf Cart to go check the buildings and offices. One night , he took me into a huge room , in the main building/office , and it had a scale inside a glass/steel cabinet. It had tubes coming out of it , and some rubber gloves attached to the doors so you could do stuff with the scale , in a controlled environment. My grandfather said it was one of the most accurate scales in the state and that other companies and even state and federal businesses sent stuff there to get weighed/ tested. As a 10 year old, that was one of the coolest things I had ever seen......

All of these measuring devices permit mass manufacturing of fairly complicated automobiles within fine tolerances. Of course computers assist with much of this type of work today yet in 1937 this was state of the art in the automobile industry.

I drove a '48 Chevy for quite some time. It had the 235 Cubic Inch 6. The engine had no oil pump, but got oil from little cups on the bottom of the crankshaft. It worked well with the lower speeds at the time it was built, but as speeds increased, the engine couldn't get enough oil to the engine. In '52, Chevy changed the engine to a more modern oil delivery system.

Who is that narrator? He is very motivated. Seems to genuinely like his job. He is talking to the future and he is talking with real pride.

"WHY?!! WHY must MY speech be made shorter?!" - Guy who put the mud in the water clock to cheat the next speaker

The labs at GM look like nice places to work. The factories were hell holes in '37.

Just think about how amazed those engineers would be now with tolerance in mass production.

You learn more in this video than in 3 months of public schooling, lol.

I find it interesting that, even though there were proportionally more people involved in manufacturing, the need for this film shows that there was still a great deal of popular ignorance of practical science, much less theory. One may argue that scientists like Einstein were more renowned then, but I dare say few truly understood their work, just like today. While we may moan over our education system today, the ability to distribute and access this information is much better.

Jam Handy films are cool.

16:31 "actually it is the sound of a human heart!" Interesting to think there was a time when the sound of a heart wasn't universally known.

We have the knowledge and technology to be excellent, all we require is the will.

Notice that Chevrolet very carefully does not mention Johanson blocks (A thing associated with the Ford Corporation).

The stop-actionphotography at the end of the film was quite well done. It was also used in other GM films.

This man is likely long dead now but if there is still a part of him that exists, it may help to know that now we have almost reached a point where all of our measurements have reached a point where we can now relate everything to physical laws. Once mass is finalized, we will have the ability to measure everything in relation to the standard model of particle physics meaning we will be able to precisely measure regardless of location in our universe.

Films from the days of success, the whole time feels like we understand and can control our world and material in it.

Back when we did for ourselves.....

0:54 Me laughing at these people for the way of measuring things, while also me using a King’s foot to measure all my things.

This video is totally AWESOME! Thank you very much!

who else is watching in 1937?

I was born too late... This era must have been fascinating to live in. As long as you were a highly educated mechanical engineer...

We did OK in 1937. 1945 and WW2, gained a lot - but loss much over the years. Apollo 11 1969 and this video, only 32 years. Time frame 7:40. Nice. Need to find that newspaper. I am sure it is online somewhere.

I love it. simply amazing, and the Arabs at the beginning are actually speaking Arabic.😃😃😃

I liked the little parade if precise instruments at the end.

I was hoping to hear the "half a bees dick " unit of measurement.

It's a pretty amazing achievement for that time. At the same time then and today we cannot get body panels to fit correctly.

5 yrs later this technology and the advances made in those 5yrs is what we went to WW II with. The knowledge, (along with Von Braun) gained during the war is what led to the America that was the envy and the symbol of freedom and DEMOCRACY to the world post WWII. In the 50's all that cumulative knowledge gave rise to the Industrial Military Complex that Eisenhower warned against. And here we are.......

I expected one no-go car in the end. But that would've left viewers with a negative taste of course.

Thanks for the legit OG aladdin intro

The time when a company really care about their customers.

It's these kinds of films that made me decide to become an engineer.

That was so awesome.

You are true manufacturers..

At least these were well done. Some TV commercials today after watching you don't even know what they were advertising. Also they are silly, and geared for the teens who don't necessarily buy anyway.

USA is great country.

These videos are so good 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

4:32 The old Argonaut Building in Detroit. From Wikipedia: The , renamed in 2009 the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education (originally the Argonaut, or General Motors Research Laboratory), is a large office building located at 485 West Milwaukee Avenue in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan, across the street from Cadillac Place. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Interesting Video

All the measurements....and not once is the metric system mentioned. :-)

You're 100% correct. The school system must be changed for the health of the individual and the country. I hereby say I will do it!!!

you tend to think that 1930 technology was stone age but most was as good as today

IT turned into the cartoon part from Pink FLoyd The wall there at the end

When US manufacturing took pride in their work

So archaic. Inches, pounds, ounces.

This is incredible for 1937.

Auto manufacturing and tolerance. Two words that should never be in the same sentence.

Lord knows the auto industry never tried to cheat anyone, even then.

I think they put mud in the water clock at my grade school.

I’ve watched so many of these I want a Chevrolet

That straight 6 is still running today thanks to craftsmanship of those days now they design for brake downs and know when its going to brake lmao

GM has managed to unlearn all this lately...

"They" were better than us.

Muricans now : " So, 8 millionths of an inch.. how small is it compared to a football field? "

Very good. I'm glad I didn't live next to this big mouth when he was rehearsing.

They took something as boring as rulers and gauges and made it fun to learn about.

Now computers CNC machining does all this precision measurments. Unbeliveable just how accurate the computer programming can complete such exacting measurements.

British and European car manufactures in the '30's understood and employed very tight tolerances, the idea that Chevrolet was a leader in accuracy is hilarious.

At the beginning of this video I was waiting for the three stooges to show up! 🙈

😂 I’ll airbrush “precisely so” on my tail gate after my ls conversion. Single cam engine producing hundreds of horsepower and torque.

It was Napoleon who installed the Metric system in Europe.

that libra is the awesomest

I think GM needs to go back and watch their old ads. Could learn a thing or two .

And Gavin if some one made a tiny dot with a lead pencil on a piece of paper do you believe that it could be weighed?

after all these year, science film state that facts remains

A skilled trade ; surviver .

SEE,we've had advanced tech for YEARS.The USA mang!!!

How much does a pound of feathers weigh ?

This is how precise measurements, aka science, can be used to sell your product.

Tradução em português!!

How can the day starts at 1:00 and there is no astronomical sign?

I bought a set of Mitoyo calipers while watching this lol

It ends like "Auto-lite on parade" !!!

two football fields divided by cadillac=standard

Where would these movies be shown back in 1937?

Around 6 min; that hair was not magnified thousands of times. Maybe 100x

Who makes the machines that makes the machines :o

Call me a documentary nerd but I love this old stuff. Mechanical machining😊 and one precision tool has to be better to make a better precision machining tool down to the tolerance that they are after

Chevy talks about tolerances... Germany left the room.

So, what's with the dancing instruments?

This is from the America our English forefathers intended.

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Bloomberg is a skidmark on America's shorts...... And apparently he has no idea how good we're doing in ohio!