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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, this highly optimistic, 1952 full color animation/live-action hybrid film presents the USA in the forefront of the world. It examines the medium of advertising as “the magic key” to continued American economic prosperity in the post-war era, suggesting a relationship between ads and modern refinements to household appliances (TRT 21:54). It was produced by the Raphael G. Wolff Studios. Animated searchlights over a city skyline. Opening credits (0:26). A painterly interstellar atmosphere. Comets, stars and planets with towers and craters (0:44). Earth appears (1:08). A man and woman cast shadows on a stone wall. A man with a scythe. Classical architecture (1:20). Stone doric columns crumble and fall (1:32). A surreal landscape of ancient ruins (1:44). A hand with a signet ring stamps a wax seal. A man in chainmail swings a
