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Some time ago on Ebay, I stumbled across someone selling a roll of film containing 1959 advertising for Plymouth. It seemed like the sort of film that would be projected picture after picture while a separate soundtrack (which I don't have) would be added. It looks like a training film to let salesmen know how to sell the next year's model car.

Here are a few scans - I imagine the dialogue would have involved a new car buyer showing his neighbor the finer points of his new purchase, even though the cars aren't all the same colour.

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In all, there were 48 pictures on the roll. I don't think anyone else bid on it so I got it for not much more than the shipping cost.
Cool. We called those things "filmstrips" here - used them all the time in grade school in the 60s. Commercial entities used them in 'training' a lot also into the very early 70s.
Youre correct - there is a separate soundtrack, usually with a 'tone' to tell you when to advance the film.
 
They left in primer and gelcoat so the racers could paint as required.
 
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