New NJB: Reacting to 1950s Automobile Industry Propaganda (Patreon)

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2023-01-07 12:23:48

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2023-01

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Hello wonderful Patreon supporters, and happy New Year!

After a short vacation and some travel over the holidays to see family, my latest video is now available. It's something a bit different: a sort of 'reaction' video, to a 1954 film by General Motors entitled, "Give Yourself the Green Light".

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08 /
YouTube: https://youtu.be/n94-_yE4IeU

You've seen clips from this film before, especially in my Strong Towns videos, because it's in the public domain, and provides some great visuals of 1950s American streets and roads. But I really wanted to dissect it in more detail, because it talks about all the things that Strong Towns talks about ... except when this film talks about things like highway building and paying for infrastructure on debt, it's talked about as how great it will be, while Strong Towns talks about as the disaster it became.

Enjoy!

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Would You Fall for It? [ST08]

Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08 In the 1950s, the US automobile industry was lobbying hard to get more funding for roads and highways. Part of this effort included propaganda targeted to the general public. In this video, I look back at one of these automobile industry propaganda videos, "Give Yourself the Green Light" by General Motors, and show what was promised versus what the reality is today for American cities. The automobile industry got everything they wanted, but the problems they were trying to solve only got worse. Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes Mastodon: @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- References & Further Reading If you'd like to watch the whole film, you can do it here: Give Yourself the Green Light General Motors Corporation, Department of Public Relations https://archive.org/details/0542_Give_Yourself_the_Green_Light_05_01_03_28 To learn more about Strong Towns, visit https://strongtowns.org or watch my Strong Towns series of videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-truth-about-american-cities-strong-towns-st01 https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-how-suburban-development-makes-american-cities-poorer-st02 https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-why-american-cities-are-broke-the-growth-ponzi-scheme-st03 https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-how-bankrupt-american-cities-stay-alive-debt-st04 https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05 https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-wrong-way-to-set-speed-limits-st06 https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-suburbia-is-subsidized-heres-the-math-st07 The gas tax chart was sourced from this classic article by Strong Towns: Some Perspective on the Gas Tax https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/24/some-perspective-on-the-gas-tax.html This video contains content licensed from Getty Images