Decision for chemistry.

Duration: 12:50

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Modern Talking Picture Service / A KDI Company

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description:

DECISION FOR CHEMISTRY (1953, sound, 53 min, b&w, 35mm)

Sponsor: Monsanto Chemical Co. Production Co.: MPOProductions Inc. Director: Sidney Meyers. Writer: Burton J. Rowles. Camera: Michael Nebbia. Music: Alex North. Resources: Copyright not registered; “Audiences Decide for Monsanto,” Bus Scrn 15, no. 1 (1954): 130; S.P., “The American Scene,” NYT, Feb. 7, 1954, SM20; Mildred Weiler, “Monsanto’s 50 Films Soft-Pedal and Sell,” Industrial Marketing (Mar. 1956): 92–96. Holdings: AAFF, LC/Prelinger.

Film surveying the role of chemistry in American life and the central role of the people, products, and plants of Monsanto. Intended for nontheatrical use and broadcast, Decision for Chemistry is structured around questions asked by a young boy. note: Also released in 33-minute nontheatrical and 28-minute television versions. A 16-minute version was shown in 1954 on NBC’s Omnibus. The film was selected as one of 20 contemporary American documentaries to be shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1954. Sidney Meyers also directed the acclaimed documentary The Quiet One. 

Complete Record: DECISION FOR CHEMISTRY (1953, sound, 53 min, b&w, 35mm) Sponsor: Monsanto Chemical Co. Production Co.: MPOProductions Inc. Director: Sidney Meyers. Writer: Burton J. Rowles. Camera: Michael Nebbia. Music: Alex North. Resources: Copyright not registered; “Audiences Decide for Monsanto,” Bus Scrn 15, no. 1 (1954): 130; S.P., “The American Scene,” NYT, Feb. 7, 1954, SM20; Mildred Weiler, “Monsanto’s 50 Films Soft-Pedal and Sell,” Industrial Marketing (Mar. 1956): 92–96. Holdings: AAFF, LC/Prelinger. Film surveying the role of chemistry in American life and the central role of the people, products, and plants of Monsanto. Intended for nontheatrical use and broadcast, Decision for Chemistry is structured around questions asked by a young boy. note: Also released in 33-minute nontheatrical and 28-minute television versions. A 16-minute version was shown in 1954 on NBC’s Omnibus. The film was selected as one of 20 contemporary American documentaries to be shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1954. Sidney Meyers also directed the acclaimed documentary The Quiet One.