A Very Meta Video Daily Double

 Welcome back, readers, to another installment of everyone's favorite exercise in brainwashing education, the Video Daily Double. Today the Cap'n has some... well, different short films for you. I was all set to put up some industrial films selling the "modern American lifestyle," but then I ran across the following short films. One seems to be antithetical to the film / television narrative we're all accustomed to, and the other one is even stranger.

 As some of you may recall, I posted a propaganda film about the uses of propaganda a few weeks ago, and that seemed meta enough until I ran across today's second film. But less yammer, more educating!

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Our first film, A Welcome Guest in the House, extols the virtues of television. This is odd, considering that movie studies went out of their way to combat television right around the time this short was in production, but here it is:


Our second film, How to Use Classroom Films... well, that says about everything I need to say. It's a film about itself:
 


I'll see you all next week when we step back into less brain-punishing space and back into the realm of being sold something in a longer span of time than 30 seconds. Until then!