Michael H Herk Harvey and Centron bring us another little instructional piece of fantasy, this time regarding shop class. A bespectacled young man (who looks likes my dad when he was in high school) discusses with his Mickey Mouse-eared friend on why he loves shop class. He narrates about his fantasy through the short, including his career discussion with his shop teacher, who does not resemble any shop teacher I ever had in high school. Anyway the discussion leads to another discussion about shop with the basketball coach, who states that shop never helped him, yet it did since he now has a ready made hobby of building giant recipe card boxes.MST has a field day with this short, I would think 95-100% of anything put out by Centron would be great material for the gang from Best Brains.

movieman_kev This short teaches the merits of, what else? Yup Industrial arts. It has a creepy kid who likes those tools a tad more than a normal sane person would and a coach (Chuck Lacey,who did a great many of these 'educational' shorts) who agrees that that stop would never be useful to him, but how he respects that he learned it none the less. MST3K mocked this short unmercifully of course and it was among the funniest ribbing of a short I've seen from the show. Bought a big smile too my face. This short can be found on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 1 before the film "The Skydivers" (episode 125) Normal short grade: D MST grade: A+

kilgore2345 Wow! Having never taken a shop class, I am happy that I never considered it. Actually, I cannot remember anyone from High School who did take shop -- except for Sheephead in the back of the bus, but he dropped out. You would think that if you were making a filmstrip about why you should take a string of classes that offers ridicule, that you would make your spokesman some what attractive and less dweeby (I used the word spokesman, because everyone knows that girls should not take shop classes, that's why schools offer home economics). The guy with glasses is not only slightly repulsive, but definitely learned the fine art of acting from shop teacher Bow Tie. Given that the Mystery Science version was funny, this short is so out- moded that it is a hoot nonetheless.

Hancock_the_Superb Agonizingly bad short about why you should've taken Industrial Arts if you lived forty-seven years ago. Horrible dialogue (that creepy kid's opening monologue . . . *shudders* I HOPE there aren't real people like that) and bad acting (though since it's an "educational" short I can kinda understand), though at least it does give good reasons for taking this class. (I myself absolutely hated shop class, but I do agree with the film that it has practical applications.) Burnt to a blackened crisp by MST3K; one of their finest outings."I love the smell and the feel of fresh wood shavings . . ." "SO I PUT THEM IN MY UNDERWEAR!"Four stars for the short; ten+++ for the MST3K version.