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Please don't spend money on this.

Good concept, poorly executed.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

How in the name of anything holy can "Why Study Industrial Arts?" claim to be an educational film?! If this is education, then I'd rather be an idiot! Actually, this movie could have only been created by an idiot. The only reason that it's even worth talking about is because "MST3K" once showed this drudgery. As you might imagine, Mike, Servo and Crow had plenty of funny comments.If I ever make an educational film, it will be a promotion of vegetarianism. Here's the plot: in 1950s suburban America, mom and dad are trying to feed little Jimmy meat. Jimmy breaks out into a song (to the tune of "U Can't Touch This") about why he chooses to be a vegetarian. Yeah, that's my kind of educational film.

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.

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.

Ah, what is it about Centron productions that make them stink so much? This short basically tells young men that if they don't take industrial arts courses, they'll not have the tools to have a full and rewarding life. It has a LOT of bad acting, stupid plotlines and really doesn't do the job of convincing young men (note I say young men: seems that back when this was made, it wasn't all right for young women to do this.) to take industrial arts courses.