Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Titans That Built America- Documentary Assesment


It's a very interesting documentary, partly because you look around America and hear Dupont, Ford, J.P. Morgan Chase, Chrysler regularly, This documentary tells us the story behind all these names and it's intriguing, partly because it was a time where the regulations were a lot more relaxed.
This documentary illustrates the common things around us, like planes and shines light on how what we have today wasn't always the norm. I definitely think of Chrysler  when going 70 mph on the freeway. I never thought there were interesting stories behind such an everyday occurrence. 
The story of the age of 'Easy Money,' aka car loans, and how they came about, to dethrone Henry Ford and his extremely affordable Model Ts was fascinating. It's amazing how they take an everyday occurrence and give us a narrative which is dynamic and out of the ordinary.
It's important to note the need for a great professional sounding narrator! I remember watching a documentary on the history of film (I forgot the name of the doc) and the narrator's voice was so distracting because he just didn't sound like a professional voice actor. Then i went to the comment section, there was around 100 comments and 75% were complaints about the narrator!

 

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