Boy Slaves (1939) on TCM now. Some pretty good casting here.

[patrice]

Destitute children forced to work in turpentine camps:

Is this the future of your grandchildren or your great-grandchildren?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031117/

[grasswire]

1. my grandfather worked in a plow factory as a child...

...in Ontario. He vowed that none of his children would ever work in a factory again. It must have been horrible.

[cliffordu]

2. My grandfather worked the coal mines in appalachia -

he RETIRED to a factory job on the west coast.

[onager]

3. The title made me think...

...it was a recent documentary on the Catholic Church.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

(X-posting some stuff I recently posted to A/A.)

TCM also recently aired "Perversion for Profit," a hilarious 1965 anti-porn rant. This only showed at like 2:00 AM, so I DVR'd it.

You can watch it on YouTube at the link below.

I mention "PfP" because it has some relevance for modern viewers:

1. It repeats the yarn that the Founding Fathers were near-Fundie Xians who "turned to God" for help in writing the Constitution. So the right-wing bluenoses were already pushing this idea 40 years ago.

2. Seeing porn can turn your kid gay! They're still pushing that theory, too.

3. "16 out of 19 powerful ancient civilizations collapsed because of Moral Decay from within!!!" It only mentions 3 - Egypt, Greece and Rome, none of which collapsed due to a powerful porn industry, AFAIK.

4. It was produced/financed by Citizens for Decent Literature in Cincinatti, Ohio. Sound familiar? Yep, that was Charles Keating's spawn - the right-wing moralizer who ended up in jail, for stealing Grandma's savings in the Lincoln S&L scandal.

5. The narrator is George Putnam, a conservative Los Angeles reporter who annoyed us West Coasters for years with his "Talk Back" show. Still, Putnam was a class act compared to yahoos like Limbaugh or Beck.

And despite his conservatism, Putnam always claimed to be a lifelong Democrat because of his respect for FDR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2VrPhQBfE

[Swamp Rat]

4. k&r

[patrice]

5. Not a great script, but some pretty darned good lines in this.

[patrice]

6. My first FIL had some hair rasing stories about working in lumber-jack camps at the age of 14