The Big Train

A Medieval-themed car advertising film? Was the Medieval era known for quality automobiles? In any case, see the 1961 line-up of GM cars, fit for a knight in shining armor.

A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?

Released just months before the 1960 presidential election, this Ford Motor Company-sponsored short explains the electoral process and implores viewers to become involved in politics.