short films – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:50:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg short films – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 ‘What Is a Map’: A Terrible Educational Film from 1949 https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/01/what-is-a-map-a-terrible-educational-film-from-1949/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:41:31 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1812089 More]]>

Sometimes a terrible old movie is only watchable when you add an audio track in which it’s being brutally and relentlessly mocked: this was the MO of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax, the latter featuring plenty of MST3K alumni. Such is the case with this 1949 educational film, late 1949, “What Is a Map,” which takes an awfully long time to (a) well, do much of anything and (b) get to the subject of maps, so RiffTrax’s version makes it a bit easier to stomach. A bit.

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