This rerun of a vocational guidance film is funny but troubling. It’s funny for all the over dramatic, predictable, sexist, reasons that almost any older film is a chuckle.
Troubling because, to the extent that we focused on the Technology, for which we were attending the Institute of, we were certainly not likely to find “Your Life Work” as the film promises. Probably the college loan was paid off long before the mechanical, analog, chemical process oriented part of the education had become outdated, but it does give a person pause.
The enduring part of our education turns out to be not so technical at all. The content, the people, the design, the story, the art… all that stuff turns out to be valuable in digital or analog form. It’s a bit of a reversal from what was the focus at the time.
Maybe the Media was the Message, but the Message seems to outlast the Media, at least the Media we studied.
But wait! There’s More.
Old RIT was created by Third Act Films, who produce video biography and commissioned documentary productions.
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