Bill Scott directs this Disney cartoon, originally released by General Motor's industrial films division. This was the subtlest form of advertising, akin to a public service, like Texaco's decades-long sponsorship of the broadcast of New York's Metropolitan Opera on the radio. A discreet title card announces this is from Generals at the beginning, and one likewise at the end.
In between it discusses how to choose, use and care for the woodworking and metal-working tools that everyone's father kept around the garage, or occasionally in a separate room. Although born of the standard ideas that men took care of the repairs, it had become a status matter at least by the 1950s. Of course my father had all the correct files, punches, saws, chisels, hammers and a wide assortment of nails and screws, each type carefully arranged in its proper place. He also had an electric circular saw, a monster that he graciously allowed the neighbors to use.
Disney put effort into their industrial films, as well as their theatrical ones. There is a continuing character, Primitive Pete, who uses all the tools wrong, and the animation is the same, high standard, even if the background work is minimalistic.
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