The Prelinger Archive seems to be a vast storehouse of old footage from ancient days. It has come t light because The Atlantic has put up a video from 1961 on what they have titled, no doubt ironically, The Wonderful World of Capitalism.

The problem is a Keynesian problem. The goods and services can be produced but how are we going to get people to buy the volume of output that can now be produced. The answer is marketing which is to be the saviour.

It is also somewhat noteworthy that the portrayal of this vast outpouring of goods and services was put together at the very end of the Eisenhower administration, at the very moment that Kennedy and Johnson would start the unwinding process of this productive miracle.