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The Best Made Plans (1956) Summary: Experience the magic of plastic wrap! A car drives up. A 1950's family piles out of the car for a picnic. It is Dad's first day of vacation and they discover that amidst all the confusion of the previous day, they've forgotten to pack something to cover the picnic table. (Ahhh...the big issues of simpler times.) The reason for the previous day's confusion? Let's take a look. As Papa works on the garage, we cut to the kitchen where Mama is making a birthday cake for little Kathy's sixth birthday. The phone rings. Alas, it turns out that "the food demonstration for the new freezer" is taking place on that very day. Oh darn. And today is Kathy's birthday! Oh dear! You see, Mary and Jack have saved and saved for a new freezing, and today is the day when the "home service representive from the local utilitiy company" is going to stop by their house and show them how to best use their new freezer! Just try getting someone to do that today. I dare you. Well, Mama has to buy a bunch of food for the demonstration, so she asks her husband, Jack, if he could Mama, and the viewer, learns a great trick for storing hamburger patties: Stack them with a piece of plastic wrap between them. (Quick! Write that down!) Then wrap the whole stack together in one big piece of plastic wrap. Cool! As The Home Service Representative shows Mama how to wrap "any type of roast, or a whole chicken or turkey", Jack struggles to make party favors in the living room for Kathy's birthday. Fascinating!
Oh yeah, here's how you can wrap a chicken: "After wrapping the giblets separately [Important point!], place all the pieces of chicken, including the wrapped giblets, in the center of the square of film. Try to arrange the pieces so they fit together snugly...giving you a nice compact grouping. Wrap the package as tightly as you can, sealing out as much air as possible. With a little care, you can get a neat, firm package."
I can't take anymore. Oh yeah. Cut to the following day. Guess what they end up covering the picnic table with?
Conclusion: Boy, the things I actually sit and watch for this web site... According To Plan (1952) Summary: Asbestos is your friend! You thought asbestos was bad for you? Nooooo....not at all! A little light music and a friendly narrator will change all that! As a young couple sit in their living room dreaming of a new home, the narrator (Big-N) explains just what a home Next comes the decision concerning what to have on the outside of the house: brick, wood, stone, stucco...but wait! What about a NEW and exciting material: asbestos! As a montage of Science shots grace the screen, we learn how asbestos is just another product in the long line of useful household items that make life sooooo much easier for the modern family. And hey! Asbestos won't burn! So why not cover your house in it? Gee! Where do I sign up? Now we see shots of the, *ahem*, beautiful suburbs of the 1950's...i.e., rows, and rows, and rows of identicle houses as far as the eye can see:
Asbestos as far as the eye can see...I can't wait to move there! Well, now we visit a nationaly knows archetect who toots the asbestos horn and tells us how lovely it is. "Now other material will look as good on this house," he says pointing to a drawing, "than asbestos cement!" If you say so. Another developer notes, "It's not only good, it's economical too." (Reminding me of that old 'Ren and Stimpy" skit with the child's toy 'Log': "It's better than bad, it's good!" I guess you had to be there...) Hell, you can get an asbestos roof and floors! Just sign up for a "lifetime of beauty..." And fade to black. Conclusion: I feel my lungs clogging up just watching this show.
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"Everything is under control," says the Narrator. (There is always this bizarre theme of 'control' in these news reels.) 
finish the cake while she's at the store. Well, you should know that a man of the 1950's wouldn't be caught dead baking a cake, but Jack relents and goes inside to put the icing on the cake. Mama even puts an apron on him before she leaves. Har-Dee-Har!
Now we move to the living room, where we learn to make party favors using plastic wrap. 
means to people, "Home brings a sense of security to a man...and to every woman, her homes means a setting for gracious living." (heh, heh)
Big-N explains how asbestos is made up of millions of tiny fibers (yes, the ones that get in your lungs and cause cancer) that they glue to cement or something. 