The Golden Years

1960 Documentary

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About The Golden Years

Jamison Handy's sponsored short for the Brunswick Corporation puts a family of four in a new bowling alley and sells bowling as something parents and children do together. Automatic equipment and the alley itself are the product on screen.

More about The Golden Years

Jamison Handy directed the short for the Jam Handy Organization. Brunswick Corporation sponsored it as a sales film about bowling as a family sport.

Themes

Background

Bowling alleys in the late 1950s and early 1960s were being rebuilt around automatic pinsetters and a suburban family trade.

Making

The Jam Handy Organization made industrial and sales films for corporate clients. Brunswick used this one to show alley owners a family-night bowling business.

Preservation

The short is in the public domain. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The picture is a sponsored film, not a theatrical feature.
  • Turner Classic Movies has used it as filler in the TCM Underground slot.
  • It is in the public domain in the United States.

Scenes

  • A family of four bowls together in the new alley.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (The Golden Years (1958).webm)
  • Turner Classic Movies (TCM Underground)