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Using historical photographs, film footage, and interviews with people in Europe, the United States, and Ghana, the female narrator takes viewers from the beginning of mass production in the 1920s with Henry Ford’s Model-T to General Motors’ annual car models to Bernard London’s proposal during the New Deal era for compulsory planned obsolescence that he believed would keep people working and create a continuous market demand for consumer goods to the 1950s when designers subscribed to this mantra. For example, light bulbs, originally designed to la...Log In or Sign Up to Read More