{"id":1812089,"date":"2023-01-27T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1812089"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:50:57","slug":"what-is-a-map-a-terrible-educational-film-from-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/what-is-a-map-a-terrible-educational-film-from-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What Is a Map&#8217;: A Terrible Educational Film from 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RiffTrax: What Is A Map? (Full FREE Short)\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptWT9knw0rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes a terrible old movie is only watchable when you add an audio track in which it\u2019s being brutally and relentlessly mocked: this was the <abbr lang=\"la\" title=\"modus operandi\">MO<\/abbr> of <em>Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/em> and <em>RiffTrax<\/em>, the latter featuring plenty of <em><abbr title=\"Mystery Science Theater 3000\">MST3K<\/abbr><\/em> alumni. Such is the case with this 1949 educational film, late 1949, \u201cWhat Is a Map,\u201d which takes an awfully long time to (<em>a<\/em>) well, do much of anything and (<em>b<\/em>) get to the subject of maps, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptWT9knw0rI\"><em>RiffTrax<\/em>\u2019s version<\/a> makes it a bit easier to stomach. A bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a terrible old movie is only watchable when you add an audio track in which it\u2019s being brutally and relentlessly mocked: this was the MO of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax, the latter&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/what-is-a-map-a-terrible-educational-film-from-1949\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[936,192,1608],"class_list":["post-1812089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-education","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-short-films","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3424,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/globemaking-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812089,"position":0},"title":"Globemaking Films","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 November 2016","format":"video","excerpt":"This short film\u00a0on globemaking\u00a0from 1955\u00a0has been making the social media rounds: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4RWcWSN4HhI Compare it to this short film from 1949: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldUnXrZYfY0 It's nearly identical in its turns of phrase and factoids, though there are slightly different emphases. Though the firm is unnamed, it's clearly the same one: it's even the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Industry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/4RWcWSN4HhI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1399655,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/route-338-a-giant-educational-map-about-canadas-political-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812089,"position":1},"title":"Route 338: A Giant Educational Map About Canada&#8217;s Political System","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"I've mentioned\u00a0Canadian Geographic\u2019s giant floor maps, which are loaned out to schools and come with additional teaching materials,\u00a0before\u00a0(namely, the Vimy Ridge map). 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