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Title: Sales are the Payoff production stills
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (sponsor)
Description: Depicts a Bryant Heating Company brand home heating appliance assembled in a basement.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Production films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_39_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Sales are the Payoff production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (sponsor)
Description: Includes a script for a sales training motion picture. The script tells the story of a fictional character, Sam Clark, who is a young salesman for the Bryant Heater Company. Clark successfully sells a new gas heating system to the Taylor family, a notoriously tough customer. He accomplishes this by following three fundamental rules of sales: investigating his prospect, translating the advantages of a new system, and negotiating final objections.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_14
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: More than Skin Deep production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film production which describes the Bryant Heater Company's Electric Water Heater in detail. It discusses the comprehensive anatomy of a Bryant water heater, and the significance of each part. After discussing the construction of the heaters, the script addresses different models and selling points for the appliance.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_20
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Big Parade production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production intended to persuade prospective Bryant appliance dealers to sell Bryant equipment. The narrator describes at length the full line of Bryant Heater Company's water and air heating equipment. Then, a fictional salesman convinces a dealer to sell Bryant products because of their complete line of products, reliable distribution operation, and down-to-earth advertising system.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: L-P for Long-Range Profits production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor), Storycraft Incorporated (Associated name), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: A script for a sound slide film intended for Liquified-Petroleum (L-P) gas salespeople. Establishes a competition between the electric and gas heating and appliance industries. In the production, the L-P gas industry is depicted as a giant, a metaphor for the industry’s massive growth. The giant must defend his earnings from the electricity industry, depicted as a wicked elf.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_21
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: A Heater is Born! production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production advertising a line of water heaters by the Bryant Heater Company. The script focuses on describing the industrial production of Bryant water heaters and explains the complete manufacture and inspection process.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_19
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Warm Air Heating production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film which introduces the complete line of Bryant home heaters and explains the features of each. Intended for heater salesmen to better identify the right equipment for any customer's needs.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_18
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Systems of Home Heating production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film which provides a technical explanation of various Bryant central heating systems. Explains the characteristics of the vapor, steam, hot water, and vacuum systems. Also describes different methods and appliances for home heating such as panel heating, baseboard radiation, and circulating heaters.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_17
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The History of Home Heating production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film providing new Bryant Heater salespeople with an introduction to the legacy of home heating. Production depicts how home heating allowed humans to evolve, and lists innovations in home heating from ancient to contemporary times, from open fires to automatic gas heating. Automatic gas heating is described as modern living at its best when fulfilled by the Bryant Heater Company.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_16
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Feature Story production script
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A sound slide film production in which a personified puppy named Scoop, star reporter for the "Pup Patter" newspaper, interviews Willie Twenty-Six, one of the oldest Bryant Boiler models. During the interview, Willie Twenty-Six introduces the name and function each of his parts to the pup. Then, he discusses some features of his family members, or other models of Bryant Boilers.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_03
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Bryant Boilers production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film production intended for Bryant Heater salespeople. The production reviews the purpose and importance of the boiler system, how radiation heating works, and past and present models of the Bryant gas heating equipment. The production establishes that Bryant heaters are the superior appliance in the market due to their performance and safety features.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_15
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Inside 304 and The Model 304 production scripts
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: Includes two scripts for film productions. Each have the same project number and advertise the Bryant 304 Vertical Forced Air Furnace. However, the scripts are dissimilar in plot. The first, “Inside 304”, features the Bryant Pup as a doctor who examines his friend, the Bryant 304 Air Furnace. They discuss his parts and the characteristics of each. In the second script, “The Model 304”, a Bryant distributor meets with a dealer to persuade him to stock the Bryant 304 Air Furnace. They briefly...
Show moreIncludes two scripts for film productions. Each have the same project number and advertise the Bryant 304 Vertical Forced Air Furnace. However, the scripts are dissimilar in plot. The first, “Inside 304”, features the Bryant Pup as a doctor who examines his friend, the Bryant 304 Air Furnace. They discuss his parts and the characteristics of each. In the second script, “The Model 304”, a Bryant distributor meets with a dealer to persuade him to stock the Bryant 304 Air Furnace. They briefly discuss the history and modern uses of Bryant 304 Air Furnaces before the distributor goes into detail describing the significant features of the model.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_05
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Guilty as Charged production script
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production in which a personified Bryant BA-88 Warm Air Furnace is on trial for claiming she is the best warm air furnace in the world. The Bryant Pup acts as her defendant and demonstrates to the jury each part of the furnace which supports her claim. Each component of the furnace is proven to be the most reliable and useful compared to all other furnaces. The judge, jury, and even the prosecution is convinced that the BA-88 is the best warm air furnace.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_04
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Meet the Boss production script
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Affiliated Gas Equipment (Sponsor), Bryant Heater Company (Associated name), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: A script for a film production introducing the company, Affiliated Gas Equipment (AGE). AGE was formed when three smaller companies, Day and Night Manufacturing Co., Payne Furnace Co., and the Bryant Heater Co. merged together to operate as one entity. The script describes the role each of the companies plays in AGE.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_06
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: 'Sales are the Payoff' production stills
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (originator), Bryant Heater Company (sponsor)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_03_08_18
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: 'Sales are the Payoff' pamphlet
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (associated name), Bryant Heater Company (originator)
Collection ID: Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: AVD_2018201_02_14
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: Sell All Electric production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a radio production or sound recording in which the narrator appeals to electric appliance salesmen and urges them to convince rural markets to buy only electric. The narrator discusses the opportunities available in the rural market. Then, the narrator describes the electrical industry's competition with gas heating and appliances, and provides several arguments against using gas. Finally, the narrator describes selling tactics for the rural market.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_02
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films