1950s JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT PROMO FILM STUDENT MANUFACTURE OF PLASTIC CALENDARS 87804a

Love our channel? Support us on Patreon: This promo film for Junior Achievement (now known as JA), gives an overview of the organization, showing how it works in fostering student business leaders, and explaining to them the tenets of capitalism and salesmanship. JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide is a global non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane. JA works with local businesses, schools, and organizations to deliver experiential learning programs in the areas of work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship to students from ages 5 to 25 Set in early 1950s Detroit, this film was produced by Robert F. Davis (:07) and opens with a pamphlet reading “Annual Report to Subsidiaries Perma Products” with the Junior Achievement seal (:23). This group was founded as a way to educate the youth on practical business training and experience so as to better handle the real world of having to make money (:36).