1957 HAMMOND ORGAN SALES DEMO “THE KIND OF MUSIC YOU WANT” w/ PORTER HEAPS XD46064

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1957 color promotional film, one of several created by Dallas Jones Productions for Chicago’s Hammond organ company, uses the characters of a church organist (Porter Heaps), a young protégé, and his layman father to dramatise the practical benefits of an electronic, console-style Hammond organ, highlighting the ability of its drawbar design to produce a diversity of tones and effects for any occasion (26:37). Opening titles: “The Hammond Organ Company presents, The Kind of Music You Want” (0:28). Exterior: A Christian church with a cornice and pillars. Congregants enter. Inside the chapel, organ music is heard as men and women in their sunday best file into pews. A narrator identifies himself as the organist and choirmaster (0:38). A choir practice. Boys sing in closeup. The choirmaster dismisses them. Most leave with excitement, but one boy, “Tommy” lingers,