# Jerry Pulls the Strings

Advertisement for vacuum-packed canned coffee that was produced primarily for screening at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. In the narrative a young puppeteer proves to his prospective father-in-law, a coffee packer, that puppeteering is a viable occupation by using marionettes to tell the story of coffee. The young man uses 80 string puppets and deep, dimensional sets to explain how coffee is grown, harvested, roasted, and packed in vacuum cans to retain flavor. Note: Also distributed in 16mm. Written and supervised by National Tie-Ins Inc. For more about Caravel Films, see “Opening of Production Center Marks Caravel’s 37th Year,” Business Screen 18, no. 6 (1957): 20.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1938
- By: Caravel Films Inc.
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/jerry-pulls-the-strings-1938)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.