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American Experience | Tupperware Preview | PBS

Duration: 00:30
Program: American Experience #1606
Broadcast Date: Feb. 14, 2012

Using interviews with Tupperware executives and dealers from the early days and wonderful, little-seen footage of Tupperware Jubilees, this funny, probing program re-examines assumptions about American culture in the 1950s.

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