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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Year
- 1939
- Abstract
- Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: photographing human and automobile models; automobile brake tests on a steep San Francisco street; diamond-tipped machine tools; the Ohio River floods of 1937; and an animal circus featuring performing rats.
- Notes
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Produced: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation
Run Time: 8:19
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Car culture: Newsreels;Automobiles: Advertising;San Francisco: Scenics: Historical;Automobiles: Advertising;San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
- Theme
- Surfers! Soma! Stopping! Snappers! Stags!
- Review
-
Volume 4.2 starts off with the new novel sport of surfing, as semonstrated by some rather tame wave surfing shots.
We then go to Death Valley, and a story of living in Soma, one of the hottest places on earth. Luckily, a.. Chevrolet Automobile! comes every once in a while with supplies.
After that, MORE BRAKE TESTS! using guns as a brake testing tool sure is interesting. Not to sure WHY guns have to be used.
Next we see the thriving art of amateur photographers who seem to go through great lengths to get that great shot, even facing an incoming train!!
We finally finish with the obligatory animal in a precarious spot feature, featuring a deer living with a family. No no, this deer was "Found in the forest and brought to the city to live" as if that justifies it. The deer goes with the wife of the family to go shopping, where of course, it's left in the car, windows up, while the wife does so.
This edition seems to have a new narrator. Definitely not as gripping as the narrator in volume 3.
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F