Summary

Squeaks

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Squeaks
File Number: PA-2142 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational Industrial
Year: 1925
Subjects: infant crying
Description: Squeaks Film on lubrication. Cartoons illustrate the problems of lubrication throughout history. Squeaks are the indicator of serious mechanical trouble. Narrative with man in a boater and woman flapper illustrates the problem of lack of lubrication in a car. Eventually the properly lubricated vehicle serves as a timely ambulance for an injured boy. Good examples of period clothing and cars. Closing slate "The End" is nice. worth noting: Nice image of an early auto making its way up a paved road with a wooden guard rail. There's cut to a view from behind the car as it comes to a steeper part of the road.(3:11:78- 3:18:50) 7:40:84- 7:51:70 Perhaps too staged, but nice image of a 1920s couple (she's in flapper style) parked on the side of a rural road. They get out of their car and walk into the woods. She points up at something.
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