Summary

MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL SILENT SHORTS-AUTOS

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Title: MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL SILENT SHORTS-AUTOS
File Number: AFP-62CP 16mm VTM-62CP Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1927
Description: 00:00:23:00 B W 1928 cu Grille, 1928 race car 00:00:30:00 B W 1927 cu Motor of race car: "140 H.P. will make 500 RPM." 00:00:35:00 B W 1927 ms Driver, assistant beside single-seat race car, "streamlined for minimum wind-resistance" 00:00:43:00 B W 1927 ws Race cars lined up before beginning of big race huge crowd in bleachers 00:00:46:00 B W 1927 cu Race car driver behind huge steering wheel, late 1920s 00:00:54:00 B W 1927 ws Car race, race track, crowd 00:01:13:00 B W 1927 ws Steeply-banked turns, race track 00:01:31:00 B W 1927 ws Changing tire on race car, late 1920s 00:01:47:00 B W 1927 ms Excited spectators, men in straw hats ws (same shot) 00:01:55:00 B W 1927 cu Electric timer registering car speeds per lap 00:01:56:00 B W 1927 ws Race cars banking around curve 00:02:21:00 B W 1927 ms Driver in late 1920s race car, turns corner, slows, stops car 00:02:31:00 B W 1928 ws 1928, rocket-shaped streamlined race car: "Lockhart, flashing along at a 200-mile-an-hour clip, rockets 550 feet to his doom -- at Daytona Beach, Fla." 00:02:39:00 B W 1927 ws Trial run of rocket car on beach 00:02:42:00 B W 1927 ws "A blowout causes the accident": ROCKET CAR FLIPS, BURNS, CRASHES AT 200 MILES AN HOUR ON DAYTONA BEACH B W 1927 MOTORING IN THE ALPS 00:03:00:00 B W 1927 ws Twisting Alpine mountain roads 00:03:13:00 B W 1927 ws "We start our trip": automobiles set out from Alpine village, mountains in BG 00:03:24:00 B W 1927 ws "A panorama of zigzagging roads" 00:04:31:00 B W 1927 ws "Arriving at the highest point, 10,000 feet above sea level": car whizzes by on mountain road 00:04:37:00 B W 1927 ws Alpine view from 10,000 feet up: snow-covered mountains, wispy white clouds 00:05:02:00 B W 1927 ws Cars worming their way down zigzagging Alpine road, passing glaciers 00:05:25:00 B W 1927 ws Valley, lake, hotel, snow-capped mountains
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