Summary

EARLY CARS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: EARLY CARS
File Number: AFP-62C 16mm VTM-62C Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1920
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Mostly ARCHIVAL 1910s 1920s footage. 00:17:09:00 1940s, 1910s MS Late 1940s antique car parade 1910 Model T Ford drives slowly. 00:17:13:00 Montage of antique cars driving in parade. 00:17:30:00 1910s WS Early model before mansion. 00:17:31:00 1910s WS Model T truck passes horse-drawn carriage on highway. 00:17:33:00 1900s WS Turn of century fire engine (horse-drawn) on New York City street. 00:17:37:00 1920s MS Man cranks Model T car starter, 1920s. 00:17:40:00 1920s Old car driving up stairs. 00:17:44:00 early 1930s WS 2 old cars crash into each other Model T jalopy shakes uncontrollably. 00:17:46:00 1920s WS Antique cars race across open field. 00:17:49:00 1920s WS Crowd running after steaming car (circa 1905). 00:17:52:00 1910s CU Old car head on. 00:17:53:00 1960s WS Bright 1960s cars on highway - color - & a U-haul truck. 00:18:03:00 1900s WS (Identical matchup to shots on VTM-70B): Man & woman in long coats climb into horseless carriage from rear. 00:18:10:00 1900s MS Chauffeur in front, man & woman at rear. 00:18:14:00 1900s WS Man leans back to secure rear door lock, it falls open as they drive away. 00:18:17:00 1910s MS 2 crowded open-top roadsters driving side-by-side. (End of matchup to VTM-70B). 00:18:34:00 1910s WS Town street - cars parked in 1910s EXT automobile showroom. 00:18:37:00 1910s WS 1910s automobiles. 00:18:40:00 1920s MS Gas station attendant fills up car gas tank at 1920s gas station. 00:18:46:00 1910s AV Cars in 1910s city street (mostly Model T Ford models). 00:18:52:00 1920s WS Early 1920s cars on tree lined boulevard, motorcycle cop waves over violator, car pulls over to curb. 00:19:00:00 1920s MS Early 1920s policeman gets off motorcycle, pulls off gloves one by one, approaches bad driver, motions impatiently. 00:19:09:00 1920s WS City - 2 cars limousines, Rolls-Royce drives past CAM. 00:19:13:00 1920s MS Elegant, expensive 1920s cars whizzing past in montage. 00:19:26:00 1920s CU Rolls Royce logo and hood ornament. 00:19:34:00 1922 WS 1922 Capsule car jerking right and left past huge 1920s cars. 00:19:37:00 1922 WS Capsule car drives under huge wagon. 00:19:41:00 1922 WS Capsule car passes feet of 1920s dignitaries. 00:19:45:00 1922 WS Capsule car passing streetcar. 00:19:47:00 1922 WS Capsule driver exits car, inspects paper on street, gets back in. 00:19:56:00 1922 WS Thru park at city buildings, horseman overleaps car. 00:19:59:00 1922 WS Motorist in goggle gear turns capsule car over. 00:20:04:00 1922 WS Capsule car on street w bigger traffic, passenger sitting on front hood. 00:20:07:00 1922 WS Funny shot - capsule car w driver in back, passenger on hood. 00:20:13:00 1928 MS 1928 capsule car drives up. 00:20:13:00 1928 MS Children playing w tiny car, raising hood, 5-year old boy inspects engine. 00:20:33:00 1928 CU Boy peering at engine trouble, grins shyly. 00:20:43:00 1928 MS Boy unscrewing tiny car wheel. 00:20:48:00 1928 MS Boy & girl enter tiny car. 00:20:54:00 1928 WS Harold & Adele, intrepid tots, drive tiny 1920s car down crowded street w crowd of children in hot pursuit. 00:21:03:00 1928 WS Tiny car driving thru Brooklyn, weighing only 150 pounds. 00:21:08:00 1928 WS Midget car driving at 25 MPH, children following. 00:21:27:00 1950s CU Flamboyant ink signing RIGBY, fountain pen in motion, zoom back to bald man signing big graphic design panel w drawings of his streamlined inventions. 00:21:35:00 1950s MS His hand reaches for ultra-streamlined car which resembles a cruise missile, it's a "car of the future", he points to its nozzle, turns it around & over, lights its "rocket exhaust" w a cigarette lighter, rolls it back & forth on surface. 00:22:11:00 1950s WS Inventor on street w his rocket car, he crouches, lights it & watches it roll downhill. 00:22:15:00 1950s WS Other shot inventor in BG, tiny car whizzes down, speeds past towards grass. 00:22:37:00 1924 WS 1920s men in caps passing garage EXIT door, car driving out & past. (from AFP-17A, "DON'T PARK THERE!") 00:22:42:00 1924 AV 1920s cars in traffic. (Following excerpt from AFP-17A, DON'T PARK THERE!) 00:22:45:00 1924 MS Driver in floppy hat (Will Rogers) grimaces, speeding thru traffic. 00:22:48:00 1924 Montage - driver's POV turning corner, swerving right & left dangerously. 00:22:59:00 1924 WS Man by mailbox points at bad driver to policeman. 00:23:01:00 1924 WS Policeman leaps on motorcycle, rides off. 00:23:03:00 1924 WS Traffic montage. 00:23:08:00 1924 MS Policeman on motorcycle. 00:23:09:00 1924 WS Montage of traffic, policeman pursuing bad driver. 00:23:13:00 1924 WS Bad driver crouched at wheel of Model T, 3 policemen in car behind him. 00:23:19:00 1924 MS Bad driver (who just happens to be Will Rogers). 00:23:23:00 1924 MS Bad driver from back seat, turns to snarl at policemen. 00:23:26:00 1924 WS Bad driver pursued by swerving fire engine filled with firemen firemen motion for bad driver (Will Rogers) to move out of the way. 00:23:28:00 1924 WS 2 motorcycle policemen parked begin to rev up. 00:23:35:00 1924 WS They speed into the fray. 00:23:37:00 1924 WS Policeman cycles past 2 others, they jump aboard. 00:23:41:00 1924 WS Montage of chase shots, AV, downtown Los Angeles, streetcars etc. 00:24:05:00 1924 WS Car drives into drugstore - soda fountain. 00:24:09:00 1924 WS Soda fountain INT, car drives in knocking over ladies & tables. 00:24:41:00 1924 WS Policeman gives bad driver Will Rogers thick tome of car regulations. 00:24:51:00 1924 CU Bad driver promising to learn traffic laws w in 1 hour. 00:24:57:00 1924 WS Bad driver, Will Rogers, (from DON'T PARK THERE!, see AFP-17A), drives away from line of policemen who nod approval. 00:25:01:00 1924 WS Will Rogers (hereafter bad driver) weaves into traffic, does figure O's in the intersection - wobbly circles. 00:25:09:00 1924 AV Intersection w 9 pivot points & painted arrows, bad driver careening around disorientedly. 00:25:15:00 1924 CU Bad driver staring down at confusing arrows. 00:25:21:00 1924 CU Blur of ground & arrows whizzing around. 00:25:31:00 1924 MS He swerves around, stops, swaying head dizzily. 00:25:36:00 1924 Montage - dizzy POV, cars & storefronts rolling & pitching. 00:25:42:00 1924 MS Bad driver muttering to himself. 00:25:47:00 1924 WS Bad driver backing down road in S-curves. 00:26:02:00 1924 WS Bad driver inching down road as tires fall off. 00:26:09:00 1924 WS Bad driver, his Model T car falling apart completely. 00:26:11:00 1924 MS Bad driver incredulous. 00:26:16:00 1924 WS Model T car continues its spontaneous decomposition on tree-lined road, he climbs out & walks dejectedly. 00:26:36:00 1924 WS Bad driver walks down desolate track like a copy Chaplin. (End of excerpts from AFP-17A, DON'T PARK THERE!). 00:27:16:00 1920s WS Car riding down tracks sails over hut, crashes onto ground & shatters in dust. 1920s wacky stunt. 00:27:21:00 1920s MS People approach wrecked car. 00:27:25:00 1920s WS 1920s traffic montage - passing, head on, AV. 00:27:43:00 1920s WS Traffic POV near Oxford arch, London - crowded double decker buses. 00:27:49:00 1920s WS New York City pedestrians under a traffic tower booth w lights & 2 policemen in it. 00:27:52:00 1920s MS Up at traffic tower booth w rudimentary traffic lights on it. 00:27:56:00 1920s AV Booth POV down on crowded street. (Following clips of hucksters trying out inventor Snub Pollard's concentrated gasoline from AFP-19A, IT'S A GIFT). 00:28:02:00 1920s WS Swank men by big 1920s cars. Time-lapse photography. Cars rush back to the starting line, race forward, back up, swarm about crazily. 00:28:25:00 1920s WS Speeding about like metal gnats on grassy lawn before big house, roar onto road & pass CAM out of frame. 00:28:31:00 1920s WS Cars swarm surreally down street. 00:28:36:00 1920s MS Snub Pollard, mustached inventor w hat wanders from garden. 00:28:38:00 1920s WS Many cars converge head on before buildings. Explosion. 00:28:44:00 1920s WS Dust clears, cars wrecked, men amid wreckage. (End of one sequence from AFP-19A). 00:29:21:00 1916 WS 1916 - car whizzes down rural road. 00:29:26:00 1920s WS Crowded police car crossing railroad tracks. 00:29:28:00 1920s WS Train rushing up behind police car, barely missing it. 00:29:31:00 1920s WS Train approaching stalled police car, it escapes in nick of time. 00:29:33:00 1920s WS Rural countryside, car whizzes forward just ahead of oncoming train. 00:29:34:00 1920s MS 3 cars drive into gutter. 00:29:37:00 1920s WS 3 cars rull around in gully. 00:29:42:00 1920s Near miss between 2 antique cars. (Another sequence from AFP-19A:) 00:29:48:00 1920s WS Midget car passes building. 00:29:50:00 1920s MS Snub Pollard in midget car, holding magnet. 00:29:51:00 1920s WS Montage: Snub Pollard in traffic 00:29:58:00 1920s he passes bigger car w elegant woman driving, he whirls around to follow her, laughing, & magnetism pulls him into her car, grinning. 00:30:15:00 1920s WS Comically 30-foot long car pulls out from behind Indian teepee. 00:30:18:00 WS Slapstick man joins woman in car, they drive. 00:30:23:00 WS Long car slams into stalled car, explosion, impact makes it telescope to normal size, man whirls about in confusion, then pulls out car to original length, hops in, drives off. 00:30:50:00 WS Train crossing, 30-foot car blows tire & stalls on tracks, train rounds the bend & slices thru the car in a blast. 00:30:58:00 MS Man runs down stairs. 00:31:00:00 MS Policeman watching traffic. 00:31:03:00 WS City street. 00:31:03:00 Old car scenes. 00:31:08:00 MS Snub Pollard shoving car to parked position behind another & hooking the two up fender-to-fender.
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