How to Go Places
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Actress Gale Storm and family take a road trip in their Chevrolet and review the do's and don'ts of auto traveling.
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Good traveling shotÑa car barrels along a single lane highway past beautiful trees.
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View from the front seat looking out the back. Three boys bump against one another in the back seat. We see the road and telephone poles behind them. Cut to view from the back seat of the heads of the adults. There are some mountains in the distance.
Storm, Gale ACTRESSES FAMILIES AUTOMOBILES CHEVROLET ADVERTISING TRANSPORTATION VACATIONS TRAVEL RECREATION LEISURE HUMOR
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- 2002-07-16 00:00:00
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- 08222
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- B&W
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- United States
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- urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:HowtoGoP1954
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- HowtoGoP1954
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- 553
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- 1954
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- 10:40
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- 20230805.01
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- 1954
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Reviewer:
Dodsworth the Cat
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March 30, 2023
Subject: The Forecast: A Really Bland Storm
Subject: The Forecast: A Really Bland Storm
Here we have the innocuous family of Gale Storm, likeable star of the innocuous sitcom "My Little Margie," taking a trip in their shiny 1954 Chevrolet (with a phoney license plate).
They have a very modest home for a TV star. It would seem they only own one set of house keys which cannot be entrusted to hubby. And they take a trip (with no destination) without a map, having to ask a comic relief hayseed geezer for dye-rekk-chuns.
The film's well shot. The stock music is appropriate.
A narrator (who is familiar but I can't name him) offers helpful suggestions, like packing water and dried fruit, even though the kids whine they are hungry and thirsty. It's 1954. Don't expect endless fast-food places lining the highway.
The film ends with the stars chuckling. All very innocuous.
Storm was pretty close to the height of her fame when this was made. She made some records after this for the pop music crowd, then vanished in the '60s.
They have a very modest home for a TV star. It would seem they only own one set of house keys which cannot be entrusted to hubby. And they take a trip (with no destination) without a map, having to ask a comic relief hayseed geezer for dye-rekk-chuns.
The film's well shot. The stock music is appropriate.
A narrator (who is familiar but I can't name him) offers helpful suggestions, like packing water and dried fruit, even though the kids whine they are hungry and thirsty. It's 1954. Don't expect endless fast-food places lining the highway.
The film ends with the stars chuckling. All very innocuous.
Storm was pretty close to the height of her fame when this was made. She made some records after this for the pop music crowd, then vanished in the '60s.
Reviewer:
JayKay49
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December 16, 2019
Subject: Starring Gale Storm
Subject: Starring Gale Storm
In those cars, the most efficient speed was around 50 mph on an open road. Above that, mpg dropped off steeply. Todays cars have computerized carburetors. Optimal mpg on an open hwy is about 72. However, pumping up and down on the accelerator (which people do unconsciously when they don't use automatic speed control), drops mpg no matter how fast you're going. That automatic speed control device works with the computer regulating gas delivery and pumping up and down on the accelerator defeats it. Try it on a long stretch of empty hwy sometime. You'll see the difference. It's quite significant.
Cute film. Done just before Storm became a sit com regular on TV - for about 8 years during the 50's.. She was known as a "deadpan" comedienne, as opposed to Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett who were slapstick. The two classic deadpans, of course, were Mary Hartman and Bob Newhart. The comedy was in their reaction to crazy stuff done by those around them.
Cute film. Done just before Storm became a sit com regular on TV - for about 8 years during the 50's.. She was known as a "deadpan" comedienne, as opposed to Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett who were slapstick. The two classic deadpans, of course, were Mary Hartman and Bob Newhart. The comedy was in their reaction to crazy stuff done by those around them.
Reviewer:
ERD.
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March 21, 2015
Subject: Enjoyable
Subject: Enjoyable
Enjoyable informational film on how to take a trip with the family in your car. I enjoyed the low keyed acting of Gail Storm and her real family,
Reviewer:
Spuzz
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August 2, 2003
Subject: Join a B-Musical actress and her family!
Subject: Join a B-Musical actress and her family!
Gale Storm and family show us how to pack the car, keep the kids entertained, and how not to get lost (insert joke here) in this light frothy piece by Jam Dandy. Ms Storm and "the Lee Pernells" show us, in their brand new spotless Chevrolet of course, how to keep a spare key handy, which isn't something I'd go BRAGGING about. Soon enough, they arrive at le Grand Canyon, ready to enjoy 50's America. Reccomended!
Reviewer:
JonathanBrit
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May 26, 2003
Subject: Really Going Places
Subject: Really Going Places
So here's our chipper American Family going on their, "See the USA in your Chevrolet", cue cheesey and submissive housewife and classic manly husband, with their generic three boys. Packing up their chevy to go see America. But of course when the wife drives, she gets lost, and the father speeds. Overall, a good represenation of 50s America and a view of American famous sights. Look out for her line at the ending.
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