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	Achievement USA - Sound Masters General Motors celebrates production of 50 millionth automobile with a parade through Flint, Michigan. Keywords: Car culture: Ceremonies Downloads: 5,498 Average rating: (7 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: the building of Norris Dam in Tennessee; an automobile racing an ice boat across a lake in Mt. Clemens, Michigan; gasoline economy tests on Detroit streets; women showing off their hairstyles in an automobile moving along New York City streets; the Soap Box Derby at Dayton, Ohio; and a miniature dog riding in the glove compartment of an automobile in San Francisco. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels Downloads: 4,634 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Road Runners - Unknown Outlaw hotrodders become law-abiding gearheads after a community organizes supervised racing clubs and timing associations. Keywords: Car culture: Hot rods; Car culture: Youth; Safety: Automotive Downloads: 13,798 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 3,199 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 2,196 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Automobile Society - Sociedad del Automóvil - Sociedade do Automóvel - branca nunes - thiago benicchio Mobility and car culture in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 11 million people, almost 6 million automobiles; one "accident" every 3 minutes; one death every 6 hours; 8 fatal victims of the pollution per day. Instead of squares, shopping malls; instead of sidewalks, large avenues; instead of parks, parking lots; instead of voices, engines and horns. Dark and closed glasses prevent the human contact. Drive to work, work to drive... Keywords: mobility, carfree, car culture, transport Downloads: 3,478 Average rating: (0 review)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including the construction of U.S. 1 linking Key West, Florida with the mainland; a Baltimore ceremony awarding large Chevrolet keys to the oldest auto plant employees; a man leading a pony with his Chevrolet; the "Evans Auto-Railer," an automobile that runs down railroad tracks in Jackson, Michigan; old automobile advertising; a travelogue sequence set in St... Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 4,499 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: a Chevrolet pulling an aquaplane along the beach; an isolated Kentucky village linked to the world by motor cars; alligator wrestling; mobility for the Miami Beach police; and new parking meters in Dallas, Texas. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 2,706 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: Miami, Florida police practice shooting at stationary targets from moving cars; Southern youngsters learn safe driving habits while driving in kiddie cars and scooters on miniature streets; Chautauqua Lake ferry uses two automobile engines as motive power. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 3,306 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 4) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: the "Boudoir Express," dressing rooms on wheels in which women can change into swimsuits; Detroit police directing traffic with a "talking safety car"; miniature model planes at the International Air Derby; petroleum geologists X-raying the ground in search for oil; a seagoing, amphibious automobile navigating a lake; and Mickey, the firefighting cat of Minneapolis. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 6,037 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 13,957 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 3,103 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 4) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 2,849 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 2,329 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Beyond the Freeway - Gerry Dempsey A newly composed song by Gerry Dempsey. There is a world outside the car, Beyond the verge - over the edge. Beyond the lawns and tidy fields - Behind the privet hedge. Far from Everlasting urban light and the Humming of the grid. Out of Range of central-heating. In the land of God Forbid! It is not the sort of place you'd like to go to after dark, (Or even in bright daylight) it is lonely cold and stark... Keywords: Political; Environments; environment; Car culture Downloads: 856 Average rating: (0 review)
	How to Go Places - Handy (Jam) Organization Actress Gale Storm and family take a road trip in their Chevrolet and review the do's and don'ts of auto traveling. Keywords: Tourism; Travelogues; Car culture: General Downloads: 4,357 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	All-American Soap Box Derby, The (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization Tribute to the American boy as inventor, engineer and sportsman. Shows contestants building their vehicles and the final competition at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. Keywords: Car culture: Children; Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising Downloads: 11,040 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: heavy-duty trucks used in construction; St. Augustine, Florida, site of the oldest houses in America; old horseless carriage advertisements; a homemade streamlined house trailer in Guadalupe, California; auto interiors designed by new York jewelers; an Army convoy at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and a Chihuahua dog standing in for a radiator ornament on a moving car in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Animals: Dogs Downloads: 4,439 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Contents include: bathing girls dive from top of Chevrolet automobile; owner of 1913 car trades it in for a new 1936 Chevrolet; Jack Dempsey referees a boys' boxing match; a seven-foot tall giant man inspects the Chevrolet "Turret Top"; a fishing expedition in the Ozark Mountains; a car driven into the water so that fish can swim in and be trapped; the Detroit police traffic safety campaign; and a birthday party for children... Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Oddities Downloads: 7,615 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 5, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Agriculture: Poultry Downloads: 2,761 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	My Bike - Gerry Dempsey A new song composed and performed by Gerry Dempsey. My Bike I'll cycle my bike wherever I like. Under the radar and over the dyke. Twice round the car-park And straight through the crowds. Into the sunset And up through the clouds. We'll thread through the traffic, Cut up the cars. We'll ride Over the pavement And under the stars. We'll ride into battle As if we were blessed. We'll drive herds of cattle Into the West... Keywords: environment; Romantic; Green issues; Car-culture Downloads: 2,891 Average rating: (0 review)
	Drive Your Bicycle - Sullivan Company Slow-moving bicycle safety film shot in Glendale and Burbank, California by a family-owned film production company. Encourages boys and girls to "drive their bicycles" and prepare for becoming automobile drivers by learning to practice the "rules of the road." Good views of the mid-1950s suburban Southern California landscape. Keywords: Bicycles; Bicycles: Safety; Car culture: Children Downloads: 4,054 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Highway Hearing (Part I) - Universal-International Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway. Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Car culture: General Downloads: 2,079 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Highway Hearing (Part II) - Universal-International Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway. Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Car culture: General Downloads: 2,777 Average rating: (1 review)
	Tomorrow's Drivers - Handy (Jam) Organization Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix. Keywords: Car culture: Children; Automobiles: Advertising; Phoenix, Arizona Downloads: 7,048 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Trip, The - Handy (Jam) Organization Screen ad, in Technicolor, for the 1940 Chevrolet models. Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads; Car culture Downloads: 9,519 Average rating: (10 reviews)
	Wheels Across Africa (Part II) - Wilding Picture Productions Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars. Keywords: Africa: Exploration; Car culture; Ethnography: Africa Downloads: 2,801 Average rating: (1 review)
	Wheels Across Africa (Part III) - Wilding Picture Productions Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars. Keywords: Africa: Exploration; Car culture; Ethnography: Africa Downloads: 3,146 Average rating: (1 review)
	Wheels Across Africa (Part IV) - Wilding Picture Productions Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars. Keywords: Africa: Exploration; Car culture; Ethnography: Africa Downloads: 3,167 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Wheels Across Africa (Part I) - Wilding Picture Productions Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars. Keywords: Africa: Exploration; Car culture; Ethnography: Africa Downloads: 5,271 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Ingenuity in Action (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the "nomadic tribe of hotrodders". Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Car culture: Hot rods; California: History and culture Downloads: 16,880 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Ingenuity in Action (Part II) - Davis (Sid) Productions Made for hot rod fans; explains how to prepare and enter a car show; also serves as an ethnographic account of the "nomadic tribe of hotrodders". Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Car culture: Hot rods; California: History and culture Downloads: 16,714 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization 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. Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical Downloads: 3,017 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	All-American Soap Box Derby (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization Official film of early Soap Box Derby competition in Akron, Ohio; tribute to ingenuity of the American Boy. Keywords: Car culture: Children; Soap Box Derby; Gender roles Downloads: 16,841 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Automotive Service - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. Opportunities for employment servicing America's vast motor fleet. Keywords: Occupations: Automotive; Car culture: General; Automobiles: Service and repair Downloads: 3,669 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Give Yourself the Green Light - Handy (Jam) Organization Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System. Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Car culture: General; Manifest destiny Downloads: 11,150 Average rating: (7 reviews)
	Helping You Sell - Handy (Jam) Organization How Chevrolet uses sponsored theatrical motion pictures to promote its products. Keywords: Motion pictures: Sponsored; Car culture: Newsreels; Advertising: Screen ads Downloads: 3,404 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Key to Our Horizons - Handy (Jam) Organization A mid-century tribute to the automobile and its importance in American life and the economy. Keywords: Automobiles: Economic effects; Car culture: General; Occupations: Automotive Downloads: 4,107 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	None for the Road: Teenage Drinking and Driving - Centron Corporation Hybrid nonfiction/fiction film showing experiments with alcohol-addled rats, plus a story of teenagers who die while DUI. Keywords: Substance abuse: Alcohol; Car culture: Youth; Safety: Automotive Downloads: 7,016 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	On the Run (Part II) - Davis (Sid) Productions Well-behaved San Francisco teenagers compete in the Mobilgas "Safety Economy Run," driving their cars around the Bay Area under the supervision of experienced racing drivers. Go to Part I Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Hot rods; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical Downloads: 1,975 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	On the Run (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions Well-behaved San Francisco teenagers compete in the Mobilgas "Safety Economy Run," driving their cars around the Bay Area under the supervision of experienced racing drivers. Go to Part II Keywords: Car culture: Youth; Hot rods; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical Downloads: 5,049 Average rating: (6 reviews)
	Show 'Em the Road (Part II) - Davis (Sid) Productions Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff. Keywords: Car culture: Youth; U.S.: West; California: Scenics Downloads: 4,692 Average rating: (1 review)
	Show 'Em the Road (Part I) - Davis (Sid) Productions Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff. Keywords: Car culture: Youth; U.S.: West; California: Scenics Downloads: 3,760 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Your Permit to Drive - General Motors Photographic Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving. Keywords: Safety: Driving; Car culture; Infrastructure: Roads and highways Downloads: 6,116 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Henry Ford's Mirror of America (Part II) - U.S. National Archives and Records Service Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, with excellent footage of United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1915 and 1930. Highlights include Coney Island, the increasing pervasiveness of the automobile in American life, and early manufacturing footage. Keywords: U.S. History: 1900-1927; Car culture; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing Downloads: 4,725 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Henry Ford's Mirror of America (Part I) - U.S. National Archives and Records Service Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, with excellent footage of United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1915 and 1930. Highlights include Coney Island, the increasing pervasiveness of the automobile in American life, and early manufacturing footage. Keywords: U.S. History: 1900-1927; Car culture; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing Downloads: 9,961 Average rating: (3 reviews)