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DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PRODUCE OWN NEWSREEL. TRUCKS REPLACE 20-MULE TEAMS IN DEATH VALLEY. OLDEST SALESMAN IN U.S. GIVES AWAY OLD CAR, BUYS NEW ONE. LOUISIANA SHRIMP FISHERS SET OUT FOR NEW SEASON. DITTO, FAMOUS POLICE DOG, GIVES SAFETY LECTURE. Title Card: "Chevrolet Leader News" over montage. Title Card: "Action!, Flickers Invade School, Actors Cram For Show" Detroit high school students produce their own newsreel. Photographers at diving meet. teenagers purchasing tickets at window; line of teens doing same. Men and woman loading camera equipment and suitcases into automobile. Man getting into back seat of car with "suicide doors" (house in BG). driver's hand releasing parking brake. Car pulling from curb. Photography shoot being set up at indoor pool; male divers, wearing full swimsuits. diving, splashing; boy dives backwards. Photographer directing lighting assistant to step back; assistant drops light and falls into pool. Title Card: "Scorched!, Lose Death Valley Run, Last Haul for Mules" Mule team and truck hauling borax through desert. barren desert with low maintain range. mule team plodding through desert pulling wagon train. Dump truck with dust blowing from load of borax in bed; truck pulls away. truck driving through various rough terrain, desert, across stream, over sandy bank, up steep hill. Dump truck arriving at industrial facility. Title Card: "Champion!, Tops All Records at 96, Bares Success Secret" Boy polishing hood of car; men riding in car; man…
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- 9 minutes
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- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0545_Chevrolet_Leader_News_Vol_5_No_1_M00643_23_20_56_06
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★★★★ · Movies! Mules! Movers! Marshes! Magical! Mutts! · Spuzz · 2016-01-30
It's very interesting to come across a Leader News Reel that didn't make the cut when Rick posted his initial batch on here. And here it is! The first story is about some kid filmmakers getting some help from professionals. They arrive in a.. Chevrolet!] Next, Mules get replaced by Chevrolet trucks in a hazardous trail! After, A duller story as a successful businessman trades his car for another one. Then a story about boaters in the mississippi catching shrimp! Man, they catch a LOT of those suckers! Then the opening of the world's fair in SF is shown. Very good footage here. After that, two…