Synopsis
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.
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- 10 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · great · Enrique Morata · 2013-09-30
very good, those carts were very well made. Just put an engine on them and you get a go kart.
★★★★ · All-American Soap Box Derby · Christine Hennig · 2003-04-27
General Motors sponsored this film, as well as the derby, which was supposed to be a tribute to the "All-American Boy." The bombastic narration lends a campy air to the proceedings, which is good, because otherwise they'd be pretty dull, especially the awards banquet at the end. Campy moments include the opening montage of "friendly competition," which goes from friendly games of marbles on to progressively more aggressive sports, such as football, wrestling, and boxing, all while the narrator expounds on how this builds character; the closing montage of faces of boys dissolving into each…
★★★★ · All Hail The Boy! · Spuzz · 2002-12-21
Wonderfully patriotic soap box derby short which features the 1936 races. Plenty of exciting races is blended well with the almost drooling narration, which is somewhat perverse in it's passion for the 'boy'. Great scenes of other boys playing sports too, such as tug of war, football and a great boxing scene. Reccomended.
★★★★ · "All American Soap Box Derby" good for its time · ERD. · 2007-01-08
The bombastic narration probably fit when this film was presented in the large movie theatres of the 1930's. I found the production a well done interesting period piece. It covered the topic well. Using a partriotic theme, I wonder what was the fate of many of those boys who grew up and went off to World War II in the 1940's.