Synopsis
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…
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★★★★ · Divers! Drivers! Dempsey! Doofuses! Dredging! Dogs! · Spuzz · 2003-03-08
Version 2.3 coming your way... The first clip contains beautiful girls sliding off a siide connected to a... Chevrolet Automobile! Notice closely as some of the girls don't want to get TOO wet... We then follow that with an unremarkable scene of beauties diving off a car into a curiously half full pool. Make sure the roof doesnt get slippery! The next scene features a older couple who seem to have the oldest Chevrolet on the road. The car has been humming along costing very little to repair and maintain. What do the chevrolet people do? They give them a brand new car! Why? Who knows. What do…
★★★★ · This movie is full of bad, bad ideas · lil_wing · 2006-04-28
A group of young ladies use the top of a Chevy as a diving board. The announcer actually points out how safe it is! Jack Dempsey presides over a boxing match between 2 small children. A man uses his Chevy as a fishing net. A woman and young girl arrive at a party with a trunk full of dogs. Also, an older couple receives a new Chevrolet simply because they put 23 good years on thier old one. I don't think that would happen today. This short is definitely of its time!
★★★ · 7-Foot Tall Man Found; Woodpecker Still at Large · Christine Hennig · 2005-03-05
Another silly newsreelette from Chevrolet. This one features bathing beauties diving into a pool from the top of a Chevrolet (these Leader News segments are always mercifully free of safety concerns), a man who kept his 1913 Chevrolet in mint condition being rewarded by being given a new Chevrolet, a 7-foot tall man (but no woodpecker) who inspects the tops of Chevrolets coming off the assembly line, smelt fishing by driving your Chevrolet into the water and allowing the fish to swim into it (so thatÂs where that fishy smell in some peopleÂs cars comes from!), and a really silly dog tea…
★ · Chevrolet Motors -- Leader report · M Charles Richardson · 2003-07-18
The clip has ephemoral interest for those interested to a very slanted view of the 1930`s. This is basically a comercial for Chevy Cars from 1939(?)