Synopsis
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.
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- 8 minutes
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★★★★ · Chevrolet Leader News, Vol. 2, No. 4 · Christine Hennig · 2002-10-07
The biggest highlight of this newsreel features the Voice of Safety, which is essentially a loudspeaker mounted on top of a car, through which the driver yells at other drivers and pedestrians who break safety rules. If this isn't the biggest invitation to accidents, or, indeed, violence, I'll eat my Gallagher "STUPID!" flag. I'm sure we all wish we had one, though. A real jaw-dropper. Other silly stories include a car that tows sunbathers, an amphibious car, and a fireman's cat that slides down poles. There are also some boring stories about oil drilling and model airplanes. Ratings…
★★★ · Swimsuits! Safety! Soaring! Searching! Speedboats! Scaredycats! · Spuzz · 2003-03-08
Final one in the 2 series... First clip is a.. Chevrolet Automobile! attached to a boidoir so that the women can change on the WAY to the beach. MAN, what a great idea! In a clip I've seen in one of Prelinger's collections, the talking car of the future (very 1984ish) warns passengers to OBEY! Next up we see a plane competition, quite fun to watch. In a boring scientific clip, we see men hunting for oil, using explosives and seisomolgy machines. Ho-kay. The next clip features a man who had a brilliant idea to change his... Chevrolet Automobile! into a boat. What I want to see is someone…