Synopsis
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.
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- Running time
- 8 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Why Not Have the Deer Surf While We're at It? · Christine Hennig · 2005-05-10
More silliness from Chevrolet. This time, its stories on surfing, a truck that delivers supplies to a CCC Camp in Death Valley (this has some historical interest), photography, braking tests, and, in the usual segment on animal abuse, a wild deer kept as a pet and regularly locked in a car and made to wear a humiliating hat at dinner. The usual, but do I get the feeling theyre beginning to run out of steam? Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.
★★ · Surfers! Soma! Stopping! Snappers! Stags! · Spuzz · 2003-03-20
Volume 4.2 starts off with the new novel sport of surfing, as semonstrated by some rather tame wave surfing shots. We then go to Death Valley, and a story of living in Soma, one of the hottest places on earth. Luckily, a.. Chevrolet Automobile! comes every once in a while with supplies. After that, MORE BRAKE TESTS! using guns as a brake testing tool sure is interesting. Not to sure WHY guns have to be used. Next we see the thriving art of amateur photographers who seem to go through great lengths to get that great shot, even facing an incoming train!! We finally finish with the obligatory…