Details
- Running time
- 4 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Historical note... · Alphared · 2010-02-26
The 'race' t the end of the film, is not infact a race. This vehicle is the 'Stutz Black Hawk Special' on it's second run of an attempt to break the land speed record (for the vehicle class. It is piloted by Frank Lockhart, and is filmed on Apr. 25, 1928. Frank was probably well over the 200 mph mark as he was on the previous run (203 and some change), when he cut his tire and went rolling. Watch carefully at the end of the clip as he fatally thrown from the vehicle. A true piece of history here, five stars.
★★★ · Short attention span, 1920s style!! · Spuzz · 2010-08-06
Another somewhat dull stunt film from Pathe, save for the parachuting sequences. It begins great. I'm pretty sure that the parachutists holding on to the wings of the biplane was dangerous and letting your parachute go before letting go would cause some sort of whiplash. Nothing happens during the motorboat scene, meh. The lava scene is sort of neat, just because we see a house collapse because of it.. The plane parachute is a novel idea, and the carvplMe race at the en, if that, in fact, is what it is, is nothing much. Something for everybody!