Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 3) 1936

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PURDUE UNIVERSITY BAND DUSTS OFF WORLD'S LARGEST DRUM. DRIVE-IN BANK. BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE: 12,000 BOXING MATCHES AT ONCE. AERIAL CLOWNS SPEED ALONG HIGHWAY. MONKEYS MIMIC STAGE & SCREEN STARS.

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Complete Record: PURDUE UNIVERSITY BAND DUSTS OFF WORLD'S LARGEST DRUM. DRIVE-IN BANK. BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE: 12,000 BOXING MATCHES AT ONCE. AERIAL CLOWNS SPEED ALONG HIGHWAY. MONKEYS MIMIC STAGE & SCREEN STARS. We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] hey what's all the shooting for army trucks are moving up as if they meant business it looks like War it sounds like War maybe it is war nope here comes a band and a band means a parade and that's just what it is a parade and review of The Reserve Officers Training Corp of Purdue University the drum major is all dressed up and going to town with the Purdue band and the famous Purdue drum wouldn't Junior like this drum for his birthday it's so big they have to haul it on the truck it's the granddaddy of all boom booms the largest one in the world and it makes almost as much noise as the artillery everybody loves a parade everybody likes to see a regiment swinging along the motor transport division makes an impressive showing too dozens and dozens of army trucks that move along like tireless squads of marching men these men would give Uncle Sam the shirts off their backs they must have heard that they're stripping for action but they're not going to fight nope they're just going to push him up this is how to get a soldier's figure and keep it it's a fine body of men and a graphic glimpse of Uncle Sam's Reserve officers in [Music] training a foot presses a hidden pedal heavy iron Jaws open slowly the gangster proof barrier is down and the car slips into this strange Place carrying the contents of a cash register ah but things are not what they seem for this is just a new kind of Bank the Security First National of Los Angeles opening for the day's business no parking problems no lugging cash receipts and valuables through crowds oh yes and he carries his own safe this is banking Made Easy with perfect safety for both bank and depositor the teller stands behind bulletproof glass and does business through a cast iron dumb waiter here's the only known way of getting a draft through a no draft ventilator hey Tony you're passing a stoplight well he's in a hurry to get a demonit the bank these a bank she's a med to order for Tony for know can leave with the pushie card out front hey tots you save the money like a Tony smart pampino you said it Tony and it's a novel idea for small depositors as well as large a lot of Thrifty drivers are putting their savings to work banking on Wheels and the money is just rolling [Music] in come on come on scram out of here what you think this is your birthday a little water is good for what ails you what happened to that sleepy head well it's a swell way to work up an appetite time for breakfast come and get it the chefs have prepared 50,000 eggs that's right 50,000 two for each boy a lot of hard work for the chefs ah but think of the poor hardworking chickens and now for some scouting activities how fast could you scale a 9ot wall don't ever bet you can beat a Boy Scout for they're all experts likewise the sheetbend Weavers clove hitch and Bolan just plain knots to you next time you find yourself out of matches remember flint and steel will light you a good fire providing of course you talk fast and blow hard there's plenty of interest in exhibits from far away these French Scouts show a model of the Eiffel Tower while more boys get a demonstration of a home made glider that came across the Atlantic with its owner all the way from Poland foreign Scouts show a great interest in American automobiles for many features are strange to them the adjustable driver see to something new and so is the glove compartment but most intriguing of all are the doors which can be locked either from the inside or outside without using a key 12,500 boxing matches all going at once what a show there's plenty of fun and exercise hey you pick on somebody your own size Bullseye but in reality there is something serious something Mighty big behind this great Jamboree it plants a milestone in the history of scouting and the physical mental and moral help it has been to millions of boys all over the world a living Monument to Sir bayen Powell who founded the Boy Scout movement little more than a quarter of a century ago crazy as a loon bats in the belfrey that's what people said about the guy that thought up this one this folks is the topside down zip upper it was invented by a fireman who fell off a ladder and landed on his head you don't have to be crazy to ride it but it's more fun that way the driver picks rough roads just to make things more interesting these are the two fellows who met in a revolving door and and I've been going around together ever since notice the top man no he's down he's up he's down he's up well it looks like good clean fun tones up the system puts roses in the cheeks and maybe a lily in the hand but then a lily in the hand is worth two in the [Music] bush what might this be you'd never guess it's a monkey sleeper yaowa and it's full of all the lads a Pullman for dodson's Hollywood monkey stars a high class Hotel on wheels filled with guests that are always up to scratch inside the pulman a primadana is coaxed out of her birth it's time to get dressed for a matina in the next town but she don't want to come on Mabel put on your britches like a good girl the monkey sleeper pulls into town and right up to the stage door H not a fan nor a stage door Johnny in sight this is a swell way to bring in Hollywood stars now for a little powder Rouge and such to enhance their beauty Pete thinks he'll try some of that pink stuff not bad not good either so it's Carnation he'll take vanilla they were just going to relax but that man's here again Pete isn't a blame for his looks his mother was frightened by Boris Carlo this little lady doesn't mind being made up she's the flirt of the company there's a light in her eyes but there's nobody home Pete thinks huh she actually likes it well no big baboon is going to make a monkey out of me she gives him a frosting well I'll be a monkey's uncle let go you CAD The Big Show is now underway it's astounding it's stupendous it's colossal in fact it's pretty good ah she's Trucking or is she doing the organ grinder swing the stools are reserved but the occupants aren't why she was never so insulted in all her life a Sunday cyclist picks up a lady friend and gets a lot of backseat driving say nothing seems to satisfy these jealous Huzzies [Music] a


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