Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 4)

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: BARBERSHOP ON WHEELS. COMBINATION RAIL & HIGHWAY VEHICLE IN TENNESSEE.; GERMAN SHEPHERD HELPS FIGHT FIRES. NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE DIRECT TRAFFIC; FROM AIRPLANE. POWER BOATS IN INTERNATIONAL GOLD CUP REGATTA.; CU hand operating telegraph lever.; Communications, Electricity Telegraphs Hands (operating; telegraph) Technology Newsreels; Title Card: "Chevrolet Leader News" over montage.; 0:38:34 superimposed newspaper headline indicating "Tricky Trims; While-U-Wait, Clipper Cuts 'Em Quick.; Automobile pulling travel trailer through oceanfront campground (probably; located near Malibu, California or Santa Monica, California on the Pacific; Ocean). Smiling man (with moustache), wearing white lab coat and carrying; feather duster, emerges from trailer (lettering indicating "Ton's Tonsorial; Establishment" painted on trailer) and dusts barber pole, young boy; wearing cap, approaches and they talk. Barber snatches cap from boy's head; tousles boy's hair, both walk to nearby car where barber opens trunk. CU; shelves (inside car's trunk) with neatly arranged barber supplies (above; car tire), barber removes stool, sits boy down and puts apron on him; removes scissors and comb from car's trunk, closes it and instructs boy to; watch him dust it with feather duster. ECU barber trimming boy's hair. CU; barber opening trunk and reaching for bottle of hair tonic. ECU smiling boy; pinching nostrils and grimacing from odor. ECU smiling boy with greasy; plastered hair, boy looks at his reflection on car's trunk and smiles.; Barber removes boys apron, boy pays him with coins. Barber bites coin, then; reaches into trunk for can, ECU he drops coin in can. Barber's car and; trailer driving through residential area.; 0:40:09 Superimposed newspaper headline indicating "Iron Horse Ready to; Choo, Gangway for Mountain Men.; ECU automobile ("car-train" -- hybrid rail and automobile vehicle); front-end with bars welded to bumper. VS above "car-train" (Oneida; Western Railroad, U.S. Mail) rolling on railroad tracks, slows to stop in; front of station, door opens and women exit, man and woman standing at rail; siding as "car-train" rolls to stop. CU mechanic (engineer) lifting hood of; car and looking at engine, CU engine. VS "car-train" rolling through; mountain passes.; 0:41:06 Superimposed newspaper headline indicating "Fire Chief Barks; Orders, Rescue Averts Tragedy.; CU firehouse alarm. Staircase, German Shepherd running down stairs. Fireman; slides down pole, he and dog jump into firetruck. CU fireman at steering; wheel as dog pulls chain and rings bell. Firemen clinging to truck as it; pulls from station, dog continues to ring bell. Firetruck rolling down; street. Fireman raising ladder to side of building above storefront as; several children point upwards. CU young girl jumping up and down and; pointing. German Shepherd climbing ladder as smoke billows from below; climbing into window, climbing down ladder with stuffed doll in mouth; running passed crowd to fireman who embraces him, fireman removes stuffed; doll from dog's mouth and hands it to girl, she hugs doll, then pats dog.; Several men and German Shepherd seated around table. ECU panting German; Shepherd wearing fireman's hat.; 0:42:14 Superimposed newspaper headline indicating "Puzzled Police Take to; Air, Families Get Home Faster.; Automobile parked in airfield (small airplane in BG). 2 New Jersey State; policemen exit car and walk o.s., approach two-seater airplane, one removes; cap and puts on aviator cap, they climb aboard. ECU taxiing airplane, tail; wing. Heavy automobile traffic on city street. CU pilot wearing radio; headgear. Aerial shot highway interchange (few cars). CU dispatcher; (wearing headphones) operating microphone and radio system at desk. 2; policemen in operations center, one at teletype machine, the other on; telephone, CU policeman on telephone taking notes, hangs up and stands; (clock in BG indicates 1:30). ECU bumper-to -bumper traffic. Radio; announcer (W.O.R.) picks up microphone and speaks. Couple driving in; bumper-to -bumper traffic (from back seat of car), man adjusts volume on; radio, they look at each other and woman points o.s., CU automobile turning; on highway, above couple driving on less congested highway.; 0:43:39 Panning shot boats in marina draped with decorative flags, man in; FG shades his eyes (using binoculars?) and looks o.s. Crowd lining wall; looking over iron fence at water. VS speedboats racing on river, ECU; speedboats racing. VS enthusiastic crowd. VS model speedboat on lake, man; grabs it, CU man lifting and displaying model boat while standing in lake; (wearing shirt, tie and sweater).