Down The Gasoline Trail

Genre: Educational | Sponsored

Year Published: 1935

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Producer's synopsis: "Real photography and cartoon animation tell what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it is put into the gasoline tank of a Chevrolet to the time it brings to life all the power of the Valve-In-Head engine."; 06:13:07:10 06:13:13:08 "CU disembodied hand of man putting gas pump into tank of 1930s Chevrolet / year 1936 indicated on license plate / ""gasoline, liquid power…"" AUDIO"; 06:13:13:10 06:13:15:29 CU car dashboard instrument indicating fuel tank on empty; 06:13:18:08 06:13:21:19 LA CU running gas pump showing increasing gallons pumped + cost of sale; 06:13:35:12 06:13:54:06 ANIMATION / CU drops of gasoline dripping from hose into fuel tank / drop metamorphoses into droplet character who dives into the car's gas tank; 06:13:55:22 06:14:15:25 "ANIMATION / gasoline in gas tank / droplet character reading sign ""To Gas Line"" + diving in gasoline "; 06:14:16:20 06:14:26:02 "ANIMATION / LS TS droplet character swimming in the ""Gas Line"" pipe"; 06:14:40:17 06:14:45:24 ANIMATION / LS droplet character swimming in car's gas pipe / droplet diving in + out of water / shaking its buttocks mid-air; 06:15:09:10 06:15:15:25 "ANIMATION / VS POV moving down stream through gas line passing by sign for ""Curve"" + ""To Fuel Pump"""; 06:16:25:20 06:16:50:15 ANIMATION / LS droplet character trying to swim through screen / ZI droplet struggling stuck in screen / slipping through + floating away smiling looking relieved; 06:17:08:00 06:17:14:17 "ANIMATION / gas flowing through pipe past sign ""To Carburetor"" / ZI down pipe"