Screw Drivers Of 1940

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Reed (Roland) Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilson. Humorous driving and pedestrian safety film shot on the streets of Los Angeles.; Screwdrivers and Screwjays" refers to reckless drivers and reckless pedestrians, respectively.; nice high-angle shots of cars on street shot from high building; nice effect of mens' faces rotating around an axis; good traffic congestion, Cahuenga Pass, brief driving POV westbound on San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at Yerba Buena Island, showing temporary? bridge over the freeway, VS traffic signs, aerial of early half-cloverleaf; film cuts out before its end