Teenage Road-E-O

Creator: Potomac Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: 03:39:17:09 Title credit high-angle shot of 1950s car weaving between barrels in car handling test. 03:39:39:17 VS Great moving camera shot through 1950s soda fountain, young couple moves from jukebox to look at poster on wall for the Teen-Age Road-e-o with a cartoon drawing of a 1950s Chrysler, young couple sits down at table boy sings �I am old car hand upon the Rio Grande�, couple clinks glasses of coke, boy turns around on his stool from soda fountain counter and asks couple �Hey, what gives chums? You got a license to be this happy?� 1950s red convertible speeds into parking spot at the Blackwelder�s Soda Fountain, teen in letterman jacket enters soda fountain, declares to his friends he is the best driver in town, is badgered by young woman who want go for a drive with teen in letterman jacket. 03:42:40:14 CU table with 1950s radios and clocks, loudspeaker, and plaques for the Teen-age Road-e-o. 03:43:19:00 Teenage high school students taking written exam at long table, MS two boys working on exam wearing white jackets. 03:43:25:00 CU disembodied hand holding pen filling out quiz with printed title National Teen-Age Road-e-o Written Quiz 1955 National Finals. 03:43:31:01 VS 1955 Chrysler driving through handling test course flagged off in open parking lot, large freight truck driving through handling test course. 03:44:08:02 Teenage boy talks to father in garage with saws and hammers hung up on wall in background, boy asks father if he can participate in the Teen-Age Road-e-o:�A rodeo, with automobiles, and you want my permission to go out and kill yourself, in what amounts to a game of chicken?��Dad, the Jaycees are behind this, also Liberty Mutual Insurance, the Chrysler Corporation, the trucking industry, and the Pure Oil Company too, besides this is a safe driving competition��Well, okay if I sign with my pencil?��Sure pop!�03:45:55:27 VS blonde teenager driving girl with short brown hair in red convertible, yellow stop sign, mother and daughter begin to cross the street, CU girl yells at boy as he tries to pass a truck at the stop sign, 1950s red convertible comes to screeching stop just before hitting mother and daughter cross street, large yellow truck for Smith�s Mayflower Storage Company at stops sign beside red car, boy runs out of car to make sure mother and daughter are alright, girl gets out of car yells at boy �you�ll never change�, CU frazzled teenager puts hand on forehand with distressed look on face. 03:47:06:07 CU newspaper article written by Charlie Taylor headline reads �Centerville Teen-Age Road-e-o Set Here Today.�03:47:10:05 Low-angle shot of 1950s car slowly weaving between barrels. 03:47:50:00 CU boy in lettermen jackets receives plaque and shakes man�s hand. 03:48:08:24 CU newspaper article by journalist Charlie Taylor, headline reads �Local Boy Wins State Teen-Age Road-e-o.�03:48:36:07 VS 1950s car driving through handling tests, car navigates between narrow row or white tennis balls, car hits ball, CU car slightly nicks flag, side of car reads �Teen-Age Road-e-o,� CU car bumper and front tires stops just before yellow line, man with ruler measures distance of bumper over yellow line.03:49:24:28 Group of 4 teens seated at 1950s soda fountain counter, talk about the Teen-Age Road-e-o finals in Washington D.C., girls jokes with teenage boy with Sandy about using is brain �Sandy�s starting to use what he�s got above the eyebrows.�03:49:59:00 Great shot of red 1950s convertible driving up street toward camera with the White House in the background.03:50:08:19 VS standing audience watches 1955 Chrysler with �Teen-Age Road-e-o� decal on its side navigate through course, judge measure car tire distance from yellow curb, boy in white jackets gets into car with Teen-Age Road-e-o sign on door, VS car weaving through barrels, POV shot from car slowly weaving between barrels,� car parallel parks between flags, man blows whistle when car hits flag.