Moviecraft, Inc. has worked their preservation magic once again with this even more terrific video from the early '50s. It took a while to ready this video, but it was worth it. Absolutely 5-star all the way.
Now I know what happened to all the 3 window 32 fords ?? Little did they know that they were driving cars worth $$$$& Wish I could’ve bought them 1 or 2 for sure !
24:11 Check out the camera operators - is that THE Bert I. Gordon who would go on to direct _The Amazing Colossal Man_ and a whole bunch more sci-fi "classics"? Cool!
Does anyone know how these films were distributed? I love ‘em. I saw quite a few of these driver race at Gardena as well as at Balboa Stadium in San Diego as a kid.
A lot of early TV programming, like this show, was distributed by small production companies. When a series no longer made money, they would not bother to preserve the shows and they were discarded. That leaves us with only 2 episodes in existence right now over here at Moviecraft. Unfortunately that is the way it was back then.
@ I found these 2 episodes especially interesting as I watched a number of these drivers race in Gardena (KTLA, with Dick Lane) and in person in San Diego, as a kid.
I am wondering if the track, Culver Stadium or Raceway of Hollywood was in Culver City or in Hollywood. Being that Culver City is actually home to MGM, The Culver Studios which became DesiLu Studios owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz so that they could shoot I Love Lucy televison shows but live in Califonia instead of New York where television shows were filmed when tv was new. Hal Roach Studios of Little Rascals Our Gang fame was in Culver City and on the edge of Culver City and Los Angeles in what is now Century City was and still is 20th Century Fox Studios , and what is called Fox Hills in Culver City is a neighborhood where the golf course that was uswd in almost every movie and movie short which is where 3 or 4 small independant film studios and the cemetary where Al Joelson is buried and his monument is probably the largest and most grand and beutiful of any famous person in the last Century. Complete hillside monument with a marble terraced waterfall that runs downhill about 200 feet to a pond and at night the whole thing has lighting and you can see it very clearly from the 405 freeway at Howard Hughes Parkway /Sepulveda Blvd exita Culver City is very much the unknown Hollywood. Gone with the Wind , Wizard of Oz , and many of the biggest films of all time were shot in Culver City not in Hollywood.
I can vouch for squealing tires on hard back dirt/clay .... Strawberry 🍓 Field roads when I was a teen. They are long gone, but there was always a quick way to get gas & booze money. N.W. Orygun
Moviecraft, Inc. has worked their preservation magic once again with this even more terrific video from the early '50s. It took a while to ready this video, but it was worth it. Absolutely 5-star all the way.
Got to Love this old film of guys doing what they love, even if there were nobody in the stands they still would "STAND ON IT." 🏁
My dad number 99 a great driver
He sure is!
Holy molh tks a lot
Now I know what happened to all the 3 window 32 fords ?? Little did they know that they were driving cars worth $$$$&
Wish I could’ve bought them 1 or 2 for sure !
Wow, thanks!
You bet!
24:11 Check out the camera operators - is that THE Bert I. Gordon who would go on to direct _The Amazing Colossal Man_ and a whole bunch more sci-fi "classics"? Cool!
I believe it is.
finger snaps
Does anyone know how these films were distributed? I love ‘em. I saw quite a few of these driver race at Gardena as well as at Balboa Stadium in San Diego as a kid.
A lot of early TV programming, like this show, was distributed by small production companies. When a series no longer made money, they would not bother to preserve the shows and they were discarded. That leaves us with only 2 episodes in existence right now over here at Moviecraft. Unfortunately that is the way it was back then.
@ I found these 2 episodes especially interesting as I watched a number of these drivers race in Gardena (KTLA, with Dick Lane) and in person in San Diego, as a kid.
Love that name: Termite Snyder...!! What were the purses on these races? And what kinds of motors did these men use?
Flat head V8 engines were the choice for power. I also wonder what the purses were...
The track was in Culver City not Hollywood.
I am wondering if the track, Culver Stadium or Raceway of Hollywood was in Culver City or in Hollywood.
Being that Culver City is actually home to MGM, The Culver Studios which became DesiLu Studios owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz so that they could shoot I Love Lucy televison shows but live in Califonia instead of New York where television shows were filmed when tv was new.
Hal Roach Studios of Little Rascals Our Gang fame was in Culver City and on the edge of Culver City and Los Angeles in what is now Century City was and still is 20th Century Fox Studios , and what is called Fox Hills in Culver City is a neighborhood where the golf course that was uswd in almost every movie and movie short which is where 3 or 4 small independant film studios and the cemetary where Al Joelson is buried and his monument is probably the largest and most grand and beutiful of any famous person in the last Century. Complete hillside monument with a marble terraced waterfall that runs downhill about 200 feet to a pond and at night the whole thing has lighting and you can see it very clearly from the 405 freeway at Howard Hughes Parkway /Sepulveda Blvd exita
Culver City is very much the unknown Hollywood. Gone with the Wind , Wizard of Oz , and many of the biggest films of all time were shot in Culver City not in Hollywood.
Screeching tyres on a dirt track?
This is the Hollywood sound effects person juicing up the broadcast product. Few are the wiser.
its probably a clay track
Believe it or not, once the track "slicks off" it gets like pavement. I've smoked my tires on dirt... You get what is called a blue groove....
I can vouch for squealing tires on hard back dirt/clay .... Strawberry 🍓 Field roads when I was a teen. They are long gone, but there was always a quick way to get gas & booze money. N.W. Orygun
Yes the dirt or clay will slick up an be as hard as asphalt an tire squeal