Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.
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Pete Smith
- Narrator
- (voice)
E.A. 'Babe' Stapp
- Self - Racecar Driver
- (as Babe Stapp)
Storyline
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[first lines]
Narrator: How'd you do, people? Here we are at the American Legion Ascot Speedway in Loose An-ge-lays. Los Angeles, to you and me. Arriving at the speedway are the fastest cars in their class. Sturdy little engines of extreme velocity, extraordinary combustion, exceptional prepotency, and, eh, whatnot.
- Crazy creditsNarrator Pete Smith identifies all remaining cast members verbally.
- ConnectionsFollows Splash! (1931)
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There's not much you can say about this Pete Smith Specialty from 1933 except that the antiquated racing cars are a far cry from what viewers of the sport expect to see today.
Photography is dark and grainy, which doesn't help matters at the racetrack, but the theme is simply to show how daring these guys are when it comes to speed--and how fast a tire can be changed when one goes out of gear. There are a few crashes too, one of them quite spectacular, but the narration just goes on ignoring things when the crashes occur no matter how seriously hurt a driver might be.
It's done in dry documentary style and not as polished as the later Pete Smith specialties would be. I couldn't work up much enthusiasm for it.
Photography is dark and grainy, which doesn't help matters at the racetrack, but the theme is simply to show how daring these guys are when it comes to speed--and how fast a tire can be changed when one goes out of gear. There are a few crashes too, one of them quite spectacular, but the narration just goes on ignoring things when the crashes occur no matter how seriously hurt a driver might be.
It's done in dry documentary style and not as polished as the later Pete Smith specialties would be. I couldn't work up much enthusiasm for it.
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- Doylenf
- Mar 13, 2011
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- Filming locations
- Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California, USA(as American Legion Ascot Speedway)
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- Runtime9 minutes
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