The Essex Terraplane
Theatrical advertisement for the Essex Terraplane automobile.
Cars
TEACHING A WOMEN HOW TO USE A CAR””
Former Miss America, Bess Myerson, hosted this remarkably hokey instructional clip from the mid Sixties intending to teach salesmen how best to sell cars to women.
IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE
This 1931 animated cartoon is a rare advertising film produced by Fleischer Studios for Olds Motor Works. Hero rescues damsel in distress from villain and hits the sing-a-long trail.
History Of Motor Racing Pt 1
A look at the history of automobile racing from it’s earliest days in 1903 to 1906.
1902 – Paris Vienna1903 – Irish Gordon Bennet Trophy1904 – Gordon Bennet Trophy1906 – French Grand Prix
Harley Earl – GM Designer Extraordinaire
Harley Earl, the larger than life, first head of styling for a major automobile manufacturer gave the world the joy of excess in color, chrome and steel. Recruited by GM in the late 20s to transform its drab autos and make them stand out from the offerings of its competitors, Earl transformed the industry and the American psyche.
He invented the annual model change over, the concept car and put swagger and some Hollywood panache into a staid industry. While its hard to defend his buoyant designs as fine art, he captured the imagination of millions worldwide, especially in Post WWII America, who embraced the outlandish vehicles as proof that there will be a big and better tomorrow. He knew how to create and sell dreams. Which is what he learned from his neighbor, C. B. DeMille.
A Car Lover and his Studebaker
A recently made home movie depicting a car guy tooling around with his 1920s Studebaker.
1956: Designing the Future
(Technicolor GM Film)
Design for Dreaming (1956)
Sponsor: General Motors Corporation
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
-Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950’s showing futuristic dream cars and frigidaire’s “Kitchen of the Future”.
Produced to bring the 1956 G.M. Motorama to audiences unable to see it in major cities, this fim introduces the new 1956 cars, Frigidaire’s “Kitchen of Tomorrow,” and the electronic highways of the future. G.M.’s “dream cars” of the 1950s, including the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket and the turbine-powered Pontiac Firebird II, are also displayed.
1950s Car Culture
Enjoy this colorful video about the car culture in America during the 1950s; learn how it impacted the country in innumerable ways.