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Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 4)



Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: the 'Boudoir Express,' dressing rooms on wheels in which women can change into swimsuits; Detroit police directing traffic with a 'talking safety car'; miniature model planes at the International Air Derby; petroleum geologists X-raying the ground in search for oil; a seagoing, amphibious automobile navigating a lake; and Mickey, the firefighting cat of Minneapolis.                                              
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Video Information
Year: 1936
Genre: Ephemeral
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels;Automobiles: Advertising;
Duration: 00:08:59
Color: No
Sound: Yes
Amount of Motion: n/a
Language: English
Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation
Contributing Organization: Internet Archive
Transcript Available: No

Digitization Information
Digitization Date: 2001
Digitizing Organization: Internet Archive

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