Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: COM-177A

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01:00:00 0	J Wax - (Car Cleaner & Wax) Formula One race cars racing around a track. CU Internationally known driver, Sterling Moss behind the wheel. Banner across the track - Start Finish. Hand holding black and white chequered finish flag. CU Can of J Wax. Z'out from can reveals Sterling Moss holding the can. Cans of J Wax stacked up on display
01:00:31 31.34	J Wax Sprint (wipe and shine) Man scrubbing and rubbing car with car wax, having a terrible time. Another man simply pours on J Wax and easily rubs it off singing while doing so. Man using generic car wax literally collapses from exhaustion onto car hood
01:01:02 62.37	Peak AntiFreeze and Coolant Snow falling hard, parked car's hood pops open and a human transmission pops out. He holds up a container of Peak AntiFreeze and Coolant and encourages its use, then goes back down into the car and hood closes shut. Container of Peak on car hood. Slogan sung - "your car's engine couldn't ask for a better antifreeze"
01:01:34 94.49	Goodyear Tires Woman, her kids and dog seen frolicking on the beach and climbing on the rocks. But when they get to their parked car in the middle of nowhere they discover a flat tire. Dramatic music. "When there's no man around, Goodyear should be". Example of tire going over nails, tire in tire feature avoids flat tire. Optional Lifeguard Safety Tire.
01:02:34 154.42	Uniroyal tires Animation, donkey 'jackass' and tiger 'paws' but they're cartoon cars. Jackass jealous of "tiger paws" - tiger paws holding the curves and has 'jazzy red stripes', donkey car not so much. Donkey gets a set of "red strips" from tire store, but he still ran like a jackass. in big letters - Moral: Red stripes alone does not a tiger make, only Uniroyal makes Tiger Paws.
01:03:35 215.89	Gabriel Hijackers Suburban house at night. Butler using Gabriel hijackers shock absorbers to lift car. Inside home the owner is tied to chair, house is empty of furnishings. Butler and maid removing large painting. Outside police cars waiting, caught! Maid curtseys and hands painting to Bugler.
01:04:07 247.68	Mobil Detergent Gasoline Man climbing through tunnel playacting as "dirt" comes up between two cars and uses hose to blast cars with dirt all the while laughing. Slogan: Dirt has an enemy, Mobil Detergent Gasoline. Mobil hates dirt."
01:04:39 279.11	Super Shell gas with Platformate Tilt down on the Fortress of San Marco in Florida. Camera following two vintage convertibles that take off from St. Augustine, Florida with women drivers. Special panels on cars show fuel usage. Convertible on the beach in the Gulf of Mexico and panels haven't flipped. Car with SuperShell with Platformate doesn't run out of gas. Convertible drives up to vintage gas pumps at Shell station. Large revolving yellow Shell sign.
01:05:39 339.36	Shell Gasoline Shell Presents the Answer Man. Man sitting behind large desk answers question about Shell gasoline usage. He pours gas into test tubes. Shell engineers tuning cars measuring mileage. Large revolving Shell sign.
01:06:40 400.86	Bladex 80 Herbicide for Corn by Shell Var types of tractors pulling rototiller across farmland, dropping fertilizers and herbicides. CU on tillers dropping fertilizer. Bi-plane dropping herbicide on farmland. Farmer opening box taking out bag of Bladex.
01:07:11 431.34	Phillips Performance 66 Tires Molten synthetic rubber, tires being manufactured, coming down the assembly line. Phillips 66 Radial Steel Belted tires on car - the "performance tire". Large Phillips 66 red and white sign.
01:07:41 461.33	Trop-Artic All Season Motor Oil by Phillips 66 Woman, Irene Smith from Petersburg, VA, while driving car brags about having purchased her car in 1964, now has over 150,000 miles on it and has never used anything but Trop-Artic All Season Motor Oil. Service man putting the oil in her car. Mileage gauge on 999999 - numbers roll and turn to "Trop-Artic"
01:08:12 492.77	Chevron Little boy blowing into a paper bag, bag says Have a Happy Day. Boy smashes bag. Narrator announces free bags with any purchase at Chevron dealers.
01:08:34 514.47	Chevron Older man wearing a suit and tie opening up a paper bag then blows into it and pops it. Narrator announces free Happy Day bags free with any purchase at Chevron dealers.
01:08:55 535.77	Atlas Extra Heavy Car Battery Hand turning key in car ignition. Mechanic opens car hood, gauge for testing battery life. Atlas Premium batteries, $5.00 coupon overlay.
01:09:27 567.43	Chevron Standard House Warmer $50.00 bill being burned. Call your Chevron standard house warmer to inspect heating system. Commercial for Chevron House Furnace.
01:10:29 629.52	Atlas Premium Power Car Battery B&W and color commercial - Vintage cars circa 1940's parked in a circle, some with hoods open, cars in a long line, man shooting rifle into car - announcer talking unseen states one Atlas battery starts 10 cars and pulls 15, riddled with bullets and still starts the car. Switch to color man carrys Atlas batter toward camera and to a waiting docked space ship. Chevron logo in upper right of frame.
01:11:02 662.04	Chevron Gas Stations Mountains and river with bridge. Pan a Chevron gas station. Man helping ladies put grocery bags into trunk of car. Z'out from Chevron Gas Station. Car on side of road with hood up, Chevron car to the rescue with container of gas. Chevron song. "Meeting people's needs the Chevron Way". Chevron gas stations everywhere, 23,000 of them. Jingle: Along the Chevron Way
01:12:03 723.21	Chevron F-310 Mechanic, Dick Groberg, working on a car engine part, he shows the part to announcer. CU hands holding auto engine parts. Mechanic points out clean engine part. Tilt down on exposed car engine. Announcer points out engine has over 62,000 miles on it - surprised mechanic. Engine has been running on Chevron F-310 keeps engines clean. CU Chevron graphic logo on gas tank
01:13:04 784.8	Chevron F-310 School busses in bus parking lot. Maintenance Supervisor, Harry Bower talking into camera state his busses are not running on Chevron F-310 until Chevron's tests are complete. Chevron engineers testing engine parts. CU's on car engine parts. Maintenance man speaking into camera states he'll let us know how the tests come out. Chevron graphic logo on gas tank and the words, "We believe" overlay.
01:13:36 816.57	Chevron Gas and Credit Card z'out from ws of Golden Gate Bridge, shots of average folk having conversations, car driving down snowy mountain highway, shots of Chevron gas station, Chevron credit card, sea plane taking off, hotels. Jingle - the Chevron way. Travel convenience - slogan "Along the Chevron Way"
01:14:06 846.01	Chevron Female reporting from Chevron research center in Richmond California - states Chevron looking for best ways to produce oil from coal to be refined into gasoline. Man reporting from a ship in harbor in San Francisco, another reporter from Chevron plant in El Segundo - Chevron at work. Chevron graphic logo.
01:14:40 880.25	Chevron WS Chevron oil refinery surrounded by snow capped mountains. Various reporters reporting from Chevron work sites. Slogan: Chevron at Work. Chevron graphic logo with workers. Working together to accomplish more.
01:15:12 912.01	Chevron Reporters at Chevron various work sites outdoors and in. Chevron at work - combining efforts to produce more energy with your efforts to save energy. Chevron graphic logo
01:15:43 943.35	Chevron Renderings and animations of oil fields and workers out in the fields. Color photo stills of live Chevron workers at work on rigs and on computers. Slogan: Chevron was born on the frontier and we never left it. Chevron graphic.
01:16:42 1002.86	Chevron Animation of Chevron graphic shaped like a beating heart. Animations of Chevron oil fields, technology, gas tanks surrounding beating heart. - Chevron facilities linked together - sharing, Slogan - that's the heart of the matter, that's the Chevron way.
01:17:17 1037.25	Chevron Animated one dollar bill with Chevron graphic logos in the corners. Man unseen talking about Chevron's profits. Small animated oil drillers, adding machine, animals. Dollar bill turns to coins, coins turn to loaf of bread. Man talks about profits going to shareholders, technology, refineries and more. Chevron puts profits back to work. Slogan: The Chevron way
01:17:49 1069.58	Chevron Animated Chevron commercial - men in service station sitting with "sick" little cars on their laps. Chevron service pros use machines to find out what's wrong with ailing cars. Car with a big smile driving out of Chevron station. Chevron graphic logo.
01:18:49 1129.84	Chevron Animated Chevron gas tanks at Chevron gas station - z'in on unleaded tank in the middle. Cartoon cars with animal faces driving around the unleaded tank. Chevron servicing the new cars that require unleaded gas. Unleaded Chevron gas commercial.
01:19:52 1192.12	Chevron Animated Chevron commercial. The evolution of oil beginning with dinosaurs and turning into gasoline. Car driving away, dinosaur pokes head out of gas tank. Motto is "next time you jump in your car remember some prehistoric creature gave his all for that tank of gas". Go easy and America's energy will go alot further. Chevron graphic logo.
01:20:52 1252.7	Times 500 Stock Car Race - Ontario Speedway Commercial for Stock Car Race at Ontario Speedway. Footage of stock car race in Ontario, California. Announcer mentions the famous stock drivers in the race Richard Petty, Gale Yarborough, AJ Foyt as they race around the track. Announcement for the Times (Los Angeles) 500 race on November 24th
01:21:23 1283.68	Race cars speeding around a track. Pit men seen quickly changing tires on car number 21 Purolator. Tilt down on race car with 21 on roof.
01:22:27 1347.71	End Reel Automobile Products Commercials - 1960s