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SCENES FROM INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY "GASOLINE ALLEY" RACE TRACK HIGH ANGLE CREW PUSHING RACING CARS
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CU PAT FLAHERTY, 1956 INDY 500 WINNER
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CU JIMMY BRYAN, 1958 INDY 500 WINNER
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CU GEORGE SALLEY, MASTER MECHANIC AT INDY
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MS DUANE CARTER STRAPPING ON HELMET
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MS RACE CAR DRIVER JOHNNY PARSONS STRAPPING ON HELMET, GETTING IN RACE CAR, TOWING CAR TO STARTING LINE
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MS LATE 1950s RACING AUDIENCE
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MS PIT STOP, REVVING UP ENGINE, PULLING HOSE LIKE OUT OF ENGINE, CREW PUSHING CAR TO STARTING LINE
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HS CAR RACING AROUND TRACK
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CU INDY WORKER HOLDING UP SIGN "PARSONS 43"
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CU TIMER RECORDING RACING TIMES. PRACTICING SPEEDS
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CU RACING LINE UP: NUMBERS, NAMES, TIMES...
PARSONS, WARD, BOYD, JOHNSON, GOLDSMITH, COMSON... |
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MS PARSONS IN CAR IN CONFERENCE WITH MECHANIC
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LOW ANGLE SPECTATORS IN BLEACHERS AT INDY 500 1959
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CU JOHNNY PARSONS ANNOUNCING RETIREMENT OVER LOUDSPEAKER
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CU SPECTATORS CLAPPING APPLAUDING PARSONS
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MS PARSONS SHAKING HANDS WITH FRIEND OR FELLOW RACER
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CU MECHANIC FRED DIORIAN SITTING ALA RODIN'S THINKER
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HA CARS RACING AROUND TRACK DURING PRACTICE RUN, COMING OUT OF SECOND TURN
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MS AUDIENCE RISING TO FEET TO SEE BETTER
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TONY BETTENHAUSEN'S CAR CRASHES AROUND SECOND TURN
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CU ROLL BARS ON TONY'S RACE CAR WHICH SAVED HIS LIFE
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CU TONY TALKING TO OFFICIALS POST CRASH
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CRASHED RACE CAR BEING TOWED FROM TRACK
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LS VIP PRESS BOX OBSERVATION DECK
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DUANE CARTER DRIVING TOWARD & PAST CAMERA
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CU RACE CAR DRIVER JOHNNY THOMPSON IN CAR
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CU RACE CAR FLYING BY VIEWER, SETTING ONE LAP RECORD
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CU OFFICIAL WAVING CHECKERED FLAG AT LAPS FINISH
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HS THOMPSON'S CAR # 3 DRIVING SLOWLY PAST VIEWER
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CU CECIL RATHMANN SITTING IN BLEACHERS WITH SPORTS FANS CIRCA 1959
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MS JIM RATHMANN WAITING IN PIT STOP REVVING ENGINE
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CAR # 16 BEING PUSHED BY BY PIT CREW
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CU CREW GIVING HAND SIGNAL
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FLAGGER SIGNALING RACING DRIVERS
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MS JIM'S BROTHER DICK RATHMANN. CU RATHMANN'S BABY & WIFE
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MS JOHNNY THOMPSON WATCHING QUALIFYING RACE
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JIM RATHMANN PULLING INTO PIT STOP AFTER QUALIFYING RACE, PRACTICING SPEEDS.
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JIM IN CAR IN CONFERENCE WITH PIT CREW
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EDDIE SACKS SAKS PULLING INTO PIT STOP
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BOBBY GRIMM PULLING INTO PIT STOP MS SITTING IN CAR
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ROGER WARD PULLING INTO PIT STOP
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PRACTICE RUN, HAND SIGNALS, FLAG WAVING, CAR RACING, JOHNNY TOLAN SPINS OUT, CRASHES INTO THE WALL OF THE SOUTHEAST TURN. UNHURT, WALKS AWAY FROM CRASH
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CU EX-DRIVER FREDDY ACAVATIA ?SP SPEAKING TO REPORTERS WHO WRITE ON NOTE PADS
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HS FREDDY'S CAR CAREENING INTO SAME SPOT THE PREVIOUS YEAR. RACE CAR LOSING CONTROL ON RACE TRACK TURN
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MS COUPLE UNDER UMBRELLA IN BLEACHERS ON RAINY DAY AT THE RACES
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CU BOY PETTING WRINKLY BULL DOG
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MS JIMMY BRYAN PREPARING FOR RACES, HANGING UP RACING JACKET
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MS MECHANIC WORKING ON RACE CAR'S ENGINE CU OIL PUMP
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JIMMY BRYAN IN QUALIFYING RACE
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MS CUB SCOUTS UP ON FENCE WATCHING CARS RACING HEADS MOVING WITH CAR. CUB SCOUT UNIFORMS CIRCA 1959
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LS SPECTATORS AT RACE TRACK ON THEIR FEET CLAPPING
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RACE CAR COMING INTO PIT STOP CREW FUSSING WITH DRIVER. MEMBER OF THE PRESS STICKING MICROPHONE INTO DRIVER'S FACE, MUSSES DRIVER'S HAIR
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MS BLACK NEWSPAPER VENDOR HOLDING UP THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES FLAHERTY & 5 OTHER DRIVERS QUALIFY, MOTTER HITS WALL
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HS EARL MOTTER'S CAR SPINNING OUT & HITTING WALL
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DRIVER A. J. FOYT PULLING INTO PIT STOP
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MS PAUL ROUSSEAU SHAKING HANDS WITH PIT CREW CREW PUSHING CAR TO START, ROUSSEAU IN QUALIFYING RACE, PRACTICE SPEED.
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LOW ANGLE FLAGGER ENDING RACE
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MS SPORTS FANS IN BLEACHERS
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DRIVER PULLING INTO PIT STOP, REPORTER STICKS MICROPHONE IN DRIVER'S FACE, INTERVIEWING DRIVER CREW WORKING ON RACE CAR
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MS SPECTATORS BEHIND ROPES TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS AT INDY 500
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MS CREW TOWING & PUSHING RACE CARS TO STARTING LINE
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MONTAGE PRE-RACE ACTIVITY, CREW WORKING IN PITS, SPECTATORS TAKING SEATS, BLEACHERS FILLED DESERTED GASOLINE ALLEY
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CREW ADDING BARDAHL INTO ENGINE
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HS PERDUE UNIVERSITY BAND, MAJORETTES LEADING MARCHING BAND
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CU SPORTS FAN PETTING TRADITIONAL RACE DAY RABBIT
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MONTAGE MOVIE STARS EFREM ZIMBALIST JR. ?
AT INDY 500 |
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CARS LINES UP AT STARTING LINE
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JOHNNY THOMPSON IN CAR GETTING READY FOR RACE IN NUMBER ONE SPOT
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EDDIE SACKS SAKS GETTING INTO RACE CAR IN NUMBER TWO SPOT
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JIM RATHMANN GETTING LAST MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS FROM MECHANIC
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CU JACK TURNER MS JACK'S GREEN RACING CAR
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AUDIENCE SHOT
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MS TRADITIONAL INDY BALLOONS FLYING TOWARD THE SKY
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CU MONTAGE CREW REVVING ENGINES STARTING ENGINES
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CU RACE CAR'S CONTROL PANEL
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MONTAGE HECTIC PRE-RACE ACTIVITY IN PIT, CREW PUSHING CARS TO STARTING LINE
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HS RACE CARS IN WARM UP LAP WITH 1950s CONVERTIBLE AS PACE CAR
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PACE CAR TURNS OFF, GREEN FLAG DROPS
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SCENES FROM 1959 INDY 500 WITH ANNOUNCER
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BRYAN'S CAR DEVELOPING PROBLEM, SMOKING BADLY PULLS INTO THE PITS, CREW WORKING FRANTICALLY ON HIS CAR
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BRYAN'S CAR PUSHED INTO GASOLINE ALLEY, FIRST CAR OUT OF RACE
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SCENES FROM INDY 500 RACE 1959
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ECU FEMALE SPECTATOR LOOKING THRU BINOCULARS TURNS AROUND ABRUPTLY FOLLOWING MOVEMENT OF CAR
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HS EDDIE SACKS SAKS SPINNING OUT, NARROWLY MISSING OTHER CARS, OFF THE TRACK
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ANOTHER ANGLE OF SACKS' CAR SPINNING OUT
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CU CAUTION FLAG BEING WAVED
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CREW PUSHING SACKS CAR, RESTARTING ENGINE, BACK IN INDY 500 RACE
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LS RACE CARS WHIZZING BY
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MS SPECTATORS AT RACE TRACK CIRCA 1959
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SCENES OF THOMPSON MAKING PIT STOP
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HS INDY RACE, LEN SUTTON CRASHES INTO SOUTHWEST WALL
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HS CREW WAVING WHITE FLAG, CAUTION LIGHT
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RACE CARS DODGING SUTTON'S CAR STILL ON RACE TRACK, CREW PUSHING CAR OFF TRACK
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SCENES FROM INDY 500
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CU WOMEN LOOKING THRU BINOCULARS FOLLOWS SOUND OF CRASH
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FOUR 4 CAR CRACK UP IN NORTHEAST TURN
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RACE CONTINUES
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POV IN RACE CAR INDY 500 COMING INTO THIRD TURN
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RAY CRAWFORD'S CAR SMASHING INTO THIRD TURN WALL SUFFERED 10 BROKEN RIBS CAR CRASH
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MS CREW CLEANING UP TRACK
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SCENES FROM INDY 500 RACE, 149TH LAP
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JIM RATHMANN PULLING INTO PIT STOP CAR WORKED ON, TIRES & FUEL, PUSHED BACK INTO RACE
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DICK RATHMANN MAKING PIT STOP, FUEL SPILLS, MS AUDIENCE GETTING TO FEET, FIRE IN PIT STOP
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CU PIT CREW USING FIRE EXTINGUISHERS TO PUT OUT CAR FIRE
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CU RATHMANN OUT OF CAR SAVED BY FIREPROOF SUIT BLACK SMOKE SMEARED ON FACE
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SCENES FROM 1959 INDY 500 RACE
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PAT FLAHERTY CRASHES HIS CAR NEAR THE PIT ENTRANCE NEAR THE END OF THE RACE
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CU CRASHED RACE CAR
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ROGER WARD MAKING PIT STOP CHANGING TIRE WITH HYDRAULIC JACK
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HS RACE CAR DRIVER GOING BACK INTO RACE FROM PIT STOP
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CU HYDRAULIC JACK LIFTING CAR, CHANGING TIRE IN SECONDS
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HS INDY 500 RACE 1959, RATHMANN IN THE LEAD WHITE FLAG SIGNALS LAST LAP. CU MEN BRINGING TROPHY OUT
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MS CHECKERED FLAG SIGNALING END OF RACE ROGER WARD, WINNER, JIM RATHMANN SECOND, JOHNNY THOMPSON THIRD
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CU CHECKERED FLAG BEING WAVED
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WINNER ROGER WARD COMING INTO WINNERS CIRCLE BEING CONGRATULATED, GIVEN FLOWERS
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TAPE ENDS
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