Screw Drivers of 1940

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Screw Drivers of 1940 is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilson. Humorous driving and pedestrian safety film shot on the streets of Los Angeles.

"Screwdrivers and Screwjays" refers to reckless drivers and reckless pedestrians, respectively.

nice high-angle shots of cars on street shot from high building

nice effect of mens' faces rotating around an axis

good traffic congestion; Cahuenga Pass; brief driving POV westbound on San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at Yerba Buena Island, showing temporary? bridge over the freeway; VS traffic signs; aerial of early half-cloverleaf

film cuts out before its end

Screw Drivers of 1940
Produced byReed (Roland) Productions
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company
Reed (Roland) Productions
Distributed byReed (Roland) Productions
Release date
1940
LanguageEnglish
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