History Muroc Dry Lake In Color

I found this fantastic film the other day, and it would seem it's languishing on YouTube with very few views. I've posted it on the VHRA website to give it a boost, so share it around and let's get it seen.

Here's the link to the VHRA site with some info behind the footage: www.vhra.co.uk/VHRA/News/Entries/2017/9/12_Muroc_Dry_Lake_In_Colour.html

 

Man,those belly tanks sure look good! HRP

 

So cool!

 

Great stuff there, nice find Wrong-Un....

 

I only found it on YouTube, I'm not that lucky to have the original footage. By found, I meant that it was languishing unwatched on YouTube and I figured it needed sharing.

 

No tanks there. Same as last week, Rufi's Chev 4 had a hand formed body.

 

Thanks for the share... You're right, this clip deserves a wider audience. This couldn't have been cheap to shoot in color back in the '30s. Would be interesting to know who shot this originally.

 

It says 1937 but you can clearly see a 40'Chevy in the back ground from 2:07 to 2:12 in the film.

 

The fun before all hell broke loose...Great captured footage...aged to perfection. Thanks for posting @The Wrong-Un

 

Me thinks 1947.

 

Phenomenal footage!

 

Footage is 1940, Rufi & Schenck both running their Chev powered streamliners also see the Bill Warth streamliner running. This is when it was still running an A banger, obviously this would become the Stu Hilborn streamliner postwar.

 

This is great. My guess is 1940 because Bob Rufi ran then. The closeness of the spectators is terrifying by modern safety standards.

 

1939 was first color movie Wizard of Oz perhaps...

Couple clues 39 Chev and 40 Chev as pointed out by @Speed Gems. US entered WWll in 1941 man these folks were having a last blast for sure.

 

Glen Smith



http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=The_Glen_Smith_Special

Exerpt from Kustomrama regarding Glen from his Relative who may be the one who posted the video on Youtube

'In June of 2017, Shayne Cleaveland told Kustomrama that his great uncle Glen worked as an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California for most of his life.'

This may have explained Glen having such a high end camera at the time and aren't we lucky he did.

Credit to http://www.kustomrama.com
& Shayne Cleaveland



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The first full length movie was the
1914 The World, the Flesh and the Devil in Kinemacolor, 1 hr 40 min

 

@The Wrong-Un -

Fantastic stuff! ... Thanks for sharing!

As @Stogy already mentioned, the YouTube description states that it was filmed by Glen Smith.



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Looks like it was posted on June 17th 2017 and was shot by his uncle Glen Smith who won Muroc on June 14 1931. Maybe you could look that up and see who he was.
EDIT. See post 16.

 

There is a great deal of innovations in color motion picture in those years. and it was in Technicolor not the 1rst color movie. So thanks for clarifying my asssumptions. The question that would be interesting to know is what was Glenn Smith filming with in Muroc, USA.

 

This is so unbelievable! Color footage of the Schenck, Warth and Rufi cars all together. I don't think I've ever seen the original version of the Schenck car in color. Thanks, this is historic.

 

Its funny and it happens a lot...while we are heads down typing and researching redundancy happens in posting. That said there's a pretty darn smart bunch of Hambers here...

 

Hey @quidnunc cool car ya got there...

 

Ya know the ole 29 Sport Coupe of mine is pretty tight inside but these fellows literally raced in sardine cans...no room for claustrophobia...wow.

 

Don't know what your sources are, but the first feature length film was The Story of the Kelly Gang in Australia in 1906.

The First U.S. feature was Les Miserables in 1909.

 

thanks for posting...really neat to watch early runs....

 

I should also say that George Rubsch "Skipit" is seen on a run. This video also shows how the runs were done in the opposite directions to get their 2-way average speeds.

 

@Ryan Video of the year!

 

It film has real period age cracks built in that's for sure.

 

@Jimmy B was the roadster that your replicating running there then?

 

Yes, Chuck Spurgin had purchased the roadster in 1940. Bob Giovanine was running a Modified.