1950s ART GILMORE GENERAL TIRE AUTO ACCIDENT SCARE FILM 75994
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- Featuring actor Art Gilmore -- who narrated the 1950s TV show "Highway Patrol", this scare / sales film by General Tire presents the various features of the brand's advanced Nygen cord nylon tubeless tires -- including a pressure lock and water squeegee tread that was revolutionary in its time. The film is notable for showing a variety of sensational car accidents including a car driving off of a cliff (6:40 mark) that might have come from the stock footage library of "Highway Patrol" itself. The film ends with a ridiculous stunt in which a car is dropped off of a ten story building, to demonstrate what a 70 mph impact -- the same as a head-on collision of two cars at 35mph -- looks like.
The General Tire and Rubber Company is an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles. General Tire was founded in 1915 in Akron, Ohio, by William F. O'Neil. The company later diversified into a conglomerate, with holdings in tires, rubber compounds, rocketry and aeronautics, entertainment and news, and real estate.
Because the depression was particularly hard on manufacturing, General began to branch out, buying several Ohio radio stations on which it advertised. In 1943, General Tire diversified the core business strategy, purchasing the Yankee Network and the radio stations it owned from Boston's Shepard Stores, Inc. Thomas F. O'Neil, son of the founder William F. O'Neil, served as Yankee's chairman with Shepard's John Shepard III serving as president.
General Tire continued its move into broadcasting by acquiring the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a well-respected regional radio network on the West Coast, in 1950. Among other stations, it added KHJ-AM-FM in Los Angeles and KFRC-AM-FM in San Francisco to its stable from the Yankee acquisition. In 1952, it bought WOR/WOR-FM/WOR-TV in New York City and merged its broadcasting interests into a new division, General Teleradio.
General Tire's final move into entertainment was the acquisition of RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes in 1955 for $25 million. General Tire was interested mainly in using the RKO film library to program its television stations, so it sold the RKO lot at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions in 1956 for $6 million. The remaining assets of RKO were merged with General Teleradio, and the new company eventually became known as RKO General. The radio stations became some of the leading broadcasters in the world, but the division was dragged down by unethical conduct at its television stations. This culminated in the longest licensing dispute in television history, eventually forcing RKO General out of the broadcasting business.
Arthur Wells Gilmore, known as Art Gilmore (March 18, 1912 - September 25, 2010), was an American voice actor and announcer heard in on radio and television programs, children's records, movies, trailers, radio commercials, and documentary films. He also appeared in several television series and a few feature films.
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The cop was Art Gilmore who was later a staple as the captain on "Dragnet" and the lieutenant supervising Reed, Malloy, and Sergeant MacDonald on "Adam-12". He was even a fire chief in some episodes of "Emergency!".
The only person to reprimand Malloy not once but twice.
Gilmore was a veteran radio/TV/movie trailer announcer and narrator. He was also associated with Red Skelton for over 15 years.....and appeared frequently on "DRAGNET" in the late 1960's. He lived to be 98 years old (died in 2010).
Sooner or later you’ll own General 🎶 🎼
I love this. Art looked great back then!
Quite an advanced designed tyre for the time.
Originally released in 1954.
The "Catalog of Copyright Entries" (Third Series, January-June 1954, pg. 19) lists the script's copyright date- assigned to Jerry Fairbanks Productions of California- as January 8, 1954. He produced this short for General Tire's ad agency, D'Arcy Advertising Co.; Leo Rosencrans, who worked with Jerry for years, wrote it.
You can see the General Tire hit the sign as well at 05:35:04
I need to get me a set of those General Nygen's for my new car, oh boy. 😁😁
7-15-1951, a date that made my father a survivor, twice. Glenn and James, his brother and his nephew, on a Wisconsin Sunday half past five P.M., a month and five years before I was born my first cousin James died in a five fatality auto collision. The last day of his life playing, like nine year olds in the park for the last time, do.
Great voice. He was great in law enforcement roles.
Back when cars used Bias Ply tires instead of Radials.
And four-wheel drum brakes
back when people would fly through the windshield and then go shopping
Well I'm now scared, now replacing all my tyres with General!
So, if I get General tires, no stunt man will drive it off a building. Thus keeping my car safe. Thanks
That film supposedly shot by the camera on the hood of the falling car...nope. Maybe a camera on a rope was gradually lowered to the ground, at best. I'm dubious that a car really went off the roof of that building at all.
And the earth must be flat
The car went off the roof alright. I figure the actual camera footage was messed up, so they _did_ lower a camera on a rope to recreate the lost video.
The car that went off the roof must not have neatly nose-dived; it didn't provide the camera-down footage and the impact damage wasn't useful for the film. The car that went off the roof was a 1941 Pontiac Torpedo Fastback and the later shot of the damaged car was of a 1950 Pontiac sedan.
@@travelperu I noticed that also!
6:42 - my drivers exam
Talk about a "hard sell"!
Gilmore also served as Narrator of "Men of Annapolis" a Naval anthology series.
And people used to by recapped tires and thought nothing of it.
He advertised for chrysler products in the late 50s
I remember when they tried self sealing tires in the early 80’s. They were garbage then too. You couldn’t balance them
Why don't they have tires this good today?
Are you joking ?
Radial tires are a huge improvement over bias ply
We do. And we don't.
Bias-belted tires are an improvement over bias-ply tires. Radials are better still.
I hate those pesky blowouts
boy u tell a COTdamn lie!