ONCE AGAIN WE have a PETE SMITH SPECIALTY that it is somewhat different than the lack, In it we find no "How To" situation, no stuntman/actor, no witty commentary (from "a Smith Named Pete) and no guffaws, chuckles or belly-laughs for the audience' just some plain old exposition & demonstration.
IF ANYTHING, THIS short is a sort of cheater; in that the whole thing is an exploitation if odds & ends of old film footage. Much of it was certainly in Public Domain and not the property of MGM's Leo the Lion; nut that's okay by us.
THUS RESULTING SHORT is an eclectic hodge-podge of the unusual, all captured on film. Either by accident or intentionally, the cameras were there and the mostly truly candid incidents preserved were of many a mood from deadly serious to mildly amusing to heartbreaking for some of the brave souls putting up their best attempts at some event, only to fall flat on their blushingly pink faces.
THERE IS MUCH of the film that we have seen before, mostly in that 1970's variety reel, GIZMO. It is our guess that this footage came from various Newsreel-type fodder, with a lot of it being related to failed prototypes for new varieties of the "Aero-plane."
THE ONE MOST spectacular (and frightening) clip showed the new suspension bridge in Washington State being demolished by high winds; all because the engineering of the structure didn't allow for it to have a "little Wiggle Room" for free swaying sand orderly dissipation of tension on the structure.
JUST IB CASE we hadn't already, Mr. Pete Smith provided the narration, albeit without his characteristic smart-alleck style of delivery. Both Schultz and meself wish to say: "Thanks, Pete!"
IF ANYTHING, THIS short is a sort of cheater; in that the whole thing is an exploitation if odds & ends of old film footage. Much of it was certainly in Public Domain and not the property of MGM's Leo the Lion; nut that's okay by us.
THUS RESULTING SHORT is an eclectic hodge-podge of the unusual, all captured on film. Either by accident or intentionally, the cameras were there and the mostly truly candid incidents preserved were of many a mood from deadly serious to mildly amusing to heartbreaking for some of the brave souls putting up their best attempts at some event, only to fall flat on their blushingly pink faces.
THERE IS MUCH of the film that we have seen before, mostly in that 1970's variety reel, GIZMO. It is our guess that this footage came from various Newsreel-type fodder, with a lot of it being related to failed prototypes for new varieties of the "Aero-plane."
THE ONE MOST spectacular (and frightening) clip showed the new suspension bridge in Washington State being demolished by high winds; all because the engineering of the structure didn't allow for it to have a "little Wiggle Room" for free swaying sand orderly dissipation of tension on the structure.
JUST IB CASE we hadn't already, Mr. Pete Smith provided the narration, albeit without his characteristic smart-alleck style of delivery. Both Schultz and meself wish to say: "Thanks, Pete!"