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Slate: Speed: Race Car Driver
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01:00:18 18.61 |
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ECUs race cars speed past camera. Sign - Speed Checked by Radar
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01:00:21 21.35 |
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Host driving a race car announces he's on his way to automobile racing school.
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01:00:40 40.61 |
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"Skip Barber Racing" cars whiz past camera.
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01:00:42 42.09 |
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At the Skip Barber Racing School in northern California, single seated racing cars drive around the track.
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01:00:50 50.05 |
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Host of the program speaks with race car driver, Randy, and looks at his shiny red race car, then runs off to the porta potty.
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01:01:02 62.34 |
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Driver, Randy points out the oil cooler on the car.
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01:01:07 67.16 |
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A blue single-seat race car drives around the track. The car has a Good Year logo, #28 and Skip Barber Racing printed on its side.
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01:01:21 81.27 |
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Tilt down on the seat of Randy's race car. CU Randy explains to Host the importance of going through the wind quickly and the grip on the tires - he demonstrates using his hands.
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01:01:59 119.72 |
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B&W footage of race cars attempting to break land speed records on various straight aways in the desert. Cars speed toward camera, leaving trails of dust.
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01:02:07 127.94 |
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Footage from the mid 1960's of rocket and jet propelled engines - cars look like jet planes.
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01:02:22 142.12 |
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Race car driver, Craig Breedlove, 1965 - an American professional race car driver and a five-time world land speed record holder.
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01:02:24 144.4 |
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Rocket driven race car (driven by Breedlove) speeds across the desert at 600 mph. (POV might be a camera on the race car)
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01:02:37 157.71 |
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CU of the Good Year sponsored jet propelled car, the "Spirit of America" as it moves past camera (Breedlove's car)
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01:02:42 162.04 |
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CU Host behind the wheel of a slick blue single-seat Formula 1 style Skp Barber School race car with huge tires.
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01:02:52 172.19 |
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CU a leather man's wing tipped shoe attached to an outer rod of the race car as if it were about to pedal the car.
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01:02:54 174.05 |
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Footage of Host driving the race car around the track through cones, and water puddles.
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01:03:23 203.26 |
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Montage of race cars on the open road course. Driver, Randy, appears in a bubble at bottom of screen and explains how to accelerate through corners.
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01:04:33 273.11 |
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01:04:42 282.99 |
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B-roll. Unseen narrator talks about windy spaces, turbines and a computer the Magic Box that transfers variable energy, windmills. Several takes. Silhouette of maybe a producer or director.
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01:13:21 801 |
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