Car Free Day – some more propaganda from Chevrolet

Published: September 12, 2008

by frog

As we prepare for Car Free Day on September 22, here’s more from the Prelinger Archives. This particular piece of Chevrolet’s automobile pomposity is excused, due to having been filmed in 1933. Watch the impact that cars were having on our environment and communities (including the “Borneo Wild man”) even 75 years ago.

[Frog: Mercifully, I have managed to kill the autoplay feature of this embedded video. Hit the play button for this blast from the past]

Oh, and the link to part one and part two which is not embedded above.

Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Fri, September 12th, 2008   

Tags: car free day, chevrolet

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1. rimu

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 2:01 PM

   Can we have that video NOT play automatically??? Whenever i go to the blog’s home page it starts playing even though it’s waaay down the list and I’m not looking at it!

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2. frog

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM

   I get it rimu. I hate it too. I’ll see if I can tweak the embed code, but last time I tried it buggered up the lot.

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3. rimu

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 2:08 PM

   try autoplay=”false”

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4. frog

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM

   Yes, that is indeed how I killed it. I had looked for autoplay earlier, and it had been non-wrapped and off the page. Mercifully, it’s dead now!

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5. XYY

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 5:22 PM

   Priceless. While modern car ads gloss over the environmental impact, in bygone times it was a cause for celebration.

   “Look at the amount of coal, asbestos and lead we’re using — and isn’t this massive deforestation brilliant? Now watch us crash-test the vehicles using endangered species!”

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6. haz

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM

   at 7.38 =- 2 workers right next to a huge hammer – NO ear protection at all, wonder at what age they went deaf ?

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7. Trevor29

   Posted September 12, 2008 at 11:20 PM

   Well done frog – that autoplay is really annoying on a number of your video clips – particularly when the computer suddenly bursts into music as my partner is trying to sleep…

   Are there any IE settings I can set to disable autoplay on the receiving end?

   Trevor.

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