THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE AUTOMOBILE CAR HISTORY DOCUMENTARY 31610 HD

[@mikethespaz372]

I recall begging my mom to let me watch this show when it first aired on ABC back in the 1960s. I had recently purchased a copy of "Car Classics" magazine at the local liquor store using my allowance money. It was around 1969 and when I saw that magazine, I grabbed it right away. I read it cover to cover, over and over. I still have it to this day. In 1971, my grandfather and grandmother took me on a trip around the western Nevada towns, mainly along route 395. The one stop I asked for us to make was to see Harrah's Automobile Collection in Sparks, Nevada. It took an entire day to see all the cars in all the buildings there. I got to see most of the cars you see in this film. It was unforgettable. I was 10 years old. I got to see the collection one more time with my dad in 1974 when he and I attended the Harrah's Antique Car in Reno that year. Now, the largest antique auto collection is gone. Auctioned off and held, mostly, in private hands. I still own a Model T and I'm glad I got to share it all with my father and grandparents. They, and the the awesome Harrah's Automobile Collection are now only a memory.

[@stopandthinknow]

I have a very personal connection to the production of this film, The Golden Age of the Automobile." I was the Program Manager of John H. Secondari Productions in 1969. We produced this film and two others on the history of transportation for ABC-TV News. They were each originally ninety minutes in length. The other two were, "From Kitty Hawk to Paris: The Heroic Years," (the history of the airplane) and "The Ballad of the Iron Horse," (the history of the railroad.) These were ambitious television productions in their day, and among the earliest ABC News documentary films broadcast in color. They were shot on Kodak 16mm color reversal stock, edited on film, and transferred to two inch videotape for national telecast. Looking back now, after more than fifty years since they were made, I think they hold up pretty well. Hank Druckerman

[@112chapters3]

Thanks for sharing. 100❤

[@stopandthinknow]

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[@Shiro_Mazoku]

Thank you for your contribution Mr. Druckerman!

[@stopandthinknow]

@@Shiro_Mazoku you’re welcome. I have fond memories of the project. Hank

[@aphex14]

Thank You Mr. Druckerman! Appreciate the history told!

[@mr.goodpliers6988]

Fascinating film, very well done for 1969. Vehicles from the Harrah Collection, filmed in the Nevada desert

[@dondressel452]

I had a number of classic cars myself Unfortunately I sold them all never realizing how much they’d be worth today Wonderful video Thank you

[@asciimation]

The recreations in this were really nicely done. Nice locations, costumes and cars of course.

[@JPER-cv2lq]

In 1956 I was 8 years young and came to Pasadena California from Germany and fell in love with the Automobile, ended up owning a Mercedes Benz repair and maintenance garage. That's where the money was .

[@aphex14]

Where in Pasadena? I grew up on Villa St./ Allen , just 2 blocks from the Van Halen family.

[@JPER-cv2lq]

@@aphex14 ; my shop was at 1863 E. Walnut. The Van Halen backyard party was at 1555 E. Orange Grove Blvd. Nice meeting you.

[@aphex14]

@@JPER-cv2lq Likewise!

[@AstraWerke]

9:41 is downright slapstick xD Oh, and the background music? Flawless! Perfect! Wonderful!

[@boldone3517]

Very well done and extremely interesting and informative!

[@kbarrett63]

At 3 mph, the ride home from the bar on Friday night must have been a LONG ride !!

[@kevinloving3141]

That's why you brewed your own

[@daniila.7545]

Смотрю а в памяти все время кадры из любимого фильма юности "Большие гонки" 1965 года

[@VickyRenee]

What they had to do when coming to a crossroad 😂😂😂😂😂😂 The last one, firing a gun cracked me up!!! Watch, by the time he gets back in the car, they'll be someone coming!! 😅😅😅😅

[@waynejohnson1304]

As the narrator explained, they were trying to do everything they could to discourage the early automobile. I'm sure most people ignored the law as we do today. :)

[@Hot80s]

7:21 thats where Henry lived till his passing in ‘47. The river rouge flows through the backyard and feeds a power station that was built by Henry’s best friend Thomas Edison. You can see and visit Fairlane in Dearborn Michigan.

[@robertphillips6296]

Jay Leno’s Garage has video examples of many of these vehicles in color, in detail and operation if you wish a more in depth study. 18:44 AAA National Glidden Tour.

[@user-Dr.]

I know you touched on this a little bit, but Oldsmobile was the first production car in history, correct?

[@noahbossier1131]

From 1967 as a new 67 ford truck and a new 67 thunderbird appear and a 67 chevrolet truck.

[@lukehauser1182]

Imagine the carnage when these seatbelt-less monsters collided at 10mph. Amazing how we accept highway slaughter as part of the cost of modern life...

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

11:06 oh I see the oldest speed limit sign

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Yah I don't think they ever went as slow as 5 miles per hour. Maybe on sand 20 miles per hour, but on roads it was 40 to 60.

[@russthomson6168]

Stanley steamers that I have met,, all have had a unique smell, of whatever they are heating their water with

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

Kerosene, I believe it was

[@alanstrong55]

Must have been a delight to have a car in say 1920.

[@noahbossier1131]

actually this is from 1969

[@majpopovic514]

NICE

[@tomschmitt6911]

who is the main narrator....?

[@stopandthinknow]

The main narrator was John H. Secondari, who also was the film's Executive Producer and writer. John was in the 1950's ABC News Rome correspondent, and later ABC New's head of Special Projects Division. He was also the author of the 1952 novel, "Coin's in the Fountain," from which the 1954 Hollywood CinemaScope motion Picture, "Three Coins in the Fountain" was based. He died in 1979. John was a gifted and talented individual. I was privileged to work with and for him (This information supplied by Hank Druckerman, former Program Manager of John H. Secondari Productions - see my original comments above)

[@rickmcdonald1557]

I enjoyed this video very much but the music in the background was annoying to say the least~!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

But it was not only the territory which was hostile to motorists. I would never have thought a machine could be imbued with human qualities. My car is bulky. It has a strong personality. In fact, its personality often proves stronger than its motor. Each incline poses a problem and a challenge. But each hill climbed offers the rewards of sweet victory. Automobiles were most unpopular with the country folk. Automobiles were for the rich and the city slicker. The farmer’s attitude was more than just social resistance. Automobiles frightened the horses. It would have been unthinkable to suggest that the roads might belong to both horse and car. Most people were convinced that cars were a public danger. Some towns barred them entirely. Others had stern safety regulations such as this one for crossing intersections. The automobile will be brought to a halt and the automobilist will dismount to sound his horn several times.

[@JohnS-il1dr]

700 dollars for a 1903 Ford was 23 grand. Still a good price considering a used 2017 boring camry goes for 36k with 57,000 miles.

[@cool3865]

umm a 2017 Camry is not going for $36K

[@nonelost1]

10:30...They did not have a problem with open carrying of weapons back then. But they sure did have a problem with horseless carriages, even out in the middle of nowhere. This guy could not have been too concerned about police at that country intersection. Instead, he must be thinking that if ANY rural hick saw him skirt those fanatically strict rules, the whole town would be coming at him with pitchforks in hand.

[@paulakpacente]

My uncle (a psychiatrist) restored a 1916 and a 1926 Ford Model T's. I rode in both of them many times---another era. And today our administration thinks we will return to electric cars? They aren't practical now as they weren't long ago. Maybe they're practical in eastern states, but there are TOO many miles to travel in the VAST western states to even consider them. Steam cars with all of their issues would be a better way to go.

[@freedomforever6718]

Gas powered cars are still better than electric cars and will be for the foreseeable future.

[@user-Dr.]

Much, much cleaner also.

[@spannaspinna]

I think there is some future in hydrogen cells

[@cme98]

Imagine if you will the mass execution of the horse replaced by every automobile created. Hundreds every day, their numbers in the millions until their killing ended. Nobody even bothers to give the horse a mention of this ruthless massacre of a creature who served man well & died because it just wasn’t good enough. In 1910 nothing but horses were found on New York City streets, by 1920 it was nothing but cars. Yet no mention of the ruthless slaughter of an animal whose only crime was serving man for literally thousands of years.

[@cme98]

@@charlesjlatimer6249 very sad to imagine those things. I never had to live in a world where people used animals, or treated other humans as animals, who could & legally would work them to death. Your reply immediately conjured up images of slavery, coal miners dying at age 42 of black lung, we still call a "disease" which made me question: since when is providing basic survival for yourself & family called a disease? I suppose there are many professions in which we still work people to death, & animals who we continue working to death to produce milk, meat, & leather for expensive fashion trends. I suppose we all still live in that world, at least the horse lives today in a better world.

[@Saa42808]

Back in 1890, how would they move from horse to horseless carriage? In 2022, how will they move from fossil fuel cars to electric cars? In 2122, how will they move from electric cars to flying cars? In 2222 how will they move from flying cars to space cars.

[@user-Dr.]

I may be a bit of a horse and buggy man, but I don't think we will ever make it too electric, way too dirty and useless, pie in the sky on that one, the way of the steam car.

[@cool3865]

japan will have the first mass produced flying car in 2029. it already passed their safety test

[@davids6533]

I wonder if we could have foreseen into the future if it would have changed anything. I would like to think it would have, but most likely not in our favor. I think instead of showing us our mistake, it would have likely sped up the rush into our own demise. What foolish creatures humans can be.

[@anthonybelyea1964]

Wish you would have went electric back in 1900 think how clean our cities would all be👍😎🇨🇦

[@myassizitchy]

yeah but wed miss out on all the awesome muscle cars and drag races. god how much life would suc ass if we didnt have hot rods

[@user-Dr.]

Electric cars are dirtier than our gas cars many times over, research it, if we would get ethanol out of our gas, we could be at zero emission now, but our government won't allow that.

[@spannaspinna]

@@myassizitchy or 3000hp top fuelers

[@samuelanketell8190]

Golden age huh ......? Nope the dawn of the death of the environment .

[@JohnS-il1dr]

By 1970s with regulations we got that under control especially with bi annual smog checks