Motion Pictures The Speed Kings from 1913

This was sent to me by my friend Hugh in Montana. It's a funny little nine minute short drama shot in 1913 with racing as the central theme...and of course the driver gets the girl. While it is a silent film, the accompanying music is pitch-perfect to the era.
I hope you enjoy it...All the best-Mark

http://www.archive.org/details/TheSpeedKings_1913

(Sorry I can't seem to embed it, but the link works well)

 

Why wont the volume turn up?

cool video

 

Hmmm...I had to click on the volume slider twice to get it to crank up as well. On my PC, it plays pretty loudly-granted it doesn't go 'all the way to eleven' but it still sounded pretty good...Thanks for watching!!

 

I wonder if that was the first hotrod movie ever made... Gotta love that low-down gut-bucket blue jazz!

 

Is it just me,or does "Papa" look like Bad Bob???

 

Very cool!! Earl Cooper, Terrible Teddy Tetzlaff in that gigantic FIAT and Barney Oldfield! Racing scenes look like they might have been shot at Santa Monica.

 

I love it at 1:25 where papa starts pumpin shennanegans into the engine bay to sabotage the race