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Singing Wheels (1937)

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Singing Wheels (1937)
Sponsor: Motor Truck Committee, Automobile Manufacturers Association. Production Co.: Wilding Picture Productions. Director: H.L. Roberts. Writers: Morgan Gibney, James Prindle. Camera: Orlando Lippert, George Hoover. Music: Edwin E. Ludig, Maurice H. Stoller. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 23 minutes.

Celebration of the American trucking industry, with poetic narration and a theme song sung by a truck driver. The economic and social significance of trucking is suggested through striking montage sequences and scenes of New York City traffic.

Note: Filmed in 35mm, distributed in 16mm.

Resources
Educational Film Catalog (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1940–41), 106; General Motors Film Catalog, (Detroit, MI: General Motors Corp., 1943), 33.