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1 print (poster) : color. | Motion picture poster for "The daredevil drivers" shows Dick Purcell and Beverly Roberts and a racecar.
Rival bus companies find an unusual go-between in a former auto racer. Cast & Crew. Read More
- I. Introduction
- II. The Staging of Wrecks and Destruction in America's Amusement Culture
- III. The Deliberate Car Crash Show: A Wrecking Milieu
- V. The Deliberate Crash and The Traffic Accident
- Reinforcing The Behavioral Paradigm
- The Safety Paradox: Do(N't) Try This at Home
- VI. Conclusion
The year was 1922. Ward Beam, a small-time event promoter from the town of Celina, Ohio, concocted a new business venture. Beam, whose family also operated a nearby flight school that provided lessons in dangerous aerobatic flying, noted the enthralling power of thrilling displays and decided to establish a roaming troupe of daredevil automobilists...
The very idea of deliberately wrecking material objects to entertain live crowds was not a new one in early twentieth century America. In fact, simulating destruction as a form of public amusement began some four decades before Ward Beam's daredevils started smashing cars. Reenacting notable historical disasters in front of a live audience constitu...
Initially, Ward Beam's auto thrill show performed in local and county venues in the Toledo and Cleveland area. As their act gained gradual recognition outside of Ohio, the group took their act to neighboring Midwest states such as Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. By the late twenties, they appeared in fairs and other public gathering...
If the deliberate crash is principally a mock practice—i.e. a destructive yet largely harmless and controlled wreck—may we conjecture that is it therefore essentially a copy or reproduction of some original? The sparse literature on the pioneering destruction spectacles around the turn of the twentieth century suggests that other than embodying an ...
Traffic accidents have accompanied the automobile since its earliest days. As fatalities amounted to a serious public problem at the close of automobility's first decade, both public and private sectors established safety agencies in an attempt to curb accident rates by scientifically determining their causes and providing appropriate remedies. The...
Unsurprisingly, then, the daredevil car wreckers quickly assumed a pedagogic position on the issue of road safety. An advertisement for Goodyear Tires, endorsed by Lucky Lott, vouched for the wheels' secure asphalt grip by stating “Lucky Lott takes no chances where tires are concerned!”102 Jimmie Lynch's souvenir programs included a text titled ‘My...
This paper set out to illuminate a neglected aspect in the expansive literature on the automobile in America. Tying the birth of the deliberate car crash show to relevant historical contexts provided an explanatory tool to comprehend the sudden turn against this iconic technology in the early 1920s. I showed that the purposive destruction of the ca...
These “rules” set the stage for years of ground-and-pulse-pounding cars powered by bigger and bigger engines and daredevil drivers competing in front of motorsport’s biggest crowds. Years later the names still carry weight: drivers like Dennis Hulme, Bruce McLaren, Dan Gurney, Jackie Stewart, Mark Donohue and George Follmer.
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Jul 28, 2020 · Racecar driver Bill Foster (Dick Purcell) has the talent to collect racing trophies, but his reckless stunts on the track get him banned from the racing association altogether. Hitting the road with his loyal sidekick, mechanic "Stub" Wilson (vaudeville veteran Charley Foy), Bill crashes into a bus owned by Neeley Transport.
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Aug 6, 2019 · Racecar driver Bill Foster (Dick Purcell) has the talent to collect racing trophies, but his reckless stunts on the track get him banned from the racing association altogether. Hitting the road with his loyal sidekick, mechanic “Stub” Wilson (vaudeville veteran Charley Foy), Bill crashes into a bus owned by Neeley Transport.
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