Sky Billboards -- Gotta Name For You

Is it swing that rocks? Is it rock 'n' roll that swings? You decide! But Tedd did play in the swing band "the Professors" lo many moons ago when gas was 50 cents a gallon and computers were massive things that did all you can do today with a cheap calculator.

The footage is from a Jam Handy promotional film "Sky Billboards", from the 1930s, and is in remarkably good shape for what it is! It was actually a 'commercial' for Chevrolet, but the actual sky writing bits I took out because they were really kind of weird.

("Blue Flame"? "Knee Control"? In giant letters across the sky. Weird.)

You can get the entire film off of the internetarchive.org, natch.

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COOL!! Love the close ups of the smoke.