https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d4286a69-723f-4771-8168-6b54842ab623 Part of Leslie Winik's "Sportbeams" series of short films, SPEEDWAY opens with images of the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, with open-wheeled cars racing down city streets. At 1:00, the XI Grand Prix of Tripoli is shown. This is the 1934 running of the race, which originated in 1925 and lasted up until 1940 and the start of WWII in Libya. At 1:48, the Continental Grand Prix is shown, with pit crews hard at work at the 2:14 mark. At 2;46, a car is seen wiping out on the track, while at 3:00 the winner speeds to glory. At 3:16, England's Donington Park race is seen near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. At 3:45, an American dirt track race series is seen, with daredevil drivers tearing around the track at 100 mph. The checkered flag is seen at 4:35. At 5:11, the Great American Soap Box Derby is shown at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.At 6:10, the Utah Salt Flats are shown with a car being driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell. In September 1935, this car the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, broke the 300 mph barrier by a bare mile-per-hour, that being 484,955 km, crowning Sir Malcolm Campbell's record-breaking career. At 7:04, John Cobb is seen smashing the record. Driving the piston-engined, wheel-driven Railton Special on 23 August 1939, he achieved a mark of 367.91 mph (592.09 km/h). At 7:16, the Indianapolis 500 is shown. A montage at 8:40, shows a series of horrific accidents at Indy, and that's how the film ends. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtNJ1g5JK8 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:28:57 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d4286a69-723f-4771-8168-6b54842ab623 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.