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The Hard chargers
- Title
- The Hard chargers [motion picture] / Time-Life Films ; produced by Tom Johnson.
- Publication
- New York : Time-Life, 1971.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4450 H C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4450 H | Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video |
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- Description
- 1 film reel (52 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- "Stock-car racing is more than a sport in the South, it is a folkway deeply woven into the fabric of Southern culture." This look at the high-speed vocation visits the raceways at Darlington, Bristol, Charlotte and Rockingham and follows the fortunes of race-car greats Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough and Pete Hamilton. Richard Petty, son of racing giant Lee Petty, is the focal point of a cottage industry involving his brother Maurice and a phalanx of technicians who fine tune a bevy of automobile engines. Hailing from Massachusetts, Pete Hamilton ("The Yankee Bandit") is the newest member of the Petty "clan" and as a northerner, an anomaly in the world of stock-car competition. Cale Yarborough, who boasts the fastest pit crew in racing, is a sportsman on Sunday and the overseer of numerous business enterprises the rest of the week. Along with the racing superstars and their Detroit corporate sponsors, the stock-car racing scene is also composed of less celebrated drivers called "independents," who discuss their hardscrabble nomadic lifestyles. Also seen are the die-hard fans who arrive via trailer and jalopy to cheer on their favorite drivers.
- Series Statement
- (Life)
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Director, Lance Bird; writer, Tom Johnson; photography, Jerry Galyean; editor, Luke Bennett; music, White Lightnin'.
- Title
- The Hard chargers [motion picture] / Time-Life Films ; produced by Tom Johnson.
- Imprint
- New York : Time-Life, 1971.
- Series
- (Life)
- Credits
- Director, Lance Bird; writer, Tom Johnson; photography, Jerry Galyean; editor, Luke Bennett; music, White Lightnin'.
- Performer
- William Conrad.
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- Added Author
- Bird, Lance.Time-Life Films.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4450 H