# Get Going

An explanation of what happens when a motorist steps on the accelerator. Film begins with a cartoon about a sleepy locomotive 04:29:44:15 VS sleeping locomotive lying on the tracks; wood blank with nails in it appears from a tree and smacks the sleeping train; train conductor steps out of the train and kicks the train in the face and tells it to get going “wasting our time, why don’t you get up and get going”; train conductor throws an alarm clock and the face of the sleepy train, the train is startled and covers its ears cartoon dissolves into a real locomotive starting up, huge cloud of black and white smoke coming out of the front of the train as it pulls out of the station. 04:31:27:15 CU pool cue; disembodied hand lines up pool stick and hits pool ball. 04:31:39:25 CU bullet shell held in disembodied hand; cuts to MS man wearing a suit aiming a hand gun at shooting range target, man fires gun; CU bull’s eye hole in target 04:31:48:10 CU disembodied hand holding a baseball; baseball player wearing a Chicago jersey throws pitch toward camera; CU catcher’s mitt, baseball falls into center of catcher’s mitt, iris out into the ball. 04:31:59:29 CU bowling ball held in a man’s hands; man wearing tie bowls ball, possibly Ned Day; great shot from behind pins as ball rolls down lane, man rolls a strike. 04:32:07:00 CU disembodied hand open book to title page “From Galileo to Cosmic Rays: A New Look at Physics”, portrait of Galileo on page opposite title page; disembodied hand…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1936
- By: Handy (Jam) Organization
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0762_Get_Going_04_29_26_00)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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