“ WHEELS ACROSS INDIA “ 1940 ARMAND DENIS & LEILA ROOSEVELT ASIATIC EXPEDITION DODGE TRUCKS 31564

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white 1940 travelogue film produced and directed by Armand Denis and his wife Leila Roosevelt for the Chrysler Corporation documents their 1939 expedition to Burma (now Myanmar), depicting landmarks and customs with an air of exoticism (TRT 31:48). Titles: “Dodge Division, Chrysler Corporation presents’’ over automobiles driving through rugged off-road terrain. “Wheels Across India’’ (0:10). Title card: “New England. Cows graze. A white colonial style home on a well-manicured estate (0:49). Children play in a nearby pond with a small, handmade, outrigger style boat fitted with a sail. Girls watch from a meadow pan to a pair of leopards (1:28). A group of Dodge T-series trucks loaded with rooftop cargo (2:32). A stenciled car door: “Denis-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition” (2:42). Armand Denis directs workmen in closeup (2:58). Young boys play with leopard