On the Run (1956)

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About well-behaved teenagers who compete in the Mobilgas Economy Run. Excellent teens dancing in San Francisco malt shop.

This film, narrated by a teen-age girl, is an account of how she got her high school involved in the “Safety Economy Run” of the California AAA (supervised by Ray Burton in San Francisco).
Because of one bully who skids the tires of his hot rod outside the school the neighbors have been complaining, the school had threatened to close the student parking lot, and her father was no longer allowing her to go out. Through her investigation into the “Safety Economy Run”,
four schools in the San Francisco Area become involved in a competition of safe driving and gasoline conservation which receives positive press coverage and improves the reputation of teen-age drivers. The selected course of the competition allows many scenic shots of San Francisco to be included. on-the-run-1956