Crashing the Water Barrier
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In 1966, Kalser admitted that Crashing the Water Barrier was produced by Marathon Petroleum as an advertisement.[3]
Plot
Cast
- Knox Manning as Narrator
- Donald Campbell as Speedboat racer
- Sir Malcolm Campbell as Auto racer (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Narration: Jay Jackson
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- 1956 films
- 1956 short documentary films
- American sports documentary films
- Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
- Warner Bros. short films
- Documentary films about water transport
- Motorboat racing
- Documentary films about Nevada
- Lake Mead
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s American films
- English-language short documentary films