Anyone remember seeing these in your 60's driver's ed class? Oh what fun. This is the kind of stuff that happens when you wreck an old car with no belts, no air bags, no collapseable columns, no bear claws, etc. I recall some kids barfing in the trash cans. As I recall, the violence / gruesome factor is pretty high. Enjoy! Gary http://www.archive.org/details/Signal301959 http://www.archive.org/details/Signal301959_2
We only saw those if we went to traffic school on the west coast. I went with my sister because it was at night in the mission in SF. She had to go because she got a J walking ticket.
my son came home from school one day said they showed one of those movies in driver's ed. there was a very gruesome scene where the driver had been cut in half it was the father of my son's buddy who was also sitting in class that day
Sorry about the 2nd link I posted be a duplicate. I've asked them to "find" the other half of the film. Also, if you hadn't tried it, that main site is a wonderful source for old movies, TV commercials, etc. Have fun there, too. Gary
We actually had something similar shown at our school my senior year (1996). I can't remember the occasion, but it was at what they called a lock-in, where most of the students would be locked in the school overnight and there were games and such. Anyway, they were showing the film and then a teacher ran out of the gym. Seems that whoever put it together had used, without the family's knowledge, footage of a fatal wreck involving that teachers brother. She had never seen any photos or anything of it before. I can't imagine something like that happening to me.
They just showed us some PG-13 goofy ass movies when I took driver's ed about 3 years ago or so. I've already had a former classmate get killed in a car accident, and several others have survived some pretty ridiculous accidents so far. Had they shown something more graphic, and real, like this-maybe people would think twice.
Same example here. The State of Michigan produced a traffic safety shock video in the late 1990's. Our class was the first one's to view it. It came with the usual explicit warnings and such and we were told that we could leave the room if we didn't want to view it. I stayed. My girlfriend at the time was in the same drivers ed class as me. Her brother died three years earlier in a motorcycle accident. He was the third clip in the movie. The teacher paused on the scene where it shows Jason's body and said to the class, "Motorcycle riders are idiots and 90% of them end up this way, they almost deserve it." Well, needless to say, it only took about 30 minutes before my girlfriends dad was at the school, in the classroom, bitching out the teacher in front of the class. The teacher had to personally apologize to my girlfriend and she was also suspended from teaching the class for the rest of the year. The thing is, now the families have to consent to the footage of their loved ones being in the movies. My girlfriends family was told that they were not going to show footage of the body, just of the scene and it was for a rescue training video. I know there was a lawsuit that followed, but I don't know how it ended.
These films were made at then end of the post WWII boom, when most of the kids hadn't been exposed to a lot of violence on TV or in the movies. Then came Vietnam and the slasher movies we have now. But back then they were pretty strong stuff. Gary
Oh yea...remember something like that. We didnt have Drivers Ed in 68, they drug all the seniors to the auditorium just before prom and graduation and showed it to us
Here's another cool short film about hot rodding from what looks like 53-54 in two parts. http://www.archive.org/details/CoolHotRodA http://www.archive.org/details/CoolHotRodB
They should be showing movies of kids with guns shooting each other. Maybe that will help them think about picking up a gun. Its sad to see and hear of so many kids dieing from guns...OT i know done venting.
I saw it back in the early 60's. I was invited to attend the second dummy drivers school held in Pennsylvania. Hell of it is I didn't even have a car, they caught me on the motorcycle.
I VIVIDLY remember seeing those films when I was in the fifth grade! No fooling. Our school only went to the sixth grade (1971/72) and I can recall great details of the surroundings when they were shown. It made a lasting impression and I think of them often. Don't know that it did me any good, but it sure did burn a spot in my memory.
my buddy in high school had a Dad who was in some sort of law inforcement... US Marshall?? something like that. he used to get these magazines showing the aftermath of car crashes with plenty of black and white photos. people with no heads, blood everywhere. pretty gruesome stuff. seems like my buddy always had a couple copies in his room. now that I'm an old fart I can see why he gave them to his son, but it didn't do a damn bit of good since as we all know, that sort of thing only happens to other people and we both drove like idiots and thought nothing of it
I took drivers Ed in 2000 at school. The autobody teacher was also the drivers ed teacher. He was into cars also. Remember watching this movie and seeing the killer '58. we rewound it and watched that part several times. Good times!
Unfortunately the bravado kicks in then, the "it can't happen to me" mode. And it can. The worse one I saw was the aftermath of a bar bet. Sixty or so mile round trip in 45 minutes was the attempt. He lost control, hit a parked car and slid between two trees. A friend was on the local fire department and called me early the next day telling me about it. Car was split in three pieces, engine, front half, rear half. Years later I was a firefighter/EMT out west. Some pretty nasty stuff. Best one (everyone survived) was off a freeway, taking down 150 feet of ten foot tall chain link fence, crossing a two lane frontage road and taking down one half of a highway billboard advertising a motel. Split that car in two, all three clowns were drunk and wandering around the field denying they were in the car. Only ones around, and the car was registered to one of the "attendees". Cop cuffed the driver/owner, the two honeys with him took off running. We got a call on her later that night, her "friends" dropped her at the hospital ER door when she was gasping for air. Pneumothorax was the diagnosis and a fast ground ambulance trip to a major trauma center 80 miles away. My first run as a registered EMT.
Wow. All we watched in HS was the driver's ed cartoon with Goofy and it was shut off cause no one was paying attention. There was a book put out by Taschen called Car Crashes And Other Sad Stories that is similar to the old films.
A bump, but I still stand corrected. One of the guys I graduated (and now work with at the parts store) literally wrapped a Honda CRX around a telephone pole. Car was stuck five feet up the pole, 8 inches wide in the narrowest spot, front and back wheels touching each other. He was doing 85-100 in a rain storm. He survived because he didn't bolt his seats to the floor and was ejected out the rear hatch like James Bond on impact. I shit you not. Broke his arm and cut his head. This film should still be shown.
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