Description: Driving safety film made by Progressive Pictures in the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area and possibly elsewhere. "Shows how certain habits develop into death traps, the effects of fatigue and how it develops, how our eating habits cause accidents, and the folly of driving when angry or under emotional stress" (Educational Film/Video Locator, 3rd Edition).

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Subjects: 1950s, Automobiles, Safety, Car culture

Tags: crowded freeways; driving; social guidance; automobility; wrecks; car accidents; collisions; driving POVs; highways; accident investigation; drivers arguing with one another and policeman; police officers; foot pressing pedals; traffic jams; speed limit signs; man eating breakfast; nutrition; sleep; emotions; road rage; man honking horn; parallel parking; fatigue; CU tired driver falling asleep; sleeping at the wheel; hallucinations; homunculus; stop signs; Plymouth; hazards; danger; car bursting into flames; car radios; the end title; animated driver responding to cues; hands on steering wheel; foot on brake pedal; 15th Street street sign; Signals Set for 28 M.P.H. sign; POV passing cars on two-lane highway

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Progressive Pictures, Ray Bainbridge

Credits: Produced by Progressive Pictures, Oakland, California. Director: Ray Bainbridge.

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1957

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Oakland, California

Genre/Form: educational

Language: eng

Rights: No copyright notice on film. No copyright registration shown.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: optical

Edge Code: circle triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 375