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"THERE ARE FOUR CARS THE DRIVER MUST KEEP IN MIND AT ALL TIMES: THE CAR AHEAD, THE CAR BEHIND, THE CAR AROUND THE CORNER, & THE CAR HE IS DRIVING. IF HE DRIVES SAFELY IN RELATION TO THESE CARS, HE WILL BE A SAFE DRIVER."
Beginning with aerial shots and shots from the ground of biplanes flying in formation, this film lectures about automobile driving safety. Putting the viewer in the driver's seat, it cautions against several likely-to-occur scenarios, reminding the driver to keep in mind the aerial view of the car formations around him. The same scenario seen from the drivers point of view is re-played with animations using model cars and shown from above.
Three biplanes fly in a line
Bi-plane flight formation flying
Aerial shot of country landscape, a diagonal road cutting across the grid pattern
Aerial shot of a busy road, pedestrians crossing the road
A white Chevrolet, parked by a brick building, the driver's seat door opens independently
A driver hand signalling out the window
Shot driving down the street as if the viewer is the driver
Animation sequences from above of car maneuvers
From driver's seat, approaching a man reading the paper on the corner in front of a drug store, man waves, framed by the passenger window
Four cars driving closely together down a two-lane road
HEALTH AND SAFETY TRANSPORTATION ADVERTISING DRIVERS FORMATIONS ACCIDENTS Chevrolet Motor Company (sponsors) Automobiles Airplanes Driving shots Automobiles (driving) Safety Automobiles (safety) Formations Airplanes (stunt flying) Airplanes (biplanes) Aerials Air-to-air shots Aircraft (biplanes)
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- Addeddate
- 2002-07-16 00:00:00
- Ccnum
- asr
- Closed captioning
- no
- Collectionid
- 07839
- Color
- B&W
- Country
- United States
- Identifier
- Formatio1936
- Numeric_id
- 434
- Proddate
- 1936
- Run time
- 8:42
- Sound
- Sd
- Type
- MovingImage
- Whisper_asr_module_version
- 20230731.02
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Reviews
Subject: Cars Are Like Airplanes
The other gimmick is the usual Jam Handy narrator invites an off-screen voice to drive a lovely 1936 Chevrolet Sport Sedan. Mr. Droning Voice is careless (it doesn't help that some moron is double-parked), so a bunch of really obvious lessons are spat at him by Mr. Narrator. He's helped by, as we carry on the airplane analogy, animation of an overhead view of what the driver did wrong.
"A fellow slips once in a while," grumbles Mr. Voice. "We're not allowed slips in this business," hectors the narrator.
Even though Chevrolet was the lowest price GM car, their designs were very attractive during the Depression and a parade of them at 8:13 ends the short.
Subject: Rather generic, but still timely
Subject: Let's see an aerial view...