Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 4610 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
CHILDREN'S DRIVING SCHOOL | 1947 | 1947-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 39 secs Subject: Transport Education |
Summary This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of an educational exhibition set up to teach children about road safety. A mock town centre has been built and the children peddle around it in toy cars. |
Description
This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of an educational exhibition set up to teach children about road safety. A mock town centre has been built and the children peddle around it in toy cars.
Title-An unusual type of event at Bradford.
An indoor venue has been built to look like a mini town centre with streets, roads markings, paths, lamp post and buildings. Police men stand around and keep an eye on a group of children who are `driving' around the mock town...
This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and contains footage of an educational exhibition set up to teach children about road safety. A mock town centre has been built and the children peddle around it in toy cars.
Title-An unusual type of event at Bradford.
An indoor venue has been built to look like a mini town centre with streets, roads markings, paths, lamp post and buildings. Police men stand around and keep an eye on a group of children who are `driving' around the mock town in peddle cars.
A sign outside reads `Visit the Road Safety Exhibition Belle Vue Barracks Sept 22nd-27th, Admission Free'.
Title-Road safety instruction for school children by the Bradford City Police.
Inside, a shot from a slight height looks down onto the mini town where a police officer is indicating to the children the correct way to go. A senior officer stands on a platform and talks through a microphone. The police officers stand on the paths, watching and pushing the children when they get stuck; they also keep them `driving' on the correct side. The children `drive' along and wave their arms in the direction that they want to turn.
There are mini traffic lights which change at intervals so that the children have to wait at the junction until they are allowed to move on. Some children stand along the edge of the exhibition watching the children in the cars. There are many shots of the children getting into traffic jams, being pushed along and indicating with their arms. There are some signs on the walls; one of them reads `NEVER rely on the other fellow'.
Title-and yet - outside, this sort of thing still happens.
There are a couple of brief shots from the `Crikey' film, showing cyclists going out in front of cars and vehicles driving dangerously.
Context
A novel way to help prevent children becoming victims of road accidents: have children ride around in toy cars in a miniature town with police comically controlling the traffic!
With thousands being killed in traffic accidents, someone at West Yorkshire Police came up with the inspired road safety idea of having children driving toy cars in a model of a town centre. It is difficult to tell who is having the most fun here: the girls with ponytails driving around the mock streets in their...
A novel way to help prevent children becoming victims of road accidents: have children ride around in toy cars in a miniature town with police comically controlling the traffic!
With thousands being killed in traffic accidents, someone at West Yorkshire Police came up with the inspired road safety idea of having children driving toy cars in a model of a town centre. It is difficult to tell who is having the most fun here: the girls with ponytails driving around the mock streets in their peddle cars, or the police pretending to be themselves and supposedly directing them. With the post-war increase in traffic, and traffic accidents, there was a clear need for campaigns for road safety. These went back to the end of WWI, with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents being formed later in 1941 – the year which still holds the record for the highest numbers of deaths on the roads (thanks to the blackouts). Campaigns aimed at children ran throughout the 1930s and were stepped up in the post-war period with local police forces making their own safety films. This one of the Road Safety Exhibition Belle Vue Barracks in Bradford was filmed by Bradford filmmakers C.H. Wood who also filmed the adult version of the same event for his film Crikey!. This film is available to be licensed for non-commercial creative reuse. For more information please contact yfa@yorksj.ac.uk |