Product Details

• Actors: Murray D. Van Waggoner
• Producers: General Tire and Rubber Company, Jam Handy, General Motors Photographic, The National Commission on Safety Education
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Quality Information Publishers, Inc.
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: B000ITSIJS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,590 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Historic auto industry films promoting driver safety through education, and by buying new cars and tires too. These films try to scare the general public into buying a particular product. Watch the beginning of consumer fear auto advertising in all its glory. Driving Ads Films Table of Contents: (1) Chance You Take is a well produced 1960s promotional video from General Tire that harps on the dangers of poor quality automobile tires. Length: 00:08:20 (2) Knights on the Highway (1938) - Knights on the Highway is a vintage driving safety film produced by the always entertaining Jam Handy Organization. This video teaches the importance of safety while operating a vehicle at night by using the principles taken by the most practiced of all night drivers, cross country truckers. Length: 00:09:28 (3) Safest Place, The (1935) - Outrageous Chevrolet propaganda film that tries to prove that being in automobile is "the safest place." Length: 00:06:20 (4) Wreckless (1935) - Chevy sponsored film promoting new car designs and there improved safety for passengers. Length: 00:18:00 (5) Your Permit To Drive (1951) - Odd General Motors photographic driver education film. This silly film is narrated by a talking driver's license. Length: 00:09:12 (6) How To Avoid An Accident - General Tires film about new high quality tires that contains some interesting footage of car crashes. Length: 00:09:10