These are the films everyone used to talk about. The best and largest historic DUI Shock Drivers Educations films collection period. These films used to be shown in schools all across America to scare young drivers from drinking and driving. These films marked the beginnings of the American no drinking and driving campaign, which evolved into more recognizable campaigns, such as, its ok to party but have a Designated Driver and currently running, Drink Responsibly commercial ad campaign. These films started it all!

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Bottle And The Throttle

Length: 10 Minutes | Produced:1961

Sid Davis The Bottle and the Throttle is a classic scare tactics video about the dangers of drunk driving and alcohol abuse. A teenager, Bill, has a few beers at a party and decides thats he is well enough to drive. The narrator, using drunk driving statistics from the National Safety Council and the American Medical Association, explains that the popular notion that you have to be drunk to be impaired is a myth. One of the many disturbing stories of drunk driving follows: Bill hits a mother and child, killing the child and paralyzing the mother. Drunk driving car accidents is one of the main consequences of impaired driving. Because of one bad decision, Bill has ended one life and ruined two others, the mothers and his own. This film also includes scenes from actual drunk driving clips as well as dramatizations of how police test drivers for alcohol impairment and facts about alcohol. Dont be one of the countless drunk driving victims! Prevent drunk driving with this classic video.

Few Too Many

Length: 10 Minutes | Produced:1950s

Tom used to play tennis, go bowling, and was an avid hunter. But Tom will never do any of those activities again because he has lost his leg in a car accident. Worst of all, his friend and passenger, Jim, is still in the operating room in the hospital. Tom has always been a cocky driver; and he had never been in any accidents before. When coming home from hunting trips exhausted and sleepy, or driving under the influence, Tom has always managed to escape without incident. Until now. Few Too Many is a classic dangers of drunk driving video that seeks to prevent drunk driving. Many people are affected by alcohol at as little as 0.05% blood alcohol concentration and all are affected at 0.1% BAC. Drunk driving statistics punctuate the often penetrating footage of horrible drunk driving accidents. Toms story is not unique, and discussion of why teenagers drunk drive is an important part of the film. Some interesting cultural perspectives are illuminated, such as how alcohol abuse was thought of completely differently in the mid 20th century. At the time of this film, the idea of drinking was strongly tied together with the common idea of a man in America. Men were expected to hunt, bowl, and play sports - while drinking. So instead of changing this strongly held idea, Few Too Many seeks to lessen the danger: less drinking (not abstaining), safer driving and good judgment.

Its Wanton Murder

Length: 9 Minutes | Produced:1940s

Lowell Thomas narrates Its Wanton Murder with his famous sonorous voice about the dangers of driving. Echoing more popular notions during World War 2, Thomas immediately points out that death does not exist in war alone. Casualties from bad car accidents each year far outnumber the amount of people who died in World War II, the safety video tells us. To best exemplify this statistic, Thomas reads a letter from an army wife who describes worrying about her husband overseas, only to have him returned without injury, but be killed months later by another driver. Featuring high production values and searing dramatic scenes (especially for a highway safety video), Its Wanton Murder is a touchstone safety film. Unusual for the time, brutal footage of actual car accident carnage is included. But the overall message remains uplifting, as prevention, carefulness, and safety are paramount to living a healthy and happy life. These vintage car accident videos in Its Wanton Murder could scare anyone into traffic safety training!

None For The Road

Length: 14 Minutes | Produced:1957

None for the Road is a drinking and driving educational film that kicks off by showing tests done on inebriated lab rats in order to prove that alcohol impairs the rats ability to perform certain motor skills. The same effects, the film claims, can be observed in humans who are under the influence. The film switches to the story of three friends at a party, each with a different approach to alcohol. One doesnt drink at all, one drinks a moderate amount, and one absolutely binges. After the non-drinker discovers an accident while driving home, he fears for the life of his binge-drinking friend, only to find out from the cops that hed been picked up already for weaving down the road. His relief turns to horror, though, when he finds out that it was his moderately drunk friend, Keith, who was in the accident instead. This film includes great footage of teenagers driving Aetna Drive-O-Trainers. Drunk driving arrests and drunk driving fatal accidents are a persistent problem today, and its fascinating to see how this problem existed and was perceived in the 1950s. The effects of alcohol havent changed, but Americans perception of it has. Here the effects of alcohol are separate from the larger issues of alcoholism and substance abuse in general.

Last Date

Length: 18 Minutes | Produced:1949

Last Date is an Award-winning safety film with a tremendous lead actor, the Broadway star Dick York. Jeanne, a popular and pretty girl, has a crush on lead-foot Nick (York). While driving to a party, Jeanne and Nick listen to the radio, which forewarns about teenicide - the fine art of killing yourself and maybe someone else, before youre twenty with a car. Throwing caution to the wind, Nick speeds out of control and crashes, leaving Jeanne disfigured. Thanks to sharp direction from Lewis Collins, Last Date is an absolute stand out film. Campy, weird, and full of demonizing the fast and bad young hotrodding men. Dick York is especially fun as the ultra bad boy who would be the hero in todays films. Teen car accidents and reckless driving have been around a long time, and Last Date brings to life brings safe driving tips into a clear focus for viewers today.

Signal 30

Length: 27 Minutes | Produced:1959

This is not a Hollywood production as can be readily seen. Thus begins one of the most infamous and shocking safety films ever made. Featuring graphic footage of real fatal car accidents, Signal 30 is the notoriously horrific gore-fest that was shown to unsuspecting high schoolers and drivers ed students for decades to inform them about teen car accidents. Presented by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the film promotes automobile safety and safe driving by documenting the carnage of car road traffic accidents. Using sick graphic video clips as scare tactics, the extremely upsetting nature of this film urges drivers to be responsible, as explained by a deadpan and creepy narrator. Most often the victims who are shown are dead or horribly injured, and almost any viewer is scared straight. Signal 30 is a historically significant video that has often been imitated in popular culture. Of all the drivers ed videos, this film is the real thing; and it lives up to its reputation for making a stomach turn.

Anyone At All

Length: 21 Minutes | Produced:1940s

Anyone At All! is a fantastic scary safety film from the 1940s. After getting through some car accident statistics, the film really gets going. A bunch of teenagers are having a surprise party for their beloved friend Larry. But as the kids keep waiting and waiting (while demonstrating reckless behavior!), Larry never shows because hes been in a fatal car accident. Larrys friends go on a crusade for teen driving accidents safety, responsible driving, and general goodness. Included are great scenes of post World War II American goody goodies working for the school paper and organizing cheesy parades, all in the name of stopping bad car accidents. But the film takes a turn after this, forgetting Larrys positive friends and their activities, and going more with scare tactics. Next the movie focuses on people whove become handicapped from car accident injury. People in wheelchairs, people who have been blinded, all are present and absolutely ranting about the dangers of automobiles and auto safety. After the community pulls together for driving safety and to prevent road traffic accidents, Anyone At All! closes with the words of the unfortunately injured, culminating in a haunting view of a shadowy, empty wheelchair. Anyone At All! is the perfect vintage safety film, with goofy fun thanks to dated behavior, plus a strong and still currently relevant message about auto safety and safe driving tips.

Partys Over

Length: 9 Minutes | Produced:1970s

Partys Over is a fun melodramatic fright video about the importance of seat belts, made in the 1970s. When a group of friends get together for a wild party, everyone is having a good time and not worrying about boring things like safety. The more important topics at hand are 1970s fashion. One hipster flips on the television to see a commercial, which equates telling someone to buckle up with saying, I love you. The stylish party goers laugh this goofiness off. Over the groovy seventies music, everyone begins explaining why they dont wear seatbelts. Some just dont think anything bad is going to happen. But this carefree attitude gets dampened when two of the guests are late in arriving... .When word gets around that they were killed in a bad car accident, the party goers begin to understand why everyone should wear seatbelts. Partys Over is one of those hokey safety films that is just too much fun. Its much easier to listen to classic lines about seat belt safety and the importance of wearing a seat belt while also learning what to wear to a 70s party. Seatbelt use has never been more entertaining.