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Poster for Safe Roads (1935)

Safe Roads (1935)

1935 · Ephemeral film · 7 min

  • Documentary

Synopsis

A production by Chevrolet from 1935 on safety around trains

Synopsis from TMDb

Details

Studio
Jam Handy Organization (JHO)
Released
1935-01-01
Running time
7 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
0142_Safe_Roads_M00364_09_00_48_10

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · All aboard to Dementialand! · Spuzz · 2017-07-12

Preposterous short begins with a fine and romantic tribute to trains, with many forgotten train lines shown in perspective. Then it all ends in a train wreck (literally) when two toy trains collide. "Aw, look what you did" a little boy says to his Dad. "Actually, you caused that yourself" says Grandpa, "You'll never be an engineer!" (Grandpa sure is harsh). Grandpa then says to the Dad that he should be an Engineer too. Dad says "An Engineer like you Grandpa?" It then dawned on me that Dad is actually SUPPOSED to be a younger man who can drive, but LOOKS to be the young tyke's dad. Quite a…

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