Live and Learn

★★★★★ · Whoops... · Spuzz · 2005-01-31

Seemingly endless(ly entertaining) parade of little kids falling, getting cut, and all sorts of mishaps made possible by our favorite horror monger, Sid Davis! Here he tells the kids, don't pour gas on the fire! Don't run with scissors! Don't walk to close to cliffs! And of course, the bb gun excuse, "You might put out an eye!" Who ARE all of these kids with bad aim? All of the kids suffer the consequences in one way or another (the kid off the cliff is quite funny) and then get bandaged up in the hospital (burned kid looks like the Pope). All of this is VERY odd, featuring ATROCIOUS acting…

★★★★★ · A smorgasbord of danger · GE_Pretzel · 2006-03-28

Sid Davis' 1951 film Live and Learn illustrates several preventable, life-threatening situations in which children frequently find themselves due to their own indiscretion. Most of the accidents depicted are fairly pedestrian, but some are quite sensational. After each accident occurs, the film escorts the viewer to the hopsital and forces them to observe the grave injuries suffered by each child. The interesting patriotic appeal made at the end of the film seems to intimate that the very survival of the United States is at risk should children not heed the admonitions of the narrator and…

★★★★★ · Detroit Public School Favorite! · JayKay49 · 2012-01-17

Unquestionably the film most consistently demanded by us when we were kids! If we were gonna have to sit and watch a health film...this was it! Every single time (and from what I hear - every single class!) screamed to high heaven when Nick goes over the cliff! Same scenario too, every time - it was a ritual!...on went the lights, off went the projector, followed by a bitchin out from the gym teacher; and within a week, we're begging her to show us that film again (and the teacher would say OK, OK, she'd try to get it "from downtown.") What a pigeon. Far as I'm concerned, this was Sid Davis'…

★★★★★ · Running with scissors · barticle · 2012-10-05

This movie proves boys are really dangerous. The only dangerous things girls do is run with scissors. But not out doors.

★★★★ · "Live and Learn"was an excellent 1950's Safety Film · ERD. · 2007-09-26

While a little dated now, this film still was an excellent safety film for youngsters back in the early 1950's. It is well written, filmed, and directed.

★★★★ · Should have been mandatory viewing for everyone! · USABG58 · 2012-01-18

I was born in 1958. Do you know all the crazy, dangerous sh*t we did?!! -Crazy stuff- Surprised we survived. I saw kids fall from tall trees on picket fences, flip over handle bars onto pointed objects, get hit by cars, shot in the head with real arrows, jump off two-story roofs, thrown into the deep-end to learn how to swim etc. Don't know if kids today are as dangerous as we were. Hard to believe the way parents hover over kids.