Walking to School

★★★★★ · Tuckered Out By The Time They Get There! · JayKay49 · 2012-01-21

Judging from the types of neighbothoods, different business districts, mountains, then no mountains, then a dead end street sans sidewalk, then another business district, it looks like these kids live in Beverly Hills and walk all the way to school in...El Monte? And only to find that school was apparently closed that day as evidenced by a change in sun shadow angle of a mere 2 degrees between the time they started that arduous walk down the block(replete with a typical Sid Davis pervert trying to lure them into a 61 chevy) and the time they come back down the street on the way home! Kids in…

★★★★ · Where's the Books & Backpacks?!!! · JSBejma · 2015-01-11

In those days you almost never had homework until high school (except as mentioned below parochial school kids, maybe). On rare occasions a slow kid may have had to take a reader home. A "school bag" (a rectangular usually leather satchel) was taken to school on the first day, loaded with school supplies, and that thing sat under your desk until the last day of school. Kids carried a lunch pail if anything - that's if they had to eat lunch in school. (I generally refused. I was not gonna eat with a room full of kids that I watched picking their noses all day). After school was for watching TV…

★★★ · marching to school · Scott Bot · 2004-09-01

A relatively tame little film on the proper safety rules for walking to school. Since it's a Sid Davis film, I was expecting to see one of the kids dart out in traffic, followed by a shot of the other kid looking on in horror at the (unseen) shot of their sibling getting nailed by a Buick. The kids walk in perfect step, facing forward with no expressions on their face. I've seen less precise marching in the military.

★★★ · Way too innocent for today! · Buslady · 2008-03-19

Oh very entertaining. How so innocent. Kids marching perfectly. Brother & Sis HOLD HANDS? Where's the have backpacks? And "don't accept rides from anyone without your parents permission because the driver might not be very good?" HAH! Were they so innocent in those days that they could not say that it's unsafe cos the person might kidnap them? Best part, the Crown bus.

★★ · All alone? · jafran · 2005-09-13

From the route these children had to take, there were too many dangerous factors to let them go alone. Also, what happened to their school books?