Who here remembers those bloody, gory driver's ed films?

[TheMightyFavog]

I they showed us a couple, one was a compilation of people who were killed and/or seriously injured in car accidents. I remember a number of people walked out and headed straight for the can to toss their cookies, It freaked a lot of us out. The second one was a really bad one from the late 70s. Half the class was giving the film the old MST3K treatment.

[bluestateguy]

1. "Red Asphalt"

The best educational movies were made in the 70's. "Schoolhouse Rock" and my personal favorite was the movie made my the Mormons "Cipher in the Snow".

[SheilaT]

2. I remember them.

I took that course in 1963 and we saw three or four graphic films. Certainly made me reconsider driving for a while. Of course, that was in an era when there simply were no seat belts in any cars (except maybe Volvos, and there weren't too many of them around) so a high percentage of accidents involved serious injury.

Remember before safety glass? The terrible facial cuts people would get?

[hlthe2b]

3. I remember a really gory, really "sick" fire safety film that

had me terrified to go to sleep for weeks! I'd dearly lover to know what they were thinking.(?)

By contrast the driver's ed gore, didn't seem to phase me, although I was at least five years older at the time. They didn't seem real, even despite the blood and guts splattered on the road.

[richmwill]

7. Oh Man

I saw a fire-safety PSA commercial on TV one early-Saturday morning (like 5am), I was 11 years old and it scared the BEJEEZUS out of me. A lady held an 8X10 photo of a nice-looking young woman's close-up face up over her face, saying something like "This is me when I was 20 years old". She pulls the photo down to reveal her BADLY burned and disfigured face, and says "This is me now, after I was burned in a fire". (The words quoted are not exactly right, it was 18 years ago, going off of my memory). Man- that traumatized me for YEARS. See? Even now, approx. 18 years later, I still remember it.

And I never had the pleasure of seeing any gory driver's ed videos. Mine were actually hilarious- I remember one, it had to be from the early 60's, hosted by this 85-year old geezer, it was him driving down roads and highways telling us how to be safe drivers. What almost broke me up in hysterical laughter was someone passed him and he sneered, in his 85-yr-old voice "Here's some young fella driving his sports car..." like he wanted to freaking kill that "young punk".

[Salviati]

4. Hi! I'm Troy McClure...

...you may remember me from such driver's ed films as "Alice's Adventures through the Windshield Glass" and "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot".

[Paragon]

5. Homer: "It's funny 'cause I don't know him."

:7

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Here's an appealing fellow....

in fact they're a-peeling him off the sidewalk!


That episode was a classic!

In fact I think someone used that line when we were watching that DE flick. We got away with it because we had a really young sub that day, and he was playing along with us, making fun of the film.

[thebaghwan]

8. Yeah! I remember those gory flicks. This was back in 1963. I think they

called them something like Signal 70 movies. I think that was the police code for a fatal accident in the state where this was filmed. All kinds of good gore. I thought the one with the guy who had the back of his head impaled on a metal step on a utility pole so he was just hanging there was the best. Lots of gore to get you ready for Nam.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. It was called Signal 30

http://imdb.com/title/tt0260369/

Filmed in Ohio.

[texas1928]

9. I remember in my driver's ed. class

The Films all were made in Ohio, I always thought dang those people in Ohio do not know how to drive. They always had an Ohio state trooper explaining the wreck before they showed the footage.

[skrunch]

11. You can actually get a DVD of some of them

Here's a review:

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=3660

[TheMightyFavog]

13. Holy Shit....

Back during the 60s the legal limit in some states was 1.5? :wow:

[EstimatedProphet]

12. The ones I got were bizarro anti-drug films

especially against alcohol. Stuff that dwelled on alcohol addiction and how it leads to hallucinations, brain damage, death. I got these in 2nd grade too-just a little young. I was afraid to drink for a long time. However, it has worn off now...

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Maybe you'd like to relive those memories...

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=1905

[EstimatedProphet]

22. OMG these are funny!

I'm gonna have to get this one!

[KT2000]

15. Yeah! Bring em back too!

Those films terrified me and made me a cautious driver when I started out.
Now - there is nothing more frightening than looking in the rear view mirror and seeing a high school driver. No fear - aggressive driving, like passing when there is on-coming traffic. They seem to not be aware of the possible horrors in those movies.

Show them to the old people too. Saw an elderly woman driving while she was talking on the cell phone (quite engaged while she was driving well below the speed limit while the cars piled up b3ehind her).

[KG]

16. had a kid in my class faint during one of those movies.

we all thought it was pretty funny at the time.

[nightperson]

17. Maybe this story was covered here a lot when it came out,

but what is up with over 43,000 traffic deaths each year in America :nuke: :shrug: :nuke: ? By comparison, there were "only" around 50,000 American deaths in the entire Vietnam War. Is life cheap here these days or what, and is public transportation still looking like an underused good idea to say the least? 43,000 deaths a year? Year in year out? Not to be too flip, but has anyone used the phrase "America's SUVietnam" ? Lastly, anyone notice the notorious "gateway drug" 40% of the deaths are related to? Will Ashcroft investigate? Maybe I'm just out of it :crazy: :silly: :freak: but I thought this story provided an interesting snapshot of the modern U.S.. :shrug: :wtf: :shrug:

[Skittles]

18. ya

I remember . . . er . . . :puke:

[LynneSin]

19. We saw them all the time in Driver's Ed class

:eyes:

[Malikshah]

20. There's an archive of these films

I don't have the web-address, but google Prelinger and/or Mental Hygiene films.

I got a book by Ken Smith that outlines all of the films

Dating Dos and Donts
How to be Popular
Boys Beware!
Body Changes, etc.

It's great stuff-- films date from 1945-1970

[Love Bug]

21. "Mechanized Death"

Saw that one 30 years ago in boot camp. The scene I'll never forget is when the trooper pulled a dead baby out of a car. :-(

[supernova]

23. Do I remember?

:puke:

I remember one in particular about a bunch of kids going to the prom. Sandy was wearing her lovely baby blue dress. Sandy and her friends were drinking and driving. Sandy and her friends hit a tree.

Today Sandy is wearing her Baby Blue Dress. Cut to shot of Sandy laying in her casket!!?! Next see Sandy being laid to rest in her grave.

:scared: That movie haunted me until my early 30s! :scared:

edit: I'm surprised you all remember the titles of these things. :crazy:

edit#2: "Sandy" was doubly troubling for me. My brother who is 10 years older than me did have a girlfriend named Sandy in high school.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Oh, yeah, I remember those...

Why did you have to bring this topic up so close to lunchtime? :-(

We saw them in ninth grade. About half the class thought they were "cool" in a gross-out type of way and the other half watched with their hands over their eyes.

[RobinA]

25. Stills

We didn't see movies, the teacher passed around some black & white stills. I remember one like it was yesterday. Disgusting car wreck with car parts all over the road and blood pools everywhere. There was a woman in the wreckage in an upright position. She had on a long plaid skirt, frilly white blouse and a black velvet blazer. All dressed up to go out. Nice figure. All very much put together and neat, no blood. Her head was half way across the street in the foreground of the picture lying on the road. The moral of the story for me? Never, never, never wear my long plaid skirt and my black blazer again.

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. Driver's Ed Films are obsolete these days

With rotten.com and the ilk. I remember seeing one in Driver's ed. And just like on the Simpsons, it spliced poorly acted vignettes with real footage of gore. Pretty nasty stuff.

[bearfan454]

27. They showed us those films. One I particularly remember was

called Mechanized Death. It was gross.

[underpants]

28. I learned one important thing:DON'T DRIVE IN OHIO!!!!

All the ones we were shown were from the Ohio state troopers.

Remember the one with the 1" pipes that came through the cab of the 1950's truck? Ooooooooh that was totally gross!

[Beware the Beast Man]

29. It's funny,

I live in Ohio, and I hear of way less traffic fatalities than when I lived in Pennsylvania.

[underpants]

30. The East Coast driving/Star Trek connection

NJ drivers are like the Klingons-you know for sure they are evil and out to destroy everyone around them.

NY drivers are like the Romulans-you are never really sure if they might be on your side in a certain situation or just out to set you up and take you out.

PA drivers are the Borg-a collective sent out to raise havoc and cause destruction at least until you come into the fold and follow their ways.

Trust me I know. I grew up near Williamsburg Va. and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone from at least one of those states any time of the year.

[TheMightyFavog]

31. Then who are Illinois Drivers? The Xindi perhaps?

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