“ACCIDENT BEHAVIOR“ 1951 DRIVER’S EDUCATION WHAT TO DO AFTER AN AUTO ACCIDENT FILM 66814

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black & white educational film, produced by Progressive Pictures, is entitled “Accident Behavior“. It describes what to do in the event of a car accident, how best to assist the injured, how to prevent post-accident fires, and how to deal with other consequences of an emergency. Copyright 1951. Title: “Accident Behavior“ (:08-:34). Narrator: 1 out of 4 people will be involved in an automobile accident in the next five years, 3 men standing, 1 in a stretcher. Still pictures of car accidents. A staged accident, a man gets out of 1 car and goes over to the other car and puts a compress onto the man’s neck cut. A fire burns near a car. A car burns out of control. A cigarette is picked up off the floor of a car. A man puts it out on the ground. A man lights a flare, a boy takes another flare. A man walks down the road with a flare. A map shows where to put flares, 400 feet from the accident in both directions. A man exits a car and approaches the accident scene. A map shows two cars lighting up an accident scene at night (:35-3:51). A man flags down another car and explains what is happening in the accident. Speedometer close up. A car drives to a service station, a man exits and tells a worker what is going on. Speedometer close up. Accident scene - a man sends another car to get help. A man sits in the passenger seat holding his head, a man places a blanket on him (3:52-5:41). Two cars in an accident. Two men walk towards an injured man on the ground as a third stands over him. All three men carefully move the man off the road and onto the grass, where they lay him onto newspapers. One man places a blanket onto him (5:42-6:49). Two medics carry a stretcher out of an ambulance and approach the injured man. They place him on it and load him into the back of the ambulance. A tow truck puts a car on the tow. Two men discuss. A booklet: what to do in case of an accident. The booklet is leafed through (6:50-8:59). Men jot notes down. A police officer speaks to a driver in an wrecked car. What should be written down in an accident: the license plate number of the car, make/year/model of the cars, damage to the car, name/address of the driver, owners name if other than driver, driver license number. Get names and address of witnesses, a man points as he explains (9:00-11:03). Hands write down information on a pad, move the wrist. A man looks at the road. Sketch of accident location. Injured person lays on grass as person jots down info near them. A man talks to an ambulance employee. A man speaks to a police officer and writes on a pad. Two men confer near the wrecked cars. A man photographs the accident (11:04-12:52). A man talks to a police officer at the police station. A man fills out a form. Title card: Property Damage Accident Financial Responsibility Report. Two men look over the cars at an accident scene (12:53-14:09). A man places a compress on an injured bleeding man’s neck. A car is on fire. Three men carefully move an injured man. A man waves a flare at an approaching car. A man asks a car to send police near an accident. A man jots down on a pad. Diagram of accident. Man talks to a police officer. A financial form being filled out. Pictures of wrecked cars from accidents (14:10-15:51). End credits (15:52-15:59). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit