DICK VAN DYKE "BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE" DRIVER'S ED FILM w/ UCLA CAR CRASH TEST FOOTAGE 99064
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This color educational Traffic Safety film is about Seat Belt Safety starring Dick Van Dyke, and it's called: "BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE." This was made in 1964.
Credit: Bell System (:06-:25). Screen reads: The Telephone company is pleased to make this motion picture available for showings as a pubic service. Southwestern Bell Film Library. Southwestern Bell (:26-:30). Many different parts, inside and outside of a convertible car are shown. It then speeds away. Down the street
(:31-1:27). A title card: "Before It's Too Late" (1:28-1:31). Dick Van Dyke credit (1:32-1:36). A driver in a car. Shots of the coast, the water. Female driver on the freeway. Freeway shots, bridges, open fields, city shots. Many types of cars and trucks are shown (1:37-3:07). Car swerves, sounds of sires. A group of men working on demolished cars in a junkyard. Our narrator informs us that if you add up the populations of Mobile, Kansas City, Toronto, Miami and Des Moines that you will equal the amount of people hurt in car accidents in 12 months. 40,000 are killed every year and rising. Many factors cause this. 9 out of 10 accidents are driver error. If we want to curtail this - there is one thing that can help: the seat belt (3:08-4:56). Dick Van Dyke tells us seat belts save lives. Cars move around the LA freeway and in Hollywood. We see Dick drive. Most people are killed in accidents driving less than 40mph and close to home. Seat belts keep you safe and aren't constricting. Lots of driving around Los Angeles streets. Dick explains why we need them and why it isn't 'sissy' to wear them (4:57-7:33). Dick continues to drive. He explains why seat belts must be used. He explains how he was driving about 50mph and hit a concrete wall near UCLA. Luckily he survived even though the car flipped - the seat belt saved him (7:34-9:26). Actual collision tests conducted at UCLA are shown. They are shown in various angles. From outside to inside. In place of real people are dummies. After an accident is made to occur, the dummies are strewn about the pavement. They weren't wearing seat belts and the carnage is apparent (9:27-11:36). People get into vehicles and put on their seat belts. Some NYC shots are shown. Radio DJ mentions seat belts. Driving along the coast
(11:37-13:26). Title card: The Bell System expresses appreciation to the University of CA, Los Angeles, Institute of Transportation and Traffic engineering, for the use of its film experiment on automobile collision (13:27-13:34). End credits (13:35-13:43).
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I got my license in 1962. After the New Year, I asked my father to get seat belts in the family Corvair. He laughed at me. A little later, Dad got another car for the family, I inherited the Corvair, and I had driver and passenger seat belts installed with my own money. In 1967, I was T-boned by a Buick under a dead traffic light during a sudden power failure. I walked away from that with a mild concussion and a couple of bruises. The Corvair was totaled. Dad wasn't laughing any more.
Every unrestrained child I took care of while working in the trauma room did poorly. the ejected ones mostly died.
If my dad rides in the back he still fails to put on his seat belt unless I tell him to. Guess he's _real_ old-school, in a bad way.
I guess Dick Van Dyke needs to watch this now.
Goose from Mad Max said it best..."he was just sitting there, trying to scream with his face ripped off.." That's pretty well what happens when you go face-first through a windshield. Laminated screens will 'necklace you on top of that . So yeah, wear your seatbelt
This safety film scared me when I saw it at 11 years old.
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I'm hooked on this stuff. It's like Film Noire...
...but, in REAL Life.
That voice! Unmistakable.
I do a lot of Litigation Support videos... you know, the stuff your lawyer shows the other side to explain why you'll need to have someone to feed you, brush your teeth for you, give you sponge baths, and literally reach inside you with a gloved hand to pull out the shit you can no longer expel on your own.
One of the first things everyone looks for when your crippled or dead body is finally brought in to the ER is a strap mark over your shoulder. They want to know whether or not you were strapped in. If not, you can pretty much say goodbye to not only an independent life but a decent settlement from the other guy's lawyer. That little bruise from the shoulder belt is the surest indicator of your being an intelligent human being or just another excuse for more chlorine in the gene pool.
Except for the unbelievably long driving montages at the beginning and end of this film, I thought it to be pretty effective. Dick van Dyke was simply perfect as a guy who isn't preaching at you, just a pal amicably chatting with you. Not better than you are, he shows his own brush with death to be something you both have in common... if you had the sense to wear that seat belt. All in all, I'd give this little film very good marks - and that's because of van Dyke.
The "Dick Van Dyke" show was Very Funny! It was Mary Tyler Moore's Big Break (she played his wife.)
Early Sixties Family...before America Lost her Innocece.
Love the music; it can brighten my day anytime. This should be on-hold telephone music.
I remember watching this in High school 11th grade heath class (1965)
As someone who learned to drive in a 1969 Charger and daily drives 50 year old and older cars I have always used the lap and shoulder belts. Like said I thought if a race car driver is secured in the car I should be too. never have been injured in 36 years of driving in dangerous Miami.
I wear my safety belt too.
I turned 16 in 1974 and got my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive. After about a week behind the wheel and seeing the "fasten seat belts" written above the steering wheel, I buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts mainly out of curiosity and was amazed how much better the car drove and handled with the belts buckled. I knew it made sense for safety to wear them, but it was the enhanced driving experience that got me in the habit of wearing them. Fast forward to 1978 and a drunk driver crossing the center line and hitting me head on. I walked away with only bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted other driver who had massive head and chest injuries from the steering wheel.
I will admit that with the shoulder belt snuggly adjusted, it was a bit awkward to reach the lighter and ashtray but somehow I managed.
Got to love those old film reels they use to show us in school.
It only took the law 20 years and more to catch up with this common sense
The single best PSA for belts was the one with an egg in a box. Shake the box and the egg breaks. Then belt it in, shake and it's intact. Simple, but effective and memorable.
My goodness! It took 5:02 minutes for Dick Van Dyke to show in this PSA! GEEZ!!!!! 😖😖😖😖😖
10:43 Creepy doll starting at you while crashing
"This is how I died."
Reminds me of "Chuckie."
At 2:43, 12 crammed in a station wagon. Van Dyke doesn't show up until 5 minutes in.
2 nephews of mine dies within 2 months of each other not wearing seatbelts..........RIP
He wasn’t driving Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang? I don’t remember seeing any seat belts on that car, nor on Ms. Truly Scrumptious’ car.
LOL. I Forgot about That! (Although, as a Kid-I saw the movie, several times, on Television.)
Factoid: Ian "James Bond" Fleming wrote CCBB.
But, Remember: That Jalopy FLEW...there's a Lot less Traffic up there, and nothing to smash into.
Great Video!
When the Jag was in the mirror, I was thinking “Oh, great! Dead Man’s Curve!”
You know, I don't remember shity shity Bang Bang having a seatbelt.
I don't know how fast he was able to get that car up to, but I do remember it did not stay on the ground...
-just saying
😂😂😂
Shot of South Bronx tenements towards the End.
Like drivers in a pea-soup fog, few had Any idea of the Horrors to come there.
1:43 Mirror image. Driver on the wrong side.
97 years old is probably a good time to stop driving, especially if you can afford to hire someone to drive for you.
In a Sense...the Auto Industry is covering up here. I mean SURE...folks should drive Alert, Sober, and wear their seatbelt. Even a Lap Belt was better than Nothing.
There were NO crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, or airbags back then, however (even though patents existed for All of those innovations.) Many cars had drum brakes on all four wheels, and bias ply (instead of radial) tires.
The Death rate/mile has plummeted in the last twenty years, and was already going down the last forty.
10:42 That kid looking at the camera was creepy af.
it turned to the camera as it uttered its final words “save me” in a desperate plea for help XD
1962 gas .32 cents a gallon New car’s on the lot $4,000 if that high . 4 bedroom home in nice area $25,000 now same home $900,000 . And people talk about todays inflation .
...BUT, there were Good, well-paying Union Sinecure jobs back then. Coal Mining, and Steel Mill Jobs vanished due to Automation (and, in the case of the former-power plants transitioned away from Coal.) Textile Mills fled to the Non-Union-in Every sense of the word-South, and then, Overseas. Later-Japanese Cars and Electronics kicked our Butts in this Country.
And, speaking of CARS. We had our pants down (worse than at Pearl Harbor, or on 9/11) when the 1973 Oil Embargo Hit...followed by OPEC Quadrupling the price of OIl. It increased again during the Iran Revolution. Japan then Really began "dumping" those little compact cars on the American Market. I mean; folks would literally park their Continentals, LD2s, and Le Baron Cars in the Hood, with the keys left in the ignition, so they could write them off as a theft loss. Iacocca saved Chrysler with the K-Car and the Minivan. Not that HE was So Great....he didn't really save many jobs, in the End.
OPEC caused a Stagflation Recession in this Country, from 1973-76. Things got temporarily Better, but then Worse again. The Prime Rate was jacked up Really High just to Cool the Inflation. Most folks couldn't afford a New Mortgage in the Early Eighties.
Reagan tamed Inflation, but he did so by Totally Destroying the Unions-Indirectly. I mean-HE Never made Foreign competitors play Fair at All. "Wall Street", "Working Girl" and "The Secret to My Success" were All Paeans to the Get Ahead by Kissing Ass White Collar mentality that had taken root in America.
I can't fart when I wear my seat belt.
Eat more broccoli and Rasin bran.
A very good reason to buckle up.
Seatbelts are for sissy's....plus I drive better when I'm drunk !
Lap belts are scary in themselves! Ok, your hips stay put. But your chest it aiming straight for the steering column & your face for the windscreen.
I can't remember who said it but when asked the best way to increase driving safety he said "Ban seatbelts & weld a 12 inch, stainless steel, sharpened spike at the driver's heart!
Lap belts don't work...
Three-point seat belts are more effective than lap belts alone.
I always wore both the lap and shoulder belts.