A Safe Ride On Your School Bus (1970)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- A classic 16mm reel that hits close to home for me. True story: in the winter of 1972 I survived a terrible school bus accident. It was in one of these very buses shown in the film, where every kid in every seat faced a solid steel bar that ran across the back of the seat in front of them, and of course no seat belts or anything like that. Well, one afternoon the school got dismissed early due to a blizzard, and on the ride home the bus collided head on with a PA State snowplow, which was basically a Mac dump truck loaded with salt with a 6' high steel plow mounted on the front, and through the collision the bus went airborne, rolled over, and landed on its side down an embankment in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the blizzard. Exiting the bus were stunned kids with missing rows of teeth, broken noses, busted arms, and all the like. As with every other crash I have been in (always as a passenger) I was completely unharmed due to my lightning fast natural reflexes, but the fact remains - those buses were never safe. They depended on the fallacy that no one would ever dare hit a school bus, and that no school bus would ever crash into anything. Well, they did. A lot. And that's what happened to me! Enjoy!!!
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I was in this movie as a 2nd grader. On decent weather days, we would leave class (I had to wear the same clothes on any decent weather day). Had to get a hair cut every week so that our hair length didn't change from shot to shot. It was a really fun experience to be a part of the making of this movie.
Interesting, how long did it take to make this movie?
I just love these films you are putting out. Honestly they are better then the crap on tv
Got that right jen
Nowadays in this generation nobody will follow these rules
@@deanfarr3249 Kids today get away with murder. Kids today cuss out adults/teachers with little to no consequences. "Kids being kids" Parents/guardians no where to be found. Schools are used as glorified baby sitters.
As a school bus driver watching these old films, it's too bad that safety videos now are aimed exclusively at the drivers and nothing at all for the kids. Basically, the drivers are always under scrutiny. It's up to us to educate the kids on bus safety, because no one else will.
Love the old films. Thanks
This film was shown in 1989 and it was from 1973. I remember watching old films from the 60s, and 70s in the classroom in the mid 1980s. I think this one in particular serves its purpose to be shown to students in 2022
This film can be digitized onto DVD 📀.
"Your driver receives lots of special training before she is licensed to drive a school bus."
I went to middle and high school in rural South Carolina and high school students drove the buses until 1987.
Speaking of that, Robin Roberts first job was a bus driver for her fellow sports team mates, as a senior in high school!!!!!!!!
Oh boy so many things!! This was filmed in Edmonds WA. You can see Puget Sound in the background. Edmonds is District 15 in WA. I live in Western Washington. I recognize the bus barn scene.
Yes. I remember playing basketball at Olympic Elementary in the 70s. I rode many of those buses in my Elementary School years. Went to Melody Hill (Mountlake Terrace), College Place (Edmonds), Lynndale, Lynnwood, and Oak Heights (Lynnwood).
At 5:40 You'll see 3 of the buses from Shoreline School District, 2 of them are 1960s Bluebird All American with GMC Chassis and the 3rd was a GMC Stepvan School Bus. I have great memories riding on these buses
Great reel, certainly brought back the memories of the late 60's and early 70's. One of the all steel buses I was in had a shovel and a huge axe next to the enormous box of road flares stowed up front for quick access. The women driver could work the gears and clutch like a master, even in the worst snow. She was the law on that bus, and had a huge smile every day! Things were a lot different then, Pennsylvania was different also. Thanks for the history :)
The fact they were still rolling this film nearly 20 years after it was made is kind of surprising.
I work on school buses now myself, and the safety measures in them now is a heck of a lot different. Part of my job is to definitely try to get these kids buckled up with a three-point harness, and when they get resistant about the seatbelts, I point out that if we got into an accident, without the belt, the first thing that'd happen is their head would smash into the back of the seat in front of them. It might have more padding now but there's still definitely metal bars underneath that faux leather.
(Also, as an aside: The occasional skipping/flicking frames make me feel like there's a possibility for some analog horror-type stuff out of someone pretending to create an "old" film like this with modern techniques.)
yes, I remember 1960s reels in high school in the mid 80s.
And the fact that the lessons taught in this video, can still be applied today!
In middle school, my morning pick up bus stop was up the hill at the corner. In the afternoon my drop off bus stop was down the hill at the corner. I literally had to walk uphill both ways to school and it's not funny except that it is gosh darn it.
Edmonds School District #15, Edmonds, WA. Spent second semester kindergarten to first semester sixth grade at various schools in that district a few years after this film. Olympic Elementary was one of the few I didn't attend. It's now called Edmonds Elementary.
Manual turn signals, stick shift, manual steering. Now that's driving something! Everyone dressed well, too.
The lack of power steering on a bus this heavy, it probably was a pain to steer.
I was among the last generation of kids to grow up riding in school buses with a manual transmission, gasoline engine, no A/C, and no seatbelts except for the driver. By the time I graduated high school, they were nearly all gone. Although I believe even today you can still order a school bus based on an International chassis with a manual gearbox, since it's the same chassis they use for box trucks. I wonder if the bus shown in the video had power steering -- with its giant steering wheel and very high number of rotations needed to make a turn, it may have been unassisted.
I am from Germany and i went to a school exchange in the US in 1999. For field trips from the corresponding school we used a bus like this. And it was a bit unpleasant. Like a Truck for people. 😬
Yes, I was wondering if it was armstrong steering myself, I suspect it is.
@ 3:32, double clutch, shifting, a lost art
I'll bet it didn't have power steering. Most trucks didn't have power steering back then, even tractor trailers didn't.
Those chassis are no longer sold with manual transmissions because transmissions are not even offered in most segments of the truck market, except for tractor trailers. Allison's Transmissions, along with Eaton's Transmissions, have done away with the old manual transmissions because they perform so well. Even the on highway market is starting to see the automatic transmissions encroach into that segment, to the point where many drivers only learn manuals because it is on the test and then never ever drive a manual ever again. They really are on the way out.
Wow Fran, what an experience you had! At one point in the 70's, we had a bus driver that would "gas it" while going over well known bumps and the kids would prepare ahead of time by getting in the very back seats. This would cause them to be launched a few seats forward! Of course S.E. Penn area....
Ngl sounds fun
Lol. I remember these from school and it makes me laugh due to the amount of gore, with the blood on the sheet on Timmy. But, it was a good tool to scare kids into not doing stuff like that. These days, you try to put out a video like that and every parent group and activist would have it pulled down in three seconds and there would be a civil suit for introducing something like that to children and stealing their innocence. I think the world and parents have to realize that kids feel and think they’re invincible. The only way to put the fear of God into them is to put the fear of God into them. Hence, don’t go out to the woods because Bigfoot is going to eat you. This has been going on since the beginning of time and it’s a good lesson to teach children early. Good stuff. Thank you for posting this.
Well said, and wise words~
If you want a gory disturbing PSA/Safety film directed to children, look for "The finishing line" 1977 from Great Britain railway.
These days, it is the schools themselves that pose the greatest threat to our children. Their performance as educators was piss-poor before the pandemic, worse since Nothing that happened to us in the 50s, 60, 70s or 80s, nothing, was as emotionally damaging as what our kids are subjected to by educators today, and they aren't even pretendsing to properly educate kids any longer.
Hey that’s me driving the bus!! I remember it like it was yesterday
What was most fun about the Bus was the last day school ended until next fall The driver took us to get ice cream when I was 5 but as time went by The different Drivers would give everybody a treat at the last day school ended I may have had many bad times when riding a School Bus but it was always nice to remember the goodies at the end in the School Year
Thanks for converting these old films. A lot of these I remember from back in the day.
That huge steering wheel! As big as a ship’s wheel…..all it needs is some handles around the rim…
The copyright on the movie is 1970. I was in elementary school on the first half of the '70s and I sort of saw the evolution of the school bus into its more modern form. There were NO "stop" flags when I started elementary school. They were there by the time I left and they, rather quickly, as I recall, got their lights...the flags, at first didn't have the lights to catch your attention. The bus in this movie has the flag but it is in rectangular form and no lights on the flag.
The busses had the red alternating lights at the top, however and I'm sure those were an early add to the school bus.
Later, the sweep bar in the front was added...the one that forces kids that are going to cross in front of the buss to walk at least a bus' width in front so the driver can see them. 3-4 foot tall kids are invisible to the driver when trying to look over the engine. The "Cab Over" designs put the driver in a better view of what little person may be in front of them.
I'm pretty sure that the yellow alternating lights (we're about to stop) came after I had left elementary school. I don't recall when those were added around here but they were definitely a smart move (as have the other improved safety features of the school bus).
Back around the time this film was made one of the kids in the back of our bus sent his Kenner SSP Racer flying up the aisle and it crashed into the front of the bus under the drivers feet. Our bus driver’s reaction was not quite as calm and collected as the one in this film lol!
Hi Fran,
Thank you for sharing this on RUclips. Right now, I am studying to become a school bus drive and working on to get my CDL.. This film maybe dated for 1970, but this holds true today for 2023. Safety is about the same from yesterday from 50 years like today…For example, when crossing the railroad tracks on school bus.. you have to stop 15 feet close to the rail and no further than 50 feet… You have turn on the emergency flashers… Open up your side window and open up the bus doors.. If no train is coming, don’t change gears while crossing the railroad tracks…
The lady in 1970 film did the proper thing… For the stop sign on the side of bus… it was very rare during 1970s, but very common and required in 2023…
Once again thank you for sharing this…
Bryan Woodward
Jeez Fran, that's a terrible thing for a kid to experience. A quick search would lead me to believe that 1972 was a bad year for school busses and their riders in PA.
Our bus driver in junior high (late 80s) would let us hide in the back while all the other kid got off, then would drive us down to the quick mart so we could buy cigarettes.
Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
"Please, share my umbrella"
Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows
Under my umbrella..
The Hollies, 1966
That's great, loading the hurt kid at the start without a backboard.
Or any form of neck stabilization.
@@InsanePsychoRabbit and did anyone even sit in the back? Plus, here’s a pillow for your head so you’re comfortable
I attended kindergarten and first grade at the school in this film, Olympic Elementary, starting in 1983. (now known as Edmonds Elementary) I remember the school bus driver hauling ass up the hill and around the cornersto get to the school in the morning.
Yes. The 212th St. SW hill from 9th would be a tough one for those older buses.
I went to several schools in the area, and Lockwood Elementary in Bothell was near Nike Hill (228th off Locust) was even worse. We had a stop at the bottom of Nike Hill, then the bus would lumber up that hill at about 10mph to Damson Rd. at the top, more than a half mile.
Good video.
That nasty asbestos giant brake shoe drum drone sound!
Who can forget that?
I noticed the buses were GMC's that were older and had strong rear leaf springs that didn't sag. IH seemed to take over after that era.
A bus driver was broke down on the highway once and I walked down to the bus and could see a large exhaust pipe that was dragging on the road, so I told her to sit tight while I ran back to the house and got a wire clothes hanger, crawled under the bus and wired it up for her, so she could get back to town.
At Christmas time, she came by and game me a coffee mug full of coco packs and Herseys kisses. Nice lady bus driver.
One winter, I was driving behing a high school girl driving too fast on ice in a little Ford Probe and a school bus stopped on a highway at farm and the girl in the Probe following the bus panicked and locked her brakes up and slid right under the rear of the bus and was stuck up to it's windshield and she was balling her head off. No bus damage.
They had to wait for another bus to come and transfer the children to it while the highway patrol performed an investigation. Wintertime was pure hell!
I imagine that almost everyone has wild bus riding stories!
This is very different from the school bus driver on the Simpsons. I'm confused.
Newer buses, these date from around 1965 or so.
1970 was a great year! The year my sweetheart was born. Two years before I came into existence. I laugh at how people in the "old" times pronounced the "H" in the words when, and where. Now they abbreviate everything and have a different word for pound or number sign "#". Thanks for sharing Fran!
The narrator sure asks a LOT of questions! :)
"Row, row, row your boat.........."
The music is so jaunty!
It reminds me that the baby boom was the last time the US invested in public education in a serious way.
"Your school bus is one of the safest vehicles on the road ..." Riding my school bus ca the early '70s, I remember questioning, even at the tender age of 10 or 12, how safe those seatbeltless "whiplash" seats with their exposed steel frames really were.
Making busses safer would have increased costs. The government needed all that money to buy bombs for Vietnam.
And to pay for more welfare so they can buy votes.
Being on the first stop in the route, one of us would sit on the heater next to the driver (this is mid 60's). Vacuum wipers that stopped when the driver tried to accelerate, maybe that's why the things had vacuum gauges in them, along with speedometers mounted upside down.
My mother is from Canada and moved to Denmark with my father when they got married. My father once visited some of her relatives who live in the US and one day, they were driving behind a school bus. My father did notice it and attempted to drive by slowly when it stopped but was told very sternly to stop completely by the other people in the car! :-D We don't do that in Denmark. There we expect the children to wait until the bus has left the stop. That makes much more sense.
Not really, since the bus stops otherwise fast traffic and provides another eye for cars. Drivers in the US won't stop for pedestrians and often there simply isn't time to cross or space.
I will add that most stops on really busy roads don't allow students to cross and instead have the bus turn around to drop them off door-side.
It's only a minute at most of traffic stopped on all but the most crowded stops, usually only 15 seconds, drivers can wait.
@@EmperorNefarious1 It does make much more sense (in Denmark) because then there are no huge busses blocking the view on the road. Drivers in Denmark have to stop for pedestrians (at marked crossings).
@@AndrewRump school bus stops in the US are rarely marked for pedestrians- they are set up wherever is close to the kids’ homes. The bus becomes the bus stop. It’s pretty hard to miss a big yellow bus with flashing red lights and its own stop sign. It’s up to the bus driver to keep traffic stopped until everyone is safe.
@@dmrr7739 and what about all the other times a kid want to cross the road?
During the opening credits it looked like they were all bouncing along to the music. This one is definitely MST3K material.
I agree, this film is very riffable.
Great to virtually ride on the Edmonds School District GMC Superior School Bus. And great to see 3 School Buses from the Shoreline School District with the 2 Bluebirds. The Shoreline School District also owned a few Superior School Buses transit size with a GMC V6 in the rear of the bus. Wish I would see some of those buses and the Bluebirds, some of them had front engines and some had rear engines, brings me back great memories.
Our society sure has changed since these earlier times. Unfortunately, not for the better.
Wow. These school buses from the Edmonds School District and Shoreline School District. I grew up in the Shoreline School District and I have great memories riding on these buses. The railroad tracks I believe is in Edmonds Wa right by the fishing pier south of the ferry dock
That was a nice look at the past in the UK we was always told you never cross the road until the bus has driven away that way you can see there is no cars/trucks cumming from ether direction.
3:31. Double clutch. Long lost art.
Yep gears not synchronized
I went to school in the eighties and my driver smoked cigarettes while driving the bus.
Those were perfectly good well built buses. But this short movie shows that even back then, some motorists chose to play stupid. It is always best to check to make sure the motorist is going to stop when the stop arm is out. Back then the bus drivers not only had to put up with noisy children but also a noisy engine. If you had a steep grade ahead of you and you had to shift all the way into 1st, the engine with the shift lever in 1st was a real screamer.
I'm floored by that "replacement price: $225" at the beginning. It sure was a different time back then.
I'm a bit younger (around 10 years, I think) than you and by the time I was going to school the backs of buses were considerably softer.
They need to put this on dvd
5:49 I didn’t know that the unique school bus shaped like a mail truck you see today existed back then! I was born in 1989.
I remember watching this in grade school in the 80s
I remember when I was in Jr high in the 1980s the high school seniors drove the school buses
The speedometer on the bus goes to 90 mph!
Yes, might go to there, but definitely would not stop at that speed, and the engine would never get it there except down a mineshaft, with a following wind. Note also manual gearbox, and no synchromesh, no power steering, and double clutch to change gears, plus drums all round as well.
Those things are geared terribly it would be lucky to hit 65 downhill
And to this day school buses don't have seat belts.
I can tell you that most of the kids who watched this film learned nothing from it. I know because they're all grown now, and I can see how they act on planes! ("Do you stay in your seat until the bus is completely stopped? Do you wait your turn? What happens when you crowd?") They're already jamming the aisles before the "Please stay in your seat until..." announcement is even finished! Don't get me started!
Everything in this video is still relevant today.
While I went to school a lot by bus, it was not a school bus per se, just a regular bus that ran the school route, and which went past the house, or at least close enough. Caught the bus morning and afternoon all the way through High school, as before then I lived close enough to the school that walking for 10 minutes was good enough, all the way from 6 till 13. Then at around 16 yet again we moved, and this time also walked to and from school every day.
For the rainy days an umbrella, which I still have, and still use. Currently there are a few private schools that provide a bus service, using what are essentially regular buses, of different sizes, including some minibuses as well, which park at the school during the day, and by one of the teachers, who is the driver, at night and weekends. Generally painted in the school colours, and nothing like the US buses with the extra warning signs and flags, aside from a big sticker set front, rear and sides saying School bus, and the school name and logo. There are a couple of schools that are close enough to each other that they share bus use, enabling them to cut costs.
However the vast majority of school pupils travel by minibus taxi, which often has, from the various associations, a dedicated set of drivers and vehicles allocated to a route, fees paid by the parents to them.Those have been found with up to 40 junior school pupils in a 16 seater vehicle, most often after the accident.ISR the record being nearly 80 in a 16 seater, packed in like sardines.
In The Netherlands there are no such things as "School Buses". Some specialized schools drive minivans, but in general there is no organized transport. Are schoolbuses still in operation in the USA?
Of course they are.
This is probably filmed in Edmonds and Shoreline WA
This was filmed primarily in Edmonds. It would leave from Olympic Elementary School.
My bus driver used to play Kiss and ELO 8-tracks and if everyone was cool you could smoke lol. Pretty sure she had an open beer more than a few times too.
My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump...
Our school buses had seat belts.
ours had a chocolate fountain.
3:52 She is taught how to use a cosh. LOL.
Great little film, that is well worn. :)
Wow I went to high school in Jefferson Parish Louisiana
Grew up in Kenner Louisiana.
In my experience (in these very buses) the drivers should have gotten hazard pay. Country boys can be the worst.
Thank you for being one of the few that pluralized "bus" correctly.
aka how to hopefully not get killed in an environment designed for maximum car speed and minimum pedestrian safety. 8:25 not even any sidewalks! 8:33 Walk in the ditch, peasants!
Believe it or not my district's new school buses (from the 2010s) don't even _have_ student seat belts. A neighboring district does, though. I find this odd because this is in Massachusetts where you are required to wear seat belts in cars and get ticketed if you don't.
Still blows my mind, I was riding school busses in MA until sophomore year of high school in 2014 and never had seatbelts.
Student seatbelts are relatively new because the idea is that the seatbacks are so tall that you will simply hit the padded seat cushion in front of you in an accident. Of course, it is phasing in now, but not everybody thought it necessary until recently.
Is it just me or does the thumbnail bus look more modern than today’s buses?!?
As a non-US native I can't see one of those buses without thinking it should have the sign "Furthur" on the front.
Correct pluralization of "bus." 👍
5:40 - 3 old Shoreline School District School Buses. Two 60s Bluebird and one GMC Stepvan Bus.
What ever happened to all the school busses in this video
They became tour busses for punk bands in the 70's and 80's. (See 'Another State Of Mind')
Yipes! Love the opening shot-- at least they didn't use a bucket of stage blood on that kid. I grew up at a time just before bussing. So I got to ride on a NYC regular bus every day. Rules? Hah.
I remember those GMC school buses.
Those old GMC busses had a GMC 305 or 351 blg block 6 cylinder motors in them.
@@antdogg422 Yep. And, someone said that there was a V6 in the 400 range.
5:46 i had no idea they used chevy sidestep vans as school buses
1970, the year I started first grade. I hated those buses, Blue Birds they were, and hot as an oven here in South Texas. No air conditioning and the bus lady made us keep the windows closed for fear we'd get our heads stuck. By the time we got to our destination all us kids would be dripping in sweat and so close to heat exhaustion we moved like zombies.
I'm hoping Fran may have some of those anti-smoking 'propaganda' films from the mid 60s! They worked for me; never smoked, never will!
I used to be in that school district where that bus is from Lynnwood high school 1980 the in December
11:55- Am I the only one to notice cars passing the bus as kids are leaving???? With the stop arm out, might I add!!!! Tsk, tsk, tsk.
oh wow I remember similar movies like this.. red spattering on screen, ohh i was horrified into being a good bus rider in the 70s and 80s!
where are their backpacks??
Where can I find the intro music?
This would be perfect for the MST3K guys haha
I like the 80s and 90s buses before the 2000s when they made the hood more round. Just think 🤔 in 35 years from now it be 2063 just like 1963 during this video time, we look back at the good old days of the 20s lol 😂 school buses look so good in the 2020s now in 2063 buses look like aliens buses and are electric we should go back to 2023 with diesel school buses lol. Thank god it’s still 2020s 😂
How did the dedicated yellow busses come to be ? Was there a history of problems with whatever came before ?
We have a limited number of bus services in UK, mostly just where the school has a large rural catchment area, and they're just rented from normal coach firms rather than being used only for schools. Of course, the firms might keep the oldest, grubbiest coaches for the children ..
Most cities haven’t had public transportation of any form since world war 2.
Additionally Before desegregation of schools was mandated, students would attend their local school so some transportation would be needed. After desegregation in cities many more busses were required to bus kids all around town so each school was “equal” in terms of race
Thanks to everyone who correctly spelled "buses." Perhaps our education system has failed those who used a double "s" in the comments.
I was 15 in 1970, I had white striped bell bottom pants very much like the kid in this film who ran into the car.
One bus driver I remember from high school was kinda like Otto from " The Simpsons"...
6:44 Doing this in the wrong neighborhood WILL get you shot.
@5:16 Yeah...I want to see that bus do NINETY! LOL :)
4:48 :) Well lol we certainly have moved past the point of pointing any odd behavior or correcting undesireable attitudes since then. :) :) And it has not been for the better. :(
I like the way it teaches basic social skills and , as much as i like autonymi, i believe that the films teach important things. It is a bit fun to watch all the suburb kids lining up. I newer lived in a suburb.
😮😮 wow
I have never seen a conventional bus with a rear setup that a rear engine type D bus would, with a climb-over emergency exit(13:52). Nor have I ever seen a panel-truck bus (5:50)!!!!!
Whyy do some people do not obey school bus stop signs
5:48 What kind of bus is that?
No mooning! :) (10:35)
And remember kids, if you wish to smoke, please sit in the back three rows and lower the window as a courtesy to the other kids.
Bus driver in todays society would more than likely be fired for doing something similar. No amount of pay would be worth the stress/aggravation of dealing with other peoples kids.
From the Jefferson County, LA Public Library Film Library.
I was usually the kid running after the bus.
10:58 wait a sec i thought the law that bus drivers had to stop at railroad crossings became a thing after the 1972 congers ny bus and train collision
Can anybody tell me what the forks are for in front of the rear axle?
I believe those are traction sanders...
I would kill to have kids act this well behaved only school bus.
+1 to Jen
Puget Sound? I think I saw Ted Bundy's VW drive by!