" SAFETY ON THE SCHOOL BUS " 1951 SUPERIOR COACH CO. EDUCATIONAL FILM 41354
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“Safety on the School Bus” is a black-and-white PSA-style film from 1951. This short educational film, which was sponsored by Superior Coach Corporation of Lima, Ohio, aims to educate America’s bus riding students on the proper safety guidelines of riding the school bus. A collaboration between Young America Films and Centron Corporation, this film features some reenactment footage of school-aged students riding on a school bus in a quiet country town and also features shots of the bus’ exterior and interior details.
Centron Corporation was a leading industrial and educational film production company, specializing in classroom and corporate 16mm films and VHS videocassettes. Although a slightly smaller company than its contemporaries, it was nonetheless very successful from the late 1940s through the early 1990s.
Opening credits and text (0:10). Title page (0:32). Close-up of horse hooves clacking along dirt road (0:46). Boy dressed in button up and trousers and girl in dress ride on horse to school (0:57). The young boy and girl pass a neighbor with a horse-drawn cart on a quiet country lane (1:15). Exterior of school house - children play and congregate on the school house stairs (1:35). Interior of a classroom - kids reenact an exchange at the New York Post Office using cardboard cutouts (1:47). 1940s model school bus stops for two kids on a rural road (2:03). School bus safety sign from the School Bus Body Manufacturers Association; narrator talks about structural safety features (2:20). Non-skid floors (2:25). Grab rails (2:28). Emergency door at the back of the bus (2:32). Blinking turn signal (2:38). Speed limit sign (2:42). Cars stop behind school bus while it picks up a young boy (2:51). School bus undergoes inspection by an official inspector (3:01). Profile shot of school bus driver concentrating on the road (3:16). Montage of portraits of young students seated on the bus (3:27). Reenactment of sibling pair carrying out bus safety duties: leaving their suburban house (3:42). Arriving on time at the bus stop located in a desolate area (3:55). Crossing the street safely to get to the bus (4:10). State trooper pulls over to remind young boy to stay off the road and out of the way of traffic (4:33). Finding seats on the bus: rows of students sitting and talking (4:42). Young boy eats a banana and litters on bus floor (5:29). Three boys rough house on the bus (5:51). Two boisterous girls engaged in conversation (6:00). Students riled up singing school songs (6:19). Boy hangs pinwheel out the window and loses it due to a narrow underpass (6:52). Student uses knife to carve initials into the leather seats (7:30). Young boy tampers with fire extinguisher (7:56). Students get off the bus one by one on residential street (8:12). City bus makes a stop and passengers get off (8:21). School kids line up to board the school bus with their books in hand, girls wear swing skirts (8:59). Two students depart the bus and head towards a small PETCO Gas station (9:29). Closing credits (9:55).
Superior Coach was a coachbuilder in the American automotive industry. Founded in 1909 as the Garford Motor Truck Company, Superior is best known for constructing bodies for professional cars (hearses) and school buses. Following major downturns in both segments in the late 1970s, Superior was liquidated by its parent company in 1980. From 1925 to 1980, the company was based in Lima, Ohio.
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Kids look like they had a good time acting in this. Hard to believe 70 years gone by.
I can't believe it myself. Where did the time go?
"Jimmy, why did you use the switchblade to wreck the seat? My stash was there, Bazooka gum and comics!"
Jokes on you! Those aren't his initials!
It wasn’t an issue if a kid took a switchblade knife to school, just so long as he didn’t stab the bus with it. 😂
LOL!
FWIW, my teacher took a knife away from me in about 1963. She said I could get it back after school. It was just a 4" toad sticker (i.e. smallish pocket knife), not a switch blade.
@@josephgaviota I remember taking pocket knives to school, it was a non-issue as long as it stayed in your pocket.
@@NipkowDisk _... as long as it stayed in your pocket._
Of course you're 100% correct. That was my mistake.
Someone reported my for having a switchblade in school. It was a comb. Teacher laughed it off. But yes, we carried knives, even the girls, I mean, especially the girls. I'm a product of the 70's and 80's. Most of the guys had gun racks and shotguns in every pickup in the parking lot. I felt a lot safer than today! The "gun control" nuts cancelled the NRA Firearms safety program, shop class, and "drivers ed" mu Sophomore year. I always thought that was a really dumb idea and here we are in 2023, where no one knows how to drive and kids shoot-up schools, churches, shopping centers, and gay bars. Where the heck are the parents of these lunatics? My parents and grandparents walked to school uphill both ways. There was no horse ride! Me and my sister walked to school in every kind of weather! Twice I think I rode the school bus, and we took the bus for after school events and field trips.
The School Bus driving off back in the 50s is etched on my mind.
Kids today ought to watch this film about how to be polite passengers on their school buses
Politeness is a long-gone virtue. Sadly.
Adult should watch this to show them how to Act on a airplane.
I like the 1901 method of getting to school better thank you.
I guess everybody smelled like a horse in school so nobody noticed it.
And that metal bar on back of seat was head high for little kids, even in the 70's. We had a driver that would slam on the breaks so the kids would hit there head on that bar when they got noisy, which left them crying. I was in kindergarten and I reported the nut driver.
Too many parents do not teach their kids the importance of good manners and good citizenship anymore. Not even please and thank you. It's sad.
I've had young people try to get in front of me on line and it's very rare if someone under 50 holds a door open or says please and thank you!
It is the process foods that are being consumed they have completely decimated the human brain.
"Also, make sure you don't discover the driver's hiding place for his "Jack": He's had a hard day, just like you."
Superior Coach Company made a pretty good hearse. Mine was a 1969 model.
Agreed. I had a 1969 Pontiac, 1970, 1972 and 1973 Cadillacs. THe 1965-70 Superiors were the sleekest and sexiest professional cars made.
@@jayb.5017 I won't go that far. My 1963 Eureka was a much better can than the Superior of the year for the simple fact that Eureka used lead to mold the body and Superior used fiberglass. 1964 was the last year for the Eureka though. I also had a 1967 Superior Pontiac high top Ambulance. That was cool.
A different era. Kids were taught to be responsible for their conduct. The texture of life was very different in those days.
I just love the way her says "schoooooolll bus".
"Your safety is important to the legislators of your state." 😂😂😂
How things have changed and definitely not for the better
The kids had a lot of responsibility back then to maintain safety on the bus. You have to wonder why the adults thought seat belts were unnecessary.
Because nobody except airline pilots had seat belts in 1951, and then only in their airplane. Seat belts in motor vehicles of any sort didn't become common until the late 1970s.
@@lwilton And when were seat belts become common on school buses?
Seat belts are not common on public city buses either.
Those arrowed turnsignals are super rat rod , was that an axe next to the drivers seat
I remember fire-axes on American school-buses in the 1980s and '90s.
Probably to help break glass and steel if trapped in the bus 🚌 because of an accident.
we had a case in my school district where a girl found out too late the wisdom of keeping her head inside the bus at all times. She hung her head out the window to yell to a friend on the sidewalk,and they got a little too close to a telephone pole..she was decapitated.
real?
@@whytho2109 yup, for reals.
@@proud2bpagan Darwin award.
@@mountainjeff s'what i thought,too
😢Poor little girl 👧. I always tell my pre-teen children to keep everything in the vehicle. I still have the child proof locks on my windows and doors. For this very reason.
This bus very close model to the Partridge family bus, but I think the Partridge family was a 1957 Chevy.
The bus in this film is a 1951 International L series, probably an L-163 Schoolmaster. Looks nothing like the 1955 Chevrolet Partridge bus.
Jane and Jonny going to Texaco to buy cigarettes for mom.
Ahhh, the good ol’ days.
It has everything but seatbelts...
School busses here only have one seat belt, the driver, none for the students
@@terrygugel3803that's right but in this day and age they should have seatbelts because we know better just like we know now it's not okay to smoke
We won't mention the location of the fuel tanks on the old buses and how susceptible they were to a side impact explosion.
No matter where you put them they are susceptible. Life involves risk ,otherwise shelter in place,and dont't live life.
Dangerous to everyone if your damage involves any of the safety equipment on the bus. Never tamper with the fire extinguisher or any other safety device.
where did the horses stay and how did they take care of them at the schoolhouse and how did they make sure they didn't get stolen or ran away ?
I think there was stables or so.... BTW why the girl is barefoot?
3:00 Yeah, like that happens anymore.
Actually it does believe it or not I drove a school bus and yearly inspections are done by the Highway Patrol in order for the bus to receive an inspection sticker for the school year. Bus safety is taken seriously by the State Police and buses that fail inspection are tagged Out of Service until repairs are completed.
These are swell videos
the dog at the end wasn't being very safe
In 1951, only Ford buses had a V8.
They don't need seat belts. Kids are too stupid and irresponsible to use them. This size of the bus is sufficient protection.
Doesn't matter what size vehicle you're in the laws of gravity are still the same seat belt should always be mandatory especially today when we know better👍😎🇨🇦
@anthonybelyea1964 you can't even tell me what gravity is , your argument is ridiculous. You are a liberal and know nothing.
@@jamesparker4471 first of all I'm not a liberal and grade 8 science says things in motion tend to stay in motion unless acted upon by an equal and opposite Force. Do you not remember basic science again I'm not a liberal but you can't have alternative facts or are you a dumbass conservative? And second of all you don't have to bring politics into science, a bigger vehicle does not protect you from the laws of inertia and if you want to call me names to make your point then obviously you're not somebody to have a discussion with leave your politics at home along with your religion and the world will be a better place
Just clearly stating the subtext of this film upfront could have made it a lot more succinct: “Most of you little bastards are pieces of shit. Knock it off!” 😂
Meanwhile todays school buses: ua-cam.com/video/8L2iQhistfw/v-deo.html What the Hell went wrong?
Buses with white kids on them are much more polite and well behaved as seen in this film.
@@carryfreak5059 This film is 73 years old. I grew up in the 1970s, and there were a lot of white kids acting like complete assholes on the buses I rode. They were the children of the kids in this film. All of the old people commenting here about how well-behaved these kids are were the parents of the 1970s assholes on my bus. I guess some of them weren't very good at parenting. But it's never their fault, is it?
I guess seat belts were not invented till the 70's. I would tell safer on a horse.
Kids acted different when schools were segregated
WTF?
Way safer
Like parents would let kids ride a horse to school insane parents would go nuts
This footage is a good example for the South Korean these days. Drivers are really anxious, and uncomfortable all the time sitting behind wheel, and afraid of getting fired for prejudice by the employer and passengers. Bus driver is neither a servant nor robot. Tough regulations should be applied to passengers regardless of age. I hit smashed disorderly high schoolers inside bus and was charged fine for assault once. Anyway school bus driver is not suitable for 20s, 30s, 40s. Most school drivers are mid-50s.