- Title: F-5614
- Summary: GAMBLING WITH DEATH: RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY FILM. 1920s FOOTAGE, 1970s FOOTAGE. 1970s SCARE TACTICS
- Description:00:52:58 - VINTAGE MOVIE THEATER MESSAGE TO AUDIENCE "LADIES PLEASE REMOVE YOUR HATS SO THAT OTHERS MAY SEE" AND "THE MANAGEMENT PRIDES ITSELF IN PRESENTING WHOLESOME FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT" 00:53:05 - SILENT MOVIE. MAN GAMBLING WITH AN ANIMATED GRIM REAPER. MAN PUTS HIS HEAD ON THE TABLE, SHAKING HIS HEAD 00:53:12 - ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE. TRAIN PASSES OVER RAILROAD CROSSING. 1920s CAR STOPS TO WAIT FOR TRAIN TO PASS. 00:53:21 - RAILROAD CROSSING GATE OPENS, 1920s CARS CROSS TRACKS 00:53:27 - 1920s COUPLE TALKING, FLIRTING ON FRONT PORCH 00:53:33 - COUPLE DRIVING IN 1920s CONVERTIBLE, DRIVER NOT PAYING ATTENTION, KISSING WOMAN AS HE DRIVES. CARELESS DRIVING HABITS. RECKLESS DRIVING. 00:53:40 - CU TRAIN ENGINEER SOUNDING TRAIN WHISTLE. 00:53:41 - 1920s CAR RACES ACROSS TRAIN TRACKS NARROWLY MISSING ONCOMING TRAIN. RACING TO BEAT THE TRAIN. MACHO, MEN PAT HIM ON THE BACK PAYING COMPLIMENT TO HIS RECKLESSNESS 00:53:46 - LINE OF 1920s CARS AT RAILROAD CROSSING, IMPATIENT DRIVER CROSSES OVER TRAIN TRACKS 00:53:52 - GROUP OF MEN IN 1920s CONVERTIBLE. DRIVER DRIVES RECKLESSLY TRY TO BEAT THE TRAIN AT RAILROAD CROSSING. ENGINEER BLOWS THE WHISTLE. DRIVER IGNORES HIM. 00:54:09 - SLOW MOTION TRAIN HITTING A CAR CRUSHING IT. 00:54:36 - 1920s DRIVER IGNORES RAILROAD CROSSING GUARD HOLDING UP A STOP SIGN, DRIVES ACROSS THE TRAIN TRACKS NARROWLY MISSING BEING HIT BY THE TRAIN. DANGEROUS GAME. RECKLESS DRIVING 00:54:58 - 1920s CAR IS HIT BY TRAIN. DRIVER TRYING TO BEAT THE TRAIN LOSES THE GAME AND IS KILLED. ENGINEER JUMPS OFF THE TRAIN TO INSPECT MANGLED CRUSHED REMAINS OF A CAR. 00:55:13 - ENGINEER POV, TRAIN WINDSHIELD WIPERS ARE ON. CROSSING UNDER OVERPASS. SPLIT SCREEN SHOWING MODERN METHODS OF TRAIN SAFETY, ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT TRAINS AND CARS FROM COLLIDING 00:55:38 - ENGINEER POV BLOWING WHISTLE AT 1970s CAR CROSSING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO ONCOMING TRAIN 00:55:46 - 1970s TRAIN PASSING. 00:55:53 - 1920s STEAM TRAIN CU ENGINEER BLOWING TRAIN WHISTLE 00:55:58 - 1970s FREIGHT TRAIN IN MOUNTAINS, SNOW COVERED GROUND 00:56:08 - 1920s RECKLESS DRIVER KISSING WOMAN WHILE DRIVING 00:56:13 - 1970s CAR, OLDER COUPLE, 1970s FASHION CU WOMAN TURNS ON THE CAR RADIO. TUNING INTO A RADIO STATIONS BY PRESSING BUTTONS 00:56:21 - 1970s RAILROAD CROSSING GATE, FLASHING RED LIGHT, WARNING BELL. CAR STOPS AT RAILROAD CROSSING GATE, FREIGHT TRAIN PASSES. 00:56:38 - 1970s TRAFFIC, CARS ALL LOOK THE SAME 00:56:46 - CU 1970s RAILROAD CROSSING GATE, FLASHING LIGHT, AMTRACK TRAIN PASSES. 1970s AMTRACK. 00:57:05 - 1970s STATION WAGON. FAMILY DOG. KIDS FIGHTING OVER A TOY IN THE BACK SEAT, MOTHER TURNS TO YELL AT KIDS. NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO DRIVING. CROSSES RAILROAD TRACKS, ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN PASSES RIGHT BEHIND HER. 00:57:30 - CU WOMAN, WIDE EYED REALIZES SHE JUST HAD A NARROW MISS PUTS HAND TO FACE SHOCKED. 00:57:42 - CU RAILROAD CROSSING GATE IS LOWERED. IMPATIENT DRIVER OF A 1970s CAR DRIVES BETWEEN GATES AT RAILROAD CROSSING RECKLESS DRIVING 00:57:55 - TWO BUSINESSMEN IN CAR LOOKING AT PAPERS, DRIVER NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO DRIVING. BAD DRIVING HABITS 00:58:01 - YOUNG 1970s COUPLE IN CAR, GIRL SITS CLOSE TO BOYFRIEND, JAMES CASWELL III. CLASSIS 1970s COUPLE. CU SPEEDOMETER RABBIT FOOT HANGS FROM REAR VIEW MIRROR. 00:58:40 - TRAIN PASSENGER POV OF CAR DRIVING ON ROAD ALONGSIDE TRAIN TRACKS. ILLINOIS CENTRAL 00:58:48 - RECKLESS TEEN DRIVER RACES THE TRAIN IN A 1970s CAR. BOY DRIVES OVER RAILROAD CROSSING, GIRL SCREAMS, SLOW MOTION, TRAIN HITS 1970s CAR 00:59:25 - TRAIN DRIVES OVER CAMERA 00:59:33 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: F-5614