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Presents a check-passer describing the tricks of his trade. Explains how a conscientious check-out clerk can easily trip him up.

This short film looks at the importance of maintaining safe driving practices and heeding traffic rules. A traffic cop investigates a serious car crash and attempts to understand the cause.

A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.

PSA FROM THE VOID was created for a BGSU 48-Hour Film Festival.

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were assembled by a film collector who did public screenings of cult films; he often showed this compilation under the moniker “Stoner’s Night Out”. NCADI is the information service for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The PSAs that comprise this film combine footage of drug use as well as interviews. Overall, this film warns of the short-term and long-term effects of drug use with the later segments of the film focusing on marijuana use specifically.

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these news.

A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children.

A road safety film for pedestrians in city traffic. Demonstrates typical unsafe practices.

Shot with a big cowboy nod to the Western genre, this road safety film shows the danger of speeding on an unknown country road at night.

Explains the functions of the doctor and tells why it is important to co-operate with him.

Emphasizes positive attitudes and constructive solutions to help individuals deal with problems related to sex, drugs, self-image and interpersonal relationships.

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.

Presents three case histories which illustrate how children were accidentally killed or injured by the schoolbus from which they had disembarked.

POLICE OFFICER JIM BYRNE, Canada's most honoured Safety Education Specialist brings you his famous TEN RULES, with which he has personally tested more than 25,000 students. Learn key strategies now taught in many schools and used by police working with the full NEVER BE A VICTIM Institutional Study Program. Develop your own personal streetproofing skills so you can train and test your family. Robert Gordon, who created this remarkable program in partnership with Metropolitan Police introduces this family video library against a backdrop of today's troubled society. TEACHING LIFE SKILLS FOR A SAFER COMMUNITY OFFICER JIM'S TEN RULES FOR STREETPROOFING • STRANGER MYTHS • ABDUCTION • BEING FOLLOWED • DANGEROUS PLACES • AVOIDING CARS AND VANS • GOOD TOUCHING-BAD TOUCHING

A basic explanation of the purpose and process of menstruation, told largely with diagrams.

A hard-hitting public information film made at the height of the Great Influenza 1918-18.

A short animated PSA, starring the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow from the land of Oz. They stop woodland animals from smoking a cigarette.

The Tin Woodman tells the circulatory story.

The U.S. Navy teaches workers how to safely work in offices.