Nightmare for the Bold

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Car crash at night with four occupants. Intense, drawn-out safety film.

04:00:52:05 CU Air Force officer makes speech; LS audience of Air Force soldiers. “This is a terrible thing to say, but it’s true. It’s young men such as you, 18 to 25 years old, who are doing most of the killing. You, American boys, airmen, soldiers, sailors, civilians, marines, college boys; you are killing your own people, and yourselves. You are killing American women, American men, American children; not with guns, with automobiles.”

04:02:39:01 CU inside Select-O-Matic jukebox mechanism selecting record and beginning to play.

04:02:52:17 Couples dancing in late 1950s nightclub; one couple takes spotlight on dance floor.

04:07:23:04 Man about to take shot of whisky with two friends before girlfriend stops him; man decides against taking the drink.

04:10:40:27 Two young couples driving in late 1950s convertible singing “she’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes.”

04:11:18:08 CU Car’s speedometer at 60 mph.

04:11:43:19 POV shot from back of convertible at night, car headlights coming from other direction rapidly approach; CU woman’s face smiling and singing, suddenly turns to terror just before car collision; black out screen to shot of undercarriage of car turned on its side.

04:13:32:02 VS bandaged man in hospital bed interviewed about his drunk driving accident by police office and army officer; man in hospital bed begins to panic and hyperventilate when he learns of his friends injuries and manslaughter charges against him; officers leave and man’s fathers enters room and bandaged man covers face with arm and breaks down crying, nurse enters frame and injects man with sedative.

04:18:58:19 Air Force soldier enters dormitory style bedroom acting nervous and anxious, stands by window biting fingers.

04:22:51:03 CU hands caressing hand gun; camera pulls back to show man in white undershirt contemplating suicide; soldier walks in on him.

04:25:31:27 Man finds gun under friends pillow, other man panics when he sees friend has found the gun; man talks his friend out of suicide.

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Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Atlas Film Corporation

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