Roscoe's Rules

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Children receive safety instructions from police officer at school. Police officer uses Roscoe the drumming bear to help children remember four safety rules. Four children experience situations where they call upon the golden rules to help them decide what to do.

00:31:53:16 CU little bear puppet with red bowtie dances and plays drum.

15:32:19:07 Sign on brick wall for Merlinda School in West Covina, California

15:32:25:07 VS children playing in school playground; boys and girls on monkey bars and jungle gym, girls playing hop scotch. Boy sitting on top of jungle gym, audio track narrates “That’s Jeff, he really likes recess a lot.” Girls on teeter-totter. Police officer arrives on playground with female teacher to talk to children. CU teacher blows whistle, children run to teacher and sit down on grass.

15:34:02:12 Stop light and walk signal switch from red Don’t Walk to green Walk. Street sign reads Cameron Ave.

15:34:05:07 Great high-angle shot of large group of kids cross street in crosswalk.

15:34:31:16 VS Police office kneeling down on grass in front of second grade class forming a half circle around him; police officer pulls out a toy drummer bear and places it on the box in front of him, the class applauds. Police officer turns on monkey which then begins to play its drum. Audio track “this little fellow is a friend of Smokey the Bear. Does anyone know who Smokey the Bear is?” VS children enthusiastically raising hands. CU toy drummer bear plays drum.

15:35:11:11 Great shot of school teacher sitting on grass lefts up green sign with white text “We always go straight home from school.” VS children seated cross-legged on grass.

15:35:31:06 VS CU mechanical drumming bear; teacher lifts up yellow sign with black text “We never get into a car without our parents’permission”.

15:35:40:24 CU VS drumming mechanical toy bear; teacher lifts red sign with white text “We never take gifts from anyone without our parents’ permission.” VS drumming bear; teacher lifts off grass blue sign with white text “We never walk or play in lonely places.”

15:36:14:15 Great shot police officer kneeling on one knee holding toy of Roscoe the drumming bear. School children all stand up and swarm around police officer holding toy of Roscoe the bear.

15:36:30:13 CU school bell ringing.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Davis (Sid) Productions

Subtitles

Automatic captions

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