# 1950s CHEVROLET PEDAL CAR DRIVER'S EDUCATION MOVIE "TOMORROW'S DRIVERS" 61044

This 1954 black and white documentary film Tomorrows Drivers is presented by Chevrolet dealers (:07) and produced by Jam Handy Pictures (Jam was also a U.S. Olympic swimmer). It details an early education safety consciousness driving program aimed at kindergarten through third-grader students at Garfield Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. James (Jimmy) Stewart is the storyteller. Actors Charles Bernstein, Haskel Welch, and Thelma Bennett play roles. A group of six-year-old children shown standing in a classroom (:16) are now driving child-size peddle-push Chevys on a closed course of miniature roads, complete with road signs, as an experiment in driver’s education (:47- 1:27 ). A traffic jam at an intersection is interrupted by the teacher ( 1:28 - 1:39 ), which is now duplicated by real Chevy cars on a real road ( 1:41 - 1:58 ). A mother drives a 1954 Chevy BelAir while taking her young daughter to Garfield Elementary runs a stop sign ( 2:00 - 2:19 ). Children play in the schoolyard ( 2:20 ) before sitting in an auditorium ( 2:43 ) to watch the program. First is a magic safety show performed by a police officer ( 2:52 - 3:19 ). Next, a game of musical chairs has been modified as they study traffic light signals ( 3:20 - 3:38 ). Outside the classroom, a group of first-graders and their teacher cross the street at the crosswalk ( 3:39 - 3:55 ). Classic scenes of a teacher seated up front with a small group of students while the rest are seated at their desks is shown (…

- Kind: Educational
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/61044TomorrowsDriversVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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