# " THE OPERATOR AND SAFETY " 1940s BUS DRIVER TRAINING FILM

Created by the Federal Security Agency and the United States Office of Education Division of Visual Aids in the 1940s, "The Operator and Safety" is a bus driver training film. Featuring a Mack CM-G3 transit bus, the film was shot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and its vicinity around 1941. The bus used in the film, number 1822, was part of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit system. Founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, the Federal Security Agency (FSA) was an independent agency of the United States government established as part of the Reorganization Act of 1939. For a time, the agency oversaw food and drug safety, education funding, administration of public health programs, and the Social Security old-age pension plan. Today, the agency was superseded by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Film opens, official FSA seal, opening credits and title page (0:09). Back of CM-G3 transit bus as it drives down quiet residential street, trees, white-picket fences (0:22). Elderly woman slowly gets on bus, door closes on her (0:31). Tow truck (perhaps produced by Autocar Company, Autocar Motortruck) tows a CM-G3 bus into service garage (0:41). What appears to be 1940 Buick Ambulance pulls up to hospital (0:52). 1939 Ford V8 parked on left-side of road, CM-G3 bus drives along busy street lined with residential homes (1:04). CM-G3 in garage, bus operator conducts thorough safety check before driving: Adjusts seat, starts engine and lets it warm up, checks…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/70772TheOperatorAndSafety)
- 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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