Be Your Own Traffic Policeman

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Year Published: 1958

Complete Record: Animated with giant head people, cars that look like bowler hats with tiny wheels, and backgrounds consisting of horizon line and skeletal framework of office buildings. Officer Maxwell, accompanied by two agreeable children tells the audience that good citizens need to “learn all the rules.” Kids are taught that adults are not always around and they must be their own traffic policemen. Kids are shown about to commit thoughtless acts on the street-jaywalking, skating on the sidewalk- when in their oversized heads a tiny traffic policeman appears, yelling at them to shape up and be sensible.