SUPPORT STRICT LAW ENFORCEMENT

The 1960 commercial emphasizes the urgent need for strict law enforcement to enhance traffic safety, highlighting that careless driving causes more child fatalities than major diseases like pneumonia and cancer. Sponsored by the Advertising Council and the National Safety Council, the campaign encourages community support for local enforcement officials to combat traffic accidents, asserting that adherence to traffic laws can significantly reduce deaths. Additionally, the text mentions efforts to preserve historical films, inviting individuals to donate or scan endangered films for broader sharing.
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This short commercial from 1960 promotes "strict law enforcement" especially when it comes to traffic safety. The point of the "slideshow" type ad is that drivers kill and injure more children than any disease. The commercial was part of a print, radio and TV ad campaign sponsored by the Advertising Council and the National Safety Council. A print ad from the same campaign reads: "Careless drivers kill more children than pneumonia, cancer, polio, congenital malformation, or any other cause. Drivers kill and cripple more children than any major disease. You've helped fight cancer, polio, other dreadful diseases. Now recognize the giant killer—traffic accidents! Fight it. Write your local enforcement officials. Say: I support strict law enforcement. Let them know you are behind their efforts to protect your children. For wherever traffic laws are strictly obeyed and enforced, deaths go down! Your community can be another to prove it!"

Transcription

[Music] drivers more children than any disease drivers kill more children than any disease drivers kill and more children than any disease these precious children you can do something to really help protect them because strict law enforcement reduces traffic [Music] accidents strict law enforcement protects children write your local law enforcement officials tell them I support strict law enforcement

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  1. YouTube channel: PeriscopeFilm · video ↗ — title, year, creator, genre, description, video
  2. 16mm Filmography editors — catalog record