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- Two young girls playing hopscotch at a playground accept n offer of some candy by a stranger. When he also offers them a ride home in his car, they accept, but they soon discover that he has no intention of taking them home when he pulls off the road into a wooded area and drags them out of the car and into the woods.
- The results of serious traffic accidents caused by careless driving are displayed.
- HIGHWAYS OF AGONY is another highway horrorshow classic by the genre's founder, former accountant and crime scene buttinsky Richard Wayman (and produced by Earle Deems). Specializing in educational films targeted at teenagers and schoolchildren, Wayman's Highway Safety Films were known for their voyeuristic scenes of automotive carnage in full color along with ghoulish, almost vindictive narration (here by Wayne Byers) that seems to delight at the idea of "careless" drivers paying for their distraction with their lives. Unlike Wayman's earlier SIGNAL 30, HIGHWAYS OF AGONY features a foreboding organ soundtrack as well as brief dramatizations to set-up for scenes of unflinching roadway atrocities. Readers of Ralph Nader's UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED may note a "leading candidate for the unsafest car title" Chevrolet Corvair among the wreckages. - Tom Fritsche
- The dangers of speeding and reckless driving are illustrated courtesy of bloody accident footage supplied by the Ohio Highway Patrol.
- As the holiday weekend begins, officers of The Ohio Highway Patrol prepare for accidents. They deal with several, most of which involve gruesome fatalities. Events leading up to these tragedies are re-enacted along with actual file footage of the brutal aftermath.
- I live in Mansfield, Ohio, where "Camera Surveilance" was shot. This was a "training film" made by the Mansfield Police Department and Highway Safety Foundation, under the aegis of Safety Enterprises, Inc. This film, along with a film called "The Child Molester" (which I have never seen) was made in response to the 1962 discovery of two little girls who were found dead near a creek in a park. It is introduced by the Chief of Police at that time. It goes on to present us with a "sting operation" set up in a public men's restroom in downtown Mansfield's Central Park (which was closed as a "public nuisance" shortly afterward), in which we are presented with scene after scene of gay men having sex with one another in the said restroom. We are even presented with the mugshots of said men, along with the disposition of their case, usually "Committed to Lima State Hospital" or "Committed to the Ohio State Penitentary" "for a term of 1 to 20 years: Psychopath".
- On the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Highway Safety Foundation (HSF), we learn who they are and what they do: they make traffic-safety motion pictures that are intended to shock you. The films show you the sights and sounds of the pain experienced by real-life victims of auto accidents, photographed and recorded on the scene. The films teach us what happened and how to avoid the same gruesome fate.
- A Great and Honorable Duty is a 30 minute short introduction to police service in the 60's.
- A teenager recalls an incident where he and three of his friends used fake IDs to buy and consume alcohol in a bar. Following, he was caught by the police and convicted for driving while intoxicated, and he and his friends were additionally convicted for fraud for using the fake IDs. An off-screen narrator tells some facts about alcohol, its consumption, its effect on the human brain and the rationale for having a legal age restriction for its consumption. Despite some positive effects of alcohol when consumed responsibly, the narrator also dispels the myth that many teens have that alcohol makes them appear older to others. In this situation, the narrator also mentions that the teens' actions have a wider ranging negative effect on the bar itself, despite the bar staff doing due diligence in checking ID. The question becomes whether this brief act of wanting to appear older is worth having his driver's license taken away, having to sell his car and having a life long criminal record.