LUCKY YOU
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Year Published: 1956
Format: 16mm
Description: LUCKY YOU is an animated short safety film from 1956, "presented in the Interest of Safe Living and Education by Your Coca-Cola Bottler," that educates viewers—primarily children—on safe ways to avoid injuries from sharp objects, falling, shooting, hot objects, and crashes. The film uses an animated circus featuring "the most unusual injury defying death defying creatures in the universe": the "Cutabus," the "Fallabus," the "Shootabus," the "Burnabus," and the "Hitabus" to present each area of danger. The narrator discuses how human skin is prone to cuts and wounds from carless handling of knives or jagged cans; a person demonstrates how to cut away from the body, as well as returning tools and knives where they go. The "Fallabus" character (03:50) has a gravity resister to avoid injuries from falling. However, people do not. A boy climbs a tree (04:05). The narrator talks about crashing and falling. A montage of children and people climbing steps, branches, and more show the potential dangers of a fall. A girl (05:14) climbs on a chair in the kitchen to take out a dish from the cupboard. Ladder safety is discussed, as a boy safely repositions the legs of his ladder on a wooden board. "Shootabus" (07:16) is a perforated character that can take a shot. The film covers basic gun safety. Boys shoot BB guns; a girl uses a bow to shoot an arrow; a boy fires his slingshot. "Burnabus" cannot be burned (09:14), unlike humans. Women relax on beach (09:28) as the narrator talks about potential burns from steam, cooking grease, and open flames. A young girl in the kitchen (10:18) uses hot pads to avoid being burned. A boy lights fire in metal container (10:40); another boy lights a camp fire (11:00). The narrator reviews the importance of ensuring that campfires are completely snuffed out. "Hitabus" (11:40) can safely take the impact of being hit by a car. Children must be alert and cautious when crossing roads. Two girls look for cars before crossing a street. Kids follow safe rules when crossing a street. A boy stops to look both ways before crossing street to fetch a baseball that was hit out of the ballpark (13:12). The narrator encourages viewers to be smart and use their brains to stay safe. Schoolchildren leave Wyoming Fork School (14:03). A boy about to dive off an unfamiliar dock first checks the water below for depth and potential hazards (14:23). A boat motors around a lake (14:53). A kid rides his bike (15:06) close behind truck, putting himself in an unsafe situation. The narrator advises viewers to avoid accepting dares, such as throwing rocks, that may cause an injury. The film concludes with children riding bikes (16:35) as the narrator says that "when you stop to think, you prevent an accident." A variety of bizarre Dr. Seuss-like cartoon creatures (the Cutabus, Fallabus, Shootabus, Burnabus and Hitabus) at a circus sideshow illustrate how not to practice common-sense safety precautions. Each one is impervious to injury because of his particular physical characteristic, such as Fallabus, a pink inflated fish that cannot be injured in a fall. Each one of these cartoon freaks dies a violent death at the close of its starring segment. We're then reminded that we're not built like that and are susceptible to injuries from falling, as reenactments demonstrate. The film covers several areas of safety with comedy segments between the serious lessons. "Actually, there is only one kind of creature who can be completely safe, and that creature is... you. Yes, lucky you. You are cutable, breakable, puncturable, burnable, hurtable, drownable, yet you can be 100% lucky because you can think. And stopping to think can prevent accidents!" Some mildly disturbing content, as the animated creatures are burned, shot, punctured, etc., and the threat of the same to kids' bodies is present everywhere.PeriscopeFilm 702K subscribers Videos About Support Us on Patreon
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[Music] nowhere will you see anything to compare with this The Greatest Show on Earth he har har har step right up and see the most unusual injury defying death defying creatures in the universe hey hurry hurry hurry the cany cunning the cunningly canny colorus the only one of its kind ever to be seen anywhere in the entire world hey hurry hurry hurry come and see the fantastic The Fabulous the phenomenal fall ABS he falls he floats and floats and floats hurry hurry hurry the amazing sensation the scientific wonder the one and only shoot us come and see come and see the bnab US flame defying wonder of the world Li right up ladies and gentlemen see the hurdling hurling hiab us the unheard hindrance to Highway happiness hey hurry hurry hurry hurry and learn the secret of the tantalizing tent of mystery step right up ladies and gentlemen the show is about to begin well you'll certainly have to admit this is a strange assortment of uh well they are creatures [Music] look at that crazy cutab us not even scratched sure but look closer steel for skin no wonder it doesn't have to worry about getting cut by open Jack knives or Jagged metal or Rusty Nails but take a human being's skin soft flexible some of it thinner than tissue paper that's why a human being has to play it safe always cuts away from himself if the knife slips no damage is done he keeps his fingers well away from the edge of a knife behind the blade behind the business end or edge of any sharp tool and he knows there's no better place for a Sharp tool when it's not being used than in a rack up and out of the way and what's good for tools in a workshop is also good for knives in kitchens in fact for anything sharp or pointed use properly store properly that's the way to protect tissue paper skin lucky cabus no cuts no punctures no need to remember safety rules about the use of knives uhoh [Music] well what do you know no better than that old Cracked Egg Humpty Dumpty now when it comes to Falling there's no luckier creature than this old windbag the fibus he's light and he's bouncy and he's supposed to have a built-in gravity resistor gravity resistors we know nothing about gravity we do take a boy up in a tree oh about 20 ft about as high as an upstairs window of a home falling from this height he'd land at a speed of 25 M an hour why gravity that'd be just like going as fast as he could on his bike and then crashing into a solid brick wall and funny thing sometimes a one foot fall can be just as bad as a 20ft fall ah so what and so why care says our flouncing friend it can well feel this way about falling it can bounce so it never gives a single thought to the dangers of standing on a wobbly rocking chair or climbing up on rickety boxes or using a step ladder with a broken step or stepping on a dead Branch yes lucky fall ofus it can float in air but we can't we we have weight another thing we have bones about 200 all shapes and sizes treat them rough and they crack or break no wonder a human being is careful about climbing whether a few feet off the floor or quite a few feet off the ground what he stands on has to be sturdy and no chance of it slipping for instance a ladder is safe for climbing only when the feet are firmly anchored or when someone holds the ladder sure it's simple what safety rule isn't then there's this tricky thing called balance just a matter of keeping weight evenly distributed now as long as this boy stands straight he's safe now he's slightly off balance and he'd better be careful leans way out and he's in trouble he's topheavy he loses his balance one Crash Landing so instead of reaching way out a human being moves the ladder to a new spot and leaves flying through the air to the birds but this business of keeping one's balance is just as important on the ground as it is off the ground that's why this sort of thing spells danger in capital letters same here yes big things as well as small things same with school books a toy truck a baseball bat one of dad's garden tools whatever it is if it's lying around where people walk it's dangerous of course all this is a bunch of nonsense to the followus who has never tripped over anything in its life couldn't if it tried lucky well not entirely but now take the shoot of us things that shoot don't seem to bother it at all but why should they this creature with cross ventilation is already 72% nothing a few more holes he should worry now as we all know shooting things pack a a lot of [Music] power this kind of power can be Mighty rough when it lands on human beings who are made up of complicated and delicate organs tubes and tissues that's why human beings make such a to-do over handling and using Firearms the safe way that's why before using a gun this fellow learns from someone who really knows the right way to handle it same with loading aiming all the safety rules every good Sportsman should know he shoots only at Targets except when hunting and only when and where no other people are around that gun is always loaded as far as he is concerned and that one rule alone can save a lot of embarrassment and possible injuries fool with someone else's guns without permission m not even just to show a friend yes to be safe a human being has to remember a lot of rules while our air conditioned friend doesn't have to remember a single one [Applause] but while guns can't hurt it look what heat does nothing left but the holes let's move on to the babus heat leaves it absolutely cold well cool anyway it's made of asbestos fuzzy but it just won't burn but there's nothing unburnable about human beings we can get burned and badly from anything as hot as 140° in fact this is just a little hotter than water out of most hot water faucets 140° yet Steam runs around 212 de cooking grease gets up to 400° a lighted match up to 2100 de burning clothing as high is 2000° and only 140° heat can burn skin seriously so pots and pans are always turned so handles won't get bumped that way the Hot Stuff stays in the pans you take hot pads great little inventions the right thing to use for handling hot dishes and pans so the rule for any tool or Implement using heat is simply treat with respect and Handle With Care that goes double when dealing with open fires the only safe fire is one that is completely under control and one that stays where you want it to stay the only good matches to carry are safety matches or matches kept in a closed metal container small campfires are better than big ones better to cook over take less wood and a lot easier to put out now as every Scout knows if you break a match in two before throwing it away you can be sure it's out and just as with matches the only kind of campfire to go off and leave is one that is out completely out yes the babus is fuzzy but lucky K get scalded can't get burned but my oh my does it go to Pieces fast when it gets in front of a moving car or truck now this cocky clangy creature continually makes connections with conveyances and no cause for concern lucky hius with its spring protector this human beings don't have so keeping a sharp lookout for cars is the number one safety rule for pedest pedestrians look at it this way it takes a pretty good track man to run 100 yards in anything close to 10 seconds yet most human beings can cover a short distance like this in a second or two same with this distance now 2 seconds doesn't give much time to look out for approaching cars and not much time either for a driver to Screech his car to a stop so rather than try to beat a signal light as it's changing smart human beings wait for the green and then cross the street and even when the light is green it's safer to walk rather than run particularly on Corners where there are no traffic lights you can keep a better lookout for any car that may zip around the corner and walking is a good idea on crowded sidewalks too same with going through special playgrounds for small children the safe rule is walk don't run and no matter how many runs score the smart ball player stops and looks both ways before shagging a ball with none of these rules to remember the hbus can be carefree and careless in a way it's pretty lucky and in a way it isn't no for luck to really count it's got to be be all the way it's got to be 100% and not a single one of these creatures can claim that certainly not the C ofus fibus either shabus M babus hardly hius no sure they all had a little luck but a little luck doesn't go very far actually there is only one kind of creature who can be completely safe and that creature is you yes lucky you you are cutable breakable puncturable burnable htable drown yet you can be 100% lucky because you can think and stopping to think can prevent accidents for instance say you're about to take a dive off a strange Dock and you're not sure about how deep the water is or what's on the bottom when you stop to think you don't take that dive the same with Deep Water Swimming if you're a rookie or even a fair swimmer when you stop to think you stay in safe water with your buddy say you get the notion to fool around in a canoe or a boat maybe feel like switching places when you stop and think you change your mind and stay put until you get back to the doctor sure and this business of pulling up close behind a truck what if the truck stops suddenly or slows down fast to turn a corner when you ask yourself these questions you always keep a good distance back one out of every four pedestrian injuries is caused by people crossing streets between intersections whenever you stop to think of this you change your mind and go down to the next corner to cross funny the better you're dressed the more tempting it can be to climb around on buildings under construction but whether in Sunday or old clothes the speed with which you hit the ground is the same when you stop and think you always change your mind about climbing and move on and this silly business of taking a dare when you stop and think of who stands to get hurt you always figure it's not worth the r anyway what sports star ever takes a dare all of a sudden it may seem like a good idea to to throw something say a rock where will it land how can you be sure even big league pitchers throw wild once in a while when you think about it a second you drop the Rock and go on your way take aiming a gun at someone in fun when you stop and think of the accidents that have happened just this way you always kick that silly idea out of your mind fast it boils down to this whenever you stop to think you always prevent an accident and unlike the cabus the fibus the shabus the babus and the hius who are only Lucky in a very small way and who never think you can be completely lucky and all because you can think [Music] no [Applause]
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