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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Sid Davis Productions presents “The Bottle and The Throttle,” produced with the cooperation of the Culver City Police Department and the Culver City Unified School District in 1961. This short film depicts the potential dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol. The film incorporates statistics compiled by the National Safety Council and American Medical Association. 0:39 A young man wearing a flannel (“Bill”) sits on a grassy lawn, looking forlorn. A group of neighbors surround the site of an accident, and a police car approaches. The bodies of a young woman and her child are covered by blankets on the sidewalk. Police roll out a stretcher, and an officer approaches Bill. As the officer escorts Bill, he pauses in front of the woman’s body on the stretcher. She opens her eyes and looks up at Bill. The ambulance takes the mother and child away, their sirens b
