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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This film, “The Talking Car“ was produced by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington, D.C. It educates the viewer on traffic rules and pedestrian safety. The film reaches a young audience by using a talking car to deliver instructions to a young girl and boy on their walk home from school. This imaginative film proved so popular that an update was made a couple of decades later. (Main title missing.) A girl and boy walk together outside, while the boy plays harmonica (00:07). They meet a dog (00:14). The boy plays a song on the harmonica, and the dog barks (00:26). The boy stops the girl from crossing the street at a green light (00:46). A green traffic light (00:57). It turns yellow (01:03) and then red (01:06). The boy and girl stand in the street (01:08). The dog barks at a parked red car (01:14). An animated face appears on the car (01:25). The animated face on the car starts talking (01:29). The boy, girl, and dog watch the talking car (01:36). The dog runs behind a tree (01:42). The car continues talking (01:50). The girl and boy speak with the car (01:55). The car is parked (02:31). A teacher and a police officer are teaching school children about safety (02:35). The boy and the girl participate (02:48). “Look both ways before crossing” safety instruction poster (02:56). The car with the animated face is talking (03:04). The boy and girl talk with the car (03:09). A “School” road sign (03:29). A policeman guiding pedestrians across a road (03:34). A driver hand signals (03:37). Pedestrians cross various streets (03:47). The boy and the girl continue talking with the car (03:59). Fences appear on the markings for a crosswalk (04:27), and then disappear (04:37). A girl crossing the road with her bike looks well to both sides to ensure safety (04:52). A boy is crossing the road somewhere with no crosswalk (05:04). The boy and the girl are sitting on the curb with the dog, talking to the car (05:17). A group of boys play with a ball and bat in the middle of a street (05:39). A car drives by and the boys walk to the side of the road (05:53). A young boy runs into the street without looking beforehand and is almost hit by a car (06:05). The girl, boy, and dog sit and talk to the car (06:13). The boy is walking home, while feeling sick (06:33). He forgets to pay attention to his surrounding and is almost hit by a car while crossing the road (06:42). The boy and girl speak with the car (06:52). The girl is walking on a sidewalk (07:10). She runs into the street without looking beforehand and is almost hit by a car (07:21). The girl walks across the street on a crosswalk (07:35). The boy and girl talk with the car (07:46). A boy is running on the sidewalk (08:07). He falls in the street in front of a car (08:16). Two boys walk on the sidewalk (08:26). One of them walks backwards into the street and is hit by a car (08:31). The two boys and the driver stand in the street talking (08:39). A girl is walking on the sidewalk (08:44). She stops at a red traffic light (08:53). She looks both ways and decides to cross the road despite the red light and is almost hit by a car (08:58). The car is talking to the boy and girl (09:15). A man is walking on the side of the road after sundown (09:52). A woman is walking on the side of the road after sundown (10:02). Two cars driving towards each other in the dark (10:14). Two cars driving towards each other on a dark and rainy day (10:21). The girl, boy, and car are talking (10:25). A group of boys playing baseball on a fenced court (11:15). A traffic light turning from yellow to red (11:20). A driver hand signaling in a Plymouth car (11:22). The boys cross an intersection by a corner (11:26). A boy walks across the street (11:29). The boy and girl talk with the car (11:36). The talking car’s driver arrives (11:51). The girl and boy say goodbye and cross the street when the traffic light turns green (12:03). Credits (12:23). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
