1960s POLICE CIVILITY TRAINING FILM PLAY IT COOL INTERACTION W/ PUBLIC 65114

This late 1960s color training film for police officers “Play it Cool – A Question of Attitudes” is about how attitudes affect situations between police and citizens. It was produced in cooperation with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc. and distributed by Association Instructional Materials. It was written and directed by Lee R. Bobker. Some of the film is just the narrator looking at the camera and explaining points. The film opens from the vantage point of a group of teenagers sitting on a car hood parked along the street. Two police officers approach. One uses his billy club to touch the chest of one of the young men. This is seen as an escalation and the guys get more aggressive in their speech. The same situation is shown from the police officers’ point of view, who see the guys as belligerent and argumentative (:08-2:44). The confrontation is shown again (4:11-5:00). A motorcycle officer with sirens on aggressively points and pulls a car over, sternly approaches the car, and brusqu