Home Safe Home

Clip: 313159_1_1

Year Shot: 1950 (Estimated Year)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 195

Original Film: WPA 1023

HD: N/A

Location: Evanston, Illinois

Timecode: -

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Reel: 1

Version on Master #195 cuts off the end. Nice little film by the National Safety Council, late 1940s/early 1950s. Opens with nice shots of downtown Evanston, Illinois. Then shots of happy family life: paperboy delivers paper, kids read funnies. Wife cooks breakfast, husband shaves. Explains the dangers people face in their own homes. Man nails quarantine signs to a door. one for scarlet fever, and for polio. Also gives hints regarding how to avoid falling and kitchen hazards. Family eats breakfast together, housewife cleans. Milkman falls (fall is not seen, just him at the bottom of the stoop), Dad almost falls off a ladder. Kid falls on slippery rug. Dad and son clean basement.