Defensive Driving
Defensive Driving
Preview Cassette # 220957 A Defensive Driving CU of a sign on a desk, reads, "Education Unit"; tilt up to a MS of a Los Angeles police officer sitting at the desk, a bound folder before him. Says, "Officer Bruce on duty". Cut to a ECU of the dossier's first page which bears the name of the film's title. Cut to several high angle tight LS's of LA traffic during rush hour; several intersections; buses and trucks and passenger cars and so on. Cut to an over the shoulder MS of Charlie the bus driver driving a bus. Level, tight LS of bus driving down a hazy, palm tree lined LA boulevard on a late afternoon (great shot). MS of Officer Bruce in his office, playing with miniature cars and a scale model of an intersection. Head-on MS's of Charlie, still in uniform, driving his own passenger car home; there are many subjective angles as well as tight LS's of potential car accidents, near misses. Excellent shots of classic late 1940's to early 1950's American automobiles. Tight LS of Charlie pulling into his Southern California suburban neighborhood driveway; he parks the car, gets out, waves to his neighbor who is watering his lawn (in BG), picks up the late edition of the newspaper off of the driveway and enters his home.