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More Safely Tomorrow

More Safely Tomorrow
Clip: 444507_1_1
Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1376
HD: N/A
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Timecode: -

PREVIEW #98560A Promotional film for Lyndon B. Johnson's US MIssion Safety 70 program to ensure safety in the workplace. VO narration with montage of various locations. Aerial factory, steel mills, hot orange metal, Woman with child and car, school bus, couple in motor boat, chemist in lab, woman shopping ot color television sets, TV manufacturing, train with new cars, people driving, boat leaving dock. Factory with danger signs. Workers reaction to co-worker being electrocuted, cuts to bandaged man in hospital bed. US Mission Safety 70 logo. Woman(secretary) in lush, wood-paneled office hallway walks into Secretary of Labors office and ands him a file. SIGN: "163 days without a lost man hour". Int. aircraft hangar (manufacturing), utilities (men working on utility pole, laying gas lines, automobile assembly line, car lot, workers leaving factory, raising frame house. Nice shot of vending machines, SIGN: "Use eye protection in this area" cuts to paramedics loading victim into ambulance (great old red and white ambulance). SIGNS: "94 days since last accident", "293 days since last disabling injury", "You can change industry". VO emphasizes how "YOU can change the world" by making your workplace a safer place. Johnson appears at end of film and talks about loss of life on the job. More shots of factories, steel, contruction, electricians. There are two answer prints available: WPA 1376 and 1376 A.