BLOOD ON THE WINDSCREEN
By John Harrison
THE COLD & VIOLENT WORLD OF THE DRIVER’S EDUCATION FILM 1959 - 1975
Blood on the Windscreen takes us on a gaudy journey through one of the most foreboding of all film genres: the Driver’s Education film.
Shown in classrooms across America, the Driver’s Education film hit its peak in the early-1960s, when the notorious Ohio based company, Highway Safety Films, Inc., began producing a series of in...credibly graphic and unnerving 16mm shorts that showed young high school kids no mercy as it attempted to curb the slaughter that was taking place on American freeways.
Featuring a history of the genre, a look into the sordid underbelly of Highway Safety Films, Inc., an A-Z filmography and an interview with Bret Wood (director of the classic documentary on the subject, Hell’s Highway), Blood on the Windscreen is your perfect (shattered) window into this unique and disturbing era of classroom education.
Blood on the Windscreen will be available through Amazon from January 2013 and is published - suitably enough - in the style and format of a vintage educational booklet from the 1960s.
ISBN: 978-1481073455/Pages: 28/Price: US $6.00
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Windscreen-Violent-Drivers-Education/dp/1481073451/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_1_BV6E
Shown in classrooms across America, the Driver’s Education film hit its peak in the early-1960s, when the notorious Ohio based company, Highway Safety Films, Inc., began producing a series of in...credibly graphic and unnerving 16mm shorts that showed young high school kids no mercy as it attempted to curb the slaughter that was taking place on American freeways.
Featuring a history of the genre, a look into the sordid underbelly of Highway Safety Films, Inc., an A-Z filmography and an interview with Bret Wood (director of the classic documentary on the subject, Hell’s Highway), Blood on the Windscreen is your perfect (shattered) window into this unique and disturbing era of classroom education.
Blood on the Windscreen will be available through Amazon from January 2013 and is published - suitably enough - in the style and format of a vintage educational booklet from the 1960s.
ISBN: 978-1481073455/Pages: 28/Price: US $6.00
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Windscreen-Violent-Drivers-Education/dp/1481073451/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_1_BV6E
