https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ffadbdc8-a1c4-4fcb-ab52-6f281e11f1a7 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD This 1948 American Red Cross black-and-white short film titled “Danger is Your Companion” is produced by Ted Nemeth Studios. It promotes the importance of being first aid ready in an age (late 1940s) of increasing accidents. The film is written by Joel Weil, narrated by Dwight Weist, and photographed by Saul S. Midwall. “Danger is Your Companion” title banner (00:06). Credits (00:10). Cars driving through a town (00:20). A man talks to another man sitting in his car (00:44). The standing man buys a newspaper (00:48). The “Star Tribune” front page about an accident (00:53). The two men discuss the increasing number of accidents (00:57). The man in the car starts driving and nearly hits a woman in the street (01:33). The other man helps the woman (01:35). Books and pamphlets about safety (01:42). Street signs urging drivers to remain careful to avoid accidents (01:52). Poster urging people to act carefully to avoid accidents (02:08). A Dept. of Public Health office (02:24). Two men converse in the office (02:31). They discuss graphs revealing yearly deaths from accidents (02:34). An illustration explaining the main causes of death in the USA starting with diseases including influenza, meningitis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, etc. (02:39). Next it shows the number of deadly accidents accountable for more than 50% of all deaths (03:12). Newspaper headlines about accidents (03:26). A man pulls over and attends to two lifeless bodies lying in the street after they’ve been in a car accident (03:35). Another doctor man at the scene and treats the wounded (04:32). The woman of the accident lies wrapped in gauze in a hospital bed (05:03). A nurse and a doctor attend to her (05:15). The doctor speaks to the camera about how the second man who arrived at the scene saved her life because he knew first aid (05:22). He continues speaking about the importance of civilians knowing first aid (05:47). An American Red Cross “First Aid Textbook” (06:32). A first aid class (06:37). The participants perform exercises to practice first aid skills such as wrapping gauze on hands and feet (06:56). “Should you put antiseptic on cuts?” text overlay (07:30). “Should you put oil or grease on a burn?” text overlay (07:37). “Should you give bread in case of fishbone in throat?” (07:44). “Should you move a person who has a brain concussion?” (07:49). “What is first aid for a heart attack?” (07:56). The Red Cross first aid class continues (08:02). Industrial buildings (08:26). A “Safety Engineer” office (08:36). Two men are in the office (08:39). Views of factory workers and a safety engineer providing safety instruction (08:42). Workers look at posters displaying safety instructions (08:57). Factory workers attend a class for workplace safety and first aid (09:22). Documents of industrial safety organizations (09:39). Informational text overlay (09:44). Views of industrial farm work (10:04). Footage portraying dangers of accidents for children and adults on a farm (10:13). Children biking (10:41). School children (10:46). A girl rollerskating home (10:55). She removes her skates and leaves them on the steps to the house (11:03). A woman exits the house and falls by stepping on the roller skates (11:15). A boy is playing with matches on the floor (11:30). A man trips on carpet down the stairs (11:35). A man falls from standing on a chair (11:39). Cars driving (11:41). A sign displaying a five year accident toll (11:56). Four teenagers go on a drive (12:04). Newspaper headlines about accidents overlaid on screen (12:40). The teenagers drive recklessly (12:51). They get in an accident (13:26). Other cars pull over and people rush to perform first aid on the teenagers (13:29). An ambulance arrives (14:42). A drawing of a hand holding two people performing first aid on a lifeless body (15:36), then holding a medical card (15:43). “The End” text overlay (15:50). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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