Look at most UK footage of this era showing urban areas and there'll be kids playing in the street and almost no (or no) cars. My guess is for most streets road safety for kids simply wasn't a big issue.
In this film though the single cars that appear, with almost no other people on the street, appear to be driven directly at large groups of kids (or adults) obviously in the middle of the street and brake last minute or too late. In one scene the driver then gets out to patronise them and tell them it is their fault. After he drove at them and braked too late. Huh? The scene also appears to suggest a bombed out site with lots of rubble and debris is a safer place to play.
So, as a (road) safety film, from a 2021 perspective, I'd give it 1 star only.
But as a slice of life document I found it quite memorable. That odd attitude, and the way the kids all follow the one kid with a toy wooden plane, jsut really stick with me.
In this film though the single cars that appear, with almost no other people on the street, appear to be driven directly at large groups of kids (or adults) obviously in the middle of the street and brake last minute or too late. In one scene the driver then gets out to patronise them and tell them it is their fault. After he drove at them and braked too late. Huh? The scene also appears to suggest a bombed out site with lots of rubble and debris is a safer place to play.
So, as a (road) safety film, from a 2021 perspective, I'd give it 1 star only.
But as a slice of life document I found it quite memorable. That odd attitude, and the way the kids all follow the one kid with a toy wooden plane, jsut really stick with me.
