" CRASH AND LIVE " 1950s DRIVER'S EDUCATION FILM w/ COL. JOHN PAUL STAPP CAR ACCIDENTS 90734
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“Crash and Live” is a sort of public service announcement meets public relations presentation about the improvements in automobile safety in the mid 1950s. Colonel John Paul Stapp was a physician in the Air Force who was interested in how G-force effects interacted with the human body. He believed that human bodies could withstand more than the accepted limit in the 1940s of 18 G’s. This black and white film reel shows an interview with Colonel Stapp of Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico (01:55), along with some of the human factors tests conducted by the colonel and other expirementers in the auto and air industries. The U.S. Air Force officer and flight surgeon is known for his research on the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces, even personally testing the results of withstanding four tons of force with himself strapped to a rocket sled that he built to accelerate down a track at hundreds of miles an hour. While using crash tests with stunt dummies was the norm during the time in speed experiments as high-stakes as the one Stapp performed, the scientist and record-breaker attempted the feat in-person. At 3:07, John Moore, the Director of Automobile Crash Injury Research of Cornell University Medical College is shown speaking on behalf of Cornell’s research team regarding the findings of the institute. The film introduces other auto industry speakers who apply Stapp’s statistical findings to automobile crash tests and announce improvements to be made upon problematic features of vehicles like window and mirror locations (3:04-12:01). Alex L. Haynes of the Ford Motor Company presents related findings and points to steps his company will take to reduce injuries in automobile crashes (4:07-11:00). The reel includes these press briefings in an effort to show safety measures being taken for public safety in cars and is produced by Information Productions, Inc. of New York in the year 1955.
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For the first time, in 1956 Ford offered optional lap seat belts in their new cars. Very few people bought them. It wasn't till the late '60s that the federal government finally began to require certain basic safety features in cars, but even though seat belts then became standard, hardly anyone voluntarily used them. Individual states began to pass mandatory seat belt laws in the 1980s, and belt usage became finally a regular thing. I was an exception to the usual practice and always wore a seat belt from the 1960s onwards, which fortunately kept me alive and uninjured in a freeway rollover crash in 1978. My survival, interestingly, made no impression on any of my friends at the time, none of whom then started wearing belts.
Hosted by the future host of JEOPARDY!, Art Fleming
Three of the most significant automotive safety advances were shoulder belts, the collapsible steering column and locking front seat backs. The '67 Camaro is credited with being the first US to be equipped with a steering column that retracted 4 inches in an accident.
Like anything else, seat belts only work if you use them. Sometimes you have to legislate and penalize people for their own good.
Thanks for posting this... fascinating stuff!
Art Fleming was the original host of "Jeopardy!"
I noticed the moonroof in both test cars 14:50
Haven’t we come a long way since then!
17:35 do you think those two cars will be on Jackson Barrett’s auction? In the future
The Stapp Car Crash conference was held annually for many years, and a book of essays / presentations from it was published. These articles started out really basic, with just descriptions of crashes, but eventually became very scientific. In some cases, actual crashes were re-staged with the same types of cars, but containing actual human cadavers.
Drive as if your life depended on it. It does!
2:35 he did suffer a temporary disability his eyes were blowin out for quite some time and he couldn’t see
Got to love how the American auto industry doesn't step up until someone else points out their problems.
Yet some driver's still don't buckle up. You can't make stupid safe. Nash had the 1st seatbelts in an American car in 49' followed by Ford Motor in 55' and after Saab used them in 58' they became widely adopted by the industry. I think often the auto industry has been proactive but comes into conflict with consumer habits and sentiments that run counter to what is intended or needed. That's where the trouble is IMO.
FERD! 😆😂😂 We've used that term to describe the CAR for several years.
....... Fascinating stuff. Safety Features that TUCKER introduced in 1948!!! The "Big 3" ran him out of Business, because they feared the use of Safety Devices. 😖😡😞
No Ford, it WASN'T New.
Of course, Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers still refused to use even Seat Belts, through the 50's, 60's and most of the 70's...
Until finally FORCED to!
Nowadays it's as natural as shutting the door!
outstanding!!!
@16:42, Converse All-Stars: protecting the feet of crash test dummies and lots of other dummies since 1917.
How are those internal injuries doing?
3:44 where is the air bag?
This was the time when the air bag didn't exist.
@@OverseerMoti i know it was a joke :-)
Those 50's cars were fairly tough for being relatively lightweight compared to similar sized cars now. As long as you didn't hit a fixed object the cars were relatively safe.
Have a friend that we cake cannon ball because his chest looks like it caught one with it, it was a steering column.
WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID THAT THE USA WILL ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING, EVENTUALLY!!!!!!
Ford? Lets talk about the Pinto 20 yrs later.
A bolt that was too long, easily fixed.
Poor guy