# Car driving safety cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927 "2016-04-03T23:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/1 "2016-04-03T23:38:45Z")
``` In the '50s I was a kid; I got to watch cartoons Saturday morning on the Hotpoint (! Did it match the range & refrigerator?) I got up so early I watched static, the Indian chief test pattern, Bosco Mouse (the worst of the lot) - and car driving safety cartoons. The cartoons were primitively animated, the cars little rectangles, the road always straight. It was only 2 color. Bland music would accompany the setup, menacing music as danger neared, loud discordant music as 2 cars collided, an X where they hit. Then they would start the cartoon again, show everybody doing the right thing, triumphant music would play. The music sounded like the guy who composed 'Dragnet's wrote it. Each one lasted a few minutes. I remember the 'slow car climbing the mountain' cartoon: 5 cars backed up behind him, the last guy got impatient, tried to pass 5 cars, collided with an oncoming car. In the solution the slow guy pulled over and let everyone pass. I have an underpowered car and used to drive in mountains; I always pulled over when I slowed somebody down. One guy was too impatient and crushed my left rear lights passing me - so I guess I don't always get rewarded - but I remember the cartoon when I climb a mountain. ``` ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/2 "2016-04-04T00:11:05Z")
Those car safety cartoons didn’t play in the NY market in the '50s, so I really can’t visualize them. When I got up at the crack of dawn on weekends, I got to watch _The Modern Farmer_–which is exactly what a kid in Brooklyn, NY wants to watch. (NOT!) However, after _The Modern Farmer_, they usually ran an episode or two of _Victory at Sea_, which was a US Navy series from WW II. That, at least, was interesting, but–truth be told–in the '50s, people would watch just about anything on the boob tube, simply because the medium was new and unique. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/3 "2016-04-04T03:06:19Z")
When I was a kid Victory at Sea was every Sunday at 1:00 PM. Church was over by 12:30 but of course my parents stayed to socialize. I would say good bye and run across a 20 acre field. I switched the 1956 RCA on hoping the tubes would warm up in time. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/4 "2016-04-04T05:04:46Z")
I can’t recall when it was on but I did watch it. Seems to me on Sunday after church it was Raja of the Jungle or however it was spelled. Remember those two guys who would be exploring the jungle somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/5 "2016-04-04T05:14:08Z")
I remember the test pattern, I think a tone went along with it, kids today probably have never seen the colored bars, a friend has a rotary phone, teenagers don’t know how to work it, she has an old oak fridge with the compartment on top for an ice block. As a kid as a joke my grandfather put a pull chain in the outhouse at the cabins, story is I was in tears because I could not make it work! ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/6 "2016-04-04T05:30:41Z")
Hee hee rotary phones. Actually wasn’t that long ago in some areas. We had to wait until Ma Bell put the electronic switching systems in before you could get the touch tone ones. Before they changed the switching we used to have the electronic phones that would convert the push button to the rotary signal for a while. Hilarious. At work in Minneapolis we had the rotary phones and Bell refused to change their switching equipment to electronic. So we just spent a couple hundred thousand and put in our own switching equipment and phones and threw Bell out. Very satisfying. When they packed up our solenoid switching equipment, they said it was bound for South America. Guess we got a little off topic. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/7 "2016-04-04T05:38:58Z")
Sure wee get off topic, why not, we had a party line at the cabins, you had to wait until another party got off to make a call, but it was considered courteous not to listen to the conversation while one waited, to keep it car related remember one post here, guy bought an old car but had trouble starting it, did not know you had to pump the gas pedal once to set the choke! ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/8 "2016-04-04T06:23:42Z")
You guys had rotary phones? Our first phone had a crank! ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/9 "2016-04-04T06:41:16Z")
Anyone remember this cartoon? ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/10 "2016-04-04T15:51:51Z")
Great!! ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/11 "2016-04-04T16:29:15Z")
**“it was Raja of the Jungle or however it was spelled.”** It was Ramar of The Jungle (starring Jon Hall), and I watched that one too! In the afternoon, I can recall watching Sky King, who sometimes drove a DeSoto station wagon… ---
**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/12 "2016-04-04T16:41:08Z")
I watched Ramar but my favorite was “Sheena…Queen of the Jungle.” I was also a big of “The Three Stooges and The Little Rascals and Our Gang.” ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/13 "2016-04-04T18:25:40Z")
**Sheena…Queen of the Jungle** I had forgotten about that one, which starred–IIRC-the beautiful _Irish McCalla_ (sp?). I wonder which country her parents hailed from. **;-))** If Sheena had driven a car, it surely would have had leopard skin seat covers! ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/14 "2016-04-04T19:14:12Z")
B.L.E.: Motor Mania was the first cartoon I thought of. Mr. Walker and Mr. Wheeler (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/15 "2016-04-04T21:00:20Z")
Yeah that was it. Sky King was on Saturday morning along with 26 Men, Texas Rangers, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, etc. Yeah I liked those Desoto station wagons but I always wondered how far it was to the dealer for service. Seemed like he was way out in the middle of no where. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/16 "2016-04-05T02:12:34Z")
Sky King!!! I had a big time crush on Penny. {sigh} ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/17 "2016-04-05T02:34:18Z")
She was too old for me but Annette in the Mickey Mouse Club was another story. I go back to the club every year but unfortunately time marches on and I’m married. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/18 "2016-04-05T03:53:53Z")
Both of them were too old for me at the time. I’m married, too, and have been for almost 33 years. Smartest thing I ever did. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/19 "2016-04-06T23:50:32Z")
I was in my late 20s before my home town got rotary phones. Before that you would pick up the phone and the operator would say number please. Sometimes after you gave the number the operator would tell you," Don’t bother calling them , they wen berry picking with so snd so and won’t be back for hours," ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927/20 "2016-04-06T23:56:00Z")
Yeah my mom was a telephone operator in her youth. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-driving-safety-cartoons/92927.md?page=2)