4/14/2023 0 Comments Dont touch my truck![]() ![]() I DO recall being warned not to blow ourselves up with firecrackers, but that must not have required posters, bad cinema, or big red EXPLOSIVESmobiles. My big question is, was this really a big enough problem that it needed two films? I went to school at about the time this film was made, and I do not recall ever being told (by poster, film, or otherwise) not to touch blasting caps or not to go aroung wiring random electrical devices to radio batteries. Then he gives the kids posters to hang at school, tells them "DON'T TOUCH!" and rides off into the sunset, apparently without unplugging his TV. This gives us the only interesting moments of the film, as blasting caps blow up dummies and put holes in things. Then he asks one of the boys to plug in the super-long electrical cord of the TV he happens to keep in the back of his car (?) so he can show a film on the dangerous effects of blasting caps. He gets the key and puts the blasting cap into a large red lockbox. Right then our hero shows up to save the day. "NO! It's a blasting cap! It's DANGEROUS!!!!" "No it isn't- it's some kind of electrical device and I'm going to wire it up to my radio battery!" "Didn't you see the poster at school?" "No." This goes on and on. ![]() One kid has locked the blasting cap in his garage and is fighting with his friend for the key. Cut to a garage, where 3 teenage boys are fighting. This film starts with a dispatcher sending an explosives technician (in a big red 70s Ford Station wagon with a large EXPLOSIVES sign on it) to pick up a blasting cap that some kids had found. ![]() It is a somewhat longer but (relatively speaking) much more interesting film. Titled "Blasting Cap- Danger!", it was also produced by IME. There is also a 1957 film on the same subject available from the Prelinger Archive at. Both films are produced by the Institute Of Makers Of Explosives (IME) and appear to be from roughly the same time period. This movie also gives the same examples of uses of explosives and uses some of the same footage of explosives in action. This film seems to tie in with "Explosives-Tool for Progress"- this film opens with a narrator saying "That's how professionals use explosives." which sounds like a reference to that film. This film isnÃÂÃÂt nearly as much fun as Blasting Cap Danger, but it does make its point quickly, without wearing out its welcome. The highlight of this is a bizarre-looking mannequin that is used to show what would happen to a person in the vicinity of an exploding blasting cap. The friend calls the police, who send out a guy in a red car, labeled ÃÂÃÂEXPLOSIVES,ÃÂÃÂ who verrry carefully puts the blasting cap in a metal strongbox and then shows the kids a video about the dangers of blasting caps from the tv he just happens to have in the back of his car. Fortunately, he has a friend who remembers seeing a poster warning about blasting caps at school. A kid finds a blasting cap, and even though he doesnÃÂÃÂt know what it is, he thinks it would be a good idea to hook it up to the radio heÃÂÃÂs building (whereÃÂÃÂs Dick York when you need him?). This is another film about the dangers of blasting caps, this time targeting teens and taking place during the 70s.
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