The Israel Film Service Collection

Traffic Safety Mouse, Ep. 1: Tripping Over a Banana Peel

1 Minute, 1977
Genre:
Public Announcement

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Directed by: Unknown
Production Company:Israel Film Service
Language: Hebrew
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Episode 1 in a series of educational clips about traffic safety, produced by the Ministry of Transport and the National Council for Accident Prevention. Each episode opens with a brief, humorous cartoon illustrating the subject of the clip, starring the Traffic Safety Mouse – a character adapted from a German cartoon from the 1970s titled “Die Sendung mit der Maus” (“The Program with the Mouse”). This episode features two children running and playing in the street, until one of them throws a banana peel and drops it on the road. Later, a woman runs onto the road to make it in time for her bus and slips on the banana peel. The lesson learned is that one shouldn’t run onto the road, though it is equally important to refrain from littering in the street.