Shield Over Dallas

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4 жыл бұрын

Produced by the Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission, this 1959 film reviews the everyday duties of the Dallas Police Department which keep citizens safe. Also featured is the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, which patrolled the unincorporated parts of Dallas County. Points of interest in the film include footage of First National Bank of Dallas and Love Field Airport.

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@daves2058 3 жыл бұрын

It's reassuring knowing downtown Dallas is so safe at night!

@dave1956 2 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine how much more police activity there is today at a bus station.

@kiefchief1 2 жыл бұрын

I've finally learned from the comments here, that my accent is a close to vintage Dallas. Amazing footage I will be sharing.

@texomajohn2916 3 жыл бұрын

Well I was living in Dallas in these years (still do in 2020) at that time we had a DA named Henry Wade, he was a very no BS kind of guy and if the Dallas PD arrested you you were in big deep shit

@christianpaul3303 Жыл бұрын

…whether you were guilty or not. 😉

@texomajohn2916 Жыл бұрын

@@christianpaul3303 very true

@HardRockMaster7577 27 күн бұрын

When I was in Jr. High in 1967, the Wade DA's office sent brochure to our classroom to warn us about tobacco, and, to equate marijuana use, to shooting up heroin. But not much about drinking alcohol... this Texas after all!!!

@dougguard1 2 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to live there before crime and violence became a way of life in Dallas. I understand some of the leafy suburbs today still have a quality of life and realative peace, but the tensions are evident and palatable. There is no ideal city in America today. But boom cities in Texas of the 50's and 60's were really big on opportunity and prosperity.

@karlastafford9623 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, I have watched this about 2 times now and trying to guess what year this was made in and i am from Dallas. They showed Down Town and i notice the Southland Life Building was there and it opened up in 1959 so this was probably made around very early 60's.

@josephg41 Жыл бұрын

Probably 1959 or 1960. The cars are always a good testament to what year it was in this era, as every year the brands would have a completely different looking car, unlike today. The newest cars I see in this video are 1959 models.

@Yandelvillegas Жыл бұрын

@@josephg41 f yo shit Nigga but we fight let’s fight nigga””””””””

@vernonmoore8367 4 жыл бұрын

What an artifact: new suburban neighborhoods, downtown, the cars, the skyline, the heavy (now vintage and rare) accent of the narrator. "Do we recognize the delicate balance between order and chaos" "This don't just happen."

@nonsuch3419 4 жыл бұрын

Lord have mercy: couldn't they have found someone who knew English?

@MrDariolett 4 жыл бұрын

I sure don’t happen in Dallas very often anymore!

@gregsells8549 3 жыл бұрын

3:19 "Yes, the banking bidness goes on quietly..."

@WAL_DC-6B 3 жыл бұрын

@@nonsuch3419 You mean like at 5:18, "and this don't just happened."

@sabrinashelton1997 Жыл бұрын

@@nonsuch3419 I bet you don't say that to all the monkeys speaking ebonics, though.

@WLM596 Жыл бұрын

My Daddy was on the force then.

@wsst1000 4 жыл бұрын

Can you provide some context for this? Where was it shown? Was it typical for a city to produce such films at the time? Was it a sort of make-work project somehow?

@MrDariolett 4 жыл бұрын

These are all very good questions I wish I knew the answers to. I think it would take an anthropologist because this kind of thing doesn’t happen anymore. If it’s busy work then it must’ve happened in another cities.

@rharvey2124 2 жыл бұрын

Must have been PR (public relations). From this and a similar 1955 Dallas city film also on improving traffic flow, I would conjecture that bad traffic was a top complaint then. So what do the local politicians do? Spend tax money on films extolling how great they are.

@ybrix101 Жыл бұрын

I imagine these films were probably shown in the local schools.

@matrox 2 жыл бұрын

9:20 🤔Wanna do a Smash and grab? Go to California or NY City. The police have all been defunded and its open season for the criminals! Sad😪

@matrox 2 жыл бұрын

NOTICE: Dallas HAS NOT Defunded the Police.✊😁

@audreywilborn2018 2 жыл бұрын

What city has ?

@Yandelvillegas Жыл бұрын

@@audreywilborn2018 not sure 🤔

@daves2058 3 жыл бұрын

Back when people actually respected the police.

@vicepresidentmikepence889 2 жыл бұрын

100% correct, back then, a cult mob would NEVER attack the U.S. Capital police, like it did on January 6, 2021

@adonisvictorious3649 Жыл бұрын

The values of the society have dramatically changed. The anti police/law notion is a testament to the breakdown of American society. This place is circling the drain fast.