Screw Drivers of 1940

This 1940 Shell Oil film nests a safety short, “The Largest Club in the World,” within a restaurant scene where two men lunch. Starring Lew Lehr and Don Wilson, it humorously skewers “screwdrivers” (reckless drivers) and “screwjays” (careless pedestrians) on Los Angeles streets. In black-and-white with sound, it boasts high-angle car shots, spinning face effects, and traffic jams at Cahuenga Pass, plus a POV westbound on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge near Yerba Buena Island and an aerial half-cloverleaf. It cuts off abruptly, leaving safety lessons dangling.