This wonderful, innuendo-filled, animated 1949 color film, Avoidable Carrier Accidents, is United States Navy Training Film MN4353q. It opens with animated cars obeying a traffic light (0:13-0:20). A uniformed Navy officer looks upon a “Join the Navy” recruitment sign, which zooms into an Arabian location where the rest of the film takes place (0:21-0:40). The pilots take a break from sea and head to a bar, where a scantily clad belly dancer performs and a pilot “crashes” onto the stage (0:41-1:30). A plane is shown overcorrecting on the officer’s signals and coming by too low onto the carrier. When it turns, it rips off part of the carrier, crashes, and has to be towed out of the sea (1:39-2:06). Arab sellers peddle rugs, and the officer attempts to dissuade the pilot from purchasing one, which he ignores to his expense (2:07-2:37). The pilot fiddles with switches, drops the wheels of the plane, and prepares to land. (2:38-3:05). The plane is shown landing onto the carrier from the pilot’s perspective, but is then shown crashed (3:06-3:27). A pilot considers a flying carpet from an Arab merchant, which he tests by flying around the city and crashing (3:28-4:32). The officer shows a photo of the pilot suspended from a crashed plane in a parachute (4:33-4:40). Two pilots are shown driving a car wildly through the city, crashing through walls (4:41-5:15). The same pilot is then shown landing a plane into a carrier, coming in at an angle, and crashing (5:16-5:26). The film returns to the erratically driven car. The second pilot takes over but drives down a staircase and also crashes (5:27-6:04). A plane lands onto the carrier, but the pilot bounces the landing, causing it to crash (6:05-6:33). Snake charmers with cobras offer to take a pilot’s picture for a fee, who then crashes into a fountain (6:34-7:13). A plane attempts to land on the carrier, and the pilot pulls the stick back, and spins into the ocean (7:14-7:34). The officer sits in a cafe and gives advice on landing an airplane on a carrier ship (7:35-8:03). He rides off in a car with an Arabian woman (8:04-8:15). The film fades back to the Navy recruitment sign, where the officer waves the fans (8:16-8:30).

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