Video 2 in Chronological order

This video is one of the three I remember being mentioned as having been made for training purposes. This one is geared for "Utility Workers" with the other two being one for Law Enforcement staff and one for Postal Employees.
The footage for this video and the Law Enforcement video were recorded the same day with the same people playing different characters. Many of us "License Checkers" were there for part of the day so they could be the 'actors' or just watch it being made. Since our uniform was basically a Sheriff uniform anyway, someone had borrowed a deputies shirt, they had different shoulder patches, and they just used an ACO badge on that shirt and became the deputy in the video for Law Enforcement. Bullet proof vests weren't worn all the time by police back then as they are now.

In this video, the guy that comes to the door was a field ACO, Dennis, who had actually been off work recovering from a recent motorcycle accident, hence the limp. It was taped at his rental house in San Bernardino. The 'house wife' was played by Sara T., she was also a License Checker and had been hired the same month as I had been back in 1981. And License Checker Danny played the hapless Utility guy who is supposed to be chased by a vicious Great Dane. The dog was borrowed and would not chase anybody! It was take after take to try and get the dog to even look like it was aggressive. One of the final takes was having someone hold the dog in back and then have Danny run and the owner calling the dog. Close enough I guess.

The basic information in the video is actually still the same today for the most part.

The program manager, Pat English, was taped and his voice over done in the basement of the Public Health building in San Bernardino which was were the Audio/Visual section was at the time. The County art department did the cartoon drawings and then it was all edited together. Like I say on the YouTube site, it looks pretty bad by today's standards, a kid could do better nowadays on an old computer, but back in 1982 this was cutting edge stuff. Nobody HAD computers yet! I remember Pat English going on and on about the cost of the "project", his pet project actually since he got to be in the video too.
I do remember some showings being done for and at different groups, but it wasn't long before the tapes were buried in boxes to not see the light of day for over a decade.
When found several of us enjoyed watching the video. By then only one person in the videos still even worked for the department anymore.
I came across this video even years after they had been discovered when cleaning out a storage room in the office for file space. I kept it and am glad I did! It's history!

Till next time, Tad