Aparently in the days of the depression, California was still sort of a wild west with a lot of areas having people who really didn't know how to live in this new environment. Additionally modern machines and automobiles were aparently daunting when it came to creating new safety issues. In response to this the California governement made these movies to teach people how to live in modern california. It seems silly today that t hey had to teach people how to drive on the road or how to avoid heatstroke but aparently this was needed. I liked the overall historical perspective and it made me realize how far we have come in a couple generations.