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19th Feb 2020, 12:09 am | #21 |
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Re: BBC Public Information Films
I remember people setting the chip pan on fire, overloading sockets.... also flying kites near pylons and being zapped, being run over by trains, smothered in a grain silo...
All in all, those public information films produced a generation of kids who were terrified of being at home but equally terrified of going out of it!
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19th Feb 2020, 12:47 am | #22 |
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I grew up watching all of the 1960s and 70s PIFs and I have to be honest, neither I nor anyone that I knew as a youngster was particularly scared (by these films) of either going out or staying in. Even when the hammer slammed into the peach!
I did however learn to behave sensibly, not to drop litter, follow the green cross and country codes and then when I was older I remembered to mirror signal maneuver, reverse park correctly and easily (thanks Reg!) think bike, and loads of other stuff about leaking water pipes and electrics etc. etc. even learning to discharge and earth bloomin' big industrial capacitors (or was it an inductor) which knowledge of course I have never had the slightest need to use since! I never once felt spoken down to or patronised; more reassured and looked after. Oh, and tremendously entertained too by the light hearted ones Bring 'em back I say - we could do with more manners and courtesy on the roads for a start - to say nothing of the litter that's everywhere these days. Steve.
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19th Feb 2020, 12:56 am | #23 |
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19th Feb 2020, 7:58 am | #24 |
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This one stuck in my mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb00H6mCTM8 |
19th Feb 2020, 8:49 am | #25 |
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I think they still need that one, Defender. One day I was coming home from work and the traffic started going silly. They were all watching a big air-sea rescue helicopter hovering over a small, low lying wood near Kirkliston. Something was wrong, very wrong. That night's news explained what had been going on. It had not been an exercise. It had not been successful.
Maybe these quaint old films need updating, but we still need what they did. David
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19th Feb 2020, 9:54 am | #26 |
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Indeed, and the Central Office of Information film unit was the old pre war GPO Film unit (Think "Nightmail").
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19th Feb 2020, 11:47 am | #27 |
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I remember these characters in public information films, Joe and Petunia.
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19th Feb 2020, 2:00 pm | #28 | |
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19th Feb 2020, 2:24 pm | #29 |
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I think they should make some more PIFs today about more modern dangers - internet addiction, etc - but perhaps that goes against what the media compainies actually want..
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19th Feb 2020, 3:34 pm | #30 |
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Very much a thing of the pre internet days. Information is delivered differently now, often with well known personality endorsement. Official/Government formats are unlikely to ever be reintroduced in this form.
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19th Feb 2020, 3:51 pm | #31 |
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I remember being dragged into the school hall approximately once a year, to watch some 16mm films that scared the crp out of impressionable kids (and one that wasn't quite so scary, with Goofy as the mild-mannered "Mr Walker" who turns into the belligerent "Mr Wheeler" when he gets into his car .....)
They must have had some effect on me. I don't fly kites near power lines, I don't take short cuts across railway tracks; and if I am ever leaving the office for even a few minutes, I always tell somebody, because I still have a mortal dread of the building going on fire while I'm away, and some unlucky firefighter looking for me in there.
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19th Feb 2020, 6:39 pm | #32 |
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The one in a workshop with a man using an electric drill terrified me. The mains lead wires (no plug) were held in the socket with matchsticks. The earth moved towards the live ever so slowly then boom - our man is on the floor!
One I only saw a couple of times, but obviously made an impreesion was where a man's brain was represented by a computer room. He has his breakfast, then gets in his car. The computer operator is distracted and our hero has an accident. Could it have been called 'Drive Safely Daddy (Darling)?' |
19th Feb 2020, 7:06 pm | #33 |
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If the PIF that I remember most was on BBC (I think so), it was an animated one about a thoughtless motorist who habitually opened his driver's door without looking and injured several cyclists passing him. He eventually got his come-uppance when he did it as a large lorry was bearing down on him and took his door off! I kind of think that these films could be profitably resurrected as, for instance, the number of motorcyclists that I see overtaking between the zig-zags on pedestrian crossings really is a bee in my bonnet. It would only work on BBC, as if it were shown during the advert-breaks, people would just make some tea, go to the toilet or let the cat out.
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19th Feb 2020, 10:08 pm | #36 | |
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19th Feb 2020, 10:28 pm | #37 | |
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I have to admit that as a kid I took notice of these public information films and feel something similar could be aired these days in a revised format. They must have saved scores of lives. Some of the car films about seat belts, keep your distance, worn/wrong tyres and drinking and driving really struck home. Regards, Symon |
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19th Feb 2020, 10:44 pm | #38 |
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Heres one from 1959 worth watching....those were the days!
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...ge_bpolice.htm
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20th Feb 2020, 12:20 am | #39 |
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20th Feb 2020, 12:50 am | #40 |
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The Sound Recording credit is "Pawley & Sullivan", I think that must be EA Pawley who wrote the definitive book on BBC engineering.
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