Re: Do You Remember This Road Safety Ad?
Was this one a cartoon or was it actors? I definitely remember a cartoon advert that matches this description. The sight of the mother's comically flattened corpse on the road from that one could easily scar a kid for life!
And I seem to remember another cartoon safety advert that was perhaps more disturbing, where a woman's baby went hurtling across the road after she forgot to strap the baby into its pram... my memory of that one's only vague though.
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Anyone remember the scary Vandal posters from the mid 70s. We seemed to have them posted everywhere at school at the time. They had a vandal committing some sort of crime with vandal maimed, electrocuted etc along with various other unfortunate outcomes if you got up to no good.Leave a comment:
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I remember a British Gas one from the 1980s with a couple who come into their home to find a gas leak. This ended with someone about to turn a light on shouting "NO!" with a scary echo effect on it.
One that isn't the Charlie Says series is one where a boy does something daft on a bike & gets it run over by a Mk1 Cavalier.
Another omission was one where a tired driver runs into the back of a girl riding a horse, & ends with a freezeframe of a hoof coming through the windscreen Carrie style.
I used to get in trouble for laughing at the ones with simulated car crashes, especially the ones with crash dummies flying about in an Austin Princess.Leave a comment:
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Recently watched the two-disc Charley Says DVD and was amazed how many of the PIFs I remembered: Play Safe, Green Cross Code, Think Bike, Lonely Water. Engrossing in an odd kind of way, and I'm sure more than enough 'classics' have survived to make another volume. They've become social history now which is really rather odd.
PIFs now may be more graphic in some ways but will they be remembered with fear and fondness after 30/40 years?Leave a comment:
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That 'Danger No Swimming' ad used to scare the **** out of me as a kid!
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Here's some more
YouTube - Keep Britain Tidy - Keep it to yourself
YouTube - Scary 1970s British Public Information Films
YouTube - My dad in our new car!
Found it funny that Jimmy Saville spent years telling us to clunk click and then suddenly decides this is the age of the train lol.
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great stuff branny....twas like I'd only just watched it yesterday!Leave a comment:
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Thanks a lot dude! Never thought I'd see that again.....I'm totally shocked and stunned and why the hell would anyone want to put that on YouTube in the first place!!??Leave a comment:
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Who remembers the very middle-class white bespectacled English suburban family dealing with their burst pipes? I think this was shown 1975-1976 or maybe even earlier. Once they'd all rallied round together with a spirit worthy of The Blitz and stopped the leaking pipes the voice-over congratulates Mr Everyman and his brood for doing such a good job and then adds the punch-line.."What a pity you let it happen in the first place!" A jolly old British classic! I defy anybody to find it on YouTube!Leave a comment:
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My favourite safety/public info ads were the pylon one where the kid gets electrocuted and this one about escalator safety -
YouTube - 1970's Escalator Safety Public Information Film
The image of the welly boot getting crushed made such an impact on me that I'm still wary of escalators to this day - I always hesitate before getting on them because I'm scared of putting my foot too near the edge!!
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Do You Remember This Road Safety Ad?
There's a road safety ad that scared the pants off me as a little girl, and I've been trying to find it for ages now but no luck... In it a little boy sees his mother being knocked down by a car, and I think it was just the look of fear on the little boy's face and the thought the same happening to me and ending up motherless that scared me so much!
I think the little boy is in a toy shop at the start of the ad if that is of any help...
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Another one has the pickpocket talking to the presenter and telling him he likes working in a big crowd like a race meeting or a sports stadium.
The presenter asks him where a safe place from pickpockets is and the villain looks at camera and says 'In a nudist colony'Leave a comment:
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I been looking through the archive link but can't find this one...
Two guys carrying a big pane of glass behind a factory ,round the corner an office girl says 'Bye then' to co-worker and runs round and slams into the glass
Voice over says 'you never know whats around the corner -so don't run'Leave a comment:
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