Public Information Films (PIFS)

[Victoria O'Keefe]

Notice how much of the comment thread is on how Dad and Nikki who survive will fare in the future. It's just a PSA, people

Land Transport Safety Authority – Stop (1998, New Zealand) [4K Upscale]

[George 1978]

That one was on the Charley Live video released in the late 1990s - I think it was made in 1971 and it was the one after the 1972 "That's My Sister" PIF about crossing the road.

[andrec]

I don't know if this one should strictly count as a PIF but I remember one shown in the 70s and maybe into the 80s that may have been about a walking trail. All I recall with certainty is a section with castle ruins and the sounds of a battle - cannon firing, men screaming/shouting and maybe horses too. There were also sudden camera zooms and I think it was supposed to be an English Civil War battle, but I stress that only the sounds of a battle were included, the visuals being a castle ruins.

[George 1978]

I actually thought that PIFs looked old from the outset as a way of saving money when they were made.

[Richard1978]

I remember a similar thing with the Children's Film Foundation films where shown by CBBC in the late 1980s, as the 1970s fashions looked very out of date a decade on.

[George 1978]

When I recorded Mary Poppins on its first ITV transmission between Christmas and New Year 1991, I remember one of the (Central region) ad breaks towards the end of it, had a PIF about adoption or fostering disabled (or handicapped as they said then) youngsters which looked very old at the time; almost mid to late 1970s seeing how it was filmed. Anglia overnight off-airs circa 1988 was full of them.

I always wondered why back then PIFs looked older than the adverts in the same break, we now know that they were older and not made with the most recent technology.

[catflap]

Got one of these shirts for Christmas

[Victoria O'Keefe]

[George 1978]

I used to have a phobia about fire in the 1980s and the PIFs about lit and discarded cigarettes onto polyurethane-filled armchairs and sofas was enough to give you nightmares, a la the 1979 World in Action episode on YT. The Coronation Street Rovers fire episode from 1986 didn't do much for my fire phobia either!

There was one with a woman going to bed, her cat following her, and then left a cigarette on a sofa or an armchair with a voiceover saying "she'll never see that again" or something. More nightmares.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

jokey description: Small female child paying the price for saying she hopes Gorbachev will wet his trousers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYziG_oAzd8

[Semi42]

Anyone recall PIF of and old guy sitting in his chair, fag in hand, recalling the day he’s just had .
”I’ve worked with horses all my life” we hear .
his dog end falls from his hand and starts a fire.
looked on YouTube but can’t find it

[darren]

Re: Public Information Films (PIFS)

Yeah so was the voice saying dont go near the water.

Can see why these films where scary.

i watched that! Yeah, those haircuts were scary!!!

[zabadak]

Re: Public Information Films (PIFS)

Was watching bad tv of the seventies and it showed a clip of one of them.

Where a fella slid down a bank into the water.

I must say it makes me remember those films.
Very frightening indeed.

I watched that! Yeah, those haircuts were scary!!!

[darren]

Re: Public Information Films (PIFS)

Was watching bad tv of the seventies and it showed a clip of one of them.

Where a fella slid down a bank into the water.

I must say it makes me remember those films.
Very frightening indeed.

[staffslad]

Re: Public Information Films (PIFS)

I seem to remember a PIF about a child being run over by a combine harvester while playing in a field. I thought I might have been confusing it with a scene from 'Apaches' but if memory is correct this was a short--1 minute or so--film, shown during commercial breaks. Does anyone remember this? In my mind I can see the threshing blades and the child screaming.