Vintage UK Public Information Films (Vol.2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- Vintage public safety adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Don't Park On The Zig Zags
00:13 Beach Safety (Broken Bottles)
00:37 Tufty The Squirrel (Road Safety)
01:23 Pelican Crossings (Red & Green Man)
02:25 Drink Driving (Expensive Insurance)
02:55 Keep In The Swim (Boyfriend Can't Swim)
03:59 Tailgating (Keep Your Distance)
04:29 Drink Driving (Fancy A Jar? Forget The Car)
04:59 Climbing Pylons Can Kill (Kite Flying)
05:39 Charlie Says (Strange Man In The Park)
06:40 Escalator Safety (Wellington Boots)
07:21 The Green Cross Code Boy
07:52 Child Safety (Always Tell Mummy)
08:55 Dog Safety (The Responsible Thing To Do)
09:27 Stay Safe Stay Out (Substation Football)
10:27 RSPCA Appeal (Shooting A Dog)
10:57 Gas Leaks (Light Switch Spark)
11:48 Use A Condom (Geronimo)
12:36 Belt Up In The Back (Julie Knew Her Killer)
13:29 Keep Britain Tidy (Bag It And Bin It)
13:51 End Links / Child Safety Remix - บันเทิง
0:34 That image of the boy about to step on the broken glass still makes me wince.
Me too...
It still makes my blood run cold.
And me
OMG, that RSPCA ad was insane. Even the US version never threatened to shoot dogs for donations!
I wasn’t around in the 70’s but im guessing that RSPCA ad wasn’t on air for long
PSAs today cannot and will never compare to that one.
Horrible advert, I don't remember this. Poor dog looked really scared.
At that time, dogs got put to sleep when the RSPCA didn't have enough money to keep them.
The one with the son in the back seat of car without a seatbelt always gave me goosebumps and still does
I always think about it when there’s a passenger in the back, I’m thinking ’get your fucking belt on!’ Or I just tell them to put it on.
@@mgthestrange9098 I used to work with teenagers within the care system in Glasgow. One of the girls was sitting behind me refusing to put seatbelt on so I told her to get out my car. She didn't fancy the 10 mile walk back to the home so she finally put seatbelt on...lol The spooky thing is, just 10 mins later we were in a collision when someone ran a red light. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt but can't imagine what would have happened if I hadn't pushed her to put it on
@@crispindry2815 maybe you did but I didn't. Who cares anyway? 🤷♀️🙄
Charlie and the Cat could Spot a BBC employee a mile a way
We need more direct and straight to the point adverts like this today
That electricity pylon ad certainly sent the message across , blimey 😂
Is there nothing Bernard Cribbins couldn't turn his hand to? What a legend he was!
You mean the plank...
Another great complication. I counted 4 fatalities and some near misses. They were scary but got the message across as I can still remember them, perhaps some should be shown again today. Cheers!
Yeah, I agree. I think modern society would benefit from some of these.
That 2nd one still gives me the chills all these decades later !!! 😮😮
I love Dave and Mike. Dave was obviously impotent and Mike certainly knew what to do! Seriously though those PIFs are an object lesson in clarity. We still remember them 50 years on. Brilliant.
Never climb on pylons and the Charley ad was ultimate in the day
There were more Charley ads. All of them are elite
2:30 PC Dave Quinnan...Surprised he managed to join the Met with a drink driving record! 🙂
Lol, thought it was him, thanks for confirming that 😂
those electricity ones stayed with me for a long time.....
Still relevant today. They should include these ads, or at least some up to date versions of them, in the ad breaks. Better still, in the breaks on kids TV channels.
I wonder why we don’t see them any more.
I remember they used to show them at the Saturday morning matinee at the cinema - bit of a buzzkill before ‘Neverending Story’
@@danbrown7562 would’ve been afternoons if it was a matinee no?
Great set there Steve. In the early days you always knew when a PIF was going to start as the video almost always played before the audio kicked in. Shame the government no longer makes PIFS like they used to. You were guaranteed to see several a week back in the 80's and 90's.
The campaigns were created and funded by the now defunct Central Office of Information (COI). it was the successor to the Ministry of Information that had existed from 1918 to 1946. Sadly in 2011 the then coalition government closed down the COI. The few PIFs we get now are organised by the Cabinet Office.
All your uploads are gold but these are my favourite- even now in my middling years pylons and substations give me the heebyjeebies!
"Charley says always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere!" Like a rave, or a warehouse party, or a free festival on a field in Somerset, in 1991, with crusty hippies and lots of drugs...
Nah, Charley, i'm good, let's keep this between you and me mate :)
🤣🤣
To see The Prodigy? 😅
What on earth were the RSPCA thinking
Apparently, they weren't thinking. 😬
Apparently that was Kristi Noem's idea.
Fantastic array of safety information. We don't tend to have as much these days although a lot of about risk assessment now and teaching kids at school.
"After crushing her to death, he sat back down." Utterly harrowing! Haven't seen that since I was a kid 😮
I used to be in The Tufty Club as a kid, but I'd entirely forgotten that until seeing this compilation, so thanks so much for that alone, Steve. At 2:53 that's P.H. Moriarty offering to buy the car. I just can't disassociate him from his role as Hatchet Harry in _Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels_ - that bloke off _The Bill_ must've been desperate 😄
Ive still got a Tufty Club badge, somewhere!!
Whilst Kite boy and football boy are up there, can they fetch Jimmy's frisbee?
The RSPCA...got to me...
Did you give a pound? 🤣
@@RetroSteveUK I would have..
I think the lady on the couch in the pub in dont drink and drive one plays on Eastenders as Kathy. The green cross was Darth Vader and the gas escape was on Allo Allo as the Italian captain.
The gas escape bloke was also in Eastenders of course.
@@thesocialmediascientistmbe the local PBS started showing Eastenders when they focused on the Fowlers and the Mitchell family and they stopped showing it after Barry and Roy and Pat were being featured. So I could had missed him due to they didn't start showing Allo Allo until later I believe.
I really do miss the green cross code man
The RSPCA ad OMG! :(
Awful.
I still can't believe that actually went out on air. It was banned shortly after, though.
The Charlie says and the learn to swim Pif's are legendary! Ray Brookes (Mr Benn narrator) narrating the escalator pif. David Prowse the green cross code man all legendary!! British gas Safety ad, it's Captain Bertorelli from Allo Allo!
Some of these old adverts are still very hard hitting today - especially "old Geronimo"!
@ 4:38.. Gillian Taylforth.... Good to see her getting her head down.....Having a Knight out
shout-out to all my fellow Tufty Club members!!!
Brings back happy memories we should bring back public information films to education people
These old PIF's had powerful imagery and to the point story telling.
Don't park on the zig zags. I'll have to remember that.😂
These adverts are why I'm still alive today! 😂
13:17 In Australia, we had an almost identical ad about wearing seat belts only a few of years ago.
In fact, it could be the exact same ad with an English accent dubbed over. Haven't noticed it since. It's a powerful message.
I’ve just figured out that the strange man in the Charlie Says clip is none other than Rolf Harris Himself….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You can tell by the shifty-looking silhouette.
Willy Rushton in the first ad, that's a blast from the past
The Green Cross Code is still relevant today........shame most ignore it.......
But i'm all for thinning the Herd
These days it'd be crossing the road while fixated on your phone.
@@RetroSteveUK should be a Law against looking at a phone while crossing the road.....
vehicle drivers get punished ...why not pedestrians who do the same?
A Pedestrian can kill a Cyclist, cause a Vehicle to crash..possibly killing driver or passengers ..or even some poor sod who gets run over by a vehicle trying to avoid a Lemming on a Phone crossing a road...
£500 fine for pedestrian and community service ...
Andrew Paul who played PC Dave Quinnan in the bill as an ex drunk driver, what a switch in rolls
The bloke offering him a fiver for his car ended up being in "Jaws 2", I think it was as well as Hatchet Harry in "Lock stock and two smoking barrels".
PIFs seemed to go in cycles, from explicit to suggestive and back again - I remember a seatbelt campaign about how a rear-seat passenger in a crash effectively became a rhino in weight due to momentum, complete with animation - but I don't think you can get much more effective than the clever, brutal simplicity of that "Julie Knew Her Killer" ad.
That has always been chilling. 😨
Poorwilly very funny as you can’t play with him hahaha😂
Darth Vader @7:40. "Shut up with that nonsense kids .. use the Force"
If only George Lucas had kept Dave Prowse's real voice, just think what an iconic character Darth Vader could have been.
I'd watch that in a heartbeat.
I was not expecting to see a dog with a gun to it’s head today! That was bloody unbelievable! The Charlie Says campaign was brilliant though. Remember it well. Thanks Steve!
The escalator one nakes my blood run cold
Blimey...
When I was 13 I got run over by a car crossing the road walking home from school. It was doing 50mph in a 30 zone. I nearly died (apparently 7 out of 10 people hit at 50 do), my arm was nearly amputated until my dad brought in a Harley Street surgeon who somehow saved it, and I was in hospital for months. Birmingham Children's Hospital decided to show us safety films, so I dutifully watched one about not climbing up electricity pylons, and another one about not going on railway lines. I have never felt the urge to climb an electricity pylon or go on a railway line. Talk about adding insult to injury (literally!) I was not pleased. I was only crossing the road!
That sucks. They should have been showing safety films to the driver.
I remember it as though it were yesterday even though it was 33 years ago! My parents had been preparing for a University of Birmingham ball and it was my sister's piano teacher who organised the ambulance (it was during an ambulance strike so I waited on the road for half an hour until a Green Goddess arrived and some Army people took me to hospital. I didn't realise I knew swear words until then!) Anyway we were in the hospital and the doctors were saying "the arm will need to come off". Despite a massive head injury, and I still have the bald spot on my scalp, I was perfectly compos mentis, and I hissed "Dad!" And he looked at me. The upper part of my arm was smashed but I said "I can move my fingers!" And I did. That was when he asked for a second opinion. I don't blame the driver. He was a taxi driver and had worked a 12 hour shift and was tired. He left his job that day, so the police told me. It was just a very sad chain of events.
No 'Fire Kills' PIFs? Some of those kept my pyrophobic 9yo self awake at night. Pure 80s nightmare fuel.
Got a few in store. They'll be in the next PIF compilation.
wow so the nice the filmy 🎥 🎥 video 📼 📼
Indeed 😎
8:16 that one was like a girl version of Charley says, but without the cat. It was almost identical to one of the Charley says ones except mummy was talking to the milkman, not on the phone.
Ah, mummy was talking to the milkman was she 😒
@@AndreiTupolev yes she was, the saucy mare and I don’t remember any mention of Charlie’s dad. 😉
Is that Deryck Guyler narrating the chap with his umbrella? I saw Only’s Fools Casandra’s dad.
I recognised the voice but wasn't able to place it.
"Please give us a pound or we'll shoot a dog"?? 😂😂😂😢
Bobby Brown Rabbit..😂😂😂 I’m surprised that he didn’t turn Tufty into a crackhead..😂😂 oh wait..I’m thinking of a different Bobby Brown..
I know times have changed since these were produced, but that RSPCA ad at 10:28 is absolutely despicable in my view. I don't have much cash so my charity donations are rather limited, but that one just landed them on my _„Never getting donations“_ list. 🐕🔫🙅
It is pretty bad. Had to include it as a reminder, really.
@@RetroSteveUK I'm glad you did, even if I found it harrowing to watch. 👍
This is an ad that people today need to know was produced and televised. It shouldn't be allowed to be _„Swept under the carpet“_ and forgotten about. 🪢
Also why does the thing (Geronimo) looks so dry
5:07 why does he kind of look a bit like Daniel Radcliffe or someone else like that
Oh dear, now you won't be able to play with Willy for a long time 😢
Why aren’t these or similar of tv today?
They should be, there seems to be a lack of common sense these days. I’d have one warning people about the dangers of looking at your phone while walking about. That does my head in when people do that!
@@mgthestrange9098 And earphones..
I'm sure that Charlie was actually a demon in feline shape
All we get these days is threats
Or "How to traumatize a generation of kids" 😰
Charlie says the man in the park is a Nonce.
His Mom Should Have Immediately Call The Police When Her Son Told Her About The Stranger.
I Meant Called
Remember, if you can't swim, women won't like you.
We had notices posted at our swimming baths stating 'no petting'. (for those of you who don't know - petting is a slang term for trying to score!)
I cant remember the RSPCA one at 10:32. It's a bit brutal but it gets the point across.