COI Collection Vol 4: Stop! Look! Listen! .
The BFI COI Collection of PIF's are one of my fav dvds packed with 60s and 70s short films this really takes you back to those childhood days,full of familiar faces of TV now and then,and covering everything from moped safety with a teen Gillian Tailforth to Donald Pleasance warning about swimming in canals and the classic Never Go With Strangers,Remember never take sweets from a stranger or stroke his puppies
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The Central Office of Information (COI) was established in 1946 and has produced thousands of films that reflect the changing face of a nation, and world, in flux. The fourth Volume of the BFI s COI collection explores the government department s Health, safety and welfare films. Utilising some of the finest talents in British documentary film making, titles such as Thirty Miles an Hour (1946), Lonely Water (1973), Apaches (1977), Drive Carefully, Darling (1975) are amongst the most inventive, and fondly remembered, titles in the COI's distinguished oeuvre. Stop! Look! Listen! makes available on DVD for the first time some classic longer form films along with a selection short public information films and commercials. But please...don't have nightmares!