Public safety/information films

[gag]

Inspector Abberline I think life and everything was better in the 70s\ 80s
Music, TV, Films , life in general more care free, less crime (yes it existed but not as much as today) as much as technology is good it also killed of a lot of things, shops, socialising outside, great times being a kid playing out instead of being stuck indoors on latest game console or sky, Netflix etc . just everything in general tbh.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by gag

Inspector Abberline I think life and everything was better in the 70s\ 80s
Music, TV, Films , life in general more care free, less crime (yes it existed but not as much as today) as much as technology is good it also killed of a lot of things, shops, socialising outside, great times being a kid playing out instead of being stuck indoors on latest game console or sky, Netflix etc . just everything in general tbh.

I'm just as guilty at looking at the 1970's through rose tinted glasses ,I'm more guilty than others, and I'm sure todays millennials will look back in twenty years time and think the same about this period..(especially if climate change has its wicked way with the world, and there living in some post apocalyptic world trying not to get molested by hordes of roaming half man half cockroach beasts..)...its all subjective. The 70s had three day weeks, power cuts, Yorkshire Ripper, Vietnam war and The Val Doonican Music Show just to name a few horrors...still I'm off to blow a disc jockey and molest a Space hopper while getting my Raleigh Chopper lubed...

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100-51. Old and new , more newer ones than the old ones

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50-1




I've just sat and watched all 100 of course some you'll agree on others you won't, but still loads missing that I think should have been in that list .

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2hrs , I haven't watched I just glanced it looks like all the old versions 70s 80s and first hour is mainly the cartoons \ animation .

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

It's hilarious,isn't it?

That **** Ferman fretted about the nation being disturbed by Linda Blair puking pea soup and Gunnar Hanssen advertising Black and Decker,whilst the kids of the 70's and 80's pissed their little trousers in fear of the PIF broadcast during children's tv after school!

That's when those older ads always appeared.
Me and my brothers remember.

They were so scary,my old man got rid of the carpets and installed linoleum in the living room!

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Play safe the full original 10 min version.

[Inspector Abberline]

The Best of COI Five Decades of Public Information Films (2-Disc Blu-ray)


This title will be released on April 20, 2020

[Susan Foreman]

[Inspector Abberline]

Design For Today..(1965)
Finally getting around to watching my Best of COI Blu Ray, which see's probably some of the best and notorious public information films made. Spanning the decades from Children of the City (1944) right up to the halcyon days of AIDS>Iceberg made in 1987...And while there not exactly Imax quality, all the films look excellent, and probably never looked this good even when they were aired on television.(in my region this was usually after Space 1999 and just before Dickie Davies on World of Sport on a Saturday dinner time, although regional scheduling times will apply where applicable, I take no responsibility for scheduling differences or how shit your regional TV broadcaster was..) Any how back in the 1960s when Great Britain had a Industrial and manufacturing heartland, it was deemed necessary to promote and advertise everything made in this country ,(obviously now you would have to make this in China, unless you wanted to promote rubbish reality shows and millennials who think that appearing on You Tube is anything but pointless)....So Design For Today is pretty much a silent movie apart from an introduction by the narrator and numerous sound effects of things doing what they do, eggs boiling, cars revving, trains chuffing and people generally looking miserable as they go about there daily business of using stuff made in Great Britain.. There's not a lot that's not covered, from escalator's, public phones, cutlery and Rolls Royce,(the rich mans gas guzzler and not Rose Royce the 1970s disco band which I though were called Rolls Royce, my bad)...Of course this is the ultimate time capsule from the 1960s,its hard to believe that every single thing they filmed was actually made in the UK, but you have to give them credit for trying...Directed by Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson, and I'm pretty sure one of the actors was the gorgeous Annette Andre from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)...