Forum: General Film Discussions 
5th March 2021, 11:43 AM
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Views: 37,202  coi
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...
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28th March 2020, 12:42 PM
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6th July 2019, 01:33 PM
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Views: 37,202 I'm just as guilty at looking at the 1970's...
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...
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5th July 2019, 10:10 PM
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Views: 37,202 Building Sites Bite (1978)
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While Lonely Waters got a lot of attention, mainly for having Donald Pleasance doing the narration as the metaphysical presence that is death, the grim reaper or a man who hangs around...
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3rd June 2019, 07:45 PM
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Views: 37,202 Charley Says
Every now and then I have to re-watch the compilation dvd Charley Says, I feel the need to reconnect to the the 1970s and thus delve into the pit of my childhood memories. Saturday late mornings...
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19th June 2017, 06:49 PM
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Views: 37,202 20 Times More Likely (1979)
20 Times More Likely (1979)
20 Times More Likely (1979)
This has EastEnders legend Gillian Taylforth in this public information film about taking your motor bike test, mixing old school soap...
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15th June 2017, 07:42 PM
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Views: 37,202 Basil Brush Airbeds (1976)
Basil Brush Airbeds (1976)
One of my favorite of the shorter public information films that use to get shown in between the adverts, usually on a Saturday morning in the ad breaks for Space 1999...
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Forum: General Film Discussions
13th June 2017, 06:12 PM
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Views: 37,202 COI Collection Vol 1 - Police and Thieves [DVD]
Challenge for a Lifetime (1975)
This is a short film bigging up the 1970's policeman, using reconstruction of incidents and showing us early basic training for the young copper, its all fun stuff,...
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11th June 2017, 08:06 PM
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11th June 2017, 01:32 PM
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Views: 37,202 worth it?
When you watch Public Information Films, they usually fill you with quite a bit of nostalgia and how things have changed and not for the better either. But perhaps things have not changed that much,...
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9th June 2017, 05:03 PM
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8th June 2017, 10:19 PM
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Views: 37,202 The Highway to Hell box-set of driving...
The Highway to Hell box-set of driving information films,are grim stuff indeed,those guys would beat the ambulance men to accidents by bribing cops or just listening to there radio calls.Its about as...
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8th June 2017, 09:44 PM
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Views: 37,202 "Apaches" UK Public Information Film (1977)
"Apaches" UK Public Information Film (1977)
Apaches is the Bay of Blood of public information films, It tells the innocent story of a group of young children playing cowboys and Indians on an old...
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7th June 2017, 08:23 PM
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Views: 37,202 pif
Been re-watching the BFI's COI Collection,just a wonderful compilation of Public information films and short documentaries..This may be the rantings of a man getting older but the known the wiser,But...
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Forum: General Film Discussions
28th February 2016, 08:30 PM
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Views: 37,202 Red Asphalt (1964)
Red Asphalt (1964)
This time another 1960's capsule from the driving education school of scaring the hell out of youth of the day.This time produced by the California Highway Patrol again we...
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27th February 2016, 03:59 PM
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Views: 37,202 Signal 30 (1959)
Signal 30 (1959)
“Now comes the nauseating task of removing the shattered hulk of a life that had been lived so little.”
starts with a policeman giving out instructions to a patrol man to...
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25th February 2016, 05:53 PM
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23rd February 2016, 07:33 PM
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Views: 37,202 Look at Life 7
Look At Life.
Volume 7 Business & Industry
Special features division of the Rank Organisation made over 500 of these short films,its a crazy mixture of Public Information Film and travelogue with...
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22nd February 2016, 06:40 PM
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Views: 37,202 H.M.P. (John Krish, 1976, 55 mins)
H.M.P. (John Krish, 1976, 55 mins)
Director John Krish films a recruiting film for the prison service Sponsored by the Central Office of Information and the Home Office.Three rookie prison warders...
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21st February 2016, 08:35 PM
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Views: 37,202 Captured (BFI Flipside) (DVD + Blu-ray)
Captured (1959)
Directed by John Krish,this docu drama,shows what it was like being held captive during the Korean war.Unfortunately for director John Krish,he made such a great job at showing the...
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