Public information films

[southeastastra]

on the news today there was an item about children playing on train lines, there's also a thread about children playing with fire.

not to mention road safety.

does anyone think there is a real lack of modern day public information films?

our local community channel seems to be the only one showing them.

When I was at primary school in the 70s, we used to get shown films by the police about not playing near trainlines, farms, and more often about never talking to STRANGERS. Does this still happen in primary schools? (My 2 are both pre-school).

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reach, throw, wade or row,
You can save a life if you're in the know....

check out youtube for the Tufty films and I think the COI has an archive of Charlie cat (he's my screensaver!) films
Does anyone remember the boy dancing on a crocodile saying 'look mum, crocodile !' ?

here www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmindex.htm

my youngest grandaughter has just been in a film which is about stranger danger the company that made the film are intending to do 9 more on the very subject stated below in other posts,The film will be going out to the schools in Hampshire then they are hoping for them to go nationwide,The film was only made last weekend [ all day for a 3 minute film ] and i dont know when they will be available to the schools.

Don't Dazzle, dip your headlights

Regnold Molehusband, the safest parker in town

we live in Hants mummylin, so will look out for it !

well you will probably be amongst the first to see it thn ,it was all filmed in fordingbridge. They used a field near a bridge and also the local post office.thats all i know really.Of course my grandaughter now thinks she is a big movie star and i know here character is called jade !!!

it's good that they're still making them, but they should be on tv!

my grandaughter woud probably agree with you

I never ever stand on the yellow line at the side of an escalator step, thanks to PIFs.

They do work.

im not sure what the other films will be about but i do know that one is railways and i think other may be electricity,They will be using different children for those but think gd is in one more ,but dont know which one yet.I think its great ,if awareness can help save lives.

i think i'll write a letter (to someone) don't know who though to get them on tv. surely the bbc should show them, we pay enough for licence.

i dont know who the film company are that are making them but do know that gd will be getting a copy of the film in october sometime.I als know that the person who played the pervert in the film is going to be in dr who sometime in february next year ,he was a real actor as was the person who played the postmistress.!

I remember we saw one with a load of kids pratting around on a building site and one of them ended up getting run over by a steam roller! And the one about Strangers wasn't the Charlie one, but a REALLY scary feature film with kids getting snatched and being leered at by shadows of scary looking, unkempt men....You can tell I was traumatised by it. And I'm sure the policeman was always played by John Woodvine.

The Charlie one always reminds me of The Prodigy song btw

don't remember the children with strangers at all, sounds horrible!

the one that gd has done is about a man who says he has lost his dog,gives the children money to buy dog bicuits [ cue the post office ] and says he will be in the trees looking for his dog when they comes back.The intention is they will show the film but stop at intervals to discuss various things with the school children

There was one all about me!

You can view some here. The 'Lonely Water' one was quite scary IIRC.