intervision

I recall a PIF entitled (I think) Ten Green Bottles.
I reatured a group of kids looking forward to their friends 10th birthday party.
This film is about the dangers of playing (in the 1970's) around and on various machines, pylons, building sites and ....tractors !
Each child in turn, has a very nasty accident and... dies.
The closing shot is of the birthday girl celebrating alone...

Depressing stuff, but can someone please confirm that this exists as friends believe that I am getting confused with all those other PIF ads like Lonely Water for example.

Cheers in advance !

faginsgirl

I cant remember this specific ad but it does sound like the kind of thing that was around in the 70`s.

Like dont play on waste land climb into a fridge and die

xx

We`re changin` lodggggggggings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GRAEME

I can confirm its existence! I do remember this one - eerie!

All men leak.

willothewisp

Was it called Apaches?

davidb

yes it does exist ! and its available on the "charley says "compilation dvds ,cant remember whether its vol1 or vol 2 ,but ill dig them out over the next day or so

davidb

havent found it yet ! theres hundreds on those charley says dvds and its not listed as "10 green bottles " or anything easy like that ,in the meantime ive discovered a great one on you tube called " betcher "about cycling proficiency with keith chegwin and what looks like robin askwith ?

bhowells

Who remembers the public information film with the elderly man who sits down in his amrchair with a fag and ruminates on the good day he has and sadly falls asleep and sets the house on fire. That one always upset me as a child.

How about the one which I recall is something in connection with looking after your teeth a little boy is in a zoo says,"Look,Mum crocodile" and the Mum replies,"I hope he remembers to clean his teeth.

All I hope that all characters concerned in the film never had to be subjected to the Pam Ayres poem,"Wish I looked after me teeth." I am quite confident that anyone familiar with Pam's poem would rather have tootache.

davidb

thats the one where he says " been working horses all my life " isnt it ?

Steve Crook

When I worked in the Islington/Holloway area I often used to drive round the outer circle in Regent's Park on the way there. From Hanover Gate by the Mosque round to Parkway and down into Camden Town. So of course I'd drive past the zoo and you could see some of the taller animals in there from the car.

So I'd tell people that I saw a camel, and an okapi (a horse with a stripy bottom*) and a crocodile.

"You saw a crocodile?" they would ask, "From the car?"

"Yes," I replied, "a crocodile of schoolchildren lined up ready to go in to the zoo."


Steve


* Yes, I know it's actually more closely related to a giraffe, but it looks more like a horse than a giraffe

kawolski

Apaches








How dark is that!!?

Hang on a minute, lads.
I've got a great idea.

Nick Dando

I "think" that the second film was filmed in and around Turville, although we don't see the church or the windmill on the hill to confirm it.

Nick