Information Films.

[maturin]

Just watched SPLINK:





Nice outfit Jon.



Quite a lot of these PIFs are available, but Reginald Molehusband is still missing.

R

[CaptainWaggett]

Jon can hardly fit that collar on the screen!

[shaun brown]

Hi

When I was at school in the 70s we were shown a film about not talking to strangers. It worked. It was really creepy and symbolic. I still recall a young girl in a corner with a shadow falling arcross herwhile she sobbed.

It made the 'i am the spirt of water' etc look tame.

As I said it worked. It may of been a film by my local council rather then a goverment one but these films I think are needed NOW more then ever.

Esp condsidering the drink/poor diet culture we live in!

[shaun brown]

A good time for public info films was before GRANDSTAND used to start, and just after SWAP SHOP used to finish.

One that has not on the CHRALEY SAYS collection was a sweet one about living no litter at public sites- complete with stirring music.

Patrick Troughton and the late great Derek Guyler narrated many.

sb

[byebyebadman]

i can always remember them being on really late on bbc1 just before the late weather news as the station was about to close. the dads army ones were my favourites

[Greyandwhite]

Can anyone remember the name of the old gent in the cartoons that promoted safe cycling during the '70's. The premise was that he was the safest cyclist in the world. Probably because he didn't appear to be going over 2 mph anywhere! He would end the film by tipping his hat to the audience. Any help would be appreciated.

[CaptainWaggett]

This week's Archive Hour on Radio 4 - Saturday 10th May 8.00pm is about public information films

[maturin]

Originally Posted by Greyandwhite Can anyone remember the name of the old gent in the cartoons that promoted safe cycling during the '70's. The premise was that he was the safest cyclist in the world. Probably because he didn't appear to be going over 2 mph anywhere! He would end the film by tipping his hat to the audience. Any help would be appreciated.

The two really dire cycling safety films I recall are:

Pedal Safety Song
Think Bike – Jimmy Hill

Both 1978. If they are what you're looking for, I have them somewhere.
Richard

[Greyandwhite]

Originally Posted by maturin The two really dire cycling safety films I recall are: Pedal Safety Song Think Bike – Jimmy Hill Both 1978. If they are what you're looking for, I have them somewhere. Richard

Many thanks for the reply Maturin (named after one of my all time fave fictional characters, maybe?). It definitely wouldn't be the Jimmy Hill and I can't remember there being a song so I don't think it's them. I'm really just after the old man's name as it's one of those things I've tried to recall for years (on and off).

Cartoon. Man in his Nineties -or just incredibly old. Big white moustache. Large flat cap. Bicycle clips. Possibly riding a penny farthing (not sure on that). Very slow and sure movements.

Thanks again.

[Circa1972]

This agricultral safety film may of been called simply ' Know your tractor'.
I remember seeing clips of it of a BBC farming programme that used to be on sunday mornings back in the eighties, also I saw the complete film at school while studying for my rural science GCSE.
The 2 scenes that stuck in my mind are a tractor tipping over on its side while climbing up a steeply banked field ,plus a scene where a farmer stops his tractor on a steep hill and walks infront of it to open a gate, as he unties the rope securing the gate the handbrake fails and he is crushed.

[Steve Crook]

As engineering students in the 1970s we were shown various RoSPA safety films. One that always stuck with me was the poor person who got their hair caught in a drill and it ripped a chunk of their scalp out before anyone could hit the emergency stop.

As it was the time of long hair I always wore a snood when I worked on a lathe, mill or anything else with fast moving machinery

Steve