A lot of these films were made on a very low budget by Richard Taylor Cartoon Films.Frozen Ponds and Learn to swim I worked on for Richard and we were very pleased with the result. They are all drawn on paper, traced onto cell and back painted. Learn to swim is unusual as it has no drawing lines and is the paint meeting paint to make the image, this was very painstaking and caused us to go way over budget.We liked doing these films because it gave the artistic freedom to try new things.There was a team of 5 or 6 working on these films.
John Taylor my favorite was Charlie the cat, I remember some of the others but I wasn't born till 73, different times altogether, who would leave a baby in a perambulator outside now? 😂 but seriously some of these public information films should be brought back & up dated or am I just nostalgically pissing against the wind? 😂
The little synth lick in "Learn to swim" was taken directly from Rick Wakeman´s "King Arthur"; do you remember if good ole Rick collaborated with the short?
I'm from the US of A and I must say that I really like your Public Information Films! Over here we call them Public Service Announcements or PSAs for short. I love how hard-hitting many of these commercials are! I sometimes wish that more United States PSAs were so hard-hitting! They might get their points across better! Thanks for posting these!
These films are marvellous really. There is a simplicity and charm about them. Even the supposedly scary ones have a naivety about them, even when they are direct and rather blunt in putting their message across. These films communicate their point without sensationalizing the facts about risk or danger, which even in these times is refreshing. When was it the world went so irredemably and completely mental, can anyone tell me?
It used to be, that's the thing. It genuinely used to be completely fine - there was much less chance of baby snatching or anything like that. In fact, here in Norway it's still commonplace for babies to be left outside cafes in prams whilst the parents have a coffee inside, or at daycare centres. relocation.no/babies-sleeping-outdoors/ Norway is a (largely) safe country, and the brisk cold air is great for the health of babies :)
It just goes to show how things have changed. The advice back then was to check the ice on frozen ponds and make sure your children are supervised before they play on it. Never mind actually suggesting that playing on frozen ponds or lakes is quite dangerous and should be avoided altogether. I loved the 1970's
rentaghost75 are you kidding? Everybody goes on Frozen ponds and lakes in the winter, if the ice is thick enough. Where the hell are you from? Hawaii? People drive snowmobiles, sometimes even cars on it. It just depends on how cold it is, you have to test the ice with drills and things.
I worked on these ones back in the day. We broke our backs for the puppet masters. Hopefully, a few lives were saved. The baby one freaked me out & everyone was in tears when we saw the first screening. Some took many weeks off work to recover (which happened to coincide with the Ashes tour).
How times change, even 20 years ago you would have had the local council do gooders take that baby off you constantly having meetings to decide when theyre gonna have the next one.
"Excuse me, who's watching these babies?" "Uh, the fat one is watching the little one?" "Oh nice parenting. Leave them out here and see what happens" "Yo fuck you, you fucking square!" :D
There is a desperate need for the cycling one to be shown to today's cyclists. Back when it was made there was the cycling proficiency scheme around all the schools in Britain. I did mine in 1973. Kids weren't allowed to ride their bikes to school unless they'd passed the test and been awarded the badge (I still have mine in a drawer somewhere). The scheme taught kids all about the highway code (and that it does actually apply to cyclists!!) in preparation for when they grew up and moved onto mopeds, motorcycles and cars. Things like a red traffic light means stop for everybody. One ways streets mean one way for everybody. A cyclist using a pedestrian crossing must dismount and push the bike across. Correct hand signals and when to use them. If the scheme was still in place we wouldn't have so many reckless and idiotic belligerent cyclists spoiling the roads for everyone, including pedestrians and other cyclists.
And he founded Private Eye magazine, starred in That Was the Week that Was, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue and narrated The Trap Door. I still miss him today.
What I learned from this video: You can encounter flying motorcycles. There are people who run around on the roads that wear headlights on their heads. Propane gas likes to complain a lot about the lack of space, perhaps store it in larger tanks to prevent a deadly explosion and fire? Zig zag lines on the road bite people! Wood post-and-rail fencing is ideal for keeping cars from falling into the abyss as it quickly conforms to the car with good strength. Cats love to stand on walls in front of hospitals. It is not a good idea to teach a child water safety by live demonstration. People can dive backwards from the pool back onto the diving board! Driving is like playing a game of space invaders. Oceans, like propane gas, often complain.
Things I learned from this video: The British tradition of complaining about things is so strong it can even transfer to fluids and gases that are otherwise inanimate. ;-)
@@ddragon8154 There's an American trend to label any woman who complains as a "Karen" . But there are times when their complaint is valid - and equally a man could say the exact same words..... I wonder what they call. him ?
It's a joke: it's implying you should use the dip-switch that's already provided- it's not going on about going to the garage to get a dip-switch installed.
The cycling one and the ice and snow on windscreens needs to be revised and enforced today. In the depths of winter you see lazy drivers with iced up windows and only a small slit cleared on the front screen. They only need to get out 5 minutes earlier and clear them properly. When my car is covered with snow I get my sweeping broom and sweep ALL the snow from it whilst the motor is running to demist the screens.
We dont have snow any more. Shocked last year twice first time since 2010. Namby pamby pussys nowadays just a dusting brings whole south to a close setting panic in. Quite right wish i could find te public info original film on cyclist and show it to the righteous hell bent video clan.
I remember them all. (Thank you) They scared the shit out of me and made me aware of the danger all around. I have been safe all my life whilst all these young snowflakes are maimed and killed all over the place.
I remember that. If they were being shown on the BBC, an announcer would always say that at the end, in case some idiot mistook it for an advert and wrote to the daily mail to complain.
Still scare me now! I love the message, its ok to take a chance on frozen lakes, H&S would be on our screens full time these days, eg. YOU WILL GO BLIND IF YOU PLAY WITH CONKERS lol. Thanks for sharing.
@electrogeek77 I suspect it's about as safe now as it was then, but the generation of kids scared witless by these adverts are now parents themselves and it's become something of a no-no.
They are being jokey-sarcastic. It's as if they aren't fitted. ( Of course every car is fitted with one- but seemingly not every driver knows about this "invention" .
9:05 These are the parts of the world where malaria is common...so before traveling to poor...ahem..."hot" countries ask your doctor about anti-malaria tablets.
Could not stop mysel pissing, been the first time round, still fuckin funnny!!!!!! 55 going on 56 STILL fuckin funny, ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF LUDICRESS!!!!!!
Simon Collins I don’t understand that. That PIF was filmed in ‘79, right? When the U.S. was starting to have issues about missing children? Wasn’t the UK having a problem back then?
A lot of these films were made on a very low budget by Richard Taylor Cartoon Films.Frozen Ponds and Learn to swim I worked on for Richard and we were very pleased with the result. They are all drawn on paper, traced onto cell and back painted. Learn to swim is unusual as it has no drawing lines and is the paint meeting paint to make the image, this was very painstaking and caused us to go way over budget.We liked doing these films because it gave the artistic freedom to try new things.There was a team of 5 or 6 working on these films.
John Taylor my favorite was Charlie the cat, I remember some of the others but I wasn't born till 73, different times altogether, who would leave a baby in a perambulator outside now? 😂 but seriously some of these public information films should be brought back & up dated or am I just nostalgically pissing against the wind? 😂
In my opinion this is art👍
The little synth lick in "Learn to swim" was taken directly from Rick Wakeman´s "King Arthur"; do you remember if good ole Rick collaborated with the short?
That's really cool
These were really great to see, I'd like to do some animation, it's good to see these
These public information of safety should be returned to our television screens.
I'm from the US of A and I must say that I really like your Public Information Films! Over here we call them Public Service Announcements or PSAs for short. I love how hard-hitting many of these commercials are! I sometimes wish that more United States PSAs were so hard-hitting! They might get their points across better! Thanks for posting these!
The 1970’s were the best, the adverts were better than some of the programmes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The voice over over the first public information (the police officer) is the voice of Mr. Mackay from The comedy series Porrige.
They should put these pif back on TV
0:00 - “Flying Motorcycles” (1977)
0:19 - “Dip - Don’t Dazzle” (1978)
1:07 - “Take Care with the Gas in Your Heater” (1978)
1:51 - “Use the Crossing” (1979)
2:11 - “Prams and Pushchairs” (1979)
2:44 - “Traffic Shapes” (1980)
3:28 - “Snow Seen” (1980)
4:03 - “Frozen Ponds Can Be Dangerous” (1980)
4:48 - “Airbeds” (1980)
5:41 - “Don’t Dazzle, Dip Your Headlights” (1980)
5:53 - “Augustus Windsock” (1981)
6:44 - “Learn to Swim” (1982)
7:38 - “Space Invader” (1982)
8:22 - “Sea Danger” (1982)
9:07 - “Beware Malaria!” (1983)
Derek Nimmo, Willie Rushton, Roy Kinnear. Love it
Dear old Kenny everett doing the Cycling advert :)
I loved that one when I was young, especially as it was Kenny’s brilliant voice acting that made it so entertaining
These films are marvellous really. There is a simplicity and charm about them. Even the supposedly scary ones have a naivety about them, even when they are direct and rather blunt in putting their message across. These films communicate their point without sensationalizing the facts about risk or danger, which even in these times is refreshing. When was it the world went so irredemably and completely mental, can anyone tell me?
When Thatcher came in....
2:13 “You’ve left your baby for a moment...” ...because that’s perfectly safe under normal circumstances!
It used to be, that's the thing. It genuinely used to be completely fine - there was much less chance of baby snatching or anything like that. In fact, here in Norway it's still commonplace for babies to be left outside cafes in prams whilst the parents have a coffee inside, or at daycare centres.
relocation.no/babies-sleeping-outdoors/
Norway is a (largely) safe country, and the brisk cold air is great for the health of babies :)
Some of these were pretty well-animated for such low-budget productions.
Actually some of these films are very well done. The "frozen ponds can be dangerous" is quite an effective little movie.
The animation is very effective and the voice acting is superb too
It just goes to show how things have changed. The advice back then was to check the ice on frozen ponds and make sure your children are supervised before they play on it. Never mind actually suggesting that playing on frozen ponds or lakes is quite dangerous and should be avoided altogether. I loved the 1970's
I know - "if you must bugger off and leave your baby alone and unattended, in a pram, in the middle of the high street, do xyz"
rentaghost75 are you kidding? Everybody goes on Frozen ponds and lakes in the winter, if the ice is thick enough. Where the hell are you from? Hawaii? People drive snowmobiles, sometimes even cars on it. It just depends on how cold it is, you have to test the ice with drills and things.
In the UK (where these videos are from) the ice is very rarely thick enough to drill.
@@SovereignStatesman I would like to see someone drive a snowmobile on a frozen lake in the UK
LOL.. WHO THE HELL PLAYS ON A FROZEN POND…?
"This sign does not mean that you will encounter flying motorcycles."
Well it's been 40-odd years now. Put some effort in, UK!
I worked on these ones back in the day. We broke our backs for the puppet masters. Hopefully, a few lives were saved. The baby one freaked me out & everyone was in tears when we saw the first screening. Some took many weeks off work to recover (which happened to coincide with the Ashes tour).
Oh my God, 5:54..... all most heard my mum shout “supper!” Circ. 1977.
OMG frozen ponds! I don't even have a pond and I'm shitting it.
Memories of my childhood come flooding back.......where have all the years gone
Lots of familiar British actors here doing the voices, Fulton McKay, Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Ray Brookes, Kenny Everett...
Yeah, and at least one short (the "Old Cycling Man") reminds me a lot of the "Yellow Submarine" aesthetic. Even the voice in off!
Beautiful voices. These days everyone sounds like black gangster voice, even Chelsea girl's
mistofoles You missed one more the great Willie Rushton
Yeah, I think I got him confused with Arthur Lowe, although he was probably in there, too.
@@mistofoles No, It was Willie Rushton but missed Richard Briers. :)
crikey, "if you must leave your baby always strap him in with care."
How times change, even 20 years ago you would have had the local council do gooders take that baby off you constantly having meetings to decide when theyre gonna have the next one.
"Excuse me, who's watching these babies?"
"Uh, the fat one is watching the little one?"
"Oh nice parenting. Leave them out here and see what happens"
"Yo fuck you, you fucking square!"
:D
Sybil Fawlty appearing at 8:23.
Blimey, who directed the "don't leave your baby" one? Edvard Munch?!
The "Driving in Snow" one is narrated by Ray Brooks of 'Mr Benn' fame.
Augustus Windsock, what a legend. 😂
THOUGHT IT WAS AUGUSTUS WINDCOCK
There is a desperate need for the cycling one to be shown to today's cyclists. Back when it was made there was the cycling proficiency scheme around all the schools in Britain. I did mine in 1973. Kids weren't allowed to ride their bikes to school unless they'd passed the test and been awarded the badge (I still have mine in a drawer somewhere).
The scheme taught kids all about the highway code (and that it does actually apply to cyclists!!) in preparation for when they grew up and moved onto mopeds, motorcycles and cars. Things like a red traffic light means stop for everybody. One ways streets mean one way for everybody. A cyclist using a pedestrian crossing must dismount and push the bike across. Correct hand signals and when to use them.
If the scheme was still in place we wouldn't have so many reckless and idiotic belligerent cyclists spoiling the roads for everyone, including pedestrians and other cyclists.
Christ the baby one gave me chills 😱
I was born in 63 and over the years I probually did all of them even swimming in ponds and lakes. 😧
Did Richard Briers narrate everything in the seventies lol
Why on earth don’t they still do these? The firework ones and the stranger ones scared the life out of us as kids, but they worked.
Thanks!
I remember quite a few of these. My favourite was the "Scream" one. 2:34
And he founded Private Eye magazine, starred in That Was the Week that Was, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue and narrated The Trap Door. I still miss him today.
Yep that's right information films and warning signs some people STILL won't take a blind bit of notice - even after all these years . . .
- I shouted "WILLIE RUSHTON" at 1:52 and my mother looked at me funny.
6:33 Why he stayed alive so long... A phrase I've been quoting to my brother all my life.. this shit is what I was brought up on!!!
It's nice to see these again, they are not shown on TV now
Sadly no Joe n Petunia on here :(
Watched all these Public Information Films in the 70s and 80s. Why they don't make them nowadays I have no idea! would make sense.
They should put films more like these on TV in America... Common sense, is known here, as a 'Life Hack"..!
What I learned from this video:
You can encounter flying motorcycles.
There are people who run around on the roads that wear headlights on their heads.
Propane gas likes to complain a lot about the lack of space, perhaps store it in larger tanks to prevent a deadly explosion and fire?
Zig zag lines on the road bite people! Wood post-and-rail fencing is ideal for keeping cars from falling into the abyss as it quickly conforms to the car with good strength. Cats love to stand on walls in front of hospitals. It is not a good idea to teach a child water safety by live demonstration. People can dive backwards from the pool back onto the diving board! Driving is like playing a game of space invaders. Oceans, like propane gas, often complain.
Things I learned from this video: The British tradition of complaining about things is so strong it can even transfer to fluids and gases that are otherwise inanimate. ;-)
@@ddragon8154 There's an American trend to label any woman who complains as a "Karen" .
But there are times when their complaint is valid - and equally a man could say the exact same words.....
I wonder what they call. him ?
It's a joke: it's implying you should use the dip-switch that's already provided- it's not going on about going to the garage to get a dip-switch installed.
Augustus Windsock brilliant
I need a hug! Somebody hold me! Every mothers nightmare was too, too much. This whole thing is such a massive headfuck.
🤗
5:56 is that Kenny Everett?
AYE IT WAS
The Dipswitch PIF - Is Derek Nimmo narrating that?
It’s totally his style so I’d imagine it was
Yes.
So as long as the child is strapped to the pram....you can leave it anywhere :-) Them were the days.
Thank you ❤️
Is that Fulton Mackay narrating the flying Motorcycle one? Now then Fletcher what have you been telling young Lenny Godber?
It is!!!
I love your videos. 😇
Why was the headlamp bloke running around with no rear lights?
Nigel Charlton-Wright tail lights where an option in those days most cars didn't have them at the dealership
he really should've had a hi viz vest
Health & safety violation...he got a fixed penalty notice.
Why does a man have headlights at all?
@@terminatedaccount8452 I don't know, but you see plenty of them running around in towns on an evening
The cycling one and the ice and snow on windscreens needs to be revised and enforced today. In the depths of winter you see lazy drivers with iced up windows and only a small slit cleared on the front screen. They only need to get out 5 minutes earlier and clear them properly. When my car is covered with snow I get my sweeping broom and sweep ALL the snow from it whilst the motor is running to demist the screens.
We dont have snow any more. Shocked last year twice first time since 2010.
Namby pamby pussys nowadays just a dusting brings whole south to a close setting panic in.
Quite right wish i could find te public info original film on cyclist and show it to the righteous hell bent video clan.
“Test the ice before they play on it”. Yikes! Maybe don’t let them play on it at all would be a more sensible suggestion.
I still can't believe there was ever a period of time when it was safe to leave your baby outside in the first place.
I remember them all. (Thank you) They scared the shit out of me and made me aware of the danger all around. I have been safe all my life whilst all these young snowflakes are maimed and killed all over the place.
I wish got back theose years
Well done Augustus Windsock. sadly the only one I remember and I don't even own a bicycle !.
And Richard Briers.
That was a public information film.
I remember that. If they were being shown on the BBC, an announcer would always say that at the end, in case some idiot mistook it for an advert and wrote to the daily mail to complain.
AUGUSTUS WINDSOCK!
Dip switch man sounds like side show bob from the sipsons
I thought he sounds like stewie from family guy
Now I'm afraid to go out of the house.
"look Petunia, there's a man with a mask on, must be going to rob the bank"?
Remember the one showing types of drivers, the lane jumper and the geezer daydreaming about dancing girls?
THAT FIRST PIF THE COPPER WAS MR MACKAY FROM PORRIDGE THE MOTORCYCLIST WAS NORMAN STANLEY FLETCHER
Why on earth did I watch this on video as a kid born in the year 2000?
I know, it's not as if you need to know any of these things, is it?
6:35 Cyclists today take note: Stay close to the kerb.
6:10 Kenny Everett
Munch scream at 2.35
3:13 Most UK drivers these days xD
2:14-2:30, the announcer should also say don't leave a baby unattended.
The gas demon was as creepy as fuck.
Still scare me now! I love the message, its ok to take a chance on frozen lakes, H&S would be on our screens full time these days, eg. YOU WILL GO BLIND IF YOU PLAY WITH CONKERS lol. Thanks for sharing.
These are needed now as we had more common sense back then.
Murray Walker on the bicycle one
Red triangle means beware
Red circle means no
That's an effective way for me to remember.
2:23 who the fuck leaves a baby in a stroller outside!?!?
But I never thought the danger would be your baby cutting himself on broken glass after falling on groceries.
Leaving babies in a pram!!! Wow what's happened
Lol lakes, ponds and rivers a rarely if ever safe when iced over.
But send them anyway 😂
@electrogeek77
I suspect it's about as safe now as it was then, but the generation of kids scared witless by these adverts are now parents themselves and it's become something of a no-no.
Looks like Charles Bronson has escaped from prison and he's one hell of a bad driver!
O.M.G HE DOES LOOK LIKE CHARLES BRONSON
@@chriswaring5565 perhaps they were predicting the future when they made it seeing as Charlie has just been in the news regarding his parole!.
Liable to a spell at Slade prison I reckon.
2:51 driver looks like Eggman
Should have had a warning ⚠️to avoid the man that said now then, now then!
"If you must leave your baby outside while you go shopping" - Wow - you'd be jailed for that these days.
Don't leave you're baby outside the shop like this, Dominic Cummings might eat Him/Her.
1:41
WHAT THE FU-BOOOOOOOOOOM! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Edward Woodward .....
Fulton Mckay.
learn to swim so you dont fucking drown if you fall in a puddle
Who leaves a baby out the front of a shop
Nowadays: Any parent who thinks "Likes" on Instagram are more important than the welfare of their children... :-o
Flying motorcycles reminds me of Hagrid.
Fletcher
augustus windsock lol
Not Windsock..... more Kremmin, Kaptain "Kenny Everett" Kremmin. lol
I can't get over the idea that a British car would not come from the factory with a dip switch (we Yanks call them dimmer switches).
They are being jokey-sarcastic.
It's as if they aren't fitted.
( Of course every car is fitted with one- but seemingly not every driver knows about this "invention" .
9:05 These are the parts of the world where malaria is common...so before traveling to poor...ahem..."hot" countries ask your doctor about anti-malaria tablets.
They predicted Harry Potter
Some of the suicidal color blind deliver roo cyclists(don't understand what a red light is for)should be forced to take a few lessons off Augustus
Could not stop mysel pissing, been the first time round, still fuckin funnny!!!!!! 55 going on 56 STILL fuckin funny, ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF LUDICRESS!!!!!!
At 5.55, i wish cyclists did this instead of assuming the right to obstruct and be ignorant
Remember when Britain was safe enough to leave a baby in a pram outside a shop? The day's before globalization and mass immigration?
Simon Collins I don’t understand that. That PIF was filmed in ‘79, right? When the U.S. was starting to have issues about missing children? Wasn’t the UK having a problem back then?
@@chrislang9442Yes you're spot on, I remember nearly every school holidays around that time children would go missing and be found dead.