PLAY SAFE (1978) UK Public Information Film - New Transfer
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Produced by Antony Barrier Productions for the Electricity Council.
From the BFI database:
Produced as material in the `UNDERSTANDING ELECTRICITY' educational service of the electricity supply industry, the film seeks to bring home to children, in a dramatic manner, the dangers of playing near overhead electric lines and substations.
This is a new digital transfer from an original 16mm print. Enjoy!
Now available on the BFI DVD 'Worth the Risk?' released 7th November 2011.
God, that Jimmy scene has such an emotional vibe burned into it.
☹️
'Burned'
His flared trousers caught fire 😂😂😂😂 actually, we only seen this advert on TV in an edited form. This is the first time I’ve seen it in all its graphical glory. Jimmmmmmmmy goes boooom.
Literally burned in
I was shocked when I saw it
Coming back to this after the news of Bernard Cribbins' passing (he played the robin in this). Rest in peace.
The robin is voiced by Bernard Cribbins.
Was Bernard's passing really 9-10 months ago :O
@@grahampearson5670Yes. We know
Was the Owl voiced by Brian Wilde? Does sound like him
@@Kobra31677indeed it was. May Wilde and Cribbins both rest in peace
"JIMMY!!!!!" - You got to love that menacing synth music right before he gets the shock.
Bitch's fault in the first place for making him go in in the first place...and why do all these substations in these PIFS have that one broken slat just begging you to go right in? Well, Jimmy and Darren...rest in pieces...
+James Cloninger Darren I don't feel sorry for as much along with the boy in the abandoned building and the guy climbing the pylon. They were being stupid but Jimmy I do feel sorry for
Reminds me of the Terminator.
@@jamescloninger2666 Was she a canine, then? Woof, woof!
I remember this when I was a kid, I've only just realised that the owl was "Foggy" from last of the summer wine... and then realised, almost simultaneously that Foggy was also Mr Barraclough from Porridge! 🤯 Heavy man!
“Did he just kill him?!? This is Disney you can’t do that shit!!!”
Also Mr Baraclough from Porridge.
Haha thought EXACTLY the same... We are peeps of a similar age mate ;0)
It's mad mind I remember this stuff giving us a hard nights sleep like it was yesterday, yet I can't remember what we had for dinner Friday night !!
I’m rewatching this because the voice of the Robin passed away today. That was Bernard Cribbins, aged 93! When I was younger I watched Old Jacks Boat a lot on CBeebies. One time my mom was doing a concert with him and got him to right a letter to me and even signed his signature. I don’t have it anymore but it is quite interesting that a person who played a Robin wrote a letter to me. Rest In Peace Bernard. 😔
Cribbens also voiced a robin dad in this RSPB documentary about a family of robins. That's what i associated him
with as a kid.
...
(Silence)
This full length version was played to us in primary school the last day before the summer holidays.The sad thing is one of my classmates got hit by a car and killed last day of term back in 1980
Rest in Peace Bernard Cribbins.
The girl infamous for shouting "Jimmy" is Jayne Tottman she was the little girl who's cat is rescued by the late Christopher Reeve in Superman The Movie
Where was Superman when she needed him for her Frisbee?
Also played "Jackie" in BBC Schools Look and Read series "Skyhunter"- reprised as an adult in the early 90's in Skyhunter2 ! All on RUclips...
Who were the other actors
So she p-whips Jimmy into getting the Frisbee and then regrets that his listening to her results in his early demise...there's a lesson here people !
It was her own fault. Jimmy was on the right track but she persuaded him to go in. He should have ignored her and the frisbee. 💙
I still remember when my dad brought this and the powerful stuff one home on VHS because he used to work for NORWEB, we watched these as children and it used to make me paranoid about power lines 😂😂😭
Whats NORWEB?
@@helindenizdemir708 NORth West Electricity Board
love the copper at 5.47 in."that's a stupid place to fly a kite" normally after that it was a good clip round the ear.good old 70's.
5:47
Poor jimmy. Youll never be forgotten
So this is where the famous "Jimmy" public information film comes from...
Yes.
JIIMMMMYYYY
🙆♂
Reminds me of...
"I'm sorry...for everything..."
"MARCY!!!"
(Amphibia True Colors reference)
As a child I read in a book about Benjamin Franklin flying a kite in a thunderstorm and getting sparks from a key at the end of the line; I really wanted to try this myself, but after watching this safety video I realise that this may not be a great idea.
It is dangerous to fly a kite in a thunderstorm. Benjamin Franklin was unusually lucky he wasn't killed or hurt when he discovered electricity.
Come on, do it. You'll go down in the history books as the reinventor of electricity.
@@hoibsh21 Well okay I'll give it a go, and while I'm at it I will hook up the cable to my Chinese electric car for a free rapid charge.
@@cebudave That's the spirit!
I remember reading in a book about it too, a book that covered a range of PSHE topics (fire safety and burns treatments; water safety; farm safety; rail safety; electricity safety to name a few) and featured an alien called Zorg iirc. I’ve tried googling it to no avail
So many of these gave us kids a tough nights sleep, like the lonely water one with the Grim Reaper.
But hey we are still alive, I mean the temperature in England hit loony levels today and just heard a 4th person has died swimming in lakes.
So hey a tough nights sleep BUT I am alive, they did their job !
Sounds like Brian Wilde ( Foggy on Last of the Summer Wine ) narrating the voice of the wise owl. Remember these films well !
+River Huntingdon it is :)
FAO River Huntingdon, Yep that's him! Also Mr Baraclough the soft screw from "Porridge"
The bird is played by Bernard cribbins if you didn't know aswell :)
Yes!! I have been trying to place that voice for the last 3 minutes.. Thank you!!
I remember he also narrated the "Microscopic Milton" cartoon shorts in the 1990s. (The original British versions, as when they were rerun in the USA they were redubbed by Kristen Johnston.)
lesson learned: old british PSAs never fucked around
damn, Inside No. 9 mixed this with an abusive drunkard father, an obsession with taxidermy and a burnt-down house and it still didn't manage to be as dark as the original PSA which it parodies.
Well, the dad did sexually abuse his kids. I think it's dark enough
@@mloxard Yeah, but at least "Wise Owl" has a happy ending for Ronnie, who just walks away from it all, and a subtextual commentary on how unquestioned parental power enables, not stops, abuse.
"If you want to have fun and stay alive"
Jimmy's flares certainly flared up.
Oh no you didnt!
🤯🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the late, great Brian Wilde.....you almost expect to say "Get off, that man!!!"
This terrified me so much as a child!
Same Here.
Same
THAT'S the idea! To scare you AWAY from power lines and substations.
As a kid i was shown a video like this one at school
I was terrified of electricity pylons for weeks afterwards and avoided them
it worked
This was added to the Children's Film Foundation playlists, it went at the start where a cartoon would normally be. The animation is very Yoram Gross style, especially with the live backgrounds, etc.
Brian Wilde is the perfect voice for the owl. Calm and authoratative but kindly as well.
5:47 “that’s a stupid place to fly a kite” if only more policemen were as honest as him nowadays too.
Interesting that our British friends have these safety videos and here in the states we do not seem to have any. Has our schools banned them because they are graphic???
this is from '78 and is no longer shown in schools.
@@grootsyt I remember you had "duck and cover" that was very creepy
Yea.0
There were a lot of PiFs shown in the 60's to 80's, a few in the 90's mostly about driving, and of course most recently about Covid.
@@grootsyt I was shown it in the 90s. The message is pretty timeless. It's only the fashion that's gone out of date.
Must be bloody unsafe playing football in flares that big
It was🤣🤣
Not as dangerous as the chain on your bike.
DANGER! Ignorance kills! Never ever ignore the safety signs!
F in the chat for Jimmy, gone but not forgotten.
F
F
This must have been the inspiration for that episode of inside number nine
Some of the live action footage was recycled some of the clips are used in Powerful Stuff and some were used in PIFs
" 'Extremely High Voltage?' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp"--Frank Grimes, or Grimey as he liked to be called.
"Ha! You wish!"
poor jimmy, these ran on kids tv for a few years and i remember when, probably about 82, as 6 and 7 year olds there were these substations nearby and they were like a magnet for kids, i hated when the suggestion went out that we should go up the 'electricity place'
so i used to sit my grifter and watch them
still dont like walking past them
5:24 You know what else costs a lot of money?
Hospital Bills.
We don't have to pay over here, good old NHS
i remember seeing those ads on tv growing up as a kid in London and also when in Scotland visiting family in Kincardine cos of the pylons near my granddad's house and also now that i work on the railway the overhead lines which carry 25,000 volts which power trains
Stay safe people and don't play with electricity
Saw this at Rifftrax Live show in August 2017. It was so twisted and the riffing was hilarious.
So did I!
I remember seeing this in school. My memory seems to think that Jimmy's death was more fiery than it was. :P
The official one on the government archive site has some of the flamey parts removed or shortened.
What really bugs me is the mum's reaction to the policeman telling her that her daughter was just killed. She acted like she was just told her daughter's bike just got nicked.
Grief can take people funny ways. One's first thought might well be "there hasn't been time for her to have an accident, she's only had it it two days" before the enormity hit her. But, you know, its also for kids.
@@Crusader1089 It's very understandable that it would be quite distressing for kids to see the mum break down and over the news of her daughter's death. It's just her reaction in the video just comes off as a bit odd to me.
Time will always kill you in the end! Now play safe. :)
I'll see you around.
Everyone talks about the Jimmy moment but the implications of the last short with the kid knocking out power as a prank only to get his sister killed because there were no lights to illuminate the street....Yeah, I think they covered it pretty well the danger of not just getting electrocuted but just messing around with power lines in general and how it puts other people in danger indirectly.
Robin was pissed, mang.
That Frisbee didn't look very "stuck", one strong blast of wind and it would be out! Looked as if it had been glued in!
I think the real lesson is dont built power lines or electric poles right next to fishing/boating spots. we wouldint have to run the risk of going near them if they put them in a better spot.
I've never seen the full film to Play Safe just the 3 main clips in shorter PIFs in the 70s
Coming in from 2024, two great legends still greatly missed, .......having the Charley Says DVD for sometime now and there are some “Play Safe“ clips on there - but how was there not this on the DVD.
@@davidprice5563 This film is available on a BFI DVD if you can track down a copy. Search for the 'COI Collection - Worth the Risk?'.
That woman cared more about that bike than her daughter.
👩👧
Sounds like Brian Wilde, aka Foggy Dewhirst. Good information to teach young people.
Indeed it was. Bernard Cribbins voiced the robin. May they both rest in peace
"JIMMY!!!!" Is now become a meme or not
I can promise you that in the 80's yelling 'jimmmmmmmmmy' to imply danger was absolutely a thing.
We watched this in science class , good video
Why havent they got these on modern television today?!
They should have them, also I never saw this the first time round as I wasn’t born , just love PFI’s,
Thanks to Top 50 scariest PFI’s
because we are much dumber as a society
@@amojak I don't know why you are replying to a comment I wrote over 2 years ago and expecting me to reply.
i did not expect you to reply, that was your choice.
Snowflakery. "It's too distressing for my little darling."
I heard that 400,000 volts can jump if you’re 3 mitres away from a substation that contains it
480 volts to jump one millimeter, or 12,000 per inch. This assumes 20% humidity and normal atmospheric pressure (992 millibars). But if it's more humid than that (and Britain always is), it can jump farther. I would say one meter on a foggy or rainy day, but not three.
They should have mentioned the danger of wearing flares while playing football - a definite trip hazard!
When I was about 6 years old my aunty told me that Bill and Ben (British puppet show) lived in the HT power lines at the back of our house. I remember I always wanted to climb up and see them.
This film should be played in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools.
This one was awesome when used in the live broadcast of The Five Doctors by the Rifftrax crew!
Jimmy won't be home for dinner after that harrowing experience at the substation when he was getting his sister's frisbee.
I always thought she was Jimmy's crush, hence the recklessness... ;)
💀
I presume the girl who told Jimmy to go into the substation to get her frisbee is her brother, but I could be wrong.
What's cooking? More for y'all.
@donraggo77 according to Wikipedia and iMDb, the girl (her name is given as Amy) is Jimmy's sister...
People mock these films but if you were a kid in the 70's like me, you damn well knew where you should and shouldn't be going. They scared you shitless but it got the message across. Shame on the government for closing down the central office of information because they thought we didn't need it anymore. We need it now more than ever, maybe those young children wouldn't have ventured out onto that lake on the ice if these films were still being made. RIP.
I would have been a kid in the 70s - eight years old and at junior school back then. The Frisbee PIF kids were the same age as me! What became of them?
I saw this short at RiffTrax Live while they were showing Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983).
I thought I recognised Bernard Cribbins voice. I couldn't think who the other one was but now I have read it was Brian Wilde, I can tell it was.
There's a great deal of confusion about this film, which really needs to be cleared up.
Around 7:12 when the young girl is yelling "Jimmy", it has nothing to do with the boy on the power lines.
What she's actually excited about is the new GM "Jimmy" Detroit Diesel Lorry that's coming down the nearby road. You see, she's something of a truck fan, and she hasn't seen one off these in the flesh before.
Truth be told, she rather dislikes her brother and was secretly hoping he'd come to grief.
I remember this film. I watched it during a science lesson when I was in Year 7.
And I had no idea Bernard Cribbins voiced the robin!
This short film was on Rifftrax Live on 8/17/17 alongside "Doctor Who: The Five Doctors".
Starts with adorable animated animals and then............A CHILD IS ON FIRE!
Play Safe in high definition? Excellent!
They showed us this in school and thirty seconds later told us to put our hands on a van de graff
Peter Powell stunt kite at 4:13 ! I had a blue one the same ! So much fun I had with that kite !
There is a kite stuck to the insulator of the pole on my street, this kite was blue but after a windstorm the kite caused a short on the pole the kite was charred
Don't go near and using the long things to the electric power cables like that or anything else.
A time when kids and youths respected policemen when bollocked by them--not like some of the Shits today. (By no means all).
These videos terrified me as a kid I was so scared of electricity. I now work as an electrician connecting up 400v from the 11kv substation transformers and switchrooms
Ah the joys of being a gen X kid. Where tv campaigns kept us sort of safe while we got up to all sorts lol.
I was a Gen X kid - born 1970, so remember these PIFs very well, especially the Frisbee kids!
The substation one was when Jimmy was killed had132,000volts through him not 66,000volts as it was announced on the news radio.
Ian Housden It’s a 66kV sub, 4 pots on each support rather than the 5 used on 132kV, unless you’re getting confused by the different clips of different subs where one says 33,000v on the gate and the other says 132,000v?
Doesn't matter, you're fucked either way.
📻
@@sinista6536 you're just as likely to get killed by 25,000 volts or even 240 volts it's not the volts that kill it's the amps cos if the amps are high and the voltage is low it's the amps but then again if the amps are low and the voltage is high then it's the voltage
RIP Bernard Cribbins and Brian Wilde
In Fortnite Chapter 2, on the east side of the map, there were power lines that you could literally jump on and use as ziplines, to get to the north or south end of the map quite rapidly. Those lines couldn't ever electrocute you. They were not used at all as a hazard on the map.
Jimmy learnt the hard way.
Kids need 2 play it safe around electricity.
those little scrotes that chucked that metal chain up into the pylon and knocked the electricity off and the lad that threw it not realizing it would cause his sister to be killed
I learned that electricity is never safe and you can be seriously injured or killed
💯
the credits song is so unfitting yet relaxing lol
🥶
POLICEMAN: I'm afraid your little girl was dead when they brought her to the hospital.
MOTHER: She's only had the bike 2 days. It was a birthday present.
The mother didn't seem overcome with shock or broken hearted over her daughter's death. She sounded more concerned about the bike.
No wonder so many of us 40somethings are on anti depressants getting shown stuff like this at the age of 6
5:45 Now that's a really honest policeman!
VERY STUPID PLACE, to fly a kite.
“Sorry ...”
😂
We need more people like him today
Straight and honest right away.
All the other kids fell over when they got a shock but the boy with the frisby was still standing in the substation
There was another version with Dame Judi Dench voicing a cat with Michael Williams as a owl
i remember that one too
7:55 I love to short circuit poles and pylons by throwing rocks at the wiring or transformer 🥰♥️
Ironically, there's no problem with a bird perching on a power cable.
It could be to warm up their bodies. Power lines offer protection from the cold and are generally quite warm since electricity generates heat. A group of birds may perch and huddle together to warm up during the cold winter season.
@@gir1665They're also light enough to sit without touching other wires to stay balanced, something WE would have to do since we're heavy. As a result, we will be shocked by it. Many birds though, as well as monkeys in tropical areas, can still be killed by flying accidentally into power lines, either from inexperience, the wind, or landing on certain points on them.
6:35 Here's a better idea for you kids, why don't you two just not get it or throw something to the frisbee.
Never seen this one before. It's a bit before my time , lol I was born in 1978 . My Generation saw the Powerful Stuff Video .
+djpuffthethird - I was also born in '78, and distinctly remember a bloke (presumably from LEGB safety) coming round with a projector and showing it to us when I was in third year juniors. I also remember my reprobate mates having a giggle at the flares that all the kids seemed to be sporting. :)
I was born two years later and never seen the full edition but do remember the clip with regard to Substations. Scary clips as individuals but seeing the whole thing, makes so much common sense. I have so much respect for the national grid and have become a massive pylon fan.
We were shown Powerful stuff in the late 90s and much scarier ones that I've not been able to find sonce
Well it had to be Pre 1991 when I saw that video as that's when I left Junior School . So we all must of seen it at the same time at school , even if different years . Junior's was the time it seems .
Jimmy,s sister is Bryony and Bryony will have nightmares for the rest of her life
According to iMDb, her name is Amy
“if you want to have fun and stay alive”
NEVER try to get back yourself, OTHERWISE you may not live to play with them again.
i remember my teacher showing this along with the safe as houses one to my class back in 2008. interesting to think about how they were still showing this by then
Something I noticed was that you can hear the buzzing of the substation before he got zapped
That sound always freaks me out when I pass a substation simply because of what happens if somebody entered a substation with all of the electrical equipment still active.
+Andrew Chapman Yeah. Even in pylons you can here the buzzing if there's absolute dead silence around
OldSchoolAddict Exactly.
Andrew Chapman I work in them and it’s still scary even when you know what you’re doing. Substations typically have 2-4 circuits within them and when you’re working on a circuit, it’s dead but the surrounding circuits are still live. Scary when they’re buzzing and crackling at 132kv 6 foot above your head but equally scary at 33kv when you know it’s live but deadly silent.
@@sinista6536 We can only imagine how that much electricity energy has on a living being's vital organs, nervous system, and flesh....
“That’s a very stupid place to fly a kite.”
LOL! Man I love British PSAs. They don’t sugar coat anything. I’m here after watching one hour of Protect and Survive. Yes, I’m a masochist 🤣
Shocking!
I got a charge out of this :)
Dave Smith I suppose you won't need to be plugged in any longer?
X 9
This gave me a charge up my leg
😱
This comment section is electric!
The Voice actors of those two birds has died
R.I.P.
And those actors being Brian Wilde (1927 - 2008) & Bernard Cribbins (1928 - 2022)
I was quite surprised when I discovered it was Bernard Cribbins voicing the Robin. The first time I ever saw him was in The Railway Children.
This is probably going to sound like a dumb question, but how come birds don't always get electrocuted when they stand on power cables? I have gone passed overhead power lines and I see birds standing on there very much alive. Should they not also get electrocuted just by getting too close?
If one foot was on the wire and another on the pole, then they would get a shock. When they stand on just the wire, they are not touching anything that's directly going to the ground.
Almost every electric safety video I saw in school explained about it; someone would ask "But what about the birds? They're sitting on the wire and they're not getting zapped!"
***** Oh, so that's how they survive. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Electricity would use you as a form of bridge to get to other places, if you are stood on one pole and not touching anything else, the electric has no use for you
TheRockingRobby I see.
+Izhan Harris Bin Izzuddin Looks like somebody lost a frisbee in here.
I like the bird who is commentary for it
They showed this exact uncut film to us kids in 1986-87 ? Scared the crap out of me and I'm still wary of pylons etc at 44 years old but this is only a good thing.
I think this was the short that went with Rifftrax Live's riffing of The Five Doctors. (Apropos, since Bernard Cribbins has connections with Doctor Who.) I don't know if the riffed version of the short is anywhere around...we don't have a streaming/DVD version of the Five Doctors riff.
Some people out there are so quick to add so called funny comments but believe it or not many children’s lives were saved by watching these public information films. Unlike today where so many sit glued to phones and tablets with absolutely no idea about dangers in the real world ! So next time you feel like having a go at casting a silly comment about such a serious subject let’s hope it isn’t your child that falls foul to such an accident due to total ignorance by yourself !!
Ever heard of gallows humour? No-one is disputing the value of these films.
Actually. It would never had happened if his sister told him to go in there. Jimmy was right the they weren't suppose to got in there. Her sister ignored the danger signs and I bet she saw a gang of teenagers breaking in the day before was on the television not in real life.
“Did he just kill him?!? This is Disney you can’t do that shit!!!”
@@gir1665Piss off
@@gir1665Get lost stupid
That Jimmy scene is about as nightmare fuel charged as Marcy's death in Amphibia's True Colors.
There's a substation west Newcastle before you get to Lemington and Newburn
I,ve just got hold of the master copy of this the only one to be sent to all the schools in the 80s doubt if its worth much but anyone interested in the 16mm cine format will accept offers
They don't have the machines to play it anymore.