Britain Beware! - ITV 2012 documentary about Public Information Films

Adrian Edmondson delves into the archives of the Central Office of Information, the government department responsible for making public information films. To mark the closure of the COI, Ade takes viewers on a journey through the mini-movies and TV ads that for nearly 70 years warned the public about everything from road safety to nuclear fallout. The films include hidden treasures and nostalgic gems such as Jimmy Savile’s Clunk Click Every Trip campaign, Tufty the Squirrel and Charley Says

[@calio7368]

Ah yes Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville, the faces of children playing safely

[@nikiwalkey8114]

Ade Edmondson made a great job of presenting this :) Thanks for the upload

[@Blu3tube]

Apart form Jimmy Savile, Wonderfull doc

[@joshuaward337]

and Rolf Harris

[@chriswaring5565]

AND ROLF HARRIS

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

​@@chriswaring5565Must an echo in here.

[@chriswaring5565]

ECHO! ECHO! ECHO!

[@paulcrombie9623]

I was born in 1964 and remember all of these even though I had forgotten about most of them, they bring it all back to me now you show them, thanks!
But it just a pity they never did one that tells us why we should never vote for a Tory!

[@user-yh6us2jk8t]

I feel like when they show people from real accidents then it can become clear that we shouldn’t do it

[@AlgoEX997]

Been looking for this for ages! Thanks very much!

[@jatlarge6354]

Not bad, but I wish there'd been some interviews with the people that created and/or worked on these films. Some pretty serious talent worked on them, after all...

[@dominewimbury2039]

I was only four years old in 1989 but that Keep Britain Tidy one has always unnerved me. Even then I didn't get how the girl fell in the glass

[@softlystrollreclaim]

Excellent compilation

[@l.j.carpenter7647]

Snatch of the day look like a Monthy Phyton sketch

[@Potionette81]

Aww, I remember the 'Tufty Lady' visiting my nursery school when I was a nipper. Admittedly, I laughed at the weasel's name and got told off.

[@THEBONEENGINE]

They left out the one about the dangers of starting a fire at the top of a ferris wheel.

[@jun_suzuki42]

This is so good. I wish they can make more horror PIF to scare people on TV and cinemas too.

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Surprised to see the guy from BOTTOM appear in this documentary. THINK! and NSPCC ads terrified me growing up. Horror films didn't do it for me but seeing certain ads and PIFs in the cinema or TV in a dark room did it for me.

[@mixtapesfrommylatepartner]

By the end of 2012 this programme would have been unbroadcastable

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Thought it was 2014.

[@koiyune]

why

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Shown on 7 May before the Jimmy Savile scandal

[@agfagaevart]

The "Scandal" broke out around October.

[@5340robert]

I did wonder tbh.

[@pandaeyes42]

Was there ever a COI film made about why I can't drink in pubs?

[@snowqueen_8958]

There's psas for everyone and everything in the uk 😮

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Good quality colour film for 1953.

[@darrennobbs3488]

rolf harris scandal too

[@dragonfly931]

Ah Tufty! And Willie Weasel did he do all his own stunts😅

[@chriswaring5565]

THINK ONCE THINK TWICE THINK DON'T DRIVE YOUR CAR ON THE PAVEMENT THE YOUNG ONES

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Heroin is scary

[@sarahfields288]

Guy in that was also in Londons burning

[@Dadopersoblueboots]

Role Harris and kids😮

[@randomhumanoidblob4506]

THEY DUN TUFTY WRONG!!!!!!

[@karter812_]

can someone PLEASE tell me whenever a human screams (normally) in a PIF, it always sounds like it’s breaking the sound barrier/bleeding my ears/other stuff

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Tufty from the 1970s

[@Dadopersoblueboots]

Lucky it wasn't Gary glitter. Or jimmy saville.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

18:56 The hell?

[@Thebustermann]

Where is it impossible to snatch... a nudist colony. The precise place you can today.

[@l.j.carpenter7647]

This documentary isn't age well

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

Has Edmundson become a state puppet? Not funny

[@FredFuchs77]

Talking about the history of public information films (which are in some ways historical curiousities) is not being "a state puppet".

[@killieguyno1]

snatch of the day lol bet it means something different today!! bet jimmy saville used as his saying!! lol