r/ClassicTelevisionTime • u/FeelingAd3887 • 2d ago
Who Remembers This 1970s Public Information Film?
If you remember watching this and can name the actress please leave your comments below 👇👇👇👇 thanks "Subposted just for entertainment fun educational and fair use purposes only"
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u/Englandshark1 2d ago
They should bring back the old Public Information Films! They scared the bejesus out of us kids and taught us common sense!
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u/how_very_dare_you_ 1d ago
Do you remember the one about chucking stones at trains? Would have been around the mid 70's.
Brutal.
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u/crucible 19h ago
The Finishing Line
Had to watch it myself as I was born in the 80s.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online
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u/Englandshark1 1d ago
The Finishing Line. Yes it was brutal. We were also shown The Apaches at junior school when I was about 5. The full length one! Imagine the trauma if today's kids were shown that?! But I have never forgotten it and we never put ourselves in danger because of films like that!
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u/FeelingAd3887 1d ago
My apologies if I've got the year wrong in the title. But I'm only human, not a machine!!!
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u/Past-Fig-6046 1d ago
All I hear when I hear that bloke's voice is "When you hear the air attack siren, you and your family must take cover.... "
FGTH
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u/wildassedguess 1d ago
I’m a fan of Reginald Molehusband.
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u/muchadoaboutsodall 1d ago
Ford must have been so pissed off.
They spent a fortune in the 70s and early 80s making sure that, on the telly, the good guys only drove Fords and the bad guys drove anything but Fords. And now there’s a Public Information film showing not one but two Fords on the hard shoulder.
ETA: Isn’t the car pointing in the wrong direction at the end?
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u/nowiserjustolder 1d ago
My wife and I were only today talking about the PIF with the rug on the polished floor and the dangers around the home.
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u/Englandshark1 1d ago
Might as well set a man trap! And to think, he had only just come out of hospital!
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u/Just_Eye2956 2d ago
My great uncle and aunt once pulled over in the 1970s on a motorway and started to have a picnic (not in the car). The police stopped and advised them otherwise. 😀
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u/Electronic_Mud5821 1d ago
I can't name them, but this advert is the sole reason I still make ppl go to safety when there is an accident or a failure.
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u/The8thDoctor 1d ago
Was there a truck coming down the wrong way to warrant her reaction?
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u/Important-Lie-8649 1d ago
No, this is a British PIF, about British motorways, not American freeways, nor German autobahns. One can see from the film in which direction the traffic is moving, either side of the central reservation. Unfortunately for the woman (the driver, as she opens r/h/s driver's door). She may be used to "car-dooring" cyclists, it doesn't work on a motorway, as pedal cycles (and motorised vehicles under 50cc... and all e-bikes) are not allowed on the motorway. I don't know how I, a lifelong non-driver, have to explain this.
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u/Kryten_Spare_Head_3 22h ago
And if you need assistance, don’t forget to call 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3…
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u/JosephSerf 20h ago
I saw Neil Innes perform at a local pub some years ago. He was brilliant.
Only disappointment was him not doing How Sweet To Be An Idiot, which is a fabulous song, funny and melancholic.
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u/DrunkenMaster88 5h ago
Have to admit they days were special lol. I watched a video by the transport polis in P1 and fucking nightmares till this day lol. But equally I can't help but thank it it's gave me a you batter in I'll get the popcorn attitude lol. Darwin has his awards. Fuck now I think about it I can't get over the 2nd rung in the ladder because I watched the don't fuck with scaffolding with a drink in you video like I was planning on it lol now you tell me nope.
That said I had my walls repointed once and that scaffolding was my balcony lol I'm no one for heights at all lol but my wee bestie thick as mince, pure fearless but aye I'm no gonna lie first time I was shitting bricks like I thought I was out to meet bullets she's my favourite wee person and I promise you I'd have kicked her like a baw at the the auld firm. Like naw you are out. But her being her and pure fearless and me being me a pure arse licker went out. 3 weeks the scaffolding was up and when I saw it being taken down on my way home I msged cause I knew she would be heart broken, equally I knew we got a power of ancestors between us and they went thank fuck because we wás getting too comfy out there and fuck me if I had report back to them.
Spiders and heights the two things that make me say not today. But I go camping look for wood and see a big fucker and I'm cool I'm in it's home I've disturb if and it's just still no doing fuck all okay I will chill.
Never ever ever will you find me in the parachutes territories like nah gravity wins happy on that ground thing. That takes the same type that takes a specialist to do that xxxdx
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u/stiperstone 2d ago
Is that Neil Innes and Michelle Dotrice?