It might have been banned the morning after transmission, but it was definitely also shown in our school a while later. I assume that the entire film still exists in the Central Office Of Information archives.

>this horrid pif about not playing on the railway done in the style of a game show

Almost an entire edition of Nationwide was given over to its transmission (in '76 or, more likely, '77). Immediately following the screening, in the studio a group of ashen-faced children were asked for their reactions.

By the way Jason, I've had it confirmed to me that the 'doll sinking in quicksand' public information film did exist.

Quite where all this quicksand was supposed to be, though, I don't know.

>By the way Jason, I've had it confirmed to me that the 'doll sinking in quicksand' public information film did exist.

I thought that the sinking doll demonstrated the dangers of gravel pits, not quicksand. Kids seemed to regularly get suffocated in gravel pits in the seventies, for some reason.

They got the idea off the telly.

And did anyone ever _really_ get locked in an old fridge? Or touch overhead wires with the mast of a boat? And what was going on in that five-second wonder where a boy appeared to be tightrope walking onto a train or something???

It was warning of the dangers of walking a tightrope onto a train or something.

There was an extremely scary one from the early eighties about wearing a seatbelt, where a family drove off and the face of the Devil loomed up towards them and then they all died. It freaked me out for ages. 'Robbie' which may have been mentioned in the other thread, about trespassing on railway lines. I remember when I was 11 and had just started the Comp. the Railway Policeman said "You've all been babied enough with that 'Robbie' rubbish, it's time for the harsh facts now" and they showed something featuring actual accidents caught on CCTV and pictures of squashed bodies. Nasty.

kids sinking in gravel pits? let's hope that gets a section in 'I Love 1976' with some tastefully shot dying sequences.

someone's got to get hold of that awful railway pif and broadcast it again. if anyone sees it on the web, do let the forum know.

still scared...

j xxx

I think http://tv.cream.org has a scary section about PIF's, with some pics/realplayer footage.

"squashed bodies. Nasty."

Messy.

You want messy? http://www.stl-online.net/thc/abpg/cycleboy.htm A sort of public info. site about the dangers of racing articulated lorries on your moped.

Good God, Suiii.
That is fucking stomach churning.

How the hell did you find that?

Someone left the link on another forum. I think it's a fake though. The dead guy appears to have 2 left legs, and where did his neck go?? The 'guts' just look like bits of pork or chicken really.

Before you start having nightmares, I'd like to reassure you all that these pictures are fakes. Human "innards" are more colourful, not just all pink like that. Suiii is right - that stuff is just muscle tissue ie meat. Also, the musculature on one of the legs looks wrong, and you'd expect to see more blood on the road. Plus, I don't believe that a lorry would sever both legs *and* cut the head and arm from the body - you *might* see that in a plane crash.

Its good to have a Dr. around to clear these things up, isn't it?

A more recent PIF-type thingy was shown on BBC schools TV a few months ago.
It was about the dangers of fireworks, and featured David Schneider as a renegade banger. Personally, I found this very scary.

After watching Schneider's 'acting' in Mission: Impossible i, literally, couldn't sleep for hours.