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Safety ads from the 70's and 80's,which ones would you like to see again?

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  • #302
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Remember this one from circa late 80's? A yuppie-ish guy in a suit sitting in a car addressing the camera in an exasperated tone "don't talk to me about cyclists, they think they own the road". He went on like that for a bit then it switched to a cyclist saying pretty much the same thing about motorists.


  • #303
    Dick Pickle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Dick Pickle


    chakotha wrote: »
    The one about car seat belts and there this bad tempered middle aged guy in the front seat of a car straining and bursting trying to reach the seat belt (old fashioned ones) that's right in under his seat.

    My old man used to break his hole laughing at it.

    Anyone ever find this one ? Been looking for years


  • #304
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Dick Pickle wrote: »
    Anyone ever find this one ? Been looking for years

    Yes, very well. Haven't seen it since it was originally shown circa late 70's . Very few Irish PIF's from that period are online.


  • #305
    [Deleted User]
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    Dick Pickle wrote: »
    Anyone ever find this one ? Been looking for years
    The Crowman wrote: »
    Yes, very well. Haven't seen it since it was originally shown circa late 70's . Very few Irish PIF's from that period are online.


    The man's name was Tim and he was buying a new car (a Fiat Mirafiori)


  • #306
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,597 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Believe it or not you had to pay extra for seat belts in those days, even though it was illegal to sell a new car without them.

    The idea of the ad was that people wouldn't cheap out and get the crappy old fashioned fixed belts to save a few quid, but get inertia reel belts which are a lot more convenient and would be more likely to actually be worn.

    Most people didn't wear seat belts then!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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  • #307
    [Deleted User]
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    Back then, some people had the attitude "only sissies wear seatbelts"

    I played a lot of hurling in primary school (early 80s). Helmets weren't compulsory then but people who chose to wear them got hit with the same taunts.


  • #308
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Jimmy Savile's "Clunk Click Every Trip"

    https://youtu.be/ddNr7rebaQo


  • #309
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    Are you thinking of the Green Cross Code guy?
    Did you know ?

    David Prowse who played Darth Vader got a nice slice of the profits off a Star Wars film.

    Return of the Jedi has grossed over $572m and only cost $32m to make so his share amounts to ... Sweet FA because Hollywood F**king Accounting :mad:


    David was Green Cross Man.


  • #310
    Hotblack Desiato
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    tylercheribini wrote: »
    Jimmy Savile's "Clunk Click Every Trip"

    https://youtu.be/ddNr7rebaQo

    He was made a Papal Knight so couldn't possibly have done anything bad... :eek:

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #311
    towger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭towger


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Nope. I can remember a cartoon strip with some kids who found a fallen wire and Safety Man appeared in the nick of time.

    Don't think there were ever animations / videos with Safety Man.

    These were on the back of school copy books if I remember correctly.


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  • #312
    The Crowman
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    towger wrote: »
    These were on the back of school copy books if I remember correctly.

    Was this in Ireland?


  • #313
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,430 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Anyone remember one from the 70s. A man gets out of bed. Eats a fry, lashes on the brown sauce. Puts on his bowler hat. Goes out to get the bus walking briskly with a brolly and I think he gets a heart attack.


  • #314
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Remember these badges?

    https://pixbyshumbles.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/dont-judge-a-dog-by-his-erm-cover/


  • #315
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    The Crowman wrote: »
    Remember these badges?

    https://pixbyshumbles.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/dont-judge-a-dog-by-his-erm-cover/

    Judge!


  • #316
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Where's granddad?


  • #317
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Where's granddad?


    Shame it's not 4:3


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWHrjCG1LQ



    and also see this


  • #318
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    UK - Green Cross Code was three words long, Stop Look Listen



    Ireland - Safe Cross Code

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k


    Know the code !


  • #319
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Shame it's not 4:3


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWHrjCG1LQ



    and also see this

    God I remember that ad so well.


  • #320
    [Deleted User]
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    UK - Green Cross Code was three words long, Stop Look Listen


    This DVD is well worth a purchase - Stop! Look! Listen!


  • #321
    GL scrappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭GL scrappy


    The Crowman wrote: »
    Remember this one from circa late 80's? A yuppie-ish guy in a suit sitting in a car addressing the camera in an exasperated tone "don't talk to me about cyclists, they think they own the road". He went on like that for a bit then it switched to a cyclist saying pretty much the same thing about motorists.


    I've been looking for this too. Pretty sure the actor was the Drogheda dragon and presidential hopeful Gavin Duffy. Haven't been able to find it online yet.
    Could have been the inspiration for Damo & Ivor from what I remember of the characters.


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  • #322
    The Crowman
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    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Probably not so much a safety ad but remember that one that showed a shopping trolley with loads of glass bottles and food etc being dropped into it from a height? I think it was about buying Irish products, it had one of those solemn voiceovers that you tend to associate with PIF's and the final shot was a great big fecking matress falling onto the trolley before the ad ended in a freeze frame.

    Thats on here, starts at 2.48.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QFL4Fx7G8


  • #323
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Been looking for this for ages.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRIKayaMdk


  • #324
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    There's a road safety ad here that's been mentioned a few times I think. At the 1.23 minute mark. Also a sinister PIF type ad for Nicobrevin anti smoking capsules later in.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWBl0bln2U


  • #325
    The Crowman
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    Here's the road safety ad from above link, its been uploaded seperately.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmy6P-eVkc


  • #326
    An Riabhach
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    Here's the road safety ad from above link, its been uploaded seperately.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmy6P-eVkc
    Thanks!!
    I did mention this very ad on either this thread or another one.

    I remember as well that a few years later this ad was re-done, same ad but the talking voiceover was replaced by sombre music accompanied by a female voice singing which sounded more like keening.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #327
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    "The boy you hit is dead...dead....dead"

    That one starts here at 2.44.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehf38Jl8p0M


  • #328
    The Crowman
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    Here it is on its own.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwaLPP5b0zo


  • #329
    ChunkyLover54
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    Thats on here, starts at 2.48.

    Sounds like Donal McCann doing the voiceover for that Guaranteed Irish ad.


  • #330
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    https://youtu.be/SXGqwCbeFD8?t=154

    Railway lines..

    Graphic ending!


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  • #331
    The Crowman
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    Public information adverts aren't what they used to be. I like this recent one though on farm dangers. It captures the spirit of some of the classic ones from the 80's.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxLgGjs_FM


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