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

The Crowman · 19-08-2018 5:52am

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.

Dick Pickle · 19-08-2018 6:44am

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

The Crowman · 19-08-2018 8:52am

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.

NewbridgeIR · 19-08-2018 12:45pm

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)

Hotblack Desiato · 19-08-2018 2:17pm

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!

NewbridgeIR · 19-08-2018 2:37pm

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.

tylercheribini · 19-08-2018 2:39pm

Jimmy Savile's "Clunk Click Every Trip"

https://youtu.be/ddNr7rebaQo

Capt'n Midnight · 19-08-2018 9:54pm

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.

Hotblack Desiato · 20-08-2018 12:56am

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:

towger · 20-08-2018 1:19am

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.

The Crowman · 20-08-2018 9:49am

towger wrote: »

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

Was this in Ireland?

RebelButtMunch · 20-08-2018 9:37pm

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.

The Crowman · 25-08-2018 7:57am

Remember these badges?

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

igCorcaigh · 25-08-2018 8:41am

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember these badges?

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

Judge!

igCorcaigh · 25-08-2018 8:42am

Where's granddad?

NewbridgeIR · 25-08-2018 5:54pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Where's granddad?

Shame it's not 4:3

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

and also see this

Capt'n Midnight · 25-08-2018 9:40pm

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 !

DoozerT6 · 26-08-2018 9:40am

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.

NewbridgeIR · 26-08-2018 10:31pm

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!

GL scrappy · 18-09-2018 8:42pm

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.

The Crowman · 18-09-2018 10:17pm

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

The Crowman · 19-09-2018 7:42pm

Been looking for this for ages.

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

The Crowman · 29-09-2018 10:18am

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

The Crowman · 29-09-2018 11:26am

Here's the road safety ad from above link, its been uploaded seperately.

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

An Riabhach · 30-09-2018 9:45pm

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.

The Crowman · 20-10-2018 10:54pm

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

That one starts here at 2.44.

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

The Crowman · 22-10-2018 6:21pm

Here it is on its own.

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

ChunkyLover54 · 08-11-2018 5:09am

The Crowman wrote: »

Thats on here, starts at 2.48.

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

prinzeugen · 08-11-2018 6:19am

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

Railway lines..

Graphic ending!

The Crowman · 12-11-2018 2:21pm

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

The Crowman · 07-12-2018 12:29pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

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.

Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaxUF2NwIuM

The Crowman · 29-12-2018 10:14pm

The Crowman wrote: »

This was from the 90's but anyone remember the road safety advert where a guy is driving dangerously and there's a techno dance beat soundtrack then it changes to him in a wheelchair and the dance beat is him bouncing a basketball?

An Riabhach wrote: »

Yep, I remember that one well enough,but I can't remember what was said at the end.

Found it, quite a graphic one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrRa9OGZeA

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 12:56am

Just came across this late 70's HSE pif. Not sure if I remember this one or not, some details of it seem vaguely familiar. Also who's yer man in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFz7uwTATTk

NewbridgeIR · 05-01-2019 1:04am

I remember it. I wanted the truck. Got something vaguely like it in 1980.
Wonder where the uploader got hold of it.

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 1:06am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I remember it. I wanted the truck. Got something vaguely like it in 1980.
Wonder where the uploader got hold of it.

Yes interested to know that too, they have a lot of PIF's up, mainly British as far as I can see.

NewbridgeIR · 05-01-2019 1:13am

The Crowman wrote: »

Yes interested to know that too, they have a lot of PIF's up, mainly British as far as I can see.

Many of the public information films were made by the Health Education Bureau which was wound up in 1987. The only place to view that material appears to be in the IFI Archive who do not permit people to make copies. Similiar dilemmas with National Road Safety Association and the Irish Water Safety stuff.

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 1:25am

They don't seem to have any other Irish made pifs but I do remember RTE showing this one. I think it might have been pulled following complaints. I certainly recall someone complaining about it to Arthur Murphys Mailbag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOcIkQJqKF8

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 11:49am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Many of the public information films were made by the Health Education Bureau which was wound up in 1987. The only place to view that material appears to be in the IFI Archive who do not permit people to make copies. Similiar dilemmas with National Road Safety Association and the Irish Water Safety stuff.

They put up a handful of PIF's on their player as part of the Adverts Restoration Project. The Bob Geldof Phone Wreckers one and a handful of others including one pretty innocuous HEB one about excerise,wonder do they have more in their archives? Would be great to see some of the classic ones that are still unavailable online.

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 11:59am

The 1987 AIDS pif must have been among the HEB's last ones as it came out in 87. Interestingly it was shown on Reeling In The Years as have been a few other pifs, the early 90's Guaranteed Irish one with all the stuff smashing into a shopping trolly being another so RTE must have some access to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVJ3qAcAU

Hotblack Desiato · 05-01-2019 6:58pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Also who's yer man in it?

Dr Anthony Clare

Probably had the most distinctive voice in broadcasting after Kenneth Williams!

Pathetic that as late as 1987 in that AIDS ad they could only say "condoms give some protection", no doubt they didn't want to upset the god botherers

Poor kid in that video looks terrified.

The Crowman · 05-01-2019 8:06pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Dr Anthony Clare

Probably had the most distinctive voice in broadcasting after Kenneth Williams!

Pathetic that as late as 1987 in that AIDS ad they could only say "condoms give some protection", no doubt they didn't want to upset the god botherers

Poor kid in that video looks terrified.

I thought he was familiar from somewhere.

The Crowman · 10-01-2019 7:22pm

Firehound, never give a fire a chance. He was kind of like an Irish version of Smokey the bear. There were print ads with him too which featured him pointing at the viewer kind of like those famous posters of Kitchener from WW1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWqoj35IaMw

The Crowman · 15-01-2019 8:26am

Whoever made this must have been smoking the strong stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnJ9elEzjc

The Crowman · 03-02-2019 9:05pm

Wasn't this shown on RTE, though its British? I remember this and we lived in two channel land.

branie2 · 03-02-2019 10:28pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Wasn't this shown on RTE, though its British? I remember this and we lived in two channel land.

That was the type of ad that really upset me as a small kid

fricatus · 03-02-2019 10:59pm

branie2 wrote: »

That was the type of ad that really upset me as a small kid

Yeah, me too. I remember it well. But I never fcuked around with electricity after seeing it, so it was effective!

The Crowman · 28-03-2019 12:13pm

A 90's update of sorts of the old Play Safe 70's advert.

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

31-03-2019 5:25pm

Anybody got a link for the RTE 70s ad where a group of men were in a pub merrily drinking and giving out about the various costs of sending a child to school?

The message being they were spending too much dosh in the pub.

Thanks

NewbridgeIR · 31-03-2019 5:48pm

Calliope Better Thinker wrote: »

Anybody got a link for the RTE 70s ad where a group of men were in a pub merrily drinking and giving out about the various costs of sending a child to school?

The message being they were spending too much dosh in the pub.

Thanks

Reeling In The Years 1975. Starts at 22:21

31-03-2019 5:56pm

Many thanks. Fran and the Miamis' as well, I remember hearing the news on the radio the following morning. How desperately sad.

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

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