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

An Riabhach · 21-08-2019 10:57pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Don't know if this was already posted here but this is pretty much a want list of mostly missing classic Irish PSA's from the late 70's/early 80's. The author is listing them from memory so made a couple of mistakes. No 6 "put it this way" was actually a British pif. I've a funny feeling No 5. EDITH might have been UK too? Out of the others I can remember all of them and since this was written in 2007 only number 3 on the list "John did ya put the cat out?" has surfaced online.

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/25/toward-a-catalog-of-irish-public-service-ads/?fbclid=IwAR2GAxAFdPw5gJHY1dElyAgwkxoUu51gOy7Sh5TkdBEjRFKrQX_l94Cim5w

Numbers 9 and 10 are definitely elusive,to the point where we'll never see them again.
I really wish RTE had kept these.

Another one which I have mentioned many times is one where two farmers are having a heated argument in a field about moving cattle and the spread of TB.

Sardonicat · 21-08-2019 11:05pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Numbers 9 and 10 are definitely elusive,to the point where we'll never see them again.
I really wish RTE had kept these.

Another one which I have mentioned many times is one where two farmers are having a heated argument in a field about moving cattle and the spread of TB.

"Ah, mind yer own business! "
"T'is my business! TB spreadin to my land IS my business!"
That one?

An Riabhach · 21-08-2019 11:08pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

"Ah, mind yer own business! "
"T'is my business! TB spreadin to my land IS my business!"
That one?

Yessss!!!!

"Arragh I don't give a damn......"
"Beware the farmer who doesn't give a damn.Know him for what he is!!"

Hangdogroad · 21-08-2019 11:32pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Yessss!!!!

"Arragh I don't give a damn......"
"Beware the farmer who doesn't give a damn.Know him for what he is!!"

Was that the one where at the end they angrily turn away from each other and then there's a freeze frame?

An Riabhach · 21-08-2019 11:36pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Was that the one where at the end they angrily turn away from each other and then there's a freeze frame?

Spot on.
I think it's the younger farmer who says "I don't give a damn" and turns away and at that there's a freeze frame while the warning closing lines are delivered.

Hangdogroad · 21-08-2019 11:40pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Don't know if this was already posted here but this is pretty much a want list of mostly missing classic Irish PSA's from the late 70's/early 80's. The author is listing them from memory so made a couple of mistakes. No 6 "put it this way" was actually a British pif. I've a funny feeling No 5. EDITH might have been UK too? Out of the others I can remember all of them and since this was written in 2007 only number 3 on the list "John did ya put the cat out?" has surfaced online. The Safe Cross Code one mentioned here is a different one to the more famous version which is online.

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/25/toward-a-catalog-of-irish-public-service-ads/?fbclid=IwAR2GAxAFdPw5gJHY1dElyAgwkxoUu51gOy7Sh5TkdBEjRFKrQX_l94Cim5w

An Riabhach wrote: »

Numbers 9 and 10 are definitely elusive,to the point where we'll never see them again.
I really wish RTE had kept these.

Another one which I have mentioned many times is one where two farmers are having a heated argument in a field about moving cattle and the spread of TB.

By the way no 12. Fit enough to catch that bus. Was that the same one that had Don Cockburn, or some another well known newsreader cycling a bike and featured the track Oxygene by Jean Michelle Jarre?

An Riabhach · 21-08-2019 11:44pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

By the way no 12. Fit enough to catch that bus. Was that the same one that had Don Cockburn, or some another well known newsreader cycling a bike and featured the track Oxygene by Jean Michelle Jarre?

My head's all over the place with that one ....
I vaguely remember the end of that one where the overweight girl is trying to run to catch the bus, I thought it was Jimmy Greeley doing the narrating

Hotblack Desiato · 22-08-2019 12:38pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/25/toward-a-catalog-of-irish-public-service-ads/?fbclid=IwAR2GAxAFdPw5gJHY1dElyAgwkxoUu51gOy7Sh5TkdBEjRFKrQX_l94Cim5w

4. Pretty sure EDITH was Irish.

7. Think it was putting bullets into a revolver and spinning it, Russian Roulette-style.

9. The mammy figure said "I.S. 148. Sounds like a robot, doesn't it?" This was the Irish standard for fireproof nighties, apparently. Think she was the wife in "John, did you put the cat out?" (Cat was the only thing not on fire in that ad! :pac: )

11. He was called Micheal Angelo. (As in Micheal Martin, no fada soz) Dang, one of the commenters beat me to it

12. "'Noel Carroll can run 800 meters in …' some time or other." Yeah but he's long dead now and I stand a very good chance of outliving him, even though I'm a lazy git

Anyone remember the one with the big black Merc (probably Charlie Haughey :pac: ) trying to turn right off the Long Mile Road while in the straight ahead lane? "Now he's banjaxed... TWO lanes of traffic."

Or the one about seat belts - you had to have them, but they were still an optional extra?!? so the ad was about not cheaping out on them. Cue fat guy in a Fiat 131 Mirafiori strugging to put on an old style non-reel belt which wouldn't go near him. Inertia reel belts that actually allowed you to move, reach the radio (if you had one!) etc were dearer. Of course lots of people still didn't wear them at all so you can see why they wouldn't spend the extra few quid.

"Tyres. FIVE of the best friends you'll ever have" (just after some git in a Vauxhall, I think, has carelessly driven over a half-brick and a broken bottle). Remember asking my dad why they said (and emphasised) the word five.

The guy saying in the comments that these are lost due to expense of video tape is wrong, these were all made on film (had lots of visible scratches etc. too.) IFI digitally released recently loads of prints they got from advertising agencies and restored, doesn't seem to include any PSAs though

but there has to be prints of these around somewhere.

Hangdogroad · 22-08-2019 12:49pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

4. Pretty sure EDITH was Irish.

7. Think it was putting bullets into a revolver and spinning it, Russian Roulette-style.

9. The mammy figure said "I.S. 148. Sounds like a robot, doesn't it?" This was the Irish standard for fireproof nighties, apparently. Think she was the wife in "John, did you put the cat out?" (Cat was the only thing not on fire in that ad! :pac: )

11. He was called Micheal Angelo. (As in Micheal Martin, no fada soz) Dang, one of the commenters beat me to it

12. "'Noel Carroll can run 800 meters in …' some time or other." Yeah but he's long dead now and I stand a very good chance of outliving him, even though I'm a lazy git

Anyone remember the one with the big black Merc (probably Charlie Haughey :pac: ) trying to turn right off the Long Mile Road while in the straight ahead lane? "Now he's banjaxed... TWO lanes of traffic."

Or the one about seat belts - you had to have them, but they were still an optional extra?!? so the ad was about not cheaping out on them. Cue fat guy in a Fiat 131 Mirafiori strugging to put on an old style non-reel belt which wouldn't go near him. Inertia reel belts that actually allowed you to move, reach the radio (if you had one!) etc were dearer. Of course lots of people still didn't wear them at all so you can see why they wouldn't spend the extra few quid.

"Tyres. FIVE of the best friends you'll ever have" (just after some git in a Vauxhall, I think, has carelessly driven over a half-brick and a broken bottle). Remember asking my dad why they said (and emphasised) the word five.

The guy saying in the comments that these are lost due to expense of video tape is wrong, these were all made on film (had lots of visible scratches etc. too.) IFI digitally released recently loads of prints they got from advertising agencies and restored, doesn't seem to include any PSAs though but there has to be prints of these around somewhere.

7. Was a shotgun. I have a vivid image of scenes of a double barreled shotgun being loaded by someone whose face we don't see and this is juxtaposed with images of pints or whiskey glasses (being poured maybe?). You see the shotgun being fired and then a drivers POV shot of a pedestrian being run over. Finally you see the shotgun sliding down a bar counter and knocking over drinks and bottles.

Lol, I remember the one with the fat cranky guy trying to get the seatbelt on.

There were a small number of PIF's in those ads the IFI released. One anti litter one "Feed a bin" and one about conserving water with an image of a goldfish in a tank where the water is seeping away plus a couple more. No real classic ones though.

Sardonicat · 22-08-2019 12:55pm

The little girl in 9 was called Eimear and she had the same nightie as me ! Always felt sorry for her the way her mother ripped through her hair with the hairbrush. Also, Eimear never said anything word.

Hangdogroad · 22-08-2019 1:52pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

The little girl in 9 was called Eimear and she had the same nightie as me ! Always felt sorry for her the way her mother ripped through her hair with the hairbrush. Also, Eimear never said anything word.

The mother in it terrified me. There was this air of menace to everything she said and did, even at the end when she turned to the camera with this weird smile and said "kids, wouldn't ya die if anything happened to them?"

Sardonicat · 22-08-2019 2:01pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The mother in it terrified me. There was this air of menace to everything she said and did, even at the end when she turned to the camera with this weird smile and said "kids, wouldn't ya die if anything happened to them?"

Yeah! Sounded like a veiled threat. No wonder poor Eimaer was so quiet!

An Riabhach · 22-08-2019 6:41pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

"Ah, mind yer own business! "
"T'is my business! TB spreadin to my land IS my business!"
That one?

I've just remembered another line from that ad:
"I don't want reactors."

ðŸ‘ðŸ‘

Sardonicat · 22-08-2019 6:46pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I've just remembered another line from that ad:
"I don't want reactors."

ðŸ‘ðŸ‘

It's the Cavan accents that stick out in my memory : 'Teah Beah/ rayactohrs' ( Sorry Cavan people, it's a hard accent to spell phonetically )

An Riabhach · 22-08-2019 8:17pm

10 out of 10 for anyone who remembers this.
An ad warning kids not to accept lifts from strangers, but this particular ad had puppets in it something like Punch and Judy????

Hangdogroad · 22-08-2019 9:37pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

10 out of 10 for anyone who remembers this.
An ad warning kids not to accept lifts from strangers, but this particular ad had puppets in it something like Punch and Judy????

Doesn't ring a bell. Was it Irish or British?

An Riabhach · 22-08-2019 9:41pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Doesn't ring a bell. Was it Irish or British?

I really can't remember........
We were able to get UTV and BBC back then as well as RTÉ because we had another old aerial which we found dumped in a field (reception wasn't great though),so it could've been from either channel.

Sardonicat · 22-08-2019 10:10pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I really can't remember........
We were able to get UTV and BBC back then as well as RTÉ because we had another old aerial which we found dumped in a field (reception wasn't great though),so it could've been from either channel.

Early childhood spent in England and was here from 9 up and I have absolutely zero recollection of that. I remember the English PSB ads very well (had an irrational fear of fridges from the one that ended with the kid trapped in the dumped fridge) . I remember the Charlie Says never talk to strangers cartoon but nothing featuring a Punch and Judy show.

Now, a film was shown to us at school in England warning us not to talk to or go away with strangers which didn't pull any punches, followed by a talk from a PC which actually saved me from being coaxed into a car a few weeks later and for which I shall be eternally grateful, but that film didn't feature a Punch and Judy show. Could it have been something played to you in school? Although I don't recall anything of that nature being discussed in school here in the early 80s.

An Riabhach · 22-08-2019 10:18pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Early childhood spent in England and was here from 9 up and I have absolutely zero recollection of that. I remember the English PSB ads very well (had an irrational fear of fridges from the one that ended with the kid trapped in the dumped fridge) . I remember the Charlie Says never talk to strangers cartoon but nothing featuring a Punch and Judy show.

Now, a film was shown to us at school in England warning us not to talk to or go away with strangers which didn't pull any punches, followed by a talk from a PC which actually saved me from being coaxed into a car a few weeks later and for which I shall be eternally grateful, but that film didn't feature a Punch and Judy show. Could it have been something played to you in school? Although I don't recall anything of that nature being discussed in school here in the early 80s.

The only parts I remember are a puppet in the shape of a car with scary sharp teeth arriving and saying to one of the puppets "Would you like to get in my car?Your mother and father sent me" and then the puppet flies into a panic and starts beating him with something and shouts "You naughty naughty man,I don't believe you! Take that! And that! And that!"

Ye must think I'm going mad........

Sardonicat · 22-08-2019 10:35pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

The only parts I remember are a puppet in the shape of a car with scary sharp teeth arriving and saying to one of the puppets "Would you like to get in my car?Your mother and father sent me" and then the puppet flies into a panic and starts beating him with something and shouts "You naughty naughty man,I don't believe you! Take that! And that! And that!"

Ye must think I'm going mad........

Could it have been a segment ofor a TV show? Sometimes things got under the radar that way,

Hangdogroad · 23-08-2019 12:28pm

Anyone remember the seat belt one circa late 70's which showed an action man type doll being fired with a catapult through a car window?

NewbridgeIR · 23-08-2019 7:08pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

9. The mammy figure said "I.S. 148. Sounds like a robot, doesn't it?" This was the Irish standard for fireproof nighties, apparently. Think she was the wife in "John, did you put the cat out?" (Cat was the only thing not on fire in that ad! :pac: )

Or the one about seat belts - you had to have them, but they were still an optional extra?!? so the ad was about not cheaping out on them. Cue fat guy in a Fiat 131 Mirafiori strugging to put on an old style non-reel belt which wouldn't go near him. Inertia reel belts that actually allowed you to move, reach the radio (if you had one!) etc were dearer. Of course lots of people still didn't wear them at all so you can see why they wouldn't spend the extra few quid.

The Mammy was Laurie Morton, notorious for playing old crones.

Seat belt man was Tim. "Tim has a new car....." We had a 131 at the time too.

NewbridgeIR · 23-08-2019 7:12pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Now, a film was shown to us at school in England warning us not to talk to or go away with strangers which didn't pull any punches, .

Was this it? It's on the BFI COI Collection DVD Worth The Risk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8ZOiDyINk

Sardonicat · 23-08-2019 8:20pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Was this it? It's on the BFI COI Collection DVD Worth The Risk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8ZOiDyINk

No. This would have been in 1979, before that one was made. Similar, but featured more scenarios and a voice over.

Sardonicat · 24-08-2019 6:28pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The Mammy was Laurie Morton, notorious for playing old crones.

Seat belt man was Tim. "Tim has a new car....." We had a 131 at the time too.

Was Laurie Morton 'Wilhelmena, the Whirlygig Witch' in 'Forty Coats'?

thejuggler · 24-08-2019 7:06pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Was Laurie Morton 'Wilhelmena, the Whirlygig Witch' in 'Forty Coats'?

Yes she was married to another actor David Kelly (Charlie and the chocolate factory, Glendora’s, Fawlty Towers). Both died in 2012 I think

Sardonicat · 24-08-2019 9:55pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

No. This would have been in 1979, before that one was made. Similar, but featured more scenarios and a voice over.

https://youtu.be/EEjnmhBJA1w

This is it. The title says 1971 but from the clothes I think it's more likely to be mid to late 70s

Hangdogroad · 25-08-2019 9:53am

Sardonicat wrote: »

Was Laurie Morton 'Wilhelmena, the Whirlygig Witch' in 'Forty Coats'?

thejuggler wrote: »

Yes she was married to another actor David Kelly (Charlie and the chocolate factory, Glendora’s, Fawlty Towers). Both died in 2012 I think

"We're nasty, we're nasty we're horrible, wicked and bad".

NewbridgeIR · 25-08-2019 12:05pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

https://youtu.be/EEjnmhBJA1w

This is it. The title says 1971 but from the clothes I think it's more likely to be mid to late 70s

Ah yes, I have that on Stop Look Listen

Pretty sure the date is right

NewbridgeIR · 25-08-2019 12:10pm

Does anyone remember this US PIF called The Last Prom? It was shown on RTE at least twice during the first half of the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzA6dFant-A

Sardonicat · 25-08-2019 7:43pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Ah yes, I have that on Stop Look Listen

Pretty sure the date is right

Yeah, I looked at again and think it's about 71 alright. One of the Kemp brothers (Spandau Ballet) is on the Witches Hat round about in the playground scene. He would have been too old if it was 77.

Hangdogroad · 29-08-2019 5:20pm

Classic anti smoking pif on here at the 2:18 mark by the Health Education Bureau. I remember being grossed out by the close up of the guys mouth exhaling smoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlLDNmdJZ0

Hangdogroad · 29-08-2019 5:49pm

Another long lost Health Education Bureau classic has turned up, the first ad in this commercial break. This used to scare the shyte out of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qye1hk7ktX0

NewbridgeIR · 29-08-2019 10:03pm

Great to see that again. Love the voiceover.

Hangdogroad · 29-08-2019 11:49pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Great to see that again. Love the voiceover.

Am I right in thinking it dates from a good bit earlier than 1984?

Hotblack Desiato · 30-08-2019 1:36am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Classic anti smoking pif on here at the 2:18 mark by the Health Education Bureau. I remember being grossed out by the close up of the guys mouth exhaling smoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlLDNmdJZ0

Is that Colonel Gadaffi at 2:32 ??? He used to embarrass visiting dignitaries by farting loudly in their presence, dunno if he was a smoker though.

Hangdogroad · 30-08-2019 6:40am

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Is that Colonel Gadaffi at 2:32 ??? He used to embarrass visiting dignitaries by farting loudly in their presence, dunno if he was a smoker though.

Lol, there's a resemblance all right. The smokers shown coughing their lungs out in that middle sequence don't look like they're acting either, it has the feel of stock documentary footage.

NewbridgeIR · 30-08-2019 9:45pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Am I right in thinking it dates from a good bit earlier than 1984?

Not much earlier. Maybe 1980/81

Hangdogroad · 31-08-2019 7:48am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Not much earlier. Maybe 1980/81

Yes that'd be about right. Its one I always associated with the "Bah" one,maybe came out around the same time.

Hangdogroad · 22-09-2019 1:32am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Classic anti smoking pif on here at the 2:18 mark by the Health Education Bureau. I remember being grossed out by the close up of the guys mouth exhaling smoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlLDNmdJZ0

BTW can anyone identify the music used in it? It sounds like it could be something by Kitaro.

Hangdogroad · 22-09-2019 9:43am

A more recent-ish one, I'd been looking for this on YT for ages. The slightly demented looking woman at the end asking the doctor "have you cleaned your hands?" makes it. You can imagine that going down well.

There's another one from the last decade that I can't find online, think it was for Board Bia and had this woman with her face blurred out talking about giving her family food poisoning. It had the line "I shudder when I hear the word picnic".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE5ZZ4Q4IkA

Hangdogroad · 28-09-2019 4:30pm

This is one that's been mentioned a couple of times, about wearing hearing protection at work. We only had RTE growing up and I remember this being shown in the late 70's though its British. I'm not sure if they redubbed it for Irish audiences, can anyone recall? Its one that I always associate with the Big John "oh me achin back" one, I'd say they were on pretty much around the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xob4Sp4dB8I

NewbridgeIR · 28-09-2019 5:59pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

This is one that's been mentioned a couple of times, about wearing hearing protection at work. We only had RTE growing up and I remember this being shown in the late 70's though its British. I'm not sure if they redubbed it for Irish audiences, can anyone recall? Its one that I always associate with the Big John "oh me achin back" one, I'd say they were on pretty much around the same time.

The deaf man is David Ellison, principally remembered as Sgt Joe Beck from Juliet Bravo.
I do remember an Irish one but think (can't be definite) that they used local actors.

The Play Safe PIF (the 10 minute version) was redubbed for Irish audiences and shown on RTE as filler during the summer of 1979 and 1980. Remember watching it on a B&W portable in Inchydoney both years (summer holiday).

Hangdogroad · 28-09-2019 6:19pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The deaf man is David Ellison, principally remembered as Sgt Joe Beck from Juliet Bravo.
I do remember an Irish one but think (can't be definite) that they used local actors.

The Play Safe PIF (the 10 minute version) was redubbed for Irish audiences and shown on RTE as filler during the summer of 1979 and 1980. Remember watching it on a B&W portable in Inchydoney both years (summer holiday).

Interesting,was it common for British pifs to be copied or redubbed for showing on RTE?

This is another one I remember being shown in the late 70's on RTE. It virtually follows the one I remember shown frame for frame so possibly it was redubbed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWcFAJ1_bok

Professor Genius · 28-09-2019 6:21pm

Anyone have that Irish one about John having a new car and struggling with the seat belt?
From 70s

NewbridgeIR · 28-09-2019 6:23pm

Professor Genius wrote: »

Anyone have that Irish one about John having a new car and struggling with the seat belt?
From 70s

That was Tim

Struggling with the seat belt, it actually went under the seat...

"Tim has a new car..."

The car was a Fiat Mirafiori - my Dad and uncle drove them all through the 1970s and 1980s.

Not seen the advert for many years.

NewbridgeIR · 28-09-2019 6:27pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Interesting,was it common for British pifs to be copied or redubbed for showing on RTE?

This is another one I remember being shown in the late 70's on RTE. It virtually follows the one I remember shown frame for frame so possibly it was redubbed.

They redubbed a handful - pretty sure that electricity one was like that.

There was another deaf one featuring a drummer.

One of the best (mentioned before) was the loaded shotgun re drink driving.

And of course, that clock showing 4.30pm

"in winter it can get dark as early as half past four"

Hangdogroad · 28-09-2019 6:35pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

They redubbed a handful - pretty sure that electricity one was like that.

There was another deaf one featuring a drummer.

One of the best (mentioned before) was the loaded shotgun re drink driving.

And of course, that clock showing 4.30pm

"in winter it can get dark as early as half past four"

I vividly remember the shotgun drink driving one, vaguely recall the one with the clock. The drummer one doesn't ring a bell.

Hangdogroad · 29-09-2019 7:48am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The deaf man is David Ellison, principally remembered as Sgt Joe Beck from Juliet Bravo.
I do remember an Irish one but think (can't be definite) that they used local actors.

The Play Safe PIF (the 10 minute version) was redubbed for Irish audiences and shown on RTE as filler during the summer of 1979 and 1980. Remember watching it on a B&W portable in Inchydoney both years (summer holiday).

I remember this being shown, it uses footage from the British version. Did RTE show the longer version as well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ocXmuwYU8

Hangdogroad · 02-10-2019 8:01am

This is very in interesting as its a database of films, including tv and adverts in Ireland including where the copies are kept. If you type in the search engine "road safety" you get numerous entries for road safety films up to the 80's. They all seem to listed as being with the IFA which I presume is Irish Film Archive. Some of the ones that are already on the IFI player are listed as being with them.

https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/search.php?s=All&q=road+safety

The details are vague with some of them but this is certainly the drink driving "shotgun" one thats been mentioned.

https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=37637

Fire safety draws a blank so they don't seem to have the nightie one.

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

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