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

An Riabhach · 15-03-2016 3:48pm

mansize wrote: »

The Aussies didn't beat about the bush...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo

Might as well complete the set...
A harrowing one from America followed by back to back spine-chillers from the UK

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

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

The scare tactic was the theme worldwide back then-twas the only way to get the message accross and ram it home.Ireland can be proud of its offering-a very powerful ad.
And I think those type of ads should return-AIDS hasnt gone away.

jca · 16-03-2016 8:28pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Might as well complete the set...
A harrowing one from America followed by back to back spine-chillers from the UK

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

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

The scare tactic was the theme worldwide back then-twas the only way to get the message accross and ram it home.Ireland can be proud of its offering-a very powerful ad.
And I think those type of ads should return-AIDS hasnt gone away.

It sure hasn't. With modern treatments it isn't the killer it was in the 80's but prevention is definitely better than cure.

Ralf and Florian · 16-03-2016 11:52pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Anyone remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFEBwbM21Bc

Without boasting,I'm too young to remember it,but I think it's very funny.

Ha ha,gives whole new meaning to the term "dogging".

An Riabhach · 17-03-2016 11:29am

I suppose the same could be said for other PSAs,e.g. fire,road deaths,water safety,safety in the home,health etc.etc.
The ads we see nowadays are pretty tame and harmless.
Bring back some tougher ads and who knows,they might make a difference and might make people think a little more.

I remember seeing a pretty hard ad on Northern Irish TV last week for farming safety,where the ad is going backwards,of a tractor reversing and knocking down and killing a child.Serious stuff.

An Riabhach · 22-09-2016 10:34pm

Remember when we had a serious problem with smog here in Ireland towards the end of the 80s?
Anyone remember the ads that came out at the time-one of them had an awful version of the Ghostbusters song called the Smogbusters.

An Riabhach · 26-09-2016 3:22pm

"You might as well set a man trap."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt016gTNp_k

"..... and to think he had only just come FROM the hospital."
Does anybody else find that part a small bit funny,or am I just one sick individual?

An Riabhach · 10-10-2016 2:43pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Does anybody remember these ones:

"Firehound says...'Never give fire a chance,grr-ruff'"

"Where dya think yer goin?Have ya no sense?Ye'll get killed if ya carry on cyclin like that!"

"(sound of laughter and glasses clinking)Your party could quickly become.......(sound of a crash,followed by church bells) A funeral.DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE."

Here it is.
I'd forgotten how short it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KRjF4HDag

darkdubh · 11-10-2016 11:17pm

The most memorable drink driving ad for me was the one with this drivers POV shot of a car speeding down a dark country road interspersed with someone loading and firing a shotgun.The end was the shotgun sliding along a bar counter and knocking off a load of glasses.Would have been late 70's,never came across it on YT.

darkdubh · 06-03-2017 10:51am

Not sure if this has already been shown. Dave clearly didn't learn his lesson as there was a follow up ad where he was watching the 1994 World Cup with the same actor and the voice from the telly returns three years later to chide him for not paying his license.

Edit:I was posting about this ages back, forgot about that.

fricatus · 06-03-2017 5:04pm

Anyone remember one with a farmer lifting bales with a tractor, or something along those lines, and being warned that his work practices were dangerous? I just remember the line he shot back, presumably before being horribly maimed: "I don't give a damn!"

darkdubh · 26-04-2017 8:12am

Anyone remember the following? This fella is at home watching a football match on the telly and in response to some mistake the goalie makes he says angrilly "Oh.....butterfingers!". Then he starts reminiscing about when he was a goalie and he has an interior monologue "remember when they used to call me magicfingers?". Flashback to him mowing the lawn and he gets down and sticks his hand under the mower to free something then his face freeze frames in agony as presumably his fingers get lopped off. It was shown on RTE either during or soon after the 1990 World Cup.

NewbridgeIR · 08-05-2017 7:09pm

Not sure if this one has been highlighted yet.

Game Of Chance. An Irish road safety film from the mid 1970s. It is in two parts and narrated by Niall Toibin. I saw it in school during the early 1980s.

Almost inevitably, the film has been uploaded by a UK collector - the 35mm print made its way to a school in Devon. Fair play to him for preserving something that we should be doing.

darkdubh · 10-05-2017 2:45pm

I remember this one, that horrible (coughing?) noise at the start and the shot of the dead calf at the end. Technically it's not a PIF but I remember it invoking the same uneasy feeling as a lot of them did.

http://ifiplayer.ie/dictol-oral-husk/

darkdubh · 17-05-2017 1:51pm

Another old RTE one from it must be the 70's just popped into my head, a young lad goes into the shop and leaves his bike lying on the footpath. Either a milkman or a baker carrying bread trips over it. I have a vague memory of him wearing a white deliveryman uniform.

Ash.J.Williams · 17-05-2017 1:58pm

Where's grand dad?

(hat floating down the river)

NewbridgeIR · 17-05-2017 10:51pm

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Where's grand dad?

(hat floating down the river)

NewbridgeIR · 17-05-2017 10:51pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Another old RTE one from it must be the 70's just popped into my head, a young lad goes into the shop and leaves his bike lying on the footpath. Either a milkman or a baker carrying bread trips over it. I have a vague memory of him wearing a white deliveryman uniform.

Think it's a baker carrying a wide board of sliced pans. Not a happy man!

darkdubh · 17-05-2017 11:09pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Think it's a baker carrying a wide board of sliced pans. Not a happy man!

Yeah that's coming back to me now. Presume it was in the same series as the one with the two lads on bikes chasing another fella going "Oi after Im!"?

darkdubh · 17-05-2017 11:18pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

In the link to the Ray Darcy Show YT upload of that advert it says in the description "we eventually managed to track this ad down and two more. Check them out here!"

Does anyone know what the other two ads were? Despite the wording there's no link to any other old adverts from what I can see.

https://youtu.be/NjWHrjCG1LQ

NewbridgeIR · 17-05-2017 11:22pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Does anyone know what the other two ads were? Despite the wording there's no link to any other old adverts from what I can see.

Possibly referring to the other two situations in the PIF? Oil drum and garden pond?

darkdubh · 17-05-2017 11:28pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Possibly referring to the other two situations in the PIF? Oil drum and garden pond?

Ok, that kind of makes sense.

darkdubh · 20-05-2017 11:45am

FatherTed wrote: »

Does anyone remember the PSA on RTE with the lad in a leather jacket talking about going out every weekend with his mates and getting locked with a flagon of cider? Early 80's I think.

darkdubh wrote: »

Anyone remember a PIF that used to be on RTE in the mid 80s that showed this young guy in silhouette,you coulden't make out his face and it started out with him saying in a strong Dublin accent "my old mans always going on about the youth of today"?I think it might have been about underage drinking,not too sure.

Now that I think about it these might be the same ad. The guy was filmed standing in a dark alleyway at night maybe lit from behind and you couldn't see his face.

darkdubh · 22-05-2017 11:14pm

At the 5.30 mark here is one I'd forgotten about for years. Dublin Bus advert warning that buses were now fitted with security cameras and showing footage of two scobes on a bus fighting (thought at the time it was real but looking at it now seems staged),. I remember in our school we were allowed watch Ireland's qualifying matches for Italia 90, this ad break is taken from the Republic versus NI so it was probably here that I first saw it. I remember everyone burst out laughing at it when it came on.

darkdubh · 23-05-2017 8:13am

An Riabhach wrote: »

Wasn't there a series of those TV licence ads back in the early 90s with him in them?

The first instalment,I think,was a kind of scary one where Dave is alone watchin the telly,and then the telly starts doing all weird things,the doorbell rings and then "ANSWER THE DOOR" repeatedly flashes up on the TV screen.

And then in the other one,the telly starts talkin to Dave again and this time it sounds more sinister,and at the end of the ad the telly says:
"And when they come calling to see you,it won't be 'Do the decent thing,Dave.'
It will be 'Where is your licence,Sir?'"

NewbridgeIR · 23-05-2017 9:05pm

That guy turned up in Fair City as Sean _______, a politician mate of Dermot's.

darkdubh · 10-07-2017 11:46am

National Road Safety Association pif here on the dangers of lorrys and bridges. Pretty tame stuff, no crashes or anything like that but it features the animated NRSA logo at the end which I think is the one that used to feature in their classic 70's and 80's pifs.

darkdubh · 18-08-2017 9:24pm

These are all british PIF's featured but it's a fun read.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/public-information-films/51380/public-information-films-from-the-70s-and-80s

mikeecho · 18-08-2017 9:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_y-7zUsgk4

..... fixed

NewbridgeIR · 18-08-2017 10:45pm

Great book - UK-centred but still.
http://www.lulu.com/ie/en/shop/stephen-brotherstone-dave-lawrence/scarred-for-life-volume-one/paperback/product-23116461.html

An Riabhach · 01-09-2017 9:16pm

Christ almighty.Look at this one.

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

An Riabhach · 04-09-2017 1:22pm

I know I have probably posted this already.But just to say that the voiceover in this ad is brilliant.He really nails it,especially at the end.

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

darkdubh · 04-09-2017 1:35pm

Anyone familiar with the Scarfolk blog? It brilliantly parodies the likes of 70's safety adverts and other weird aspects of 70's popular culture (all UK albeit).

An Riabhach · 04-09-2017 2:18pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I know I have probably posted this already.But just to say that the voiceover in this ad is brilliant.He really nails it,especially at the end.

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

It's really hard to know whether men or women do the better voiceovers judging by this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5X-mO_WRkU

darkdubh · 06-09-2017 3:32pm

Here's one I've never seen before. Was this shown on TV does anyone know? Also is just me who can't get sound on it?

https://lovindublin.com/video/you-honestly-couldnt-make-up-this-irish-road-safety-video-from-the-70s

NewbridgeIR · 06-09-2017 11:04pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Here's one I've never seen before. Was this shown on TV does anyone know? Also is just me who can't get sound on it?

https://lovindublin.com/video/you-honestly-couldnt-make-up-this-irish-road-safety-video-from-the-70s

No sound on that link.
However if you go to the Glasnevin Heritage FB page - https://www.facebook.com/GlasnevinHeritage/ - select videos and scroll down a bit, it's there and plays sound.

Don't remember the advert on TV but some of the images seem familiar as stills.

Ralf and Florian · 07-09-2017 3:06pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

No sound on that link.
However if you go to the Glasnevin Heritage FB page - https://www.facebook.com/GlasnevinHeritage/ - select videos and scroll down a bit, it's there and plays sound.

Don't remember the advert on TV but some of the images seem familiar as stills.

Jaysus, some of those scenes of crossing the road and kids having close encounters with cars look dangerous enough. A few scenes of cars coming very close at speed to children.

darkdubh · 09-09-2017 3:23pm

An Riabhach · 26-09-2017 4:17pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I know I have probably posted this already.But just to say that the voiceover in this ad is brilliant.He really nails it,especially at the end.

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

Same ad again.
Only this time,an echo is added to his voice at the end making it sound scarier,and making him sound ten times better.

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

darkdubh · 28-11-2017 2:36pm

Rabies Kills newspaper advert from the Indo 1979. Presume this was connected with the TV ad with the still image of the dog jumping off the boat.

http://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/Olive/APA/INA/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=SIN%2F1979%2F05%2F27&id=Ar01108&sk=8A1BE620

Ralf and Florian · 12-12-2017 9:21pm

Forgotten about this one from the 90's.

An Riabhach · 12-12-2017 10:00pm

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Forgotten about this one from the 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3cAfJdme4w

Hopefully I fixed it for ya :-);-)

Ralf and Florian · 13-12-2017 12:43pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

This one has just crept back into me head...
An anti-smoking ad from early 90's I think,it starts with this dance/pop music playing in the background and then this pretty-boy walks out all acting like a hunk introduces himself and says "Hi,I'm Nico".And then he starts going on about all his different "Nico" products.

And then towards the end of the ad,the music starts to die and gets slower and slower-and he says "Take me into your heart,take me into your lungs...." and then in a really sinister voice,he says "....and then I will be yours-FOREVER" and laughs menacingly,with a camera close-up of his teeth which are all black and rotten.

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Yes remember that,there was another one from roughly the same time where the guy narrating the ads eyes go all weird and satanic looking at the end,can't remember what it was for.

Ha, just came across the second one which I remembered, starts at 1.42. Wasn't a PIF but for Mitsubishi. Really creepy vibe even down to yer mans voice.

An Riabhach · 13-12-2017 1:16pm

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Ha, just came across the second one which I remembered, starts at 1.42. Wasn't a PIF but for Mitsubishi. Really creepy vibe even down to yer mans voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhpOZzXBY68

Fixed it for ya!!!

darkdubh · 13-12-2017 8:27pm

For some reason that above one reminds me of a kind of strange road safety advert from mid 90's. It had this official sounding guy at a press conference saying "Yes there is a serial killer on the loose in Ireland" then it shows a creepy fella sitting into a car and turning around to stare at the viewer.

An Riabhach · 13-12-2017 8:46pm

darkdubh wrote: »

For some reason that above one reminds me of a kind of strange road safety advert from mid 90's. It had this official sounding guy at a press conference saying "Yes there is a serial killer on the loose in Ireland" then it shows a creepy fella sitting into a car and turning around to stare at the viewer.

I mentioned that very one on another thread.

Towards the end of the ad,someone asks the "garda" at the press conference what he thinks the serial killer's problem is,and he replies "overconfidence".
Then at the very end,they show a man getting into a car,smiling,then turning swiftly around to stare at us all,with red eyes......
And the voiceover says
Speeding. Only YOU can stop the serial killer... that is inside you.

An Riabhach · 19-12-2017 2:04pm

I've just found this one.
Tis neither Irish nor British,but I have to include it here coz sometimes the Americans really do know how to make PSAs.
Sound quality not great though.