Educational videos/films you were shown in school.

Ralf and Florian · 19-11-2017 12:10pm #1

Not sure if there was already a thread about this before or not but here goes. Does anyone have memories of educational films on drink/drugs/safety etc that were shown to pupils in school. I remember our class was made watch this circa 1990. Everyone was bursting out laughing at the various scenes of careless kids being fried.

branie2 · 23-11-2017 6:20pm

Videos about the facts of life and hygiene

judeboy101 · 23-11-2017 6:24pm

No such a thing as video or "films" when i went to school. Sister assumpta Cornelius told us everything we needed to know about sex, drugs and rock n roll.

branie2 · 23-11-2017 10:06pm

National Geographic and David Attenborough videos

NewbridgeIR · 23-11-2017 10:23pm

Radharc - Dying For A Drink

Watched it in Civics class, 1985 or 1986

CLASSIC

http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1378-radharc/354383-dying-for-a-drink/

Jimbob1977 · 23-11-2017 10:27pm

A 1980s film about the dangers of trespassing on pylons and electricity sub-stations.

The teenage actor grabs some cables and gets fried. I think most people in the class were laughing. Poor form

NewbridgeIR · 23-11-2017 10:38pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

A 1980s film about the dangers of trespassing on pylons and electricity sub-stations.

The teenage actor grabs some cables and gets fried. I think most people in the class were laughing. Poor form

Play Safe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7D-ScnxDV0

Ralf and Florian · 24-11-2017 12:40am

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

A 1980s film about the dangers of trespassing on pylons and electricity sub-stations.

The teenage actor grabs some cables and gets fried. I think most people in the class were laughing. Poor form

Sounds like the film that I linked in the first post.

darkdubh · 24-11-2017 9:55am

Was anyone shown this one back back in the day? I wasn't thanks be to feck, think it would have put me off sex for life.

Ralf and Florian · 25-11-2017 8:04pm

Another one I remember from circa early 90's was about job interviews (was close to Leaving Cert time). The only bit I clearly remember was a guy in punk regalia walking into an interview and the narrator saying something like "you're not going to impress them with a ring in your nose".

BlaasForRafa · 02-12-2017 10:44pm

This wasn't something I saw in school, rather it was at a summer job I did during the 90's in the Hasbro factory in Waterford. It was a health and safety video hosted by Pat Kenny which was obviously from the 80's because he was wearing those huge glasses that were (for some bizarre reason) fashionable then. It was him basically showing you how to lift things properly or wear proper ear defenders around heavy machinery that sort of thing. I had a look on youtube but couldn't find it unfortunately.

Hande hoche! · 03-12-2017 4:12pm

Farm safety video with yer man off Glenroe. Dangers of slurry pits, tractors and chemicals.

darkdubh · 11-12-2017 1:17am

We were shown this in secondary school. It felt horribly dated even then though I don't think it was that old when we saw it.

darkdubh · 19-12-2017 7:29pm

I vaguely remember one we were shown in primary school in the early 80's. I'm pretty sure it was a newsreel film on a projector and not a video. It was a short film about a boy in the Phillipines who becomes an altar boy, it was acted, not a documentary. If I remember right it was shown to us by a priest who had something to do with Africa and Far East magazine and was calling to the school.

NewbridgeIR · 19-12-2017 10:11pm

We had those priests (from "the missions") calling too. God, I remember Far East magazine.

branie2 · 19-12-2017 10:13pm

I used to get the Far East magazine.

darkdubh · 20-12-2017 2:43pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

We had those priests (from "the missions") calling too. God, I remember Far East magazine.

branie2 wrote: »

I used to get the Far East magazine.

It's still around, and the title on the cover has exactly the same font design as I remember it having in the 80's.

DaeryssaOne · 04-01-2018 3:19pm

Just had a flashback of being about 12 or 13 in secondary school and being shown an anti drugs video where it turned out the little girl's older sister 'Suzanne was on da heroin'.

For some reason that sentence has always stuck with me, we found it particularly hilarious being in a fairly rural school down the country with absolutely no clue what heroin even was, we were a bit too young for any warnings like that!

darkdubh · 04-01-2018 4:29pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Radharc - Dying For A Drink

Watched it in Civics class, 1985 or 1986

CLASSIC

http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1378-radharc/354383-dying-for-a-drink/

We were shown that too. I remember everyone laughing at yer man wearing the "Hows The Crack" t-shirt on honeymoon in Miami.

Ha ha, forgot about the stroppy drunk young wan calling the guard "fcuking pig!" That got a lot of laughs. And the droll voiceover commentary, "In fact she was carried out roaring"

05-01-2018 5:19pm

Our teacher recorded "The Rock and Roll Years'- the BBC equivalent/original of RTE's (actually very good) "Reeling in the Years" in the mid-80s and showed it once a week at History class- great times

Ralf and Florian · 09-01-2018 8:30pm

Another one from secondary school 1990-ish just popped into my head. It was Irish made anti drugs educational film. One bit had this fella imagining what life would be like as a junkie and wondering how hard it would be to carry out muggings under the influence of heroin. Then it showed him being beaten up by a bunch of old ladies, it felt like the Hells Grannys sketch from Monty Python. There was a rap as well that had a line that went "I don't want to be like something out of Judge Dredd" or something like that, I remember there was a Judge Dredd reference but can't remember exactly how it went.

4068ac1elhodqr · 09-01-2018 8:35pm

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - for cultural post-modern enrichment one can only assume.

darkdubh · 09-01-2018 9:37pm

Our French teacher had these VHS videos taped off French TV when she came back from holiday she'd play them to us to try and improve our French. I remember an ad break and one ad had a black girl at which a couple of d!ckheads in class started chanting the n word.

She used to play us the video of Vanessa Paradis Jo La Taxi as well.

darkdubh · 29-01-2018 10:55am

Not one I saw but apparently in the UK in the 80's the Boy From Space regularly used to be shown to kids in primary schools. To what educational purpose I have no idea but it must have caused a few nightmares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqn0vursW8

johnnyyesno · 08-04-2018 9:31am

"Shudder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgXWHo9jvI

Remember the Simpsons episode where the school is made to watch a sex education video with "Fuzzy Bunny" and Lional Hutches line at the end "now that you know what it is don't do it"? :pac:

judeboy101 · 08-04-2018 9:38am

johnnyyesno wrote: »

"Shudder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgXWHo9jvI

Remember the Simpsons episode where the school is made to watch a sex education video with "Fuzzy Bunny" and Lional Hutches line at the end "now that you know what it is don't do it"? :pac:

It worked though, virtually zero sti's, virtually zero unmarried Mothers, everyone married and happy (although we did have rampant child sex abuse, corruption and poverty).

johnnyyesno · 08-04-2018 9:42am

judeboy101 wrote: »

It worked though, virtually zero sti's, virtually zero unmarried Mothers, everyone married and happy (although we did have rampant child sex abuse, corruption and poverty).

In the 80's? This was the era of AID's and there were plenty unmarried mothers though it would have been more frowned upon then.

judeboy101 · 08-04-2018 9:56am

Aids in Ireland in the 80's? Not in Leitrim , same goes for unwed Mothers. I think there was a place in Sligo they went to but can't be sure. It was a simpler time where every black person was either a doctor or a biafran. It was a time where you had only alter boys but for some strange reason no alter boys at the 8:30 Sunday mass with Fr. O'donnell, strange.

L1011 · 09-04-2018 8:00am

Teenage pregnancy rates were vastly higher then than now. People just hid the problems. Women were being thrown in to the homes in the 80s just at a lower rate.

Also, Leitrim is so small (and had even less population then) it really can't be used to judge the prevalence of anything.

As goes married and happy - no divorce, marital rape legal...

judeboy101 · 09-04-2018 1:49pm

L1011 wrote: »

Teenage pregnancy rates were vastly higher then than now. People just hid the problems. Women were being thrown in to the homes in the 80s just at a lower rate.

Also, Leitrim is so small (and had even less population then) it really can't be used to judge the prevalence of anything.

As goes married and happy - no divorce, marital rape legal...

Sure if they were hidden, how do you know they were high?

L1011 · 09-04-2018 5:42pm

The actual stats don't lie. People's memories, clouded by nostalgia certainly do.

Ireland was as horrible place in the 1980s in about every way imaginable. That awful useless sex 'education' video leaving people ignorant and realistically making things worse was just one element

johnnyyesno · 11-04-2018 7:21am

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Not sure if there was already a thread about this before or not but here goes. Does anyone have memories of educational films on drink/drugs/safety etc that were shown to pupils in school. I remember our class was made watch this circa 1990. Everyone was bursting out laughing at the various scenes of careless kids being fried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoL3MjllVSs
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There was a shorter PIF of this too which cut to the main action at the end.

Relikk · 13-04-2018 11:47am

The only videos I remember watching in primary school were episodes of Zig Zag with Paul Coia that the teacher used to record off the TV.

The Crowman · 23-12-2018 10:56am

I've seen a few mentions online to an a video starring Pajo from Pajos Junkbox that was made to teach children about the dangers of paedophiles and that was shown in schools. Anyone remember seeing this?

Smiles35 · 23-12-2018 4:12pm

I remember one, telling us not to fight with pencils. Was laughing at a bit where the child seems to headbut a pencil into his eye as he was writing.

branie2 · 23-12-2018 5:20pm

I don't know if this counts, but at one point, my history teacher in secondary school showed us The Shadow of Bealnablath, the documentary about the life and shooting of Michael Collins on video.

mightyreds · 23-12-2018 5:26pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

A 1980s film about the dangers of trespassing on pylons and electricity sub-stations.

The teenage actor grabs some cables and gets fried. I think most people in the class were laughing. Poor form

Could have shown this more recently guy I know tried to climb a pylon and it didn't end well.

The Crowman · 06-03-2019 11:14pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

This wasn't something I saw in school, rather it was at a summer job I did during the 90's in the Hasbro factory in Waterford. It was a health and safety video hosted by Pat Kenny which was obviously from the 80's because he was wearing those huge glasses that were (for some bizarre reason) fashionable then. It was him basically showing you how to lift things properly or wear proper ear defenders around heavy machinery that sort of thing. I had a look on youtube but couldn't find it unfortunately.

Might it be the one that's partly shown in this news report? No sign of Pat Kenny but its the right time frame.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21240543-fue-health-and-safety-campaign/

The Crowman · 01-04-2019 11:36pm

We were shown this one in secondary school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwhSe8RRfiM

Bumper Mannix · 29-04-2019 12:57pm

We were shown this anti drugs video in secondary school in 1991 called '"Youre Only Going Nowhere if you cant say NO'". Apparently Liam Brady produced it. Someone uploaded a bunch of random clips from it, I'm not 100% sure of what order they were in but I seem to remember the bits with the rapping being towards the end. I'd say it dates from 89/90. It features an anti drugs rap from Gerry Ryan, ironies of ironies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJl3URsekQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJsemf4My8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sftqDFyzYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBew4AO3PRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWtLx8ax9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKBP3-is7U

Aglomerado · 30-04-2019 1:30pm

I remember natural high. We were given the 'lyrics' printed out.
God it's awful.
This was shown to us in conjunction with a member of the local drugs unit passing a block of hash the size of a Bible around the classroom.

Hangdogroad · 15-04-2020 10:48am

We were shown that Gerry Ryan drugs video too. I forgot he had been in it till recently.

I vaguely remember we were shown a video presented by Peter Ustinov but I can't for the life of me remember what it was about.

Worztron · 20-04-2020 8:39am

I recall watching The Treaty (1992) in secondary school history class. Great made for TV film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190088/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treaty_(film)

Hangdogroad · 06-12-2020 1:37am

Never knew this video existed before seeing it on YouTube. The puppets in it look like what would have resulted if those in Rimini Riddle and Peppermint Park had gotten jiggy with each other. Was anyone here shown this and are they still receiving therapy,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NM1YmVeyd8

Hangdogroad · 02-01-2021 5:05pm

DaeryssaOne wrote: »

Just had a flashback of being about 12 or 13 in secondary school and being shown an anti drugs video where it turned out the little girl's older sister 'Suzanne was on da heroin'.

For some reason that sentence has always stuck with me, we found it particularly hilarious being in a fairly rural school down the country with absolutely no clue what heroin even was, we were a bit too young for any warnings like that!

Sounds like it might be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptPlg1S_MQA

Hangdogroad · 09-01-2021 12:49pm

That channel has quite a few of those type of videos. One on water safety from the 90s

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

11-01-2021 10:20pm

I remember being given a colouring book around 1988/89 but all the pictures to be coloured in carried stories of the danger of strangers and it's ok not to like people touching you. I got this at home not at school. Does anyone remember the stay safe programme in primary school? Didnt the church asked for it to be scrapped?

Hangdogroad · 12-01-2021 7:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember being given a colouring book around 1988/89 but all the pictures to be coloured in carried stories of the danger of strangers and it's ok not to like people touching you. I got this at home not at school. Does anyone remember the stay safe programme in primary school? Didnt the church asked for it to be scrapped?

Was that with Pajo The Rat, (Pajos Junkbox) ?

Hangdogroad · 07-12-2021 2:17pm

https://youtu.be/nG5bfHZz3Io

whisky_galore · 10-12-2021 12:31pm

Took a bit of rummaging, but we used be shown these. The series was already ancient by that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Co-Mkx-qX4

The theme music is 'Popcorn', could only remember the music so had to search early electronic music to find out what the series was called.

A2LUE42 · 10-12-2021 1:00pm

In secondary school, we were treated to 'The Silent Scream' on VHS.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist and founder of NARAL, teaches the audience about the specifics of suction abortion, followed by an actual abortion of an 11-week old fetus as seen through ultrasound.

Educational videos/films you were shown in school.

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