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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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    #362
    Bumper Mannix
    Site Banned Posts: 17 ✭Bumper Mannix


    Here's a fairly oldschool one.





    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhGv3JbinCY


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    #363
    Chauncey Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Chauncey Gardner


    3 ads I haven't seen since back in the day.

    Aztec chocolate bar. I seem to recall a load of scantily clad females in a jungle scenario.

    Miranda. Ahhh ahh Miranda. Young fella pours a bottle of the fizzy stuff down his throat from a relative height. (There was another Irish one with Horslips, not that one).

    Stretch and Seal. Covered pots and pans played like drums, sounded amazing.

    Any links?

    Thanks.


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    #364
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Chauncey Gardner wrote: »
    3 ads I haven't seen since back in the day.

    Aztec chocolate bar. I seem to recall a load of scantily clad females in a jungle scenario.

    Miranda. Ahhh ahh Miranda. Young fella pours a bottle of the fizzy stuff down his throat from a relative height. (There was another Irish one with Horslips, not that one).

    Stretch and Seal. Covered pots and pans played like drums, sounded amazing.

    Any links?

    Thanks.

    Don't remember any of those... Not safety ads though, were they.

    That last one reminded me of the ad for some glue with some guy flying?


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    #365
    Chauncey Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Chauncey Gardner


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Don't remember any of those... Not safety ads though, were they.

    That last one reminded me of the ad for some glue with some guy flying?

    Oh yeah, apologies, they weren't safety ads.


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    #366
    igCorcaigh
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    Wonder is this the infamous one with the nun shouting into the kids ear? Trinity might have it in their archives.

    https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=37853

    Ba?


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    #367
    igCorcaigh
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    Chauncey Gardner wrote: »
    Many thanks. Fran and the Miamis' as well, I remember hearing the news on the radio the following morning. How desperately sad.

    A bit before my time :(


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    #368
    igCorcaigh
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    The Crowman wrote: »
    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

    What, birds?

    I don't get it.


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    #369
    igCorcaigh
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Shame it's not 4:3


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



    and also see this

    Those clipped English tones always remind me of Threads.


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    #370
    Chauncey Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Chauncey Gardner


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    What, birds?

    I don't get it.

    Google kevin-carter-starving-child-vulture.

    That ad was before then, but was pretty prophetic.


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    #371
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Chauncey Gardner wrote: »
    Google kevin-carter-starving-child-vulture.

    That ad was before then, but was pretty prophetic.

    Oh... But the photo first appeared in 1993 says wiki?

    When was that video from?

    Edit: apologies, just read your comment properly.

    Yes, very prophetic.

    I understand now. Famine.

    Wow, what a bleak ad :(


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    #372
    Chauncey Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Chauncey Gardner


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Oh... But the photo first appeared in 1993 says wiki?

    When was that video from?

    Yes, but the vulture would have been an image associated with famine for decades, if not centuries. That's what I believe the 70's ad was referencing.


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    #373
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Chauncey Gardner wrote: »
    Yes, but that would have been the reality of famine for decades, if not centuries. That's what I believe the 70's ad was referencing.

    Yes, sorry. Edited post.
    I just didn't get the vulture reference to famine.
    Damn that is bleak, but very real.


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    #374
    Chauncey Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Chauncey Gardner


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Yes, sorry. Edited post.
    I just didn't get the vulture reference to famine.
    Damn that is bleak, but very real.

    Indeed compounded by the fact that the photographer committed suicide a few months after and the fate of the child was never established. Harrowing stuff.


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    #375
    Bumper Mannix
    Site Banned Posts: 17 ✭Bumper Mannix


    These were part of a series I'm sure. I have a vague memory of another one with a young guy standing in an alleyway with his face in shadow talking about his old man giving out about teenagers and then he says the oul lad was fined for having no tv license.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9XBpbqVHpw


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    #376
    Bumper Mannix
    Site Banned Posts: 17 ✭Bumper Mannix


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Oh... But the photo first appeared in 1993 says wiki?

    When was that video from?

    Edit: apologies, just read your comment properly.

    Yes, very prophetic.

    I understand now. Famine.

    Wow, what a bleak ad :(

    The ad came out in the late 80's.


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    #377
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Bumper Mannix wrote: »
    The ad came out in the late 80's.

    Yep, 7 digit Dublin phone number proves it.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #378
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://ifiplayer.ie/adverts/#1490885470866-f499c35a-334b


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    #379
    Hangdogroad
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    An Riabhach wrote: »
    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.

    This is it. Its kind of different to how I remember it mind, I recall it being shorter and it didn't have the serial killer fella doing that Hannibal Lecter impression at the end. I'm pretty sure it freeze framed when he turned to the camera.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_pcW2f_Um8


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    #380
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Here's a tv license one I'd forgotten till coming across it again on YT. Using the TV sponger line but without the scary yellow puppet.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWbbAlr_2sg


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    #381
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Anyone remember this Aids one? Was this shown on tv?

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


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    #382
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Whoever uploaded that typed "AID's" and therefore deserves shooting.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #383
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Which ad had the line
    "Don't give the victim anything to drink...not even a Brandy"
    ??


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    #384
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    An Riabhach wrote: »
    Which ad had the line
    "Don't give the victim anything to drink...not even a Brandy"
    ??

    Game Of Chance, 70's road safety film. I just know it from Youtube, I doubt it was shown on tv, seems too long for that. The line about brandy is in part 2.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzXLYfvYSo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsS84yFKiA


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    #385
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    I know I've already posted this ad here,but can somebody please tell me who is doing the voiceover in this ad?

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


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    #386
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sounds like Jonathan Ryan


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    #387
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    branie2 wrote: »
    Sounds like Jonathan Ryan

    You're absolutely right.
    He's brilliant, he's right up there with John Hurt for that menacing voice for such commercials.I actually remember he was once a presenter on Bosco.
    Listen to the second one here

    http://voicedepartment.ie/irish-voice-over-artists/male/268/


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    #388
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    There’s a fire safety PIF called Searching that still makes me run cold when I see it, absolute nightmare fuel. I was a strange child though with a crippling pyrophobia, the “here’s a couch burning the room down in 30 seconds” adverts used to keep me awake for the night (after my parents could get me out from behind the couch after seeing them start on the tv) :D

    Edit: There was another with fire voiced by some crazy sounding woman who was taunting a guy for leaving plugs on etc - the more I think of them I actually get the shivers. They really don’t make adverts like them anymore - pure psychological horror.


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    #389
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The Specialist wrote: »
    There’s a fire safety PIF called Searching that still makes me run cold when I see it, absolute nightmare fuel. I was a strange child though with a crippling pyrophobia, the “here’s a couch burning the room down in 30 seconds” adverts used to keep me awake for the night (after my parents could get me out from behind the couch after seeing them start on the tv) :D

    Edit: There was another with fire voiced by some crazy sounding woman who was taunting a guy for leaving plugs on etc - the more I think of them I actually get the shivers. They really don’t make adverts like them anymore - pure psychological horror.


    Is the second one the one from NI with all these people who died in fires entering hell and this sarcastic Ann Robinson type woman is mocking them?


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    #390
    An Riabhach
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Is the second one the one from NI with all these people who died in fires entering hell and this sarcastic Ann Robinson type woman is mocking them?

    This?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpB3qy_AgSM


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    #391
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Is the second one the one from NI with all these people who died in fires entering hell and this sarcastic Ann Robinson type woman is mocking them?

    Nope but I do remember that one too! Found the one I’m referring to

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8hz0gyVqws


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