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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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I presume the Health Promotion Unit, who were behind both of these were the direct replacement for the Health Education Bureau? They must have had a lower budget to work with. The two pifs here are very short and kind of cheap looking and also they don't have a distinctive logo design like the HEB swirling symbol.
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Calliope Better Thinker 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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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.
What, birds?
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Calliope Better Thinker 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.
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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.
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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.0 -
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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.
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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.
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An Riabhach wrote: »Which ad had the line
"Don't give the victim anything to drink...not even a Brandy"
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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.
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I know I've already posted this ad here,but can somebody please tell me who is doing the voiceover in this ad?
Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.
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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)
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.0 -
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)
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?0 -
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?
Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.
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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?
Nope but I do remember that one too! Found the one I’m referring to
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I never knew Brendan Grace sang this until it was mentioned on the news last week after his death. As an regular reader of this thread and forum, fan of Reeling in the Years and someone who knows the advert and jingle well I can't believe that fact had alluded me all these years.
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I never knew Brendan Grace sang this until it was mentioned on the news last week after his death. As an regular reader of this thread and forum, fan of Reeling in the Years and someone who knows the advert and jingle well I can't believe that fact had alluded me all these years.
I only became aware that it was him a couple of years ago through comments on the YT video. I remember it well from from back in the day, think it must have been shown up to circa 1980, first shown 74/75. I never made the connection.0 -
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I never knew Brendan Grace sang this until it was mentioned on the news last week after his death. As an regular reader of this thread and forum, fan of Reeling in the Years and someone who knows the advert and jingle well I can't believe that fact had alluded me all these years.
For bonus points - which current Councillor and former TD also appears in the Safe Cross Code advert?0 -
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Does anyone else think a lot of recent PSA's, at least the Irish ones are starting to lose their edge and become more and more like regular adverts, almost to the point where the message is being lost? The awful anti smoking ones with people singing I Will Survive make me switch off, a recent road safety one that comes across like a coffee advert (about driving late at night on the motorway). The Gas Network one with Daniel O Donnell about registered gas installers is another one, I presume its aimed mainly at the elderly but I think the whole message is kind of overshadowed by the jokey tone.
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Hangdogroad wrote: »Does anyone else think a lot of recent PSA's, at least the Irish ones are starting to lose their edge and become more and more like regular adverts, almost to the point where the message is being lost? The awful anti smoking ones with people singing I Will Survive make me switch off, a recent road safety one that comes across like a coffee advert (about driving late at night on the motorway). The Gas Network one with Daniel O Donnell about registered gas installers is another one, I presume its aimed mainly at the elderly but I think the whole message is kind of overshadowed by the jokey tone.
PSAs are definitely not what they used to be, and I think that's largely down to the PC brigade and all the snowflakes and bleeding hearts who were "offended" by the more hard hitting ones.
Just one other example is fire safety ads.
Back in the 80s we had the spine-tingling but brilliant ads "GET OUT.GET THE FIRE BRIGADE OUT.AND STAY OUT".
But now,we have the tame, ineffective "Together,we can stop fire" campaign which reminds me more of a game you'd play in primary school.Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.
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