(SPOILER alert, obv.)
― Just got offed, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
And the little dedication at the end is makes me think of the Afterword to A Scanner Darkly!
Wow, I never thought of that! You're right!
― Pashmina, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
steerpike66 (3 days ago) Marked as spam Lovely. Such a blast from the past; kids today never get the chance to be menaced by Donald Pleasance because they're all inside playing on their Wii. or on stupid fucking 'play-dates' organized by control-freak parents.
-- Billy Dods, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:47 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I read that one as well. I figured the reason why the parents are control freaks is that they saw all these films when they were children.
― Pashmina, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
don't live before you've died etc etc etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWb5UhdMHvw&NR=1
― Just got offed, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
*die before you've lived even
― Just got offed, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
things are so much better, now we terrorize children in person
Teachers stage fake gunman attack on sixth-graders aka what the hell is wrong with people
in the future we'll just pick a few kids off to teach the others a lesson
― Edward III, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
SPOILERS
kid 1: run over by tractor kid 2: drowns in shit kid 3: drinks poison kid 4: crushed by gate kid 5: rides tractor off a cliff kid 6: still alive, is all sadface at the wake
― HI DERE, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
there's an interesting psychological component to adults who deal with their fear of mortality by traumatizing children. cruelty beneath a veil of saintly protective benevolence.
my favorites were the drug abuse ones they showed us in grade school - grimy clips of seedy people vomiting in stairwells and police photos of o.d. victims.
― Edward III, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
We were shown photos of someone who had gone so OTT in their glue-sniffing that they'd covered their face entirely in glue, blocking all their breathing passages, and in desperation had attempted to perform an impromptu tracheotomy upon themselves using only their NAILS.
It's still quite possibly the most sobering thing I've ever seen.
― Just got offed, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh balls to that, glue sniffing is much more fun that, spoilsports
― Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Slightly dissapointed that no-one from the US has mentioned RED ASPHALT and it's ilk yet, apart from the (v funny) simpsons spoof on drivers ed films that tracer posted. We NEVER got shown anything that heavy.
― Pashmina, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyG6NIgpzBM&NR=1
― Just got offed, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
It's still quite possibly the most sobering thing I've ever seen./
YSI?
― onimo, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
There was this horrifying prom-based one they showed to our driver's ed class that was basically a completely normal "we're going to the prom!" shitty short right up until the ginormous drunk driving accident.
― HI DERE, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
by the way Dubliners, I have a DVD of public information films if anyone wants to become too terrified to do anything.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Dan there are current, snazzy public service ads in the UK that use that same formula to very chastening effect.
my junior-high health class was shown slides of venereal warts, etc. that freaked us all right out. Our teacher ("Coach K") said that if anyone laughed, or even tittered, we would get sent straight to the principal's office. (None of us felt like laughing though.)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
We watched a documentary on herpes that included extreme close-ups of herpes breakouts. It was beyond gross.
― HI DERE, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
"veal and ham pie...my favourite"
― J0hn D., Friday, 22 June 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
when I was a senior in high school, we got a live action version of these - they set up a crashed car, dead dummies, 'blood' all over the ground, brought in EMTs and a CareFlight helicopter, played sound effects of the screeching/crashing and moans. It was awesome.
― milo z, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
None of the VD films on youtube are as gross as I hoped.
My Mum's friend's son drowned in a slurry pit when I was small. I still remember her crying on the phone when she found out.
― Madchen, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Good grief.
― Pashmina, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I love the Minnesota Twins shirt on that motorbike guy.
The prom one may have been The Last Prom.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=br49e1xOwVA
― Eric H., Friday, 22 June 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
These are all really some of the best films ever made.
― Eric H., Friday, 22 June 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Pay Attention, Britain!
Sat 29 Mar, 2:50 am - 3:30 am 40mins
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Central Office of Information, Fi Glover narrates the story of the British public information film.
Subtitles Stereo Widescreen
― koogs, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
aw, fucking hell! magnificent. er, what channel would that be? :)
missed this thread first time round ... anyway, "Panning shot through burned out house w/echoing voices of frightened children. Thus proving that giving matches to the very young is not a good idea" chilled me to the fucking bones when i was a kid, and i'm really quite glad that, when i clicked to watch it there, it had been "removed due to terms-of-use violation". whew.
i have a lengthy DVD of PIFs, and also -- yes -- "protect and survive" on VHS. i love this shit. even though it makes my soul go cold.
i have, however, never seen apaches. indeed: i'd never even heard of it. hmm: it's quarter to one on a saturday morning and mrs fiendish is watching season one of "medium" on DVD. now might be my time ...
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
note to other late-night PIF-liking UK ilx0rs: BBC2.
the one i always remember, but only ever saw once, was a "be careful with petrol on boats!" kind of thing, where a dude in the middle of the ocean tried to top up his outboard motor while lighting a fag.
i seem to recall the mother of all explosions; they had to pan back several miles [1] to get the whole thing in.
[1] adjust for exaggeration to suit.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm. 10 minutes into apaches, i'm not gripped. "threads" it ain't. just scrotes, scroting.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
OOOOH, shit. kid in slurry pit. the bubbles are an unpleasantly grim touch.
ok, yeh, this is dark as all hell.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Bloody hell I can't stay up till 3.30, SOME OF US HAVE TO WORK YOU KNOW, let's see if I can remember how to set a video for the first time in about a decade.
― Matt #2, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Not sure I can actually stay awake 'til then either. Why hide programs like this away? (also why give it a stupid title so it doesn't even jump out of the tv guide as something to watch?). Biggest childhood horror I remember, not sure if it was a general release PIF, or a railway police special, but the 3rd-rail burny-leg disaster was pretty scary, even though I lived in north wales and we didn't have electric rails. There's a good one on the tv at the moment which makes motorcycling look like the ultimate in extreme sport if-this-corner-doesn't-kill-you-something-around-the-next-one-will, I almost turned over, but I knew it'd probably be alright.
― Bocken Social Scene, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
bloody hell. on to the third bit of apaches now. the wee girl's screams will haunt my dreams tonight, i fear. fucking hell.
on a marginally less bleak note: anyone remember "play it safe" with jimmy savile, a series of jolly little five-minute PIFs where the bejewelled funster pointed out how your house/garden/bike/etc was trying to kill you?
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Am I the only one that remembers The Finishing Line? It haunts me to this day.
― Matt #2, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost ... no, what was that?
as for apaches ... jesus.
that was deeply unpleasant.
anyone seen "building sites bite", then?
i'm off to bed, to sit, huddled and shivering, under the duvet.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i am not watching this tonight.
anyway:
the finishing line.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
(piss: you need to be an accredited school/university/whatever to watch BFI streaming videos, of course. ach. next time i'm in the library, then.)
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
you need more than that - I can't get it to work through UCLs proxy server. I've got 80minutes to try and work out what's wrong I guess..
― Bocken Social Scene, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
poxy server morelike. I think maybe I shouldnt've bothered. still, lots of nice stuff to look at on screenonline at least.
― Bocken Social Scene, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
So I watched one episode of Star Trek TNG (the one with Max Headroom) and went to bed, as the next episode had Worf's son in it, fuck that. Anyone watch the PIF doc?
― Matt #2, Saturday, 29 March 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
recorded it, but not watched it yet. hopefully get a chance today.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still kind of o_O over "Apaches".
― HI DERE, Saturday, 29 March 2008 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not bloody surprised. it was bad enough for me, and i didn't have to look at a grave with my name on it!
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 29 March 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
documentary: it was OK, if a little short (an hour would have been nicer; maybe a little more social history and a little less of andrew collins stating the obvious). not nearly enough on "protect and survive" for my liking, or the whole banality-of-danger stuff from the late seventies and early eighties (eg your boat/chip pan/electric fire/kettle/bike/frisbee/rug/etc is going to kill you); that said, i'd also like to have seen some more of the immediate post-war ones, so i guess i'd only have been truly happy with a five-hour epic.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I still can't bring myself to watch these again. Especially Apaches.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I have been looking for this thread for a year, trying to remember the name of that horrifying death farm PSA
"Apaches", I will try not to forget your name this time
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Next time you can just search for HUGE SHITPIT OF DEATH
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
now more than ever, can't bring myself to rescreen
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tngWMToWtCc/TTR7aHZjJyI/AAAAAAAAJho/k5vGP5K_H9Y/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-01-17-17h14m22s117.png
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tngWMToWtCc/TTR7auQyjNI/AAAAAAAAJhw/UiPgN3x4MJo/s400/vlcsnap-2011-01-17-17h14m36s11.png
Slurry seems to be the hardest word
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link