British Public Information Films 1964 1979 featuring Charley!
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- Some real nostalgia here with these British Public Information Films, often shown at night on the BBC
00:00
Army recruitment
00:33:21
Beware of Broken Glass
As part of a wider anti-litter message, this film addresses the problems of rubbish left on beaches.
01:04
Census
02:01
Charley says - Falling in water
In 1973 the incomprehensible pronouncements from a ginger cat named Charley warned children against strangers, matches, water safety and other everyday perils.
03:12
Charley - In the kitchen
03:50
Charley - Matches
04:20
Charley - Mummy should know
05:24
Charley - Strangers
06:24
Charley's tea party
07:14
Children and disused fridges
This public information film is concerned with the problem of children being suffocated in old fridges that, tempted by their playful imaginations, they want to climb into.
07:52
Children's heroes - Kevin Keegan
In 1976 the series entitled ‘Children's Heroes’ showed celebrities from Alvin Stardust to Kevin Keegan telling children how to cross the road using catchphrases like ‘Be smart, Be safe!’
08:24
Decimal Currency
February 15 1971 marked the official date the United Kingdom decimalised from its historic pounds, shillings and pence to the new system of 100 new pence to the pound.
09:25
How to Vote
As the cut-glass voice instructs, in the true spirit of Public Information Films, “Your vote is your business…”
10:28
Jobs for young girls
Highlighting the problem of girls leaving school without thinking about further education or training, this film’s message appears to be: don't be tempted by the short-term rewards of unskilled jobs, because a career will serve you better in the long run.
11:16
Joe & Petunia - Acceptance of the country code
Cartoon couple Joe and Petunia appeared in a number of films starting in the late 1960s.
12:18
Joe & Petunia - Coastguard
13:51
Keep Britain Tidy
Over the last 50 years the ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign has encouraged the public to put rubbish in the bin.
14:22
Keep it to yourself
Made in 1968, this film features a young Roy Hudd as the shadowy spy-figure mischievously dropping litter.
15:11
Lonely Water
Warning children not to play near ‘dark and lonely’ water, a horror film style look and voiceover is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
An ominous sounding Donald Pleasance voices the ‘Spirit’ of the water, a Grim Reaper figure ready to bring death to ‘the show off’, the ‘fool’ and those ignoring no swimming signs.
16:40
Peach and Hammer
“You can’t argue with a car…” This film, like so many before and since, was commissioned to highlight the dangers of crossing a road.
17:12
Pedal Safety
Dating back to 1978, the same year that ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Grease’ hit the silver screen, the ‘Pedal Safety’ film encourages cyclists to wear something visible through a catchy song.
18:15
Play Safe- Frisbee / Electricity
Part of the ‘Play Safe’ campaign, ‘Frisbee’ was one of a number of films that used chilling electronic music and frightening sound effects to highlight the potentially fatal combinations of electricity pylons and kites, fishing rods and radio-controlled planes.
19:18
Rabies Outbreak
The British Isles has been free of rabies for many decades, but the disease still exists elsewhere in the world.
20:20
Splink - Jon Pertwee
‘SPLINK’ was a slogan aimed at improving road safety for children, and came a year after Dave Prowse had first played the Green Cross Man.
20:53
Switch off Something
In late 1973 the Conservative Government was locked in a dispute with coal miners over measures introduced to assist Britain's poorly performing economy.
21:13
Teenagers learn to swim
Released in 1972 this cartoon aimed at teenagers warns them to learn how to swim, or risk social embarrassment and failure to attract the opposite sex.
22:14
The Fatal Floor
“Polish a floor, put a rug on it, and you might as well set a man trap…” Like many of the featured public information films, ‘The Fatal Floor’ is an amusing short that could easily feature in a comedy sketch show.
22:47
Think Bike
Featuring well known sports presenter Jimmy Hill, ‘Think Bike’ encourages motorists to take extra care to look out for motorcyclists when pulling out from junctions.
23:33
Ice Cream Van
Tufty Fluffytail was born in 1953.
It was a hugely successful road safety campaign aimed at young children.
24:19
TV Licence
“Don’t get a fine, get a licence,” the authoritative voiceover man advises.
This public information film was designed to encourage evaders to pay up, or suffer the consequences.
24:36
Vandalism
Whether in the 1970s or the present day, vandalism is an illegal, anti-social activity that creates a negative impression of an area and contributes to people’s fear of crime.
25:35
Youngsters learn to swim
Featuring Rolf Harris as the voice of common sense, he advocates the benefits of teaching young children to swim because as he gently advises, "you know only too well what might happen". - Hudba
No wonder we 70s kids were hard as nails, surrounded by such deadly dangers. 😁
😂😂😂😂😂 xx
"Water has a fascination for children" And so did he!!
The Rolf Harris swimming pool segment just screams irony .
Couldn't make it up
Savile did a campaign about stranger danger. Hidden in plain sight.
I didn't recognize him without his glasses.
I vaguely recall seeing the clip (or something like it) in another context.
The kid running on the beach still haunts me
Yes!!! i think it was re shown later as I remember my children going ooohhh and they were born in 2002 and 2004.. its awful!! ❤
Yeah always makes me wince now, even after all these years.
The grim reaper at the river always scared me as a kid, quite dark ad after just watching play school (yes, these were put on BBC). Did like Tufty the Squirrel ones though, Willie Weasel must’ve been in and out of
A & E like a yo-yo!🤣. Nice to see these horrifying ads again…kids today would need a cry room after watching these!😁
Grim reaper voiced by Donald Pleasence.
Even as a kid I was convinced Charlie the Cat was on drugs. Then I found out he was voiced by Kenny Everett, and mys suspicions were confirmed.
Tedious and predictable 🙄
Shoo fly 🪰 shoo
How bad you knew about drugs as a child
Talking to the milkman, your dad !
I remember all these by Charlie, life was much simpler back then.
Kids and water, they love it..
That's why Rolf used to hang around swimming pools with his mate Len Fairclough.
🤣
THATS GOOD IS THAT HARRIS AND LEN FAIRCLOUGH😆👍 COME HER LITTLE GIRL! DIRTY NONSES
Peter Adamson was acquitted of his escapades at Haslingdon baths, then a Sun reporter got him pissed up and he both admitted and denied his guilt. My favourite Chubby Brown joke: just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water? Len fucking Fairclough! As if any girl would fall for that line, "if I take my finger out you'll sink!"
These commercial takes me back to my early childhood.
Mom was talking to the milkman for ages proper classic 😂
Not all she was doing with him...
Mum*
Maybe the little boy is the milkman!
Talking to the milkman indeed! I wonder what they were talking about! *snigger*
@@probro9898 lol those were the days when humour was just humour x
Pleasantly surprised to recognise Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who, Worzel Gummidge etc)
And one of the kids is a very young Tucker Jenkins (Grange Hill).
If you listen carefully in the last clip you can hear Charlie saying “miaow rragh dlaioe Rolf’s a nonce miaow rragh dialoe”
love the couple...British humour at it's best!
"There's a TV set on in the room - It's number 5 and they're watching Columbo. Just hang on a minute, it's nearly finished, I missed this episode."
Can we all please take a moment to thank the people who had to clean up the street after filming at 13.51.
Oh, and Charley says, stay off the charlie.
I always have a good laugh at the detector van ad. There was no equipment at all in those vans so they couldn't detect anything never mind what channel you were watching! Governments and corporations in the UK have perfected the art of putting the frighteners on the populace, they still do it nowadays and people still fall for it!!
The ‘detector’ was - and still is - a guy listening out for loud tv programmes through open windows
OMG! Rolf Harris right at the end! 😱😱😱😱
Loved Charley what a cat!
Hmm ... were did Pertunia get her ice cream while on top of that cliff ?
I remember very well the add with Rolf Harris . At the end of it you see him recline backwards in the water and the sequence freeze farmed as you hear kids shout " Get Him "
In the original version shown at the time the kids did get him , they pounced on him and forced him under the as they piled on top of him .
I remember my dad saying that is stupid .. talking about teaching kids to swim then show them how to drown one another .
Complaints must have been made because this version was introduced and the " Drown Rolf " version was never seen again .
"JIIIMMMYYYYY !!!" Believe it or not, the gormless looking girl later appeared in the original SUPERMAN movie.
@15:33 - Kid in the beige jumper is the late Terry Sue Patt , later Benny Green in GRANGE HILL.
I never realised what a hooligan I clearly was as a kid destroying the neighbourhood... Maybe it was because I was scared to death by Fridges, water, cars, power relays, cats, dogs, litter, strangers rugs and pedophiles trying to get me in the swimming pool.
@20:35 - a very, very young Todd Carty (Tucker Jenkins)
I love the Charlie one so sweet and informative made me laugh as well 😂
The guys legs in the park always cracked me up.....
Memories of the 1970s come flooding back with this.
I thought the ''what to do when you have a water leak'' would have come up. It was really patronizing, the typical family was sat round the dinner table at the start, it's hilarious. 😆
Charlie is a very sensible cat..
Before watching this I watched one with the most horrifying public information films in, this was an antidote to that (though the grim reaper water advert & the frisbee one made the horrifying compilation video but besides those). The litter bin one needs to come back cos the amount of rubbish everywhere is ridiculous. Also, I love that there was a safety video on putting down A RUG.
I remember watching the frisbee one at school and the class cheered
A set of classic films, even with Rolf in the last one
How times have changed. Can you imagine a kid accepting an apple as a treat/prize these days?
Literally just realised that the girl in the substation film at 19:16 is the same little girl whose cat Superman pulls out of a tree in the first Christopher Reeve movie!😳😳
The kid on the beach used to make my tummy jump
What a shame Rolf survived his swimming experience as a kid 🤬
Those were the days
That's Jackie Blake well the actress what played her in Look and read in the one retreive the frisbee from a power station.
in case parents didn't have enough time to be parents, the good government will save them
Kenny Everett voiced Charlie in the adverts
Bloody nice that you saved the nonce until last ….
I am alive today because of these warning films in the early snd late 1960s and they seem harsh, however...sadly, horrifically hard facts. My cousin was Gareth Thomas, he played Blake in Blakes Seven. He played the rabies victim too. I was not allowed to watch much more after the 1st episode as it was so graphic and frightening. Britain was very dangerous to children and dogs where thrown out for the day. I looked after them in the field. One bit me. She was taken and killed as she was rabid. I was luckily not injured as I had my Paddington thick coat on. She never bit me, she had caught rabies. And that is how bad rabies is. And the channel tunnel has caused it to become a health hazard. I also knew about not to cross the road, without looking once twice three times nor ever thinking that I was invincible. We had The fear of electricity and kite flying near pilons. There was a very frightening film about Strangers. My friend was taken by men, she survived. Some didn't. Beware of falling into dark water. Or jumping off a river bridge. Donald Pleasance made us all terrified of Monks! And electric railway lines....😮
The girl in the video play safe frisby is called Felicity .
If films like this were once considered important why do we no longer see anything similar? Have children today somehow acquired immunity from dangers?
No they just ban everything and put up tall fences also kids don't go out anymore
Back them we were told we were responsible for the consequences when we made thoughtless actions, now its always someone's else's fault.
@@bobp6742 Kids now live in the nanny state, where they no longer need to take responsibility for anything they do! They are taught that whatever they do, no-one can touch them for it. Batter an OAP ... no problem we'll send you to a nice relaxing therapy centre down by the coast where we'll talk you through your problems. Knife a schoolfriend ..... well, I suppose because you are an ethnic, we must make sure that your home life is made more comfortable. Not your fault you know, it's the rest of society to blame .... now come meet your nice, friendly social worker!
I’m saying nothing about that Rolf PIF! It’s the kids shouting at the end that makes me wonder what he’s doing??!!
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I remember very well the add with Rolf Harris . At the end of it you see him recline backwards in the water and the sequence freeze farmed as you hear kids shout " Get Him "
In the original version shown at the time the kids did get him , they pounced on him and forced him under the as they piled on top of him .
I remember my dad saying that is stupid .. talking about teaching kids to swim then show them how to drown one another .
Complaints must have been made because this version was introduced and the " Drown Rolf " version was never seen again .
Charlie says!!! ha ha
😂 best add ever though x
Kevin Keegan shouting at a kid in the street. The kid would give him a mouth full these days.
15.13 That one used to scare me rotten!
Was there not an advert about eating and swimming set to the Charleston music also?
I'm still looking for the one for motorbikes and scooters with the catchline "Look back" the music was Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique"
Motorcycles look back have that on 16mm sound film I will have to sort out my projectors
@@davids8449 really?!!! Fantastic!! I'll "look forward" (pun intended!) to seeing that once again!!
8:21 Be smart, be safe...or Darth Vader will force-choke you.
"Jimmmmmmmmyyyyy ...." 😲
25:50 r.i.p Rolf Harris
Good old Rolf at the end.
24:21 this might be the most disgusting piece of media i have ever seen.
Think once ,think twice, think dont drive on the pavement 😂
Is that Arthur Lowe narrating the poll ad ?
These messages are as important now as back in the day so the BBC (you know, the public service broadcaster) should still be showing these films to the public of today. No real need to update them either... ok, maybe change the Ford Cortina for an Audi A3
Possibly Dora Bryan's voice, at 11'19'' ?. Possibly, but not entirely convinced.
Does anyone recall the short public info film about approaching small rises in the road while it was sunny ?
There was a Space suited guy with a hoover like device with a head at the end that blazed strong light that blinded oncoming drivers . I've watched several of these summaries and never seen it in any of them .
As an afterthought isn't that 'Damion ' from The Omen at 26:40 ?
I remember a series to warn against driving too fast in to blind bends and blind summits, the 'bright bubble' was used to kidnap drivers who were going too fast and could not stop before entering the bubble. exact details are vague.
Not Timmy oh no
The last place to leave a bottle is a beach but unfortunately you do get idiots who leave broken glass lying around including in the streets. Those irresponsible idiots who do that should be heavily fined and forced to clean it up.
Yikes, Rolf Harris, children and a swimming pool.
Well that last one didn’t age well did it 🤡
exactly what i thought when i recognised who it was lol
Didn’t realise my childhood was that dangerous. I was more concerned by being nuclear bombed.
If by chance you innocently 5 years old in perhaps 1973, then you have been insstructed or traumatised by one of these ads.
Where are all the people of colour who have always been in multie cultured Britain?
2:01 My happy childhood started here. How fast time has flown by know I look back and remember old Britain as it used to be. Still had it's problems and major issues of course, but it's own identity remained in check and was protected. Today it's gone to the dogs, a broken Britain full of outsiders that only come for the rampant benefits on offer and to spread their division of hate while the Government and woke police forces stands by. Charley would never have guessed this laid in wait 50 years on.
Must be awful to live in fear as you clearly do.
0:13 They are just off again......to Derry to be blown up! Ok, and it's not "Keanyah" they were in, its K'enya as in Kenyatta. It changed in 63, before this release. Oh dear journalists were poor then too!
“…and Charlie got something he likes…” LSD.
5.32 A young Jimmy Saville
@15:13 - Donald Pleasence narrating, he could scare you shitless just be clearing his throat !
What, Kevin Keegan just happened to be strolling down that kid's street when he tried to cross the road ?
Cracking pair of flares on him!
13.52 the public information film is that old litter bins weren't invented then.
And the guy throwing the litter was the late great Roy Hudd.
What's the boy's name? Does anyone know
I was expecting Charlie the horse!
Back when I was a kid, you'd ask a friend "Who won all the races?" If he was slow and asked "Who?", you'd punch him in the arm and say "Charlie Horse".
you need protect and survive
26:10 Yes , so you could play with her mates!
@3:22 - What, was mum deaf ?
ALWAYSLISTENTOCHARLIEHEKNOWS
JIMMY!!!
At least Jimmy Saville didn't come on with clunk click. We got Rolf🤮😳
No good calling coastguard they busy collecting boaties
Rolf Harris with children 😡
12:44 is that Peter Griffin?
So to save energy they cut off the power in the operating theatre and the baby's incubator ? Great...
Can’t believe you are showing clips of Rolf Harris that’s totally wrong
Top quality place to place a load of street lamps. I mean do we aim to wipe out motorbikes?
charlie is well strange
Even better is just don’t take your cat when you go fishing
Better still not to have a cat.
Don't Jay walk . Always use a crosswalk.
That bloke Charlie was a right fool, not only that he couldn't speak proper English !!!
Well, it was Kenny Everett, what did you expect?
He was not edumacated when his was a kittens🤣🤣🤣
the boy is a bad interpretor, what Charly actually said was:
some day a British band with a lead vocalist called Keith (legend) RIP 'will record a song about me'
Stupid parents would kick off and boo hoo hoo.. shame, they sure hit home
The...What you should do in the event of a hydrogen bomb being detonated in your area..
If you have one...hide in the cupboard under the stairs until the fallout has passed...take enough food to last ..and a commde...hilarious..no.
Not a Monty Python sketch...perfectly true
.these short films were generally put together Raymond Briggs animations
Yeh I remember those H bomb ads.
Dail 999 and ask for the coastguard, no such luck today , they will not be there, but out ,a taxi service for illegal chancers, you will end up dead...
Think once. Think twice. Think What the f*ck is Jimmy Hill doing presenting a road safety ad ?
What happened to the diversity the current lie is it was always here since the Romans
Where all the blacks and Asians people.
I wonder who was the voice over artist who did Charlie's yowling.