Public safety/information films

[VicDakin]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

I was too busy checking how much Mrs MTDS is insured for to notice.

Good call,check the small print,because that may come under an act of god

[VicDakin]

In 1960, accountant Richard Wayman and photographer Phyllis Vaughn started the Cleveland-based Highway Safety Foundation after amassing a sizeable collection of photos taken at auto crash sites and shooting an educational film, SIGNAL 30, which incorporated crash site footage. The Foundation’s film production wing, Safety Enterprises, went on to produce a number of now-legendary auto safety films (including WHEELS OF TRAGEDY and MECHANIZED DEATH) incorporating extremely grisly real-life imagery, which were shown to unsuspecting high school students across the United States in the 1960s and 70s. Bret Miller's documentary takes a probing look into the strange story of the people who made these bizarre and haunting films. He includes interviews with genre experts such as educational film archivist Richard Prelinger and Something Weird Video's Mike Vraney, as well as Earle Deems and John Domer--two of the men who worked on these compelling curiosities. While the subject matter is sensationalistic by nature, Miller's approach is reverent, and, though the films have passed on into the land of pop cultural legend, one is never doubtful that those who made the films did so out of a well-intentioned sense of duty and purpose.

[VicDakin]

Look at Life: In Gear
1967 | 9 min
Courtesy of ITV Global Entertainment Ltd. Join the cool kids on the Kings Road and Carnaby Street as youth fashion brings a welcome splash of colour to Britain. 'Don't take it too seriously, or you'll be missing the point!'.Some of London's fashionable shops and the young people who frequent them. The film presents the "in" scene of London as one big fancy dress ball. Cowboys, hussars or refugees from St. Petersburg, "it" girls, "oomph" girls", odalisques from the harems of bygone Turkey .... they all join in the supercharade.

[VicDakin]

A Cautionary Tale for Caravaners.
"Next time you take a caravan on holiday, please, don't overload it and keep within the speed limit."

[VicDakin]

Dont drink or drive or run into the road other wise Joe will beat you to death,not sure what Gilliian Tailforth will do,but im sure it will be equally orrible

[VicDakin]

keep your distance

[VicDakin]

military policeman 1961

[VicDakin]

Motor-bike scrambling and the success of British firms in exporting their machines, and the popularity of the sport which today attracts thousands of followers.

[VicDakin]

Produced as material in the `UNDERSTANDING ELECTRICITY' educational service of the electricity supply industry, the film seeks to bring home to children, in a dramatic manner, the dangers of playing near overhead electric lines and substations.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Options to Live makes Faces of Death seem like In the Night Garden.