Showing posts with label Public Information Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Information Film. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2020

Shake Hands with Danger (1980)

A safety film detailing the various grisly ways heavy machinery can mangle human flesh if you are not careful and the guys in this film certainly arn't. One of the guys is shown changing the wheel on a large excavator and ends up demolishing a house! 

What makes the film unintentionally hilarious is the gritty country & western soundtrack. As the song says, being distracted or hungover might cause you to fall from a JCV or have your hand cut to pieces in a grinder. So lay off the Jack Daniels and pay attention!


 

Friday, October 2, 2020

Drugs Are Like That (1969)

A bizarre little film warning children about the dangers of drugs. The film shows children indulging in normal childhood antics like building lego and stealing from the cookie jar and then the narrator Anita Bryant warns the viewer that "drugs are like that!". 

Basically anything you might do also be dangerous, we cut to a child swinging on a rope over water which snaps, and the child ends up drowning. Drugs are like that apparently!

So it is rather strange and rather weird. Whether it would stop anyone trying drugs is doubtful. You might feel you have dropped some acid after watching it.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The Trouble with Women (1959)

Brad (Chet Davis) has a problem, and that is women. Pesky women ruining his lovely workplace. Some of them just want to get married damn it! Luckily Brad is given a talk by his friend in Personnel and finds out that (gasp!) women are actually good at their jobs after all! 

A rather dated and unintentionally funny public information film promoting gender equality. We've come a long way, though a long way still to go. Not quite as long a way as Brad needed to go.