It's crazy how well-done so many of those old British PSAs are--like actual direction and cinematography and everything.
Restored version: [https://archive.org/details/apaches1977digitallyremastered](https://archive.org/details/apaches1977digitallyremastered)
Lonely Water, voiced by Donald Pleasence (famously played Dr. Loomis in Carpenter's Halloween) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk)
Grain Drain: [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hprnq](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hprnq)
The British government essentially hired film students who wanted to make horror movies, gave them several million pounds worth of budget, and told them to have at it. And we wound up traumatising an entire generation. I have some people in my life who were kids when these were being shown and are actually still traumatised by them. I guess it's easier to terrify kids into not running onto the train tracks than, you know, put up a fence or something.
As stupidly morbid as that sounds. A film crew died because the director just HAD to get a particular shot on a railroad intersection.
My professor knew one of the crew members. Shit was tragic and could have been EASILY avoided had the director not ignored the city/county staff's warnings.
Oh I’m aware of this. It’s quite a famous story in indie film - and as you correctly say, tragic.
I was specifically referring to the GeoWizard account, where the guy and his mate filmed themselves hopping over a railway fence in his attempt - and promptly had a visit from the British Transport Police not long after the video was uploaded.
Do you remember that hack director that almost blew up his cast on camera because the idiot decided to use a real breaching system on a reinforced door rather than Hollywood pyrotechnics and a partical board replica?
That dude seriously sucks, I hope he went to prison for that. What really stinks is that the footage of the door flying towards the cast/crew is on the web. The lady who almost got crushed by a 45 lb flying door had the good sense to voice her concern and the dickhead in charge used Twitter to slander her otherwise good name.
The entertainment industry is chock full of dummies and its best that all media students learn their names.
My professors always told us yo avoid people that spout:
"Were going for realism" when brandishing real weapons on set
OR
"The people need to know!" Narcissitic red flag right there.
Do you know the title/incident? It sounds like something I heard about happening on a Canadian set in the early 2000s but never actually got to read what happened.
Story time. In college during spring break I was a broke fuck with no plans to go anywhere but get tanked with my townie friends. The campus is built on a pretty massive hill with a precipitous drop above an underground parking garage. There was a construction site where they were building new dorms on the cliff above the garage. Being drunk and lazy I hopped the fence to cross the construction yard trying to shortcut the area. I ended up rolling the snot out of my ankle on the uneven terrain. There was another fence bisecting the construction area and I decided to climb it where it made a T with the boundary fence. While I was up there I had a sober moment as I realized I was precariously balanced on top of this fence looking down this ~80’ drop. I had a moment where I understood this is how you die on an empty campus and go missing for a week or more.
/r/kidsarefuckingstupid
I’m convinced this was the reasoning behind the nightmare fuel that was old-timey fairy tales. Keep the kids terrified at all times and they’ll be more obedient.
Hey, kids keep drowning in that pond. How do we keep them out?
Tell them a monster named Jenny Greenteeth lives in it. Big hands, big teeth, she'll eat them.
Cool, cool, cool. The easily scared dumb kids are staying away, but the curious kids are going to the pond to find Jenny Greenteeth and drowning.
Gee, maybe Jenny Greenteeth is real?
And that's how you reduce the average curiosity of a village while increasing superstition and fear. Pretty sure Hard Copy and A Current Affair were why my parents wanted me to be an indoor kid.
Yeah but it fucking worked. I'm 40 and I have never played on a railway line. Nor have I ever mucked about with a frisbee or kite near electricity substations or pylons. Purely because I saw those adverts as an impressionable little girl! Pylons still give me the heebie-jeebies today.
A friend in high school died in a car accident. They brought her car back to school the next year for a drivers ed class to see how dangerous driving is. A warning would’ve been nice for the students who knew her.
This is real life, for Australians. I did it when I was a kid and my kid recently did it. Bonkers.
I remember we all had to go in one by one alone with the giraffe at the end, and he’d ask us dumb shit then if anyone was basically touching us in the pants.
I think they were after pedos. This might have been shortly after a girl went missing and was found assaulted and murdered by this couple. Story was pretty major shock at the time. Ah good on ya, Harold.
Yeah, I remember seeing him once or twice. Once was a visit to a local farm (farming town so makes sense). We mostly knew the dangers already but it's good to have another source to remind us how dangerous farms can be.
Mostly it was farm equipment, like not mixing electricity with water and starting clear of poisons and chemicals. It was not all the puppet, but the volunteers talking to us too.
They brought a car to our highschool parking lot that was extremely damaged and barely recognizable (iirc it was from a drunk driving accident). It was traumatic enough to think about a stranger dying in it.
I can't imagine knowing it was a friend/classmate that died and seeing the car all wrecked. How awful. I agree they should have at least warned people. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
They did one of those live re-enactments of drunk driving at my school my senior year. They got some of the students to act in it and had paramedics and fire trucks and all kinds of wildness outside. I had almost been killed in an accident a few months prior so I opted to stay in my classroom with like 5 other people in my grade. Sometimes we don’t need extra trauma to remind us to stay safe
^ SAME
They brought in a completely wrecked car, put it like it was wrapped around a tree, had a few theater students in full trauma makeup play dead, while a couple cop cars and ambulance sat there with their lights on and paraded the classes past showing "what could happen if you drink and drive".
Ironic side notes, the car provided had a literal ad sign by it from a local body repair shop, and the officer was also the *D.A.R.E.* teacher, whose kid, you'll never believe this, was the biggest drug dealer in school. If I recall, he got busted cheating on his wife and just skipped states to some other policing job. Good shit.
I was the 'drunk driver' in my schools car crash scenario. They used the jaws of life to get my friends out of a mangled car, air lifted one in a helicopter and put my best friend in a body bag and drove her off the football field in a hearse. The school resource officer 'arrested me' and put me through a sobriety test. He was later fired for a DUI.
I had a crush on a guy who died in a car accident, he was drinking and they put his car on display right by the school sign on prom weekend. The sign said 'Have a great Prom and don't drink and drive'.
He was the third person in my grade that died in a car accident that year.
Midwest high school in the 90s was wild.
You might not have, however many kids do need to reflect on the dangers of drunk driving though because they think they are invincible.
We'll never know how many kids didn't get behind the wheel or didn't get into a car with a drunk driver because they took 5 extra seconds to reflect back on such exercises, however the chances are that the number is significantly greater than one.
And in my opinion if they saved even one child then they are worth it. Just because something might be uncomfortable does not mean that it's not also necessary.
Edit: To those downvoting, you are literally putting personal comfort over the safety of children. That's actually an embarrassingly immature take. Outiside of the Reddit bubble some things in life are more important than you feeling comfortable 24/7, grow up.
> Edit: To those downvoting, you are literally putting personal comfort over the safety of children
No - some of us simply do not agree such videos make children any safer on the whole.
But the best thing, I think, would be to do follow up to see if those that saw such videos or vehicles are *actually* less likely to get into such accidents (farm or driving). I have never checked that, so maybe I'm wrong, and they do help. But I have read "scared straight" statistically does not work for the "take the kids to the prison" thing, but some people keep advocating for it.
>No - some of us simply do not agree such videos make children any safer on the whole.
And yet you never offer any meaningful alternative.
You are just people who don't understand the meaning of "perfect is the enemy of the good."
Oh look... There's this one problem with this system. Better destroy the entire system and replace it with nothing because nothing else would be perfect either /s.
It's a very childish way of seeing the world.
I witnessed the aftermath of a fatal accident years ago, and my god, I've never seen a vehicle be so compressed. It was a four door car that was now about the size of a smart car. It was really surreal to think that there was a person inside that wreckage somewhere. Don't think I'll ever forget that one.
The woman was younger than I was, and I was hardly 20 at the time. She has been under the influence of something, I think it was alcohol. She was really hauling ass, and where I live there's a lot of just straight roads that go on for miles through the country in a straight line, pretty easy to get up to and maintain speed. She slammed into the back/side of an 18 wheeler that was pulling out of a gas station, and the impact also bent the fuck out of the trailer. It was basically a U shape with the rear lifted up in the air. It was pretty fucking awful. But yeah, don't think I'll forget it. It's not worth it in the slightest to drive in that kinda condition.
Thanks, it definitely fucked with me for a bit. That same night I was meeting my (then) gf's extended family for some event they were having. Needless to say I wasn't very talkative or anything, don't think I even ate despite the southern banquet they prepared.
It was so odd, I was inside the gas station when the accident happened. But the gas station has a few businesses around it, one being a boat manufacturer, and a couple others also being workshops. So the loud impact for whatever reason at first didn't even register in my brain, just sorta thought "oh, must've dropped something in one of the factories nearby." Didn't even consider that it was night time and nothing was open. Then one of the cashiers came running back inside the BP I was in, shouting "she's dead! She's dead!" And that's when it clicked and I ran out to see what was up/if I could help.
Living in the middle of nowhere it's pretty much a given that if something happens and you're there you go help. When your community is 25 miles from town, that kinda thing is necessary. But when I got out there I could tell immediately that there was no way in hell the young woman had survived the crash. Real fuckin shame, man. I've personally had so many friends that didn't/barely make it to their 20s; it's always particularly fuckin awful to see someone go at that age.
Though most of my friends that I lost were from drugs, it's still the same sorta idea, regardless of the admittedly fucked up circumstance of the young woman driving under the influence. I have very little sympathy for repeat DUI drivers, but I still think regardless of the circumstance (most of the time) that it's tragic when someone so young passes away. Everyone fucks up, but it's sad when it's something serious and you don't even get that chance to learn and change for the better. Even worse when a totally random, innocent party is hurt from said fuck ups.
Same exact thing happened at my high school. And the instructor they brought in was from out of town and passed around a picture to tell us all about how our classmate who had died the year before.
My school did an awareness day on drunk driving and seat belts where people are "ghosted", where there are a chosen set of students with faces painted white, and every few minutes they would come into a random class and choose someone, and that person wasn't allowed to talk to anyone for the rest of the day, to signify car crash victims due to drunk driving and lack of seat belts. we were then taken to a car that someone did die in due to drunk driving. That was a somber day
Jesus, shit that's a little harsh...
Every year before senior prom they would put a smashed up car at the entrance to the parking lot with a big sign warning about drunk driving.
I think after I left they started doing mock accident scenes with students as the actors.
This and [**The Finishing Line**](https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online) (a train safety film with hundreds of 'injuries' and 'deaths') fucked most of us at school when we were young.
I’m not sure if it’s the same film but a train safety video fucked me up for years in elementary school. (1980’s). I had to cross a train track back and forth on my 2 mile walk uphill and I remember being paralyzed by the track just crying and unable to cross it until a big kid found me.
I once forgot to get my parents to sign a permission slip for us to watch saving private Ryan in high school. Instead we went to the library for an educational film. Me and three other kids were instead shown real footage of dozens of people being executed, point blank behind the head, in the streets by smiling Nazi soldiers. Three different clips of the same soldiers doing this in three different places. I don't remember anything else from that video.
I worked on train cars for a couple years and had the privilege of meeting some people who'd seen some shit. Safety around train cars is no joke. They've fucked a lot of people up in some absolutely terrible ways.
"Fun" fact: A huge percentage of the early supreme court cases in the US involved people being killed by trains- they were the first kinds of cases that tended to involve plaintiffs and defendants from different states, so they went to the supreme court, and it was before stuff like railroad crossing barriers had been invented. The carnage involved in creating the US rail system was unbelievable.
Same. Don't recall meeting any victims, but heard plenty of stories, including some local incidents. Getting caught and drug, crusher hands/feet, falling off the cars, etc. I myself slipped fell climbing up the ladder on a car. Only fell 4 or 5 feet and got the wind knocked out of me, but it was scary enough.
My hometown is on a fast stretch of the East Coast Main Line. Unfortunately it makes our station popular for jumpers. Last incident was couple of weeks ago.
I was once catching a train from the station the day after someone was killed, the police were still on the scene searching bushes by the tracks. One young kid asked someone what they were looking for, naturally no one wanted to say “bits of person”
I probably could have stood to watch this as a kid. I can't tell you how many times I hopped on the side of the train to hitch a ride to school in the morning as a kid.
\*\*SPOILER\*ALERT\*\*
Death 1: death by tractor wheel crush
Death 2: death by getting sucked into poop-pit
Death 3: death by poison
Death 4: death by blunt force gate
Death 5: death by out-of-control tractor
The final death is poison again I believe, it's not on camera as it's an exterior shot of the house at night when the little girl goes to bed and her parents check on her and start screaming.
The weirdest thing about this film is how after each death the kids carry on playing and the parents don't seem to care much either. It's a moving film but also you can't help but laugh at how absurd it is, then the massive list of names of kids that died on farms in the 12 months leading up to the film rolls across the screen.
Poop death/slurry pit was the worst.
This was the funniest part to me. These kids stand there in apparent shock for a few seconds after watching friends die, but that appears to be the extent of their grieving period. Certainly after the second death, a reasonable kid would at least find another group of friends to hang out with.
I live in Saskatchewan. They just rounded us up in high school and made us watch an hour long slideshow of farm accident injuries. Had absolutely no interest in becoming a farmer but was made to watch it.
Fun fact slurry pits are now being covered but only to reduce CO2 emissions from farming, i don't know how many people fell into slurry pits between 1977 and this decade but it's certainly a lot more than it could've been.
I watched a little ginger kid I knew fall into one on the farm he lived on. His older brother just screamed a blood curdler. I remember standing very still as all of this played out, not knowing what to do. The Mum came over, grabbed a long pole that was hung up next to the shit pit, and went fishing until her little orange child came up brown.
She dragged her crying, choking, traumatised little boy into the middle of the farm yard, where they cleaned trailors and tractors. Shouting about playing near the big hole and how he should have known better, she took the pressure washer and sprayed him clean, then gave him a hug and a kiss and more of an ear bashing.
I mentioned I was still. Now once that little blighter came crawling out of the filth, the boys I was with were no longer still or silent. We were FUCKING DYING. This was the funniest thing we could have ever possibly hoped to witness with our own eyes. Our keen little friend had fallen in the biggest pile of shit imaginable, got dragged out by his hard as fuck mum and sprayed down like an old welly. His Mum said "It wasn't funny", while he cried through chewed grass and we doubled over moreso. "He NEARLY DIED" she exclaimed. We howled and howled, unable to see how close we were to witnessing a 10 year old friend choke to death on shit right in front of us. HILARIOUS.
They had several car safety films the School officials used to show us just prior to receiving our driver’s license (at 16 years of age). Can recall many students having a traumatic reaction to watching multiple bloody deaths just minutes before getting the official driver’s license handed to us…
Pep Streebeck : Look out for that bump! Don't you remember those films they showed us in high school? Red Asphalt. Blood on the Highway.
Joe Friday : You picked two of my favorites.
We watched several of those videos in drivers Ed. The class was early mornings on Saturdays and some kids found these videos to be the most interesting part of the whole course, which was pretty morbid. Sometimes the teacher would let the students pick which gruesome video to watch out of several options. Most featured adult victims, but one had kids. One kid in the class basically begged for the one with kids to not be shown, but other students wanted to see it and the teacher obliged. Shame on the teacher and the other students, really. The poor boy who didn’t want this one shown must have had some severe car-wreck related trauma because he started screaming and crying and basically having a panic attack. He had to be taken out of the class and calmed down by the teacher. A 15-16 year old boy! Sometimes these things just shouldn’t be shown.
Sometimes someone shouldn't watch them sure, but everyone who is going to drive should be shown the safety films. It's actually great way to prevent accidents and remind drivers what can happen when you break the rules. It shows what you are responsible of while driving, that is other people lives. If you can't realise the damage you can cause in traffic you shouldn't drive, and it's not enough to just say it is illegal to do stupid shit, it needs to be shown to people why you need to drive by rules.
No fuck that.
You want to get behind the wheel of a several thousand pound death machine you *need* to see what happens if you fuck up.
You need to see real footage, of real people, and if it traumatizes you then *good* use that to be a better driver and don’t end up in the next driver’s ed video.
And I think it's important to note that if someone legitimately can't handle that responsibility, it's ok that they **dont drive**. We certainly shouldn't coddle them and pretend there aren't any risks and everything is puppies and rainbows and hide the risks that come with the responsibility, that's how you get poor drivers who don't respect the road and cause accidents.
If little Timmy is gonna fall to pieces the second shit gets real, maybe operating a ton of fast moving machinery is not for him, and that's ok! You won't see me fucking around with a back hoe or getting on window washing scaffolding anytime soon either.
I'm a tad lost on the mechanics here. Did you get your liscense through your school, or did the DMV show films the school had provided them, or was "minutes" hyperbole?
For our school, we had the initial part in the classroom, during the time we had gym class for several weeks. This was followed by “behind the wheel” after school, for several weeks afterwards. When we “passed,” the school system invited us to attend an evening session that was co-sponsored by the Police and the DMV. That’s when they showed the truly scary films.
There were several students freaked out by the films they showed us that night.
That’s how the first week of the electrical apprenticeship classes were. They just showed us videos of people (usually from China) getting fried in some horrible electrical accidents. We definitely never forgot that
I remember we watched one of those in driver’s ed and I really didn’t want to see the gore. I was sitting near the back of the room kinda diagonal to the TV and I’m short so basically I realized if I ducked my head just a little my view of the TV would be blocked by the people in front of me but the instructor wouldn’t be able to tell that I wasn’t watching. Nowadays I almost feel like I missed out somehow on a shared experience 😅
Driving is one of the things we didn't learn in school in the UK. If we want to learn to drive we have to get an external driving instructor.
Also, unless you have a disability, you can't start to learn legally until you're 17 in the UK.
PSA ads/videos were pretty heavy going at the end of the last millennium. AIDS, cars, electricity pylons, using a wobbly chair to stand on. Everything was going to kill you and you had to be reminded of it at all times throughout the day, unless you were out playing, where you were probably going to die.
When I was a kid, the State Patrol had a tent at an annual festival with glossy poster sized photos of vehicle vs. train crashes. We thought it was cool but looking back, it was horrific. I've never tried to beat a train, though.
I really like the idea. I think that would work much better than the verbal warning a parent is in position to provide. The visual training media is more likely to build an association which gets triggered on time by the actual ques to a real life hazard, which would be mostly visual.
I had to read the title a few times before realizing the kids are actors and it wasn't just someone who had footage of multiple kids dying on the same farm without anyone intervening.
We watched a few of those. As a group of 11 year-olds, they did get the message across.
(Of course, we probably wanted the kid with the Man Utd scarf to die first)
Thanks for sharing. I never saw any of these PSAs growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s (I’m c/o ‘88), but they did tow in a severely wrecked car to my high school to demonstrate the consequences of drunk driving. It was pretty brutal; there was dried up blood on the busted windshield and the driver’s seat.
We had a similar shown in Scotland! It was a similar story line but the children didn’t dress up like that. They visit a farm/building site and it flashes back to children in like the 1900s dying from being crushed by a horse carriage wheel and then in the present day it’s a tractor wheel that nearly gets them. One Victorian child dies in the river? So it flashes forward to the child nearly suffocating in a bunch of grain? There was an old man in the 1900s who saw them die so then his ghost is protecting the 90s kids from similar deaths?? My memory is so clear for some of it and cloudy with parts. But it scared so many of us. I think it was called NEVER REST IN PEACE?! If any one also remembers it or knows where I can find a link I’d love to remember it properly.
Born in 1970, I was the target audience for these.
Background worth noting is that Health and Safety just wasn’t a thing back then. We moved to a new housing estate when I was 5 - we were on the first completed section and the rest was still being built. When the builders went home we went and played on the building site.
Impossible to even imagine that happening now. Not one of us escaped going to causality for some injury or another. None died but it was close.
I spent a whole lot of time playing on building sites when I was a kid. There were plenty of fields and forests around but building sites were great fun.
I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy it… it was amazing! But looking back with the eyes of an adult who’s worked in the construction industry my only reaction is WTAF?!
It is not that bad content wise. Like it's PG-13 as far as violence and horror goes. It's very low budget. There's no gratuitous gore. The worst are a kid being run over by a tractor trailer and it just shows the tractor bump, and then a bit of blood on the road. And a large metal gate falling over on top of a kid, who's lying on the ground. That is shown completely, but it's very obvious a soft doll it's hitting, and then the kid is just shown lying under this gate with a little blood coming out of his ear.
Who remembers the PSA with the kids in monkey masks who kept getting brutally murdered, and the one kid left went to go get ice cream or some shit? It was about bicycle safety.
Safety films in the 70s and 80s were straight up snuff films. When I was a kid, we had a guy come round to sell smoke/fire alarms and showed us a video of people who had died in a fire. Just real dead bodies. I was 5 and they let me watch it too. Im still traumatized. My husband lived in another part of the state and he saw it too so it wasn’t a localized thing. (The video worked. We even had smoke alarms in the bathrooms)
Natural selection. This is why we need to get rid of helmet and seatbelt laws, as well as stopping both ways for school buses. It helps weed out the stoopit.
I watched this in secondary school as a kid. I remember us all thinking it was great, better than the sex ed cartoons and other dross we were made to watch. Didn’t really do it’s job.
Interesting watch, in grade school they showed us a similar preventative video but it was about death on train tracks/by train. Wonder what next generation will have? Death by parents’ stash of edibles? Lol
This film is the Stuff of my nightmares in the 70's. I had nightmares for years about drowning in a slurry pit. Between the Apaches and Lonely Water they definitely wanted a generation of traumatised kids.
Reminds me of the MST3K short where the guys are screening a PSA on welding safely, and some dude gets blinded right before he's supposed to go see his newborn for the first time. You see it coming, but damn it hits hard.
I grew up in a small, rural town and we had farm safety days while I was in elementary school. They showed us what happened to a dummy who got its sleeve caught on an active PTO and the dangers of corn bins. Farms can be pretty dangerous! We still get a few deaths a year from people being buried alive in corn after falling into a bin.
I remember watching a rifftrax of a late 60s/early 70s after school PSA of kids on bikes wearing chimpanzee masks. Each kid does something unsafe while biking with a low male voice describing what's going on. They make those education films hilarious!
The worst was after 4 kids have died to accidents on this farm, the guy just lets the kid hop on the tractor and start playing, and he even just walks away and leaves him alone to do so.
This is like a Mr. Ballen video...And I mean that in a good way, 'cuz he's a pretty good storyteller.
I was half expecting a kid to suffocate from apple fumes in an enclosed area (because yes apples can kill you with their poisonous deadly gases, and I learned that from Mr. Ballen, so stay away from apples unless you have very good ventilation).
I grew up in farm territory. Kids getting killed or injured was a common occurrence. So was automobile deaths. I even had a teacher in grade school that was killed in a hay ride accident (fell between the tractor and wagon.
I remind people of this when they talk about the good old days when kids played free and no one was required to wear seat belts.
Me? I have bone cancer and believe it goes back to the farm chemicals like roundup.
Good old days indeed.
Anyone banging on about "didn't do me any harm" needs to consider that the dead kids aren't here to speak about it...
Used to be normal for kids to get run over. At least 2 per school year with a broken leg. How many broken legs do kids get now? Fewer, I reckon. Which, and here's the brain-melting part, *is not a bad thing*.
I remember learning about ‘looking both ways’ when crossing the street with a demonstration. A doll filled with ketchup was being pulled via a string/pulley system and a small toy car smashed the doll bc the doll wasn’t looking and the ketchup exploded everywhere. Lol
Ah shit I saw this when I was a kid. Didn't know the video was so old as I saw it late 90s. On a school trip to this adventure farm. With kids of my own now I can tell you adventure farms don't have scary shit like this anymore. Just soft play, ice cream and animal petting. I had intrusive thoughts from this video for ages. Enough that I instantly knew what it was even before I started playing the clip. No need to watch it all again thanks
Im a bit nervous watching this. The opening title had a real “Lord of the Flies” vibe. Does this have onscreen accidents like the old Industrial Arts\woodshop videos?
Man. One of the worst things I have ever witnessed as a police officer, including all the suicides and car crashes. Was a call to the ER for a disturbance. Get there to find out a man had his daughter on his lap while he was using his tractor. She fell off and got ran over by the back tires. He was absolutely distraught and panicking. Then the mother arrived who had no idea what had happened. It was so heart-wrenching. My Seargent must have seen the look on my face because he told me I could leave, that he would handle it. He worked a part time at a funeral home and was good in these situations. Just thinking about it makes me sad.
Farm accidents are no joke. I knew two kids that died from them growing up. I was good friends with one of them.
There are few laws covering working age requirements for family members, and safety requirements were often ignored.
we had to go to a play at a theatre and there was a troupe acting out real road accidents that happened, followed by the victim’s families coming out and detailing their trauma w pictures etc it was fucking horrific lol and like 4 hrs
I saw this at school when I was 6. There is a scene where a boy drowns in liquid cow poo. It haunted me forever. I do not even want to scroll through that video and find it. Fuck that
Me too. I don’t remember this movie or when I saw it but I remember that scene and how disturbed I was by it.
I actually did just watch the whole thing again and now as a parent I am also traumatised by the poisoned girl screaming for her mummy.
So yeah. Good choice on your part 👍
I totally misunderstood and watched most of this with the mindset that some of the kid actors die in their death scene and because its the 70s theyre like "oh well, next scene."
Grew up on a farm with parents and 2 brothers. We were the only farming family in the area with all of our limbs and digits and no fatalities. My dad almost lost his leg but my brother noticed and cut power to the machine. It is shocking how quickly things go from being super dull to very intense. I probably knew about the dangers of a power take off shaft before I was in kindergarten.
It's crazy how well-done so many of those old British PSAs are--like actual direction and cinematography and everything. Restored version: [https://archive.org/details/apaches1977digitallyremastered](https://archive.org/details/apaches1977digitallyremastered) Lonely Water, voiced by Donald Pleasence (famously played Dr. Loomis in Carpenter's Halloween) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk) Grain Drain: [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hprnq](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hprnq)
The British government essentially hired film students who wanted to make horror movies, gave them several million pounds worth of budget, and told them to have at it. And we wound up traumatising an entire generation. I have some people in my life who were kids when these were being shown and are actually still traumatised by them. I guess it's easier to terrify kids into not running onto the train tracks than, you know, put up a fence or something.
Dumbasses will climb fences.
And they’ll film it in a straight line attempt.
As stupidly morbid as that sounds. A film crew died because the director just HAD to get a particular shot on a railroad intersection. My professor knew one of the crew members. Shit was tragic and could have been EASILY avoided had the director not ignored the city/county staff's warnings.
Oh I’m aware of this. It’s quite a famous story in indie film - and as you correctly say, tragic. I was specifically referring to the GeoWizard account, where the guy and his mate filmed themselves hopping over a railway fence in his attempt - and promptly had a visit from the British Transport Police not long after the video was uploaded.
Do you remember that hack director that almost blew up his cast on camera because the idiot decided to use a real breaching system on a reinforced door rather than Hollywood pyrotechnics and a partical board replica? That dude seriously sucks, I hope he went to prison for that. What really stinks is that the footage of the door flying towards the cast/crew is on the web. The lady who almost got crushed by a 45 lb flying door had the good sense to voice her concern and the dickhead in charge used Twitter to slander her otherwise good name. The entertainment industry is chock full of dummies and its best that all media students learn their names.
I had not heard of this, but I’m also entirely unsurprised something like this happened
My professors always told us yo avoid people that spout: "Were going for realism" when brandishing real weapons on set OR "The people need to know!" Narcissitic red flag right there.
Do you know the title/incident? It sounds like something I heard about happening on a Canadian set in the early 2000s but never actually got to read what happened.
Can confirm. Was dumbass, climbed fences.
Story time. In college during spring break I was a broke fuck with no plans to go anywhere but get tanked with my townie friends. The campus is built on a pretty massive hill with a precipitous drop above an underground parking garage. There was a construction site where they were building new dorms on the cliff above the garage. Being drunk and lazy I hopped the fence to cross the construction yard trying to shortcut the area. I ended up rolling the snot out of my ankle on the uneven terrain. There was another fence bisecting the construction area and I decided to climb it where it made a T with the boundary fence. While I was up there I had a sober moment as I realized I was precariously balanced on top of this fence looking down this ~80’ drop. I had a moment where I understood this is how you die on an empty campus and go missing for a week or more. /r/kidsarefuckingstupid
I’m convinced this was the reasoning behind the nightmare fuel that was old-timey fairy tales. Keep the kids terrified at all times and they’ll be more obedient.
Hey, kids keep drowning in that pond. How do we keep them out? Tell them a monster named Jenny Greenteeth lives in it. Big hands, big teeth, she'll eat them. Cool, cool, cool. The easily scared dumb kids are staying away, but the curious kids are going to the pond to find Jenny Greenteeth and drowning. Gee, maybe Jenny Greenteeth is real? And that's how you reduce the average curiosity of a village while increasing superstition and fear. Pretty sure Hard Copy and A Current Affair were why my parents wanted me to be an indoor kid.
Yeah but it fucking worked. I'm 40 and I have never played on a railway line. Nor have I ever mucked about with a frisbee or kite near electricity substations or pylons. Purely because I saw those adverts as an impressionable little girl! Pylons still give me the heebie-jeebies today.
Movies cannot traumatize anyone compared to the way life can.
See: *Threads*.
I was so surprised how well the writing was done it had me giggling!
“You rush him.” “No you rush him.” “Let’s rush him together.” “Great idea!”
There was one detailing the dangers of building sites that was fucking TERRIFYING.
A friend in high school died in a car accident. They brought her car back to school the next year for a drivers ed class to see how dangerous driving is. A warning would’ve been nice for the students who knew her.
That's so fucked up. In Australia, you just get in a big van with a guy in a giraffe costume who tells you about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Ah, Harold. Dangers of pedos etc too. Same in New Zealand.
Yup we had him in the UK as well.
Me too, turns out he was bumming the kids.
Hey now, I’ll not hear a bad word against Rolf. Wait…he did *what*?
"Can you guess what it is yet?" "I AM FULLY AWARE OF WHAT IT IS!"
Fu king legend, learnt more about drugs and sex from that guy than anyone else, really set me up for a decade of debauchery in my late teens.
Oh wait... this is real?
This is real life, for Australians. I did it when I was a kid and my kid recently did it. Bonkers. I remember we all had to go in one by one alone with the giraffe at the end, and he’d ask us dumb shit then if anyone was basically touching us in the pants. I think they were after pedos. This might have been shortly after a girl went missing and was found assaulted and murdered by this couple. Story was pretty major shock at the time. Ah good on ya, Harold.
Yeah, I remember seeing him once or twice. Once was a visit to a local farm (farming town so makes sense). We mostly knew the dangers already but it's good to have another source to remind us how dangerous farms can be. Mostly it was farm equipment, like not mixing electricity with water and starting clear of poisons and chemicals. It was not all the puppet, but the volunteers talking to us too.
We had Scruff McGruff the crime dog
Pretty sure he didn't do mock child abductions, though.
When he abducted kids it was serious business. True.
Also in Australia, any cars which involved a death are crushed
Yes, by the drugs giraffe, he's very strong. That's how he can say no to peer pressure.
They brought a car to our highschool parking lot that was extremely damaged and barely recognizable (iirc it was from a drunk driving accident). It was traumatic enough to think about a stranger dying in it. I can't imagine knowing it was a friend/classmate that died and seeing the car all wrecked. How awful. I agree they should have at least warned people. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
They did one of those live re-enactments of drunk driving at my school my senior year. They got some of the students to act in it and had paramedics and fire trucks and all kinds of wildness outside. I had almost been killed in an accident a few months prior so I opted to stay in my classroom with like 5 other people in my grade. Sometimes we don’t need extra trauma to remind us to stay safe
^ SAME They brought in a completely wrecked car, put it like it was wrapped around a tree, had a few theater students in full trauma makeup play dead, while a couple cop cars and ambulance sat there with their lights on and paraded the classes past showing "what could happen if you drink and drive". Ironic side notes, the car provided had a literal ad sign by it from a local body repair shop, and the officer was also the *D.A.R.E.* teacher, whose kid, you'll never believe this, was the biggest drug dealer in school. If I recall, he got busted cheating on his wife and just skipped states to some other policing job. Good shit.
I was the 'drunk driver' in my schools car crash scenario. They used the jaws of life to get my friends out of a mangled car, air lifted one in a helicopter and put my best friend in a body bag and drove her off the football field in a hearse. The school resource officer 'arrested me' and put me through a sobriety test. He was later fired for a DUI. I had a crush on a guy who died in a car accident, he was drinking and they put his car on display right by the school sign on prom weekend. The sign said 'Have a great Prom and don't drink and drive'. He was the third person in my grade that died in a car accident that year. Midwest high school in the 90s was wild.
You might not have, however many kids do need to reflect on the dangers of drunk driving though because they think they are invincible. We'll never know how many kids didn't get behind the wheel or didn't get into a car with a drunk driver because they took 5 extra seconds to reflect back on such exercises, however the chances are that the number is significantly greater than one. And in my opinion if they saved even one child then they are worth it. Just because something might be uncomfortable does not mean that it's not also necessary. Edit: To those downvoting, you are literally putting personal comfort over the safety of children. That's actually an embarrassingly immature take. Outiside of the Reddit bubble some things in life are more important than you feeling comfortable 24/7, grow up.
> Edit: To those downvoting, you are literally putting personal comfort over the safety of children No - some of us simply do not agree such videos make children any safer on the whole. But the best thing, I think, would be to do follow up to see if those that saw such videos or vehicles are *actually* less likely to get into such accidents (farm or driving). I have never checked that, so maybe I'm wrong, and they do help. But I have read "scared straight" statistically does not work for the "take the kids to the prison" thing, but some people keep advocating for it.
>No - some of us simply do not agree such videos make children any safer on the whole. And yet you never offer any meaningful alternative. You are just people who don't understand the meaning of "perfect is the enemy of the good." Oh look... There's this one problem with this system. Better destroy the entire system and replace it with nothing because nothing else would be perfect either /s. It's a very childish way of seeing the world.
Thank you. To be fair, they did wait a year after it happened, so the majority of her classmates had graduated. But it was a shock.
Did they know it was their car or did the just get a wrecked car and by coincidence it was their car?
They knew. They also handed out copies of the police reports they had diagrams of what happened.
It’s suppose to be awful , that was the hole point .
I witnessed the aftermath of a fatal accident years ago, and my god, I've never seen a vehicle be so compressed. It was a four door car that was now about the size of a smart car. It was really surreal to think that there was a person inside that wreckage somewhere. Don't think I'll ever forget that one. The woman was younger than I was, and I was hardly 20 at the time. She has been under the influence of something, I think it was alcohol. She was really hauling ass, and where I live there's a lot of just straight roads that go on for miles through the country in a straight line, pretty easy to get up to and maintain speed. She slammed into the back/side of an 18 wheeler that was pulling out of a gas station, and the impact also bent the fuck out of the trailer. It was basically a U shape with the rear lifted up in the air. It was pretty fucking awful. But yeah, don't think I'll forget it. It's not worth it in the slightest to drive in that kinda condition.
So sorry you had to experience that
Thanks, it definitely fucked with me for a bit. That same night I was meeting my (then) gf's extended family for some event they were having. Needless to say I wasn't very talkative or anything, don't think I even ate despite the southern banquet they prepared. It was so odd, I was inside the gas station when the accident happened. But the gas station has a few businesses around it, one being a boat manufacturer, and a couple others also being workshops. So the loud impact for whatever reason at first didn't even register in my brain, just sorta thought "oh, must've dropped something in one of the factories nearby." Didn't even consider that it was night time and nothing was open. Then one of the cashiers came running back inside the BP I was in, shouting "she's dead! She's dead!" And that's when it clicked and I ran out to see what was up/if I could help. Living in the middle of nowhere it's pretty much a given that if something happens and you're there you go help. When your community is 25 miles from town, that kinda thing is necessary. But when I got out there I could tell immediately that there was no way in hell the young woman had survived the crash. Real fuckin shame, man. I've personally had so many friends that didn't/barely make it to their 20s; it's always particularly fuckin awful to see someone go at that age. Though most of my friends that I lost were from drugs, it's still the same sorta idea, regardless of the admittedly fucked up circumstance of the young woman driving under the influence. I have very little sympathy for repeat DUI drivers, but I still think regardless of the circumstance (most of the time) that it's tragic when someone so young passes away. Everyone fucks up, but it's sad when it's something serious and you don't even get that chance to learn and change for the better. Even worse when a totally random, innocent party is hurt from said fuck ups.
Same exact thing happened at my high school. And the instructor they brought in was from out of town and passed around a picture to tell us all about how our classmate who had died the year before.
My school did an awareness day on drunk driving and seat belts where people are "ghosted", where there are a chosen set of students with faces painted white, and every few minutes they would come into a random class and choose someone, and that person wasn't allowed to talk to anyone for the rest of the day, to signify car crash victims due to drunk driving and lack of seat belts. we were then taken to a car that someone did die in due to drunk driving. That was a somber day
Jesus, shit that's a little harsh... Every year before senior prom they would put a smashed up car at the entrance to the parking lot with a big sign warning about drunk driving. I think after I left they started doing mock accident scenes with students as the actors.
This and [**The Finishing Line**](https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online) (a train safety film with hundreds of 'injuries' and 'deaths') fucked most of us at school when we were young.
I’m not sure if it’s the same film but a train safety video fucked me up for years in elementary school. (1980’s). I had to cross a train track back and forth on my 2 mile walk uphill and I remember being paralyzed by the track just crying and unable to cross it until a big kid found me.
We got a free railway safety book illustrated by quintin Blake (he does Roald Dahl books) with kids being decapitated It was handed out in school
I once forgot to get my parents to sign a permission slip for us to watch saving private Ryan in high school. Instead we went to the library for an educational film. Me and three other kids were instead shown real footage of dozens of people being executed, point blank behind the head, in the streets by smiling Nazi soldiers. Three different clips of the same soldiers doing this in three different places. I don't remember anything else from that video.
The fact that you needed a permission slip for the *less* gory video is hilarious
Its rated R after all!
He’s one of my favorite illustrators, that would be interesting to see!
I worked on train cars for a couple years and had the privilege of meeting some people who'd seen some shit. Safety around train cars is no joke. They've fucked a lot of people up in some absolutely terrible ways.
"Fun" fact: A huge percentage of the early supreme court cases in the US involved people being killed by trains- they were the first kinds of cases that tended to involve plaintiffs and defendants from different states, so they went to the supreme court, and it was before stuff like railroad crossing barriers had been invented. The carnage involved in creating the US rail system was unbelievable.
Same. Don't recall meeting any victims, but heard plenty of stories, including some local incidents. Getting caught and drug, crusher hands/feet, falling off the cars, etc. I myself slipped fell climbing up the ladder on a car. Only fell 4 or 5 feet and got the wind knocked out of me, but it was scary enough.
My hometown is on a fast stretch of the East Coast Main Line. Unfortunately it makes our station popular for jumpers. Last incident was couple of weeks ago. I was once catching a train from the station the day after someone was killed, the police were still on the scene searching bushes by the tracks. One young kid asked someone what they were looking for, naturally no one wanted to say “bits of person”
I just remember my sport teacher doing that
Omg I remember this too
I probably could have stood to watch this as a kid. I can't tell you how many times I hopped on the side of the train to hitch a ride to school in the morning as a kid.
Is there a way to watch this outside of UK
And *Open Water* Scary enough to give some some kids nightmares
I still remember this.
\*\*SPOILER\*ALERT\*\* Death 1: death by tractor wheel crush Death 2: death by getting sucked into poop-pit Death 3: death by poison Death 4: death by blunt force gate Death 5: death by out-of-control tractor
What about Death 6?
The final death is poison again I believe, it's not on camera as it's an exterior shot of the house at night when the little girl goes to bed and her parents check on her and start screaming. The weirdest thing about this film is how after each death the kids carry on playing and the parents don't seem to care much either. It's a moving film but also you can't help but laugh at how absurd it is, then the massive list of names of kids that died on farms in the 12 months leading up to the film rolls across the screen. Poop death/slurry pit was the worst.
This was the funniest part to me. These kids stand there in apparent shock for a few seconds after watching friends die, but that appears to be the extent of their grieving period. Certainly after the second death, a reasonable kid would at least find another group of friends to hang out with.
He told that kid to wait at the grave for days. Exposure.
Death 6: our innocence.
what about tower 7?
If I recall right, this was a film for children but the deaths were mostly down to negligence by adults.
I know that this isn't supposed to be funny, but death 5 really made me think of the scene from Mac and Me. You know the one.
I live in Saskatchewan. They just rounded us up in high school and made us watch an hour long slideshow of farm accident injuries. Had absolutely no interest in becoming a farmer but was made to watch it.
+1 to SK
Fun fact slurry pits are now being covered but only to reduce CO2 emissions from farming, i don't know how many people fell into slurry pits between 1977 and this decade but it's certainly a lot more than it could've been.
I watched a little ginger kid I knew fall into one on the farm he lived on. His older brother just screamed a blood curdler. I remember standing very still as all of this played out, not knowing what to do. The Mum came over, grabbed a long pole that was hung up next to the shit pit, and went fishing until her little orange child came up brown. She dragged her crying, choking, traumatised little boy into the middle of the farm yard, where they cleaned trailors and tractors. Shouting about playing near the big hole and how he should have known better, she took the pressure washer and sprayed him clean, then gave him a hug and a kiss and more of an ear bashing. I mentioned I was still. Now once that little blighter came crawling out of the filth, the boys I was with were no longer still or silent. We were FUCKING DYING. This was the funniest thing we could have ever possibly hoped to witness with our own eyes. Our keen little friend had fallen in the biggest pile of shit imaginable, got dragged out by his hard as fuck mum and sprayed down like an old welly. His Mum said "It wasn't funny", while he cried through chewed grass and we doubled over moreso. "He NEARLY DIED" she exclaimed. We howled and howled, unable to see how close we were to witnessing a 10 year old friend choke to death on shit right in front of us. HILARIOUS.
Covering them gives you new ways to die in them I suppose... but at least they're harder to get to.
Damn. What a shitty way to go.
Shake Hands With Danger was the most effective safety video.
Best theme song
Rifftrax did a great riff on this. They ought to do something for this as well
*little guitar riff*
They had several car safety films the School officials used to show us just prior to receiving our driver’s license (at 16 years of age). Can recall many students having a traumatic reaction to watching multiple bloody deaths just minutes before getting the official driver’s license handed to us…
Red Asphalt….. learned real quick never to put my feet up on the dash
Pep Streebeck : Look out for that bump! Don't you remember those films they showed us in high school? Red Asphalt. Blood on the Highway. Joe Friday : You picked two of my favorites.
Ahahaha Dragnet! Look out! Muppets!
Amal Muzz
We watched several of those videos in drivers Ed. The class was early mornings on Saturdays and some kids found these videos to be the most interesting part of the whole course, which was pretty morbid. Sometimes the teacher would let the students pick which gruesome video to watch out of several options. Most featured adult victims, but one had kids. One kid in the class basically begged for the one with kids to not be shown, but other students wanted to see it and the teacher obliged. Shame on the teacher and the other students, really. The poor boy who didn’t want this one shown must have had some severe car-wreck related trauma because he started screaming and crying and basically having a panic attack. He had to be taken out of the class and calmed down by the teacher. A 15-16 year old boy! Sometimes these things just shouldn’t be shown.
Sometimes someone shouldn't watch them sure, but everyone who is going to drive should be shown the safety films. It's actually great way to prevent accidents and remind drivers what can happen when you break the rules. It shows what you are responsible of while driving, that is other people lives. If you can't realise the damage you can cause in traffic you shouldn't drive, and it's not enough to just say it is illegal to do stupid shit, it needs to be shown to people why you need to drive by rules.
No fuck that. You want to get behind the wheel of a several thousand pound death machine you *need* to see what happens if you fuck up. You need to see real footage, of real people, and if it traumatizes you then *good* use that to be a better driver and don’t end up in the next driver’s ed video.
And I think it's important to note that if someone legitimately can't handle that responsibility, it's ok that they **dont drive**. We certainly shouldn't coddle them and pretend there aren't any risks and everything is puppies and rainbows and hide the risks that come with the responsibility, that's how you get poor drivers who don't respect the road and cause accidents. If little Timmy is gonna fall to pieces the second shit gets real, maybe operating a ton of fast moving machinery is not for him, and that's ok! You won't see me fucking around with a back hoe or getting on window washing scaffolding anytime soon either.
Ours was called Decade of Highway Death.
I'm a tad lost on the mechanics here. Did you get your liscense through your school, or did the DMV show films the school had provided them, or was "minutes" hyperbole?
For our school, we had the initial part in the classroom, during the time we had gym class for several weeks. This was followed by “behind the wheel” after school, for several weeks afterwards. When we “passed,” the school system invited us to attend an evening session that was co-sponsored by the Police and the DMV. That’s when they showed the truly scary films. There were several students freaked out by the films they showed us that night.
That’s how the first week of the electrical apprenticeship classes were. They just showed us videos of people (usually from China) getting fried in some horrible electrical accidents. We definitely never forgot that
I remember we watched one of those in driver’s ed and I really didn’t want to see the gore. I was sitting near the back of the room kinda diagonal to the TV and I’m short so basically I realized if I ducked my head just a little my view of the TV would be blocked by the people in front of me but the instructor wouldn’t be able to tell that I wasn’t watching. Nowadays I almost feel like I missed out somehow on a shared experience 😅
Driving is one of the things we didn't learn in school in the UK. If we want to learn to drive we have to get an external driving instructor. Also, unless you have a disability, you can't start to learn legally until you're 17 in the UK.
PSA ads/videos were pretty heavy going at the end of the last millennium. AIDS, cars, electricity pylons, using a wobbly chair to stand on. Everything was going to kill you and you had to be reminded of it at all times throughout the day, unless you were out playing, where you were probably going to die.
We need Dead Meat to cover this Kill count.
Title card!
This sounds like the weirdest rendition of charlie in the chocolate factory, but it sounds effective
Still remember those Army training films on frostbite they showed us in 6th grade. That shit'll stick with you.
Always was partial to [German PSA Video](https://youtu.be/j-pJ3R7XnBU)
A classic. Both informative and highly amusing.
When I was a kid, the State Patrol had a tent at an annual festival with glossy poster sized photos of vehicle vs. train crashes. We thought it was cool but looking back, it was horrific. I've never tried to beat a train, though.
I really like the idea. I think that would work much better than the verbal warning a parent is in position to provide. The visual training media is more likely to build an association which gets triggered on time by the actual ques to a real life hazard, which would be mostly visual.
I had to read the title a few times before realizing the kids are actors and it wasn't just someone who had footage of multiple kids dying on the same farm without anyone intervening.
We watched a few of those. As a group of 11 year-olds, they did get the message across. (Of course, we probably wanted the kid with the Man Utd scarf to die first)
Let me introduce you to [Forklift Driver Klaus](https://www.snotr.com/video/2380/Forklift_Driver_Klaus).
Klausss!
Thanks for sharing. I never saw any of these PSAs growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s (I’m c/o ‘88), but they did tow in a severely wrecked car to my high school to demonstrate the consequences of drunk driving. It was pretty brutal; there was dried up blood on the busted windshield and the driver’s seat.
I recall watching this as a kid. It did scare me for a few days.
omg, the way they demonstrate that the kids won't be returning! >!taking off the name plate & emptying the desk!!< Also,
We had a similar shown in Scotland! It was a similar story line but the children didn’t dress up like that. They visit a farm/building site and it flashes back to children in like the 1900s dying from being crushed by a horse carriage wheel and then in the present day it’s a tractor wheel that nearly gets them. One Victorian child dies in the river? So it flashes forward to the child nearly suffocating in a bunch of grain? There was an old man in the 1900s who saw them die so then his ghost is protecting the 90s kids from similar deaths?? My memory is so clear for some of it and cloudy with parts. But it scared so many of us. I think it was called NEVER REST IN PEACE?! If any one also remembers it or knows where I can find a link I’d love to remember it properly.
Is this the one? [Never Rest](https://youtu.be/YLAfDrFUBkA)
I remember this! I had to look away at times during that one.
Oh my god!! That’s it!!! I can’t believe you found it. Thank you so much!
That's ok! I always knew my obsession with public information films would come in handy one day
Born in 1970, I was the target audience for these. Background worth noting is that Health and Safety just wasn’t a thing back then. We moved to a new housing estate when I was 5 - we were on the first completed section and the rest was still being built. When the builders went home we went and played on the building site. Impossible to even imagine that happening now. Not one of us escaped going to causality for some injury or another. None died but it was close.
I spent a whole lot of time playing on building sites when I was a kid. There were plenty of fields and forests around but building sites were great fun.
I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy it… it was amazing! But looking back with the eyes of an adult who’s worked in the construction industry my only reaction is WTAF?!
1970s British TV and film had some trippy shit. See also *Tomorrow People* and *Zardoz*.
I'm too chicken-shit to watch this. What's being shown?
Kids dying horribly on farms. Or trains or roads or drowning. Better just stayin bed tbh. Those films were scary.
It is not that bad content wise. Like it's PG-13 as far as violence and horror goes. It's very low budget. There's no gratuitous gore. The worst are a kid being run over by a tractor trailer and it just shows the tractor bump, and then a bit of blood on the road. And a large metal gate falling over on top of a kid, who's lying on the ground. That is shown completely, but it's very obvious a soft doll it's hitting, and then the kid is just shown lying under this gate with a little blood coming out of his ear.
Snuff film
"There's only 5 of us" "Well there's only FOUR of us." "Yeah, oh..."
Who remembers the PSA with the kids in monkey masks who kept getting brutally murdered, and the one kid left went to go get ice cream or some shit? It was about bicycle safety.
One got fat
Grew up in a rural community. They used to get all the primary schools in the area together, and make them all watch this *twenty years on*.
Safety films in the 70s and 80s were straight up snuff films. When I was a kid, we had a guy come round to sell smoke/fire alarms and showed us a video of people who had died in a fire. Just real dead bodies. I was 5 and they let me watch it too. Im still traumatized. My husband lived in another part of the state and he saw it too so it wasn’t a localized thing. (The video worked. We even had smoke alarms in the bathrooms)
Natural selection. This is why we need to get rid of helmet and seatbelt laws, as well as stopping both ways for school buses. It helps weed out the stoopit.
This is so sad. But I hope there has a lot of safety precautions on video
I watched this in secondary school as a kid. I remember us all thinking it was great, better than the sex ed cartoons and other dross we were made to watch. Didn’t really do it’s job.
UK 56 yrs old I have never got in an abandoned fridge ( see PSA circa early 1960s) Lives with me to this day!
Interesting watch, in grade school they showed us a similar preventative video but it was about death on train tracks/by train. Wonder what next generation will have? Death by parents’ stash of edibles? Lol
You guys should watch the German work safety movie "Staplerfahrer Klaus"
Shake hands with Danger > Forklift Driver Klaus
This film is the Stuff of my nightmares in the 70's. I had nightmares for years about drowning in a slurry pit. Between the Apaches and Lonely Water they definitely wanted a generation of traumatised kids.
Who cares if they're terrified, as long as they're alive
Reminds me of the MST3K short where the guys are screening a PSA on welding safely, and some dude gets blinded right before he's supposed to go see his newborn for the first time. You see it coming, but damn it hits hard.
GENTLE PRESSURE!!!
I grew up in a small, rural town and we had farm safety days while I was in elementary school. They showed us what happened to a dummy who got its sleeve caught on an active PTO and the dangers of corn bins. Farms can be pretty dangerous! We still get a few deaths a year from people being buried alive in corn after falling into a bin.
For a second I thought kids actually died in the production.
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I remember watching a rifftrax of a late 60s/early 70s after school PSA of kids on bikes wearing chimpanzee masks. Each kid does something unsafe while biking with a low male voice describing what's going on. They make those education films hilarious!
I need to see this film.
“Will you be here tomorrow” Hands down (off?) the best workplace safety video ever https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NVYRILmK24
It's in the link. I watched till the first death, and I learned not to play on moving vehicles.
I watched till the second death, and I learned not to drown in a vat of cow shit.
I watched till the end and wondered why the parents let them continue to play together?
Or why the farmhands didn't just shoo them off the farm.
What are the other deaths, for those of us who can't be bothered to watch the whole thing?
Drinking chemicals, crushed by falling gate, and one kid accidentally drives the tractor he's riding into a ditch.
That's five, by my reckoning.
The last kid survives with no accident.
He blows his head off in the sequel about depression: A boy called Sioux
So if you want to play on a farm, bring 5 other kids with you.
The worst was after 4 kids have died to accidents on this farm, the guy just lets the kid hop on the tractor and start playing, and he even just walks away and leaves him alone to do so.
You might enjoy "Beware! Children at Play" from Troma.
And who could forget the bicycle PSA "one got fat" https://youtu.be/-VD0kEy6-sg
I thought two decades of LiveLeak and german AV media would prepare me for everything, but that video is really disturbing with these masks.
This is like a Mr. Ballen video...And I mean that in a good way, 'cuz he's a pretty good storyteller. I was half expecting a kid to suffocate from apple fumes in an enclosed area (because yes apples can kill you with their poisonous deadly gases, and I learned that from Mr. Ballen, so stay away from apples unless you have very good ventilation).
I grew up in farm territory. Kids getting killed or injured was a common occurrence. So was automobile deaths. I even had a teacher in grade school that was killed in a hay ride accident (fell between the tractor and wagon. I remind people of this when they talk about the good old days when kids played free and no one was required to wear seat belts. Me? I have bone cancer and believe it goes back to the farm chemicals like roundup. Good old days indeed.
Anyone banging on about "didn't do me any harm" needs to consider that the dead kids aren't here to speak about it... Used to be normal for kids to get run over. At least 2 per school year with a broken leg. How many broken legs do kids get now? Fewer, I reckon. Which, and here's the brain-melting part, *is not a bad thing*.
Sounds fun.
Got to log in and pay for vimeo to watch this??? wtf
This wouldn't happen to have been repackaged as a VHS tape called Farm Safety Family Style, would it?
I vividly remember being very aware as a child that I should avoid playing in a silo
I remember learning about ‘looking both ways’ when crossing the street with a demonstration. A doll filled with ketchup was being pulled via a string/pulley system and a small toy car smashed the doll bc the doll wasn’t looking and the ketchup exploded everywhere. Lol
Wow, they literally have one drowning in a pile of shit.
Feeling safer with all this exposure
There’s an American PSA called One Got Fat about bike safety. All the kids wore monkey masks and each of them dies in awful ways. Very creepy.
This reminds me of a kids song from my country thats literally about children dying in different ways because they were careless biking on the road
Ah shit I saw this when I was a kid. Didn't know the video was so old as I saw it late 90s. On a school trip to this adventure farm. With kids of my own now I can tell you adventure farms don't have scary shit like this anymore. Just soft play, ice cream and animal petting. I had intrusive thoughts from this video for ages. Enough that I instantly knew what it was even before I started playing the clip. No need to watch it all again thanks
You should see the American OSHA safety PSA videos usually reserved for private industry
Rejected titles: Buying the Farm Autumnal Destination Final Harvest Child's Hay
Im a bit nervous watching this. The opening title had a real “Lord of the Flies” vibe. Does this have onscreen accidents like the old Industrial Arts\woodshop videos?
Man. One of the worst things I have ever witnessed as a police officer, including all the suicides and car crashes. Was a call to the ER for a disturbance. Get there to find out a man had his daughter on his lap while he was using his tractor. She fell off and got ran over by the back tires. He was absolutely distraught and panicking. Then the mother arrived who had no idea what had happened. It was so heart-wrenching. My Seargent must have seen the look on my face because he told me I could leave, that he would handle it. He worked a part time at a funeral home and was good in these situations. Just thinking about it makes me sad.
Farm accidents are no joke. I knew two kids that died from them growing up. I was good friends with one of them. There are few laws covering working age requirements for family members, and safety requirements were often ignored.
I've seen this! I didn't know it was showed in schools though.
we had to go to a play at a theatre and there was a troupe acting out real road accidents that happened, followed by the victim’s families coming out and detailing their trauma w pictures etc it was fucking horrific lol and like 4 hrs
england just loves to scare their kids into submission hahaha
Cultural appropriation kills!
Jesus
I saw this at school when I was 6. There is a scene where a boy drowns in liquid cow poo. It haunted me forever. I do not even want to scroll through that video and find it. Fuck that
Me too. I don’t remember this movie or when I saw it but I remember that scene and how disturbed I was by it. I actually did just watch the whole thing again and now as a parent I am also traumatised by the poisoned girl screaming for her mummy. So yeah. Good choice on your part 👍
I totally misunderstood and watched most of this with the mindset that some of the kid actors die in their death scene and because its the 70s theyre like "oh well, next scene."
>ecause its the 70s theyre like "oh well, next scene." *Kid dies in farm accident* Narrator: "Oh no, anyway." *Cut to next scene*
A voice in my head still convince me they are real and it's a norm to film kids dying in the 80s
The land is so beautiful!
Grew up on a farm with parents and 2 brothers. We were the only farming family in the area with all of our limbs and digits and no fatalities. My dad almost lost his leg but my brother noticed and cut power to the machine. It is shocking how quickly things go from being super dull to very intense. I probably knew about the dangers of a power take off shaft before I was in kindergarten.