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unusual facts about Public information film


Bomgay

In order to shoot footage of a gay sex scene, the crew pretended that they were making a public service film on ragging.


British Transport Films

BTF also produced the controversial The Finishing Line (1976) and Robbie (1979), which warned children against trespassing on railway lines and are often thought of as Public Information Films.

Charley Says

Charley Says was a series of very short cut-out animated cartoon public information films for children, produced by the British government's Central Office of Information and broadcast in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mary Jo Randle

Randle has also been seen in Holby City, Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, The Royal, Casualty, Doctors, Heartbeat, Inspector Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bad Behaviour, Wire in the Blood and a public information film on smoke alarms.

Neville Smith

In 1977 he wrote the screenplay to Apaches, a short documentary by John Mackenzie, about children playing on farms, which is a notorious public information film.

Richard Massingham

Richard Massingham (31 January 1898, Sleaford, Lincolnshire – 1 April 1953, Biddenden, Kent) was a British actor who is principally noted for starring in public information films made in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Watch Your Own Heart Attack

Watch Your Own Heart Attack is a two-minute public information film advertisement produced by the British Heart Foundation, starring Steven Berkoff, which illustrates how it feels to have a heart attack.

Watton-at-Stone railway station

In 1977, track in the vicinity of the then closed station was used by British Transport Films as a set to film the notorious public information film The Finishing Line.

Your Very Good Health

Your Very Good Health is a 1948 British animated public information film about the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS).


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