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Stop, Look and Listen

For over 60 years the Central Office of Information's public information films have been cajoling the British public and, more often than not, scaring them to Stop, Look and Listen. Best remembered are the Charley Says, Tufty (pictured) and the Green Cross Code safety campaigns of the 1960s and 70s, which left an indelible impression those old enough to remember them.

From crossing roads to talking to strangers, playing near overhead electricity pylons or running barefoot on beaches, the impression created was that the world was one big death trap. And if you thought you were safe indoors, think again - aggressive door-to-door salesmen, burst water pipes, faulty cabling and nuclear attack were just some of the everyday perils for which we must remain on constant alert.

Public Information Fillers

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  5. Eskimo Day (1996)

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The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)

A genuine curio: a surreal, eccentric comic drama starring 60s sensation Anthony Newley

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

UK schools, colleges, university libraries and public libraries have FREE access to video and audio material through the National Education Networks (NEN) or JANET.

USEFUL LINKS

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Second film, not second rate

'B' pictures may have been short and cheap, but they offered fine value-for-money in thrills, chills and sheer entertainment.

'B' Pictures

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New year new fun

Edit your own scenes with exclusive rushes from the 2008 film Special People in the Cutting Room.

Education Zone

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Before the circus flew

Forty years ago, Monty Python's Flying Circus transformed British TV comedy. But where did the Python wit come from?

The Roots of Monty Python

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From Then to Now

Bernard Braden's unfinished television epic, with hundreds of interviews with a cross-section of British society unseen for decades.

Now and Then (1967-68)