AMERICAN REACTS To British Public Information Films
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this video, I react to British public information films. These are probably the most effective PSAs I have ever watched. From intense public safety films to amusing adverts, these vintage British public information films from the 70s, 80s, and 90s did an absolutely imperial job of getting their point across. How did you feel about these films?
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We were showed these at school in the 90s..Need some of these now, i know 2 people who have drowned in reservoirs and a young lad who broke his back jumping off a bridge into a river and hit a shopping trolley under the water.
Not gonna lie the kid getting zapped on the Electric sub station freaked me the f*ck out, I would not go near those things if you paid me (I suspect electrical vocations dipped in my generation LMAO)
About ten years ago two people in Ipswich won nominations for the Darwin Award when they tried breaking into one to steal copper wire. They were both cooked alive.
Grain Silo, you must have blinked when they showed him dropping the back of the transport lorry/truck..
yep back then sooo many farmers children grandchildren passed or suffered major injuries due to this .....and he i think he missed the point or dont know how grain is dumped the resemblance to quick sand was just sinking and disappearing into it and the reminder to farmers to put a grid over it to prevent people falling into it lol ....quicksand isnt poured into a shaft like grain and farmers children and grandchildren got hurt and worse on farms due to this as i said and in many other horrific ways :(
I caught on once “Grain Silo” was mentioned. Yet again I honestly didn’t have much of an idea of what it actually was. I just assumed it was quicksand off the bat which I should’ve clarified.
Growing up the 70's and 80's I saw these ads everywhere Very effective, and in some cases absolutely terrifying warnings for kids. To see you picking fault in them is mind boggling, they saved lives. So what if quicksand doesn't move that fast in real life, grain silos can be fucking deadly for the unaware. Kids have died from this.
“Picking Fault”? Simply saying that quick sand does not move that fast isn’t denying the theory of this film. Im just simply implying that I have never seen quick sand move that fast so it felt exaggerated. But I understand the message they’re trying to get across, if it’s exaggerated a little bit it’ll cause people to be more aware and afraid of getting themselves into a situation like that.
@@StracReactsThey are not showing quicksand though they are showing how dangerous a grain silo is and describing the sinking action as being similar to quicksand as many people have some understanding of how quicksand works.
If only it was a £400 fine for the TV licence, I believe it's now £1000
Lets see him laugh at the spirit of dark and lonely waters or apaches
I’ll have to check that out🤝😳😳
i love the way you immediately gave us Brits a burn! 'Y'all about to get up and do a graft at work...I'm about to get in bed' 😂
the green cross code was taught for years and still engrained in mind, the electricity substation was very poweful and scared you to not do it and worked. there was also a cinema only version made and it was much more graphic as showed a huge flash and him being thrown throgh air and laying dead on the ground, then next scene shows his friend doing a piercing scream (now imagine that being played on cinema speakers.)
All these adverts are designed to prevent accidents which could seriously injure or kill , most were designed to educate people into doing the sensible thing
The most scary public information films were the Dark and lonely water's voiced by Donald pleasance, the other one is called Apache about safety on a farm
The advert at 13:38 about Motorway/Highway road works should be but on the Tv now. The amount of idiots on the roads these days.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
These ones are very tame to some of the PSA's that were shown
Show the electrical ad to your tutor. Ask their opinion. Knowledge is power (no pun intended), and kids sometimes need to be shocked (again no pun) into not getting into dangerous situations.
I think you were supposed to react to Most Effective British Adverts from the channel Helloimapizza...
Now those are truly shocking.
I will definitely check that video out👀😳🤝
@@StracReacts wouldn't record that one just before bed 😂
That wasn't quicksand. It was grain in a silo.
I realized that after the comment I made. I should’ve clarified my statement in the video because quick sand and grain look completely different. I just assumed off the bat that it was quicksand🤝💯
The jump and your expression when you get the unexpected.😂
I've never seen the swimming advert before!
19:55 it was also about the green cross code, you look left, look right then left before crossing, not just 2 ways.
A license gets "revoked", "provoked" doesn't mean what you think - _stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone_
I appreciate you a lot for respectfully clarifying this for me🤝💯
I didn't expect francis the firefly in this. I had the book of it when I was little, didn't know they made a film version.
I think you might like the Coast Guard films with "Petunia" ...😁
I laugh because if I don't I would cry
It wasn't quicksand. You didn't go back to the beginning of the Advert. It said at the very start that it was a grain store. Where farmers stored the grain once harvested. It was a warning for people who lived in rural areas where children would play around farm and warehouses.
Those public information films are nothing compared to some of the stuff they used to show, some were proper horror shows designed to scare you to bits. Spirit of dark and lonely waters instantly springs to mind. Kids playing on a farm was another. Kids getting run over by drunk drivers, kids getting abducted and stuff. All on prime time TV.
Watch some of the DOE Irish road safety adverts if you want some shocking PSA's. There is one called Mess which often provokes a strong reaction.
One frequently reacted to is called Playground but try to locate the original version of this as there is a modified version going around with cartoon sound effects added which detract from the message.
agree about newspapers it was a common thing to do, you leave it for others
That was wheat not sand
I caught onto that once I heard “Grain Silo” I should’ve clarified my explanation because I assumed that it was quicksand.
Focus on the message, not the advert details
Don’t worry, I am catching both at the same time, I pay attention to everything naturally so nobody judges me for missing anything 🤣🤦🏽♂️
My childhood🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
7:27 your over analysing things using adult brain. these were designed to scare children so certain terminology was used for their minds.
I can't 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Definitely NOT you! You are a credit to your parents! ❤🇬🇧
These adverts are not made to be laughed at
Definitely true, but some of the adverts do have some humor to them as well. I show emotion to both the humorous and tragic parts🙏🏾💯
Way to focus on the simile not the PSA message.
I pay attention to everything, not just when I’m reacting, but in everyday life as well. I understood both the message and details throughout this video.
This guy looks like he's had fun with ancestors quicksand is fast as you move so how do you fight it the quicker you drowned
my friend you are trying to over analyser the adverts /// plus these adverts were made before you where born
I pay attention to everything, not just when I’m reacting, but in everyday life as well. I understood both the message and details throughout this video
UK nightshifter
These were fine for the day and did their job - today's woke world is stupid - it was right and served a good purpose - thrse films need hard scares. Grew up with that and still believe in that - today's crowd makes me laugh
I doubt these wonderful warning films would be allowed today in the snowflake society.
Your taking these too likely. Its not funny stop mocking and laughing
Lightly I think you mean
Get a life Karen.
nah looking back these adverts are quite funny, not the content but the directing/how they are shot are quite silly, scared the Eff out of me when I was a kid though
Mocking?? And Laughing?? Some of these Adverts have humor and tragic scenes, I show emotion to both. If you knew me you would know how respectful I am so I don’t appreciate you accusing me of mocking this film
Quicksand-that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water-can be a mucky nuisance, but it’s basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies. That’s because quicksand is denser than the human body. People and animals can get stuck in it, but they don’t get sucked down to the bottom-they float on the surface. Our legs are pretty dense, so they may sink, but the torso contains the lungs, and thus is buoyant enough to stay out of trouble.
If you do find yourself stuck in quicksand, the best idea is to lean back so that the weight of your body is distributed over a wider area. Moving won’t cause you to sink. In fact, slow back-and-forth movements can actually let water into the cavity around a trapped limb, loosening the quicksand’s hold. Getting out will take a while, though. Physicists have calculated that the force required to extract your foot from quicksand at a rate of one centimeter per second is roughly equal to the force needed to lift a medium-sized car. One genuine danger is that a person who is immobilized in quicksand could be engulfed and drowned by an incoming tide-quicksands often occur in tidal areas-but even these types of accidents are very rare.