Having seen this compilation before, I know it doesn't have the Stop, Look, Listen, Live Hedgehogs advert, which truly is the most effective British advert of all time.
The first of *two* British PSAs to use “Staying Alive” to ensure we retained the information we needed to in fact Stay Alive (the other was first aid - you ever need to do chest compressions, it’s apparently a good beat to use).
I have seen this video before and, believe me, you my friend, have totally hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately people are to concerned about their own little bubble that they live in. Total respect 🙏 to you. Cheers Andy in Felixstowe Suffolk. 💯🇬🇧👍👍😇
I've been watching American people's reactions to this collection of the UK's hardest hitting public service ads, and of course, like any sane and decent human being, we're all outraged that stuff like this can still be happening in the 21st century, but I just want to give a massive shout out to all those wonderful actors who made these videos so real and powerful. They're all incredible.
The original channel also has the top 50 scariest British PSA’s starting of with “Darth Vader” doing Road safety and has dark,and lonely water voiced by Donald Pleasence and the aids monolith voiced by John Hurt within the line up.
The tree video is about first aid not constant vigilance, its about knowing what to do when theres an accident because you wont always have someone else there to do it for you. The advert is for first aid training which is a service st john ambulance provides
MND (Motor Neurons Disease) is ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease in the U.S. When the U.S. were doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, we did it as the MND Ice Bucket Challenge. Professor Stephen Hawking had MND. The PSA'S I grew up with in the late 70's and 80's were much more graphic than these and were geared at children. Kid playing at electric power station - electrocuted. Kid playing on rail line - decapitated. Kid playing near open water - drowned. The one I remember most was when I was 9 or 10 and a child drinks out of an empty lemonade bottle from garden shed. It has weed killer in it. The child Wales up during the night screaming in agony and vomiting blood. This was geared at both parents and children. The adult had recanted weed killer into a drinking bottle. The other one I remember was geared at encouraging adults to ensure that all back seat passengers wore seat belts. The tagline was after Johnny had finished killing his mother, he sat back down. The child had been thrown forward, colliding into the back of his mothers head. This killed her outright. There was background screaming on the audio and then the camera turns to the child, sitting in his child's car seat, covered in his mother's blood. This was so effective, that my parents and most of their friends refused to drive with anyone unrestrained behind them.
The child drinking rat poison from a lemonade bottle was from a notorious PSA from the late 70's called 'The Apaches,' and it was about the dangers of playing on farms (you can find loads of stuff online, including RU-vid clips of the film itself, as well as threads where people reminisce about how it mentally scarred them.) I was made to watch it all the way through when I was just *seven years old,* and yeah, that scene is burned into my memory - along with the kid slowly drowning in the slurry pit.
These all hit home when I watched them growing up and I'm so glad we have them in the uk. That seat belt one definitely stuck, lots of the drivings ones did
Hi from Northern ireland, new sub here. That was a great reaction video. These ads remain with you for life they truly are life-saving and thought provoking messages. Personally, I've never forgotten any of them. You should take a look at irish drink driving adverts too.
DUDE!! When you were young you saw adverts warning kids not to go into their parents safe and play with guns!!! Oh boy in the UK I guarantee that statement hit hard
Same here, there was a seat belt one i remember being particularly rough (might have been early 80's) some obviously had an impact though cos the first thing I did when my wife announced she was expecting our first child was book myself on a full first aid course and get my certificate!
Motor Neurone Disease is a Neurological illness which affects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord that tell your muscles what to do. I worked in end of life care and MND was the illness that frightened me the most, it literally is torture for the people affected.
I can't stand that ad. I have neuropathy, hypermobility, and chunks of my leg gone from old injuries. My sister isn't even 30 and needs a mobility scooter. That ad terrifies me.
You said it all with the first Bernardo's ad, the effect things has on kids can damage them a lifetime,and the parents dont realise or care what theyre doing.child abuse right there
This reminds me of the "Napalm Girl" photo from the Vietnam War, illustrating the devastating cost of war. When people saw just that one photo, it changed the war. Therefore, whether real or fictional, the media can change everything.
Most were on everyday tv, though some may be after watershed aka 9pm and aimed just for adults. There are so many really good psa and charity adverts that i remember so clearly from being a child til now. Some of the drive safe ones especially. The concept is awareness and awareness to incite action so even as a child we know things are important even if we are too young to do anything ourselves. My niece when she was five had her first pocket money and gave it to a charity voluntarily without prompting. We know so we do or we dont do. Adults and kids
Reacting to a different, but thanks to you tube vanished before I got there. Vanished and vanished are the same word.... No matter where we put the emphasis...it's the same word. The only thing that separates us is a huge ocean...and where we put the emphasis 😮
This is a hard watch when they are all put back to back like this. I believe Stephen Hawking had motor neurone disease, but he somehow had more longevity than is normal. Get well soon. Love from the UK
He had a very rare version of motor neuron disorder which gave him more life than was expected as he was only expected to live for 2 to 3 years when he was diagnosed.
