Of all the hundreds of public information films I can recall as a youngster I never remember this one.A good point made,lovely to see the late great Geoffrey Hayes,legend.Thanks for posting this Neil.
It reached epidemic proportions if I remember rightly. A bit like COVID is for us now. But it polarised public opinion: there were drivebelt injury deniers who would camp outside GP surgeries, spitting at doctors who treated the injured. There were campaigns against the government films - some thought these perpetuated a myth just so authorities could control us with an oppressive regime built on a fear of drivebelts. There was a particularly controversial episode of The Archers in 1979 that took this head on.
Those old PIF's almost always started the same way, you got the picture first, then the audio would kick in a second or two later :)) That's not a PIF I've seen before either. Interesting...
Lots of PIF's back then, and as a kid i found them either funny, odd, or scary. This one is wild, because the guy at the bar at the start asking what happened to the guy who get injured, is none other than the late Geoffrey Hayes of Rainbow.
Strange when you see actors out of their usual context, isn't it? I recently came across Geoffrey Hayes in an episode of Softly Softly and several episodes of Z Cars that some people had put on You Tube (and have since been forced to remove - probably because of copyright). I was.half expecting George, Zippy and Bungle to turn up and he!p with police enquiries, lol.
