This effort appears to be called "Think Safe", and in the grand tradition
of animated Public Information Flims, it features a badly drawn man.
The badly drawn man fights his way through the badly
drawn crowds (can you spot him?) to his badly drawn house, to the accompaniment
of some badly played music...
"When you've come home
from work and decided you're very tired, ready for bed, think safe!"
(The music gets scarier at this point...)
"Tidy up at night.
Settle the coals. Put the guard in front of the fire. Empty
the ashtrays."
(Coal fires? You're not from round these parts,
are you?)
"If clothes are airing
near a boiler, remove them. And any oil heaters should be turned
off."
(Blimey, and I was going to leave these highly flammable
clothes near the boiler, and leave the heater on all night! D'oh!)
"Take out electric plugs,
especially heaters and electric irons."
(Now, do you know anybody who leaves the iron plugged
in for any length of time, never mind overnight? Still, some
people...)
"Not forgetting the TV
set!"
(As if!)
"All these are sources
of danger, especially at night."
(The badly drawn house has now become a badly drawn fruit
machine. With a roof on it.)
"Don't gamble with lives
and property. You're bound to lose in the end."
(Whoops! Fire!)
"So when you're ready
for bed, think!"
(Well, there'll be no fire here tonight. We might
get a visit from some badly drawn burglars, but that's an entirely different
Public Information Film...)
Just in case you missed the point of the last minute
of your life, here it is again. We then zoom into the triangle symbol
with a drum roll. Presumably the triangle symbol means something
(or did in the 1970s)...
So there you have it. Now, I don't want anyone coming
back to me in the next month complaining that their house has burned down.
Okay?
