Scary/peculiar ads from your childhood

FinsburyParkCarrots

Are there advertisements or public information films that you remember from your childhood as being downright scary or bizarre?

This one used to run all the time, throughout the seventies. It scared the life out of me:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnPJ9BHFSiw

And this. Every time I'm on the London Underground, I expect Mr Benn's little shopkeeper to appear from nowhere and tell me my leg is about to be ripped off:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zirp59zm1qE

jamie uk

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oWC8HVDD6 ... =1&index=7

I never owned a motorbike for this reason. Jimmy Hill????? :shock:

FinsburyParkCarrots

Ah, yes, I remember that, too. Do you remember, in 1970s and early 1980s playgrounds, how kids would stroke their chins and say "Mmmm, mmmm, Jimmy Hill" when they expected you of talking "billy bullshit"?

I wish I could find a clip of "Snatch of the Day". That wasn't scary, but it was a brilliantly clever public information film. It definitely dated from the mid-seventies, and I can remember it airing right from when I was pre-school, through to about my late teens. In spite of the fashions being so dated, it was a masterpiece.

Cinnamon Girl

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

This one used to run all the time, throughout the seventies. It scared the life out of me:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnPJ9BHFSiw

WTF?? I love the way the cat talks!

chime

I was a bit too young so I got to know Charley a little later

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mUab5DDqJE0 :P

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZ ... re=related

FinsburyParkCarrots

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5hMPMrmgatk

Result! It would appear that the ad dates from 1975, and this is from someone's old video-recording of Sunday afternoon telly in 1986.


It starts at about 1:08.

jamie uk

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Ah, yes, I remember that, too. Do you remember, in 1970s and early 1980s playgrounds, how kids would stroke their chins and say "Mmmm, mmmm, Jimmy Hill" when they expected you of talking "billy bullshit"?

I wish I could find a clip of "Snatch of the Day". That wasn't scary, but it was a brilliantly clever public information film. It definitely dated from the mid-seventies, and I can remember it airing right from when I was pre-school, through to about my late teens. In spite of the fashions being so dated, it was a masterpiece.

I remember kids doing that!!
and, are you sure 'Snatch of the day' wasn't a movie you saw on a Ferguson videostar machine in 1884? :arrow:

BTW.......RIP, Tony Hart :x

jamie uk

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FUDU2cmVI

Now, this was really scary..."Jimmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..!!!!!!!"

FinsburyParkCarrots

jamie uk wrote:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FUDU2cmVI

Now, this was really scary..."Jimmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..!!!!!!!"

Even now, I hear crazed analog synth music in my head as I pass pylons and electrical installations.

Back_Pedal

Since music videos are basically ads for bands and CDs, I'll go ahead and say the video for Enter Sandman (and the lyrics) used to scare the shit out of me when I was only a few years old.

Fahka

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Are there advertisements or public information films that you remember from your childhood as being downright scary or bizarre?

This one used to run all the time, throughout the seventies. It scared the life out of me:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnPJ9BHFSiw

And this. Every time I'm on the London Underground, I expect Mr Benn's little shopkeeper to appear from nowhere and tell me my leg is about to be ripped off:

I double dog dare someone to take acid and watch that video, ... haha Charlie is wiggin!

justam

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Are there advertisements or public information films that you remember from your childhood as being downright scary or bizarre?

This one used to run all the time, throughout the seventies. It scared the life out of me:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnPJ9BHFSiw

And this. Every time I'm on the London Underground, I expect Mr Benn's little shopkeeper to appear from nowhere and tell me my leg is about to be ripped off:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zirp59zm1qE

We never had instruction videos about escalators. I kinda wish we did. I'll never forget the time my sister fell and her dress got caught in the escalator teeth at the bottom. They had to shut it off and her little dress was chewed up and covered with black grease spots. (!)

The only public info commercial I still remember was the crying Indian one where someone throws litter out on the road.

libragirl

I remember a commercial for the barnum and baily circus scaring me when I was a kid. There was a closeup on this evil looking clown. Clowns used to freak me out when i was a kid.