Scary public information film

[1mrcabbage]

Anyone else remember a film (at least 30 mins) from the 70s about 7 (or so) kids spending summer holidays in the countryside and one by one dying through various tomfoolery (playing on tractors, falling in slurry pit, drinking rat poisin, etc). Scared the hell out of me! Was it really that bad and why on earth did they broadcast it?

[speckledegg]

Yes, I do. They were horrific. (I was about 6 at the time). But then I also found Tufty the squirrel and his weasel friend pretty scary aswell. You can relive some of those disturbing memories here: http://www.625.uk.com/pifs/index.htm

[speckledegg]

It wasn't one long film, though. It was a series of short public information films dealing with the dangers on farms, no more than a couple of minutes each. As far as I remember, sometimes they were shown individually and sometimes altogether.

[ravenhair]

There were loads of these horrific public information things in the 1970s and they all scared me to death. I literally could not sleep for several nights after Tufty got run over through crossing the road carelessly. The one I remember concerened this really horrible family (they all looked terribly grubby) whose house got flooded because their pipes burst. Naturally they hadn't lagged them properly and the thing ended with the family standing in a line looking grubby, contrite and sorrowful as their home was practically washed away. Brilliant. And wasn't there an absolutely terrifying one about the dangers of playing near a river, all misty and with the Grim Reaper skulking about? Very scary times indeed.