Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Accident Report no. 374

One of the most chilling PIFs I've seen recently, not because of what's in it, but because of what it leaves out. Specifically, everything but the accident itself. No slogan - no instructions of any kind, in fact. Just a faintly bored-sounding voiceover dispassionately describing the bare facts of what happened and how (in fact, only POSSIBLY how), presumably so he can file it away in a cabinet in a cavernous insurance office. No onscreen text. And then, once the guy's finished his report, it just stops. No slogan. No spoken endline, even. Just freeze-frame on Painty McSlippencrash's concussed face. No logo for the Department of Not Falling off Ladders, as you have to have these days. In fact, nothing to suggest a point of origin - as if it was created out of thin air for our own good. It's the concept of the PIF, stripped down to its bare skeletal structure, with absolutely nothing added (except maybe a couple of artsy Hitchcockian touches with the paint). It's almost punk.

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Entertainment

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• Advert
• Commercial
• Ad
• PIF
• public
• information
• film
• PSA
• ladders
• safety
• first
• painting
• decorating
• falling
• broken
• bones

[Applemask]

Just noticed, at 0.12 he's giving the wall the bird.

[JohnnyBeatdown]

I well dont trust that cat. He knows something

[Applemask]

It was probably him that knocked it down.

[LoafOfPint]

Reminds me of this cartoon where they showed a man getting eaten by a tiger, then a motorway and an ambulance siren, and the voice-over said something about "it'll not only be YOUR neck", then it just cut off IMMEDIATELY. No slogan. As a result, I can't remember what the precise message was.

[Applemask]

Don't drive really fast in the fog or the dark.

Quite a well known one that. Voice of Lord Patrick Troughton, who actually managed to sell the premise. It's on the Tube, or it should be, as well as Charley I.

PIFs used to do that all the time.

[CapnKirkus]

Love the ending. Talk about stating the obvious. Any short TV spot that can traumatise someone or scare kids shitless is bound to be a PIF. That or an advert for a new series of the Teletubbies

[LeeJTurnock]

The cat walked away thinking "Fine, you go ahead and lie on the bloody floor all day, don't mind me, I'll just sit here and starve. God, human beings are such BASTARDS."

[moksheebs]

@welshfilmbuff John Flips Out the Wall - Coming Soon

Epic LOL

[moksheebs]

@LoafOfPint wasn't a tiger, I saw it and the box the beast is in writes 'Alligator'.

[singinglawnchair]

That cat was like "Shit, I'm getting the fuck out of here!"

[welshfilmbuff]

"That was a public information film."

Really? I thought it was the latest Spielberg blockbuster!"

[agfagaevart]

Ain't seen this in a while. "That was a public information film." Usually between the weather, the PIF and the national anthem. God bless her!! L.O.L.

[Eldritchard]

I love it when he lifts his head, and then it thuds down on the floor. Ive done that so many times waking up after partys, usualy everythings blurry like that too. I think the wife sawed the ladders so thy would break, she looked disappointed he wasnt dead