A priceless record of British society in the 1960s and 70s, Charley Says is two-and-a-half hours of public information films produced by London's Central Office of Information between 1959 and 1983.

Return to the halcyon days of Britain’s best loved cinema public information films – sometimes surreal, sometimes hilarious and often terrifying! This unrivalled DVD includes over 200 little gems from a bygone Britain.

Topics, though numerous, are dominated by an obsession with safely crossing the road. Mid-1970s celebs such as Shaw Taylor, Alvin Stardust, Kevin Keegan, Mud, The cast of Dad's Army and,...er, ... Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville try to coerce us into learning to swim, wearing then-optional seat belts or propound the still-incomprehensible "Splink" theory of road awareness.

Dave Prowse looks uneasy as the Green Cross Code superhero months before he found immortality as Darth Vader and Edward Judd briefly achieves cult status with "ThinkBike".

Animation is also well represented, with the engaging psycho-babble of Charley the cat and the witty repartee of Jo and Petunia to guide us through the dangers of everyday living, while Tufty and Mrs Fluffytale look concerned as Willie the Weasel gets hit by every car in town.

"Lonely Water", however, is a real spine-chiller, and the TV licence-detector man assumes a menace worthy of Quatermass. By the early 1980s, recourse to passing fads such as Space Invaders and break-dancing confirm that the era of paternalistic TV was almost over.

Public Information Films sought to educate the public through entertainment, and while some messages may have become outdated, their entertainment value lives on, as this collection amply demonstrates.

Presented here are over 200 hundred of the most memorable examples, serving as a reminder that the past could often be a very dangerous place to live…

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