To some extent, these public information films we’ve been looking at were works of art. Small wonder then that the occasional one would draw on actual works of art for inspiration*.
To warn mothers (only mothers pushed prams in the 70s) about the risks inherent in overbalancing prams, this public information film uses Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to fill its viewers with horrors. I’m not entirely sure it works, but it’s a nice try.
* Yes, I’m aware that was probably the clunkiest intro to any article ever. Sue me
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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