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I grew up in rural England in the 70s. Scarfolk is basically a documentary. I remember posters in our tiny local post office warning locals about rabid animals,

I grew up in rural England in the 70s. Scarfolk is basically a documentary. I remember posters in our tiny local post office warning locals about rabid animals, and farmers about the Colorado beetle. My favourite touch is the blue tint to the posters. Sunlight will bleach inks, but blue ink was more resilient, so posters left on sunlit walls would take on a bluish tinge.

rsynnott 4y ago
When was this sort of terror-based public information messaging abandoned, anyway? I grew up in late 80s/early 90s Ireland, and there was still some of it around (I’ll never trust a chip-pan, which I suppose was the point), but it seems to be almost entirely gone now. I’m kind of curious if people who grew up either before or after the period when it was common _get_ Scarfolk.
- taylorius 4y ago
  There was a definite change in the wind in the 80s. Oddly I remember feeling that the newer, pastel coloured 80s offerings were a bit weak. I'd grown to quite like being terrified. Around 1979 our teachers showed us a public safety film, called 'Apaches'. I was about 8 years old, at primary school. It was a film chronicling the gruesome deaths of a group of children who were playing on a farm. It genuinely traumatised me well into my teenage years, it was really bad, and showing it to kids would be unthinkable today. Anyone else remember it? :-)
  - Symbiote 4y ago
    I think I'm a bit too young to have seen this, and I'm not sure I want to. "Central Office of Information" sounds like a parody itself. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1402624/ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1402624/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_J6_O4bn0s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_J6_O4bn0s
euroderf 4y ago
It seems like blue outlasts red in ANY ink on ANY printed material left in the sun, even thru window glass. But I've never seen this phenom explained.

rsynnott 4y ago

When was this sort of terror-based public information messaging abandoned, anyway? I grew up in late 80s/early 90s Ireland, and there was still some of it around (I’ll never trust a chip-pan, which I suppose was the point), but it seems to be almost entirely gone now. I’m kind of curious if people who grew up either before or after the period when it was common _get_ Scarfolk.

taylorius 4y ago
There was a definite change in the wind in the 80s. Oddly I remember feeling that the newer, pastel coloured 80s offerings were a bit weak. I'd grown to quite like being terrified. Around 1979 our teachers showed us a public safety film, called 'Apaches'. I was about 8 years old, at primary school. It was a film chronicling the gruesome deaths of a group of children who were playing on a farm. It genuinely traumatised me well into my teenage years, it was really bad, and showing it to kids would be unthinkable today. Anyone else remember it? :-)
- Symbiote 4y ago
  I think I'm a bit too young to have seen this, and I'm not sure I want to. "Central Office of Information" sounds like a parody itself. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1402624/ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1402624/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_J6_O4bn0s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1_J6_O4bn0s

euroderf 4y ago

It seems like blue outlasts red in ANY ink on ANY printed material left in the sun, even thru window glass. But I've never seen this phenom explained.