Post by Automaton on Apr 24, 2024 20:59:42 GMT
A post from 2020 on the Unidentified Weird TV blog describes a British PIF (Public Information Film) about escalator safety. The initial recollection comes from the Weird British TV Memories Facebook group:
This is considerably different to the more well-known escalator PIF produced by the COI in the 1970s, which illustrated the same danger using wellington boots:
The escalator PIF with the doll, however, has never surfaced despite a fairly large number of comments online from people who remember it. Here's some examples:
www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/11tmcrw/comment/jcjqpnz/
www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1791731-To-have-stepped-in-during-unfolding-escalator-disaster
gormano.blogspot.com/2007/07/pylon.html
www.mumsnet.com/talk/in_the_news/223242-croc-shocker
forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/carnage-on-the-escalators.1126/
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690150.stm
eternally28.blogspot.com/2012/02/escalators-or-as-i-prefer-to-call-them.html
There's a few other mentions out there but they all pretty much recall the same details.
It's possible that it's out there in an advert break/continuity video but the chances of a PIF like this appearing without at least somebody taking notice are fairly slim. It's also unknown whether this was a sister PIF to the one with the wellington boot or part of a later or earlier campaign.
Unfortunately there's not much other information available, but it certainly existed based on how many people remember it.
The PIF featured a little girl on an escalator, holding a rag doll. She dropped the doll and tried to pick it up, but the doll was hideously mangled and scalped underneath the bottom step, and the PIF ended with a shot of a man standing holding the doll’s hair.
It doesn’t seem to have run for as long as the ‘welly-boot’ PIF did, and the escalator might have been one of the old wooden escalators that were banned after the Kings’ Cross fire.
It doesn’t seem to have run for as long as the ‘welly-boot’ PIF did, and the escalator might have been one of the old wooden escalators that were banned after the Kings’ Cross fire.
The escalator PIF with the doll, however, has never surfaced despite a fairly large number of comments online from people who remember it. Here's some examples:
www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/11tmcrw/comment/jcjqpnz/
www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1791731-To-have-stepped-in-during-unfolding-escalator-disaster
gormano.blogspot.com/2007/07/pylon.html
www.mumsnet.com/talk/in_the_news/223242-croc-shocker
forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/carnage-on-the-escalators.1126/
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690150.stm
eternally28.blogspot.com/2012/02/escalators-or-as-i-prefer-to-call-them.html
There's a few other mentions out there but they all pretty much recall the same details.
It's possible that it's out there in an advert break/continuity video but the chances of a PIF like this appearing without at least somebody taking notice are fairly slim. It's also unknown whether this was a sister PIF to the one with the wellington boot or part of a later or earlier campaign.
Unfortunately there's not much other information available, but it certainly existed based on how many people remember it.
