I love Public Information Films
As I've quacked on in a reply a bit further down, old Public Information Films are wonderful. You can learn more about what life was like in a previous decade from one good PIF than from any amount of Kate Thornton pretending to remember Spangles and Peter Kay recalling how he'd play in the street with his swingball/spacehopper/pogo-stick before it bashed into a neighbour's wall and he'd come out and he'd go "HEY-EY-EY-EY!"

My favourite PIF was the one that showed some children playing hide and seek in a field. One child finds a brilliant hiding place; An abandoned fridge! He climbs in and closes the door. Alas it's the sort of fridge with a handle which locks the door from the outside. Click! One child, sealed in a fridge, never to be found (presumably until someone comes to clear the fridge away, takes a look inside and discovers the second-worst thing you could find in a fridge, after CheeseStrings).

What I loved about this PIF was how incredibly specific it was. "If your child goes out playing, AND he finds a fridge that someone's dumped in a field, AND that fridge has one of those automatic locks on the outside, AND your child decides to climb inside, AND he closes the door, AND the door locks itself, then he'll die". In theory they should've made hundreds of these adverts, covering every possible hazard that could befall your child outside. "Come on Billy, let's play on this old tractor!" "Hang on a minute, I'm still hand-cuffed to this lamp-post from our game of Cops and Robbers!" "Never mind that, you can pretend to be the farmer's dog. Here, tie this rope round your neck and pretend it's the lead" "OK! But make sure you tie the other end to the back of the tractor so I can pretend to run along behind it! And throw me the key so I can undo these handcuffs!" "Err, we can't find the key. Oh, look! There's one in the tractor, just under the steering wheel! I'll just twist it to get it out. Oh. That seems to have started the engine, and we're now driving away. Billy, you should probably untie that rope around your neck. Billy?"
(costas, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:08, 5 replies)

click
for second worst thing after Cheesestrings
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 15:17, closed)

Strangely enough
When my Dad was in the police he was called to the search for a missing child. Turns out, the child had been playing with one such fridge that was in his parents garage or something and had tragically suffocated. This would have been going back to the seventies, perhaps there was a spate of such accidents?
(hagis_uk, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 22:55, closed)

I'm going out on a limb here,
but did your dad also know someone who died rocking back on their chair?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 23:51, closed)

Or from polishing a floor and putting a rug on it?
(Because they might as well set a man-trap)
(costas, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 0:29, closed)

If you haven't already got it
get the DVD Charly says, it's fantastic.

You may also enjoy Apaches
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh60KeLmJqY

wonderfully gruesome 'kids playing on a farm' film, from the director of The Long Good Friday
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 8:10, closed)