Films
Some of the films in the series included:
- Maximillian, in which a young man who was paralysed in a car crash as a result of not wearing a seatbelt advises the audience to "Clunk Click Every Trip"
- Shopping, with Jimmy explaining that, contrary to popular belief, most road accidents occur on short trips and often on roads with which the driver is familiar, such as women going shopping for groceries or collecting children from school
- Accidents At Speed, showing what can happen to an unbelted person in the front of a car in a crash at 30mph or faster
- Lucky Escape, where a young couple explain how seatbelt use saved their lives in an accident that completely crushed their car
- Myrtle, showing a woman who was blinded in a car accident because she wasn't belted in
- Loose Objects, in which Jimmy demonstrates, using an egg in two different boxes, how a seatbelt will protect you in the event of an accident
- Carol, featuring a teenage girl mutilated in a crash after being thrown through the windscreen
The last Public Information Film to use the slogan was Elephant, produced in 1993.
There was also an actual TV show called "Clunk Click" hosted by Jimmy Savile and produced by Roger Ordish. A woman later claimed she was sexually abused after being a guest on the show when she was 14.
Read more about this topic: Clunk Click Every Trip
Famous quotes containing the word films:
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
—Andy Warhol (c. 1928–1987)
“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)