There are two main unsettling elements to these ads. One, of course, is the matter-of-fact way in which horrific information is being relayed. The other is that a campaign to assist the British public in surviving thermonuclear war appears to have had about 25p lavished on it.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Protect And Survive
For various reasons, many of them probably connected to the release of Fallout 3, I've been interested in retro-apocalypse stuff recently. This led me to Youtube, and to the T.V. segments of the British government's "Protect and Survive" programme, which capture the apocalyptic mood of the early 1980s.
There are two main unsettling elements to these ads. One, of course, is the matter-of-fact way in which horrific information is being relayed. The other is that a campaign to assist the British public in surviving thermonuclear war appears to have had about 25p lavished on it.
There are two main unsettling elements to these ads. One, of course, is the matter-of-fact way in which horrific information is being relayed. The other is that a campaign to assist the British public in surviving thermonuclear war appears to have had about 25p lavished on it.
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wow.
i mean.. wow.
Indeed - makes an economic downturn seem quite cheerful, doesn't it?
A nice scrap of information from the "Protect and Survive" page on wiki is that for "Two Tribes", Frankie Goes To Hollywood hired the actor who did the voiceovers for these ads to say "Mine is the last voice you will ever hear. Don't be alarmed."
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