Scoop of Ignorance

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.

Several children spend a day in the forest and learn from Smokey Bear the five rules to fire safety.

Environmental PSA by Bill Plympton.

PSA FROM THE VOID was created for a BGSU 48-Hour Film Festival.

Young Billy Martin has a vision of Soapy, a giant bar of soap, that teaches him the importance of being clean.

1980s public service announcement from the Poison Control Centre, warning children of the dangers of consuming medicine incorrectly.

Excessive speed is the number one killer on the roads: one-thrid of all road deaths are caused by it. By excessive speeding drivers risk their own lives and those of others.

Documentary about children and accidents focusing on a family who lost their son who fell down a well.

Anti-tobacco PSA by the Arizona Department of Health Services, with its campaign aimed at teenagers which ran between the mid-90s to early 2000s. This is one of their later ones, which uses the dark and disturbing imagery of a factory that produces both cigarettes and the teenagers who smoke them.

A PSA about Hate Crime. Young Izaak finds out that his father has been yet another victim of Hate Crime, while also learning what to do in this situations.

A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.

The house hippo is a fictitious species of hippopotamus, and the subject of a Canadian television public service announcement produced by Concerned Children's Advertisers

A young woman with PCOS, feeling isolated and frustrated, finds hope and resilience through a supportive women's NGO, transforming her journey from struggle to empowerment.

Psychedelic Hanna-Barbera anti-drug PSA, ca. 1970. Created by Art Babbitt - he'd developed Goofy during his time at Disney.

This short film is a translation of an original script from the USSR, written in 1936, but never produced. An over-the-top anti-smoking PSA.

Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be grown-up and successful. With her diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, she is stuck between the careless days of college and real life. When her best friend Lotte gets a respectable job and becomes pregnant, Isi realizes that she needs to find a way to start living a life on her own.

After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future.