After Dark

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny.

This short film looks at the importance of maintaining safe driving practices and heeding traffic rules. A traffic cop investigates a serious car crash and attempts to understand the cause.

Do you know a child who needs help with manners? Here’s a fun approach to learning and using manners every day!

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

The impact of lingering trauma on an ex-serviceman, triggered by sounds of everyday life.

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

Henry demonstrates his two-wheel tomfoolery, but there's no happy ending for this bike.

Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.

An explicit anti-rape film.

It's a slice of life of a couple in love as on their first day shopping. She fills her cart and deals with the rambunctious kids while he recounts his day. Back in the parking lot, happiness collapses.

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man goes head to head with his greedy landlady.

As part of a wider anti-litter message, this film addresses the problems of rubbish left on beaches.

Gates of Heaven explores the unnerving intersection between society’s addictive relationship with their devices, delivered with a satirical comedic twist.

A mysterious stranger foreshadows Death, but is good enough to give a handy driving safety tip along the way.

Joey is a withdrawn little boy who prefers to be by himself than go out and make friends. His mother, deciding that it's not healthy for him to by alone so much, sets out to teach Joey how to make friends with people.

A motorcycle safety film

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow motion; an industrial drill bores into a huge block of rock; the word 'AIDS' is chiselled into the polished surface of a granite headstone and a "Don't Die of Ignorance" leaflet drops onto the surface along with an elegiac bouquet of white lilies. The solemnity of the accompanying voice-over quells any vestiges of ambiguity.

With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept production design brought public information filmmaking into the realm of state-of-the-art corporate advertising. The film was the result of a £5 million cinema and television campaign aimed at combating the growing spread of HIV and AIDS. With restrictions around the overt promotion of condom use on television and a growing chorus of moral campaigners promulgating their own agenda, the straightforward and doom-laded approach was probably the only viable option for campaign mastermind Sammy Harari. But the result was a hard-hitting and memorable campaign which undoubtedly fulfilled its brief of pervading public consciousness. There are two versions; the one shown in cinemas did not feature John Hurt's famous voiceover.

A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children.