We British excel at this sort of thing...........on the one hand we had Jimmy Saville spluttering & dropping cigar ash all over the carriages telling us 'this is the age of the train' & then we produce this little gem as a shock tactic in an attempt to improve security/vandalism/injury/death on the system. Back in the 70's security on our rail network was virtually non-existent.......basically people could just wander on to the tracks wherever they liked, & producing a PIF to scare the crap out of kids was considered a much cheaper alternative to making proper security arrangements. Obviously since then, things have been tightened up a bit with access restricted over most of the system. But has it worked?..........of course it has! Kids now throw rocks at trains from a distance!
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The Finishing Line is a short film produced in 1977 by British Transport Films, warning about the dangers children face on railway lines. Although it is not strictly a public information film, it is often considered to be so by fans of the genre. It was broadcast in its entirety several times on television, but was so controversial that it was replaced less than two years later by the slightly less graphic Robbie. It won at least two creative awards: Certificate of Appreciation (Top Category) and Oberhausen Mention at the Festival of Youth Paris. The film was also shown in several schools by invitation. It was directed by John Krish and filmed in the vicinity of the then-closed Watton-at-Stone railway station, Hertfordshire.
The film begins with a young boy sitting on a railway bridge wall. As he ponders on his thoughts, he considers the idea of holding an Olympic Games-style sports event on the railway line. The rest of the film shows his imagined idea of what would happen, with children being split into four competitive teams to take part in different activities often carried out by young people trespassing on the railway. Three "games" are held, in which the children are challenged to break through the fence surrounding the railway line, play "chicken" with the trains and throw things at passing trains. Each time we see the tragic consequences of these activities, such as one scene where a driver's face is shredded by broken glass after a child throws a brick through the train window. The final task is for the children to run through a tunnel, but after they enter, we see a train approaching. Only four children cross the end of the tunnel, each of them injured terribly. One boy who crosses the finish line collapses as the overhead speaker announces the final results. The film finishes as a group of adults appear and go into the tunnel to carry out the bodies of the dead and injured children, which are then laid out in a long line along the railway track. The camera pans out to show all the dead and bloodied children along the track before returning to the boy sitting on the railway bridge wall, who seems to be reconsidering the idea.
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File Name .......: The Finishing Line (PIF) 1977.avi
File Size .......: 347.58 MB
Duration ........: 00:20:05
Video Codec .....: XviD MPEG-4 codec
Video Bitrate ...: 2291 KB/s
Resolution ......: 720 x 512
Aspect Ratio ....: 1.40:1
Framerate .......: 25 FPS
Audio Codec .....: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
Audio Bitrate ...: 128 KB/s (CBR)
Channels ........: 2 Ch
I don't know the source for this but the quality is excellent for something over 30 years old. Eternal thanks to the originator
Like this post to see ed2k links [347.58 MiB]Humour me & enjoy! I'm fascinated by this sort of stuff!
......and just to add, from start to finish this needs a dress-code debaser alert!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1400509/
