Contraband Kills (British Coal Video)
Don't bring cigarettes underground, warns this entertaining coal industry video.
Work in a colliery? Fancy your chances bringing some sneaky ciggies and matches underground? Think again, sunshine. This video will show you just how dangerous it is to bring such contraband items - even electric watches - into such a hazardous environment. It does this via a wholly entertaining mix of awkward but sincere addresses to camera, with 'trendy vicar' tricks and all that video could offer.
The super-fast edits and sound manipulation galore suggest filmmakers getting used to the video console like kids in a sweetshop. They make an important communication decision, though, by having a union rep stress how closely aligned union and management are on this issue - a weighty claim given their confrontations, on a national scale, earlier in the decade.
Taking `contraband', such as alcohol or cigarettes, underground is illegal and
dangerous. Intended for visitors and workers underground.
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Health & Safety at Work
Work can be a matter of life and death. Explore how video helped spread the gospel of ‘Elf’n’Safety’ and improved Britain’s workplaces
As employers and government grew gradually but increasingly conscious of responsibilities towards the wellbeing of staff at work, so grew the role of film in the workplace. The moving image, with its emotional power and its ability to stick in the memory (especially when resorting to graphic imagery), was well placed to help get key health and safety messaging across both to employees, exhorted to follow safe practices, and to employers and managers encouraged to make conditions as safe as possible (or at least, as safe as the law requires of them).
And when things go wrong, the filmmaker may be there to help pick up the pieces, documenting or dramatising the consequences. In the era of videotape cameras and videotape viewing, late in the 20th century, the role of film in ‘Elf’n’Safety’ only grew bigger. This collection explores how it did it
16 videos in this collection
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Disability Discrimination Act: Act Now
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Handle with Care
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First Aid in the Laboratory: Chemical Spillages
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Make Health Your Business
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Health and Safety at Work for Enfield
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Safety's No Accident
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Illegal Manriding
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The Self Rescuer
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Contraband Kills
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Fighting the Odds
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Fire Service Demonstrate House Fire
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: Caring Occupations
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: Equestrian Work
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: In a Garage
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