Green Cross Code Man
Stop, look, listen: delivered by a bodybuilder in a jumpsuit.
Public information films that terrified and instructed a generation in roughly equal measure.
Britain in this era had an entire genre of government-made short films designed to frighten children away from ponds, railway lines and farm machinery.
The Green Cross Code was the friendly end of it, later fronted by Dave Prowse, who was simultaneously inside a Darth Vader costume. Nobody thought this was strange.
Cost back then
Free, on the telly, whether you wanted it or not
Goes for now
The full archive is on the BFI player
