Back in the 1960s, before the touchy-feely, child-centred Green Cross Code was thought of, we had the kerb drill:
"At the kerb, halt! Look right, look left, look right again. If all clear, quick march!"Now, with the poster above, the Liberal Democrats are trying to revive it. Could there be a grown up in charge of our campaign after all?
You can see the drill in action in this first Ministry of Information film:
And see an adult being taught it by a squeaky-voiced Forties child in the second.
2 comments:
Who is that actor in the second clip? He appeared in so many government propaganda films after the war, including, if I remember the "coughs and sneezes spread diseases" one memorably mocked by Tony Hancock.
The kids of that age wouldn't be allowed to be out on their own these days :-(
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