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sully7:
I love it nice hair
dashwood_one:
A great photograph, but to someone of my generation, it holds memories of something very sinister indeed. Here, in the UK, the Government used to have a department called the COI, or Central Office of Information. They used to make very short films called 'Public Information Films', which could be about anything, but were generally to warn people of dangers they might encounter every day. Occasionally, they were humourous, but more often than not, they were bloody terrifying. Graphic displays of car accidents, electrocutions, falls, burns, etc. The most frightening of all, and which gave a lot of children nightmares, me included, was one known as 'The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water'. Oh yes. It was designed to stop children drowning in ponds and flooded pits. It showed a hooded and faceless figure, a bit like the Grim Reaper, lurking by a flooded gravel pit, talking about the children playing there drowning. It was voiced, eerily, and sinisterly, by the actor Donald Pleasance. It worked. Thousands of terrified kids kept away from swimming in ponds.
