{"id":1077,"date":"2005-10-27T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/10\/27\/film-treats\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T15:01:00","slug":"film-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/film-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Film treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 60th birthday of the Central Office of Information (COI), The National Archives in the U.K. have released a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/films\/\">60 old public information films<\/a>. These short pieces, covering subject such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/films\/1945to51\/filmpage_cas.htm\">how to sneeze in a hankie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/films\/1945to51\/filmpage_wal.htm\">how to deal with post-war austerity<\/a>, were once broadcast in cinemas across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think they should start airing the one about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/films\/1945to51\/filmpage_pc.htm\">learning how to cross the street<\/a> to movie and television audiences in Montreal. (That&rsquo;s good for BOTH pedestrians and drivers. Ever heard of crosswalks, people?)<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/films\/1945to51\/filmindex.htm\">watch them<\/a>. They&rsquo;re hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4371232.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 60th birthday of the Central Office of Information (COI), The National Archives in the U.K. have released a series of 60 old public information films. These short pieces, covering subject such as how to sneeze in a hankie and how to deal with post-war austerity, were once broadcast in cinemas across the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/film-treats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Film treats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}