Wear A Helmet (Australian ad) 1984

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Federal Office Of Road Safety 'Wear A Helmet' commercial from 1984 transferred from Philips VCR cassette. This commercial features a cameo appearence of Molly Meldrum riding his bike with a bunch of young riders through a tunnel into a 1980s surrealistic 3D computer animated Sydney which they fly all over Sydney through the city, over AMP Centrepoint Tower, through the SCG, over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and exiting through the mouth of Lunar Park, and of course a real cool 80s rock soundtrack to go with the ad. Pretty expensive ad to send a simple message across but I guess it takes a commercial like this to get that message through to kids as they would then think it's cool and trendy to wear a helmet and go out and buy themselves a Stackhat. Awesome commercial!

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: July 27, 2008 at 4:25 am
Author: typicalaussiebloke

Length: 00:01:01
Rating: 5.00
Views: 732

Tags: australia ad commercial 1984 wear helmet federal office road safety molly meldrum

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uraniumdeath (November 13, 2008 at 9:05 am)
Holy shit...holy effing shit! I looked at this commercial just randomly, and this just came back to me...

Wow...I just remember the faces and the craziness...

Classic 80s
chitoryu12 (September 14, 2008 at 9:50 am)
If you fell off your bike while flying around Sydney at those speeds, I don't think a helmet would be of much help.
Dorkdufus (August 19, 2008 at 12:18 am)
jesus, look at the state of the art graphics
Shtevisacorpse (August 6, 2008 at 7:21 am)
This is the coolest ad to ever be on Australian TV. I remember this ad so well, I even had the tune in my head correct. Thankyou so much for putting this up. This is a ripper! Bring it back to TV I say!
keeleeng (July 27, 2008 at 6:39 am)
I remember this ad, your right as alot of kids then (including me) thought that you were a knob to wear a bike helmet but that was a long time ago now and I wouldnt ride without one now nor allow my daughter too, love the graphics, not bad for 1984 in Australia.