I watched this in my Primary School days and it did have quite an impact I remember and I watched it again recently and its amazing the things that impact you as a kid but then you're older and wiser.
I thought this was great for sending to the message to its target audience: Children.
It illustrates a lot of dangers on the railways and of how dangerous it is to cross train tracks also of the stupidity of those who cut holes in railway fences which are there for safety.
Robbie would be one such victim he lost his judgement on a virtual 'chicken dare' to cross the train tracks but he wound up paying a heavy price and the incident left his siblings and I doubt the narrators description of a 'nasty fright' covers it fully.
We see a scarred Robbie in the end in a wheelchair though I was surprised there was no prosthetics or anything even with prosthetics Robbie would not have been able to play football again either way but the whole film was designed simply to send a message in what the makers considered the most effective way for its target audience.
So this is a pretty decent Public Information Film
I thought this was great for sending to the message to its target audience: Children.
It illustrates a lot of dangers on the railways and of how dangerous it is to cross train tracks also of the stupidity of those who cut holes in railway fences which are there for safety.
Robbie would be one such victim he lost his judgement on a virtual 'chicken dare' to cross the train tracks but he wound up paying a heavy price and the incident left his siblings and I doubt the narrators description of a 'nasty fright' covers it fully.
We see a scarred Robbie in the end in a wheelchair though I was surprised there was no prosthetics or anything even with prosthetics Robbie would not have been able to play football again either way but the whole film was designed simply to send a message in what the makers considered the most effective way for its target audience.
So this is a pretty decent Public Information Film