BFI at Home Presents: The Central Office of Information at 75

Would you go with a stranger to look at puppies? Play on farmland equipment? Smoke?

If the idea fills you with a strange sense of foreboding, you may have been influenced by the iconic and occasionally eccentric work of the Central Office of Information, whose public safety campaigns, propaganda and health messaging haunt an entire generation, ensuring they’ll never ignore a “no swimming” sign again.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the COI, the BFI, The National Archives and Imperial War Museums invite you to a special event exploring both classic images and surprising campaigns produced by the COI across the decades.

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