Some advertisements and charity appeals have gained the status of honorary PIF among fans, including Cartoon Boy, a 2002 campaign about child abuse produced by the NSPCC, while films such as the 1980s British Gas advertisement about what to do in the event of a gas leak can be considered non-Governmental PIFs.

A number of musical artists have been heavily influenced by the analogue, overdriven sound of British PIFs, including Boards of Canada and most artists on the Ghost Box Records label, especially The Advisory Circle, whose most recent album, Other Channels directly references or samples many PIFs, including Keep Warm, Keep Well.

The earliest PIFs were made during the Second World War years and shown in cinemas ; many were made by and starred Richard Massingham, an amateur actor who set up Public Relationship Films Ltd when he discovered there was no specialist film company in the area.

They appeared in only four PIFs (" Coastguard ", " Water Safety-Flags ", " Country Code " and " Worn Tyres "), but their popularity grew so quickly that it was decided to kill them off in the last one.

; Charley Says: An animated series of PIFs with a ginger cat called Charley ( whose warning growls were voiced by Kenny Everett ) who advised children against stranger danger

Public information films or PIFs are a series of government commissioned short films, shown during television advertising breaks in the UK.

After the war PIFs were produced for the Central Office of Information, and again by private contractors, which were usually small film companies, such as Richard Taylor Cartoons.

However, Robbie and The Finishing Line are arguably not strictly PIFs, being produced by British Transport Films.

" in a tone similar to that used by him in the PIFs.

" in a tone similar to that used in Two Tribes and the PIFs.

They are sometimes thought to concern only topics related to safety, but there are PIFs on many other subjects, including animal cruelty, protecting the environment, crime prevention and how to vote in an election or fill in a census form.

PIFs were supplied to broadcasters free of charge for them to use whenever they wished.

; Joe and Petunia: A series of animated PIFs about a couple whose amazing stupidity caused dangerous problems for everyone around them.

; Drinking And Driving Wrecks Lives: A series of 1980s-1990s PIFs targeting drink-driving offenders.

The party at Floyd's penthouse gave the `` chorines '' a chance for a nostalgic frolic through all those hackneyed routines which have become a classic choreographic statement of the era's nonsense.

In addition, stations devoted to the pop music of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s on their own have developed as the audiences that grew up with that music grew older and nostalgic for the sounds of their youth.

Some nostalgic demos have been released since and several demos have enjoyed revivals running on ST emulators such as STonX and PacifiST or more recently on SainT or STEem.

Uniforms can have a nostalgic characteristic for former students, and is often associated with relatively carefree youth.

Citing dissatisfaction with the aesthetics of modern digital displays and a nostalgic fondness for the styling of obsolete technology, significant numbers of electronics enthusiasts in recent years have shown interest in reviving Nixies.

They have a nostalgic appeal for many Britons, hence their designation as " school " or " nursery " puddings, but currently most Britons eat lighter desserts on a daily basis, reserving traditional " pudding " for special occasions.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 63 % of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 6 / 10 and the critical consensus: " An energetic, sometimes noisy mix of Spielbergian sentiment and funhouse tricks that will appeal to kids and nostalgic adults alike.

Many children's programs also have a large adult following, sometimes due to perceived quality and educational value, and sometimes among adults who watched the shows as children or with their own children and now have a nostalgic emotional connection ( an example is the continuing popularity of programming from Nickelodeon, which prompted the network to launch The ' 90s Are All That, a late-night block featuring reruns of 1990s Nickelodeon shows ).

Historic wealthy and famous families in Natchez have used the Natchez Pilgrimage, which is an annual tour of the city's impressive antebellum mansions ; to portray a nostalgic vision of its antebellum slaveholding society.

Because one-hit wonders are popular for only a brief time, their hits often have nostalgic value and are featured on era-centric compilations and soundtracks to period films.

Ampelmännchen pedestrian traffic signals have come to be seen as a nostalgic sign for the former German Democratic Republic.

In recent years, nostalgic " Drink Kayo " tin and embossed metal advertising sign reproductions have been available.

Greenberg appropriated the German word ' kitsch ' to describe this low, concocted form of ' culture ', though its connotations have since been recast to a more affirmative acceptance of nostalgic materials of capitalist / communist culture.

Such futuristic visions are refurbished and updated for the present, and offer a nostalgic, counterfactual image of what the future might have been, but is not.

While of nostalgic value to Apple II users and collectors, presently these stamped lid cases are not considered rare nor do they have any particular monetary worth.

Many non-prefab restaurants ( including franchises like Denny's ) have copied the look of 1950s diners for nostalgic appeal, while Waffle House uses an interior layout derived from the diner.

Newer establishments have sometimes been built in Western saloon style for a nostalgic effect.

Sometimes Lebkuchen is packaged in richly decorated tins, chests, and boxes which have become nostalgic collector items.

People who grew up here have fond and nostalgic memories of childhood Saturday matinees, complete with weekly episodes of Batman and Super Man.

In his review for The New York Times, Clive Barnes wrote that " the book and lyrics ... have ease and a decent few laughs ... The music ... has worn less well, too many of the nostalgic ballads sound like sub-Pucini filtered through Glenn Miller ... Mr. Field has staged the musical numbers with zest and imagination, but, with respect, he is no great shakes as a choreographer ... Where Mr. Field is most successful is in the performances of his six principals, and the women are markedly better than the men.

Since then, however, tyre development has progressed greatly, so that today's hot rod street cars typically use wide, grooved tyres which perform better than the slicks of the past ; while the cheater slicks available today, both for nostalgic appearance of street cars and for competition use in classes where DOT approved street tyres are required, have followed their own line of development, diverging from true slick tyre construction to become a distinct tyre design in themselves.

Because of its distinctive qualities, post-modern Melbourne buildings have also made use of nostalgic bluestone, including the Southgate complex and promenade in Southbank, Victoria and apartments such as the Melburnian.

Both the new locomotive and passenger coaches have been designed to recreate, in so far as it be possible, the passenger experience of the original hydro electric tram providing a nostalgic journey linking the town of Bushmills to the UNESCO World Heritage site at the Giant ’ s Causeway.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

But, in spite of all this, enough evidence remains to show that the magic square of three must indeed have been the object of a rather extensive cult -- or series of cults -- reaching fullest expression in the Han period.

He did not have a separate cult, but he was the personification of the holy magic-song sung by the magicians that was supposed to cure disease.

All these functions, including the function of the healer-god Paean, who seems to have Mycenean origin, are fused in the cult of Apollo.

In cult practice, Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo ( the Apollo of Delphi ) were so distinct that they might both have shrines in the same locality.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

As the name implies, members of the cult were supposed to have gained some secret knowledge.

It is implied he lost his virginity in " Holy Cornholio ," as Beavis, who was being worshipped by a group of fanatics at the time, passed on his followers to Stewart, who took him to have sex with the women of the cult.

Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside small fanbases ; however, there are exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences.

Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics.

Usually, cult films have limited but very special, noted appeal.

Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.

Many cult films were independent films and were not expected by their creators to have mainstream success.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Slaves of New York, Can't Stop the Music, and A Night in Heaven have also found a cult audience in the gay community.

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

There have also been periodic tensions with both mainstream and fundamentalist Christians, who think the religion is aligned with Gnosticism or is a cult, and fault it for departing from traditional Christian doctrine.

He also acknowledged the film's cult following saying, " Many people tell me they have it in their video collection, it's a family film but also a cult film in a way, being passed down to other generations ".