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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, photographic animation, live action and animation, news media, child deaths, family violence, essay film, filmmaker, artist

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**Safety Tips for Kids** a film by Roz Mortimer

[Roz Mortimer](https://www.wonder-dog.co.uk)

2003, 5 min 06 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2002_2004/safety_tips/)

![Safety Tips for Kids, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/safetytipsforkids06.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths… accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman. Based on the filmmaker’s archive of newspaper clippings, these are horribly good stories that make great copy.

### short synopsis

An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths: accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman…horribly good stories that make great copy.

### long synopsis

An ironic look at the way newspapers report children’s deaths: accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman.

With an inventive mix of still photography and live action, the film sweeps around Britain to create a chilling comment on death, news reporting and the family. Statistics show that a child is more likely to be murdered by one of their parents than by a stranger – every six weeks in the UK, a man or a woman kills their children.

### key credits

**director**
Roz Mortimer

**writer**
the Fusco Brothers

**sound designer**
Charlotte Tedbury

**executive producer**
Maggie Ellis

### Roz Mortimer

#### biography

Roz trained as a textile designer at Middlesex Polytechnic in the early eighties but has been making films since 1995. Her previous production **Gender Trouble**, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a documentary about intersex people in Britain.

Earlier films have explored the relationships girls have with their dogs, **Dog of my Dreams**, and a woman’s fascination with worms, [Wormcharmer](http://www.wonder-dog.co.uk/reform/roz.html) . Roz lives in London.

October 2003

#### artist’s website

[Wonderdog](http://www.wonder-dog.co.uk)

Roz’s own website

### a film by Roz Mortimer

### direction

**director**
Roz Mortimer

### script

**writer**
the Fusco Brothers

### cast in picture

**perfomer**
Sophie Knight
Natasha Laing
Jamie Levy
George Hayter
Jack Hayter
Nikki Malone
Luke Malone
Hylton Stockwell

### image personnel

**digital effects**
Jerry Williams
Asher Edwards
Robert Arnold
Joe King

**rostrum camera**
Ken Morse

### sound personnel

**sound designer**
Charlotte Tedbury

### production personnel

**executive producer**
Maggie Ellis

### support

**primary funding**
An animate! production through Finetake for Arts Council England and Channel 4

© Roz Mortimer 2003

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### technical

#### process summary

The film is mainly made up of hundreds of manipulated photographs, and was shot on a range of formats from huge 6×17cm negatives down to a tiny digital camera attached to a keyring.

### master copy format

**format**
DigiBeta

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
DigiBeta

**screen aspect ratio**
16:9

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

### pre-history

#### working title (initially known as)

Cautionary Tales

**Safety Tips for Kids** film, stills and other materials © Roz Mortimer 2003