# animate! › Films › Safety Tips for Kids by Roz Mortimer

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/safetytipsforkids/

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)

### a film by Roz Mortimer

### 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.

### key credits

**director**
Roz Mortimer

**writer**
the Fusco Brothers

**sound designer**
Charlotte Tedbury

**executive producer**
Maggie Ellis

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