Originally Posted by seanyjmuc
I remember flying for the first time in 1990 (I was on my way to Paris to visit a penfriend) and remember seeing the inflight safety video for the first time. That's how old the video. It may even be older...
I particularly like the bmi safety video, they even have a system on the new Airbus 3xxs where one sentence is said is English and then immediately in another. In my case, I was off to CDG, so it English-French-English-French etc for a good 15 minutes whilst taxiing to the runway.
BA still beats the (enormously cheesy) safety video shown by Austrian Airlines (they try to introduce a love story of sorts into the video between the 2 passengers, the woman (with toddler) does all the right things, the businessman does everything wrong, even fastening his seatbelt). It's excruciatingly long and gets shown once for each language. They top it off with a horrible early-90's Austrian pop song called "Like a Smile in the Sky" being used as the theme tune.
BMI's are pretty good - the use of drawings and pictograms is a good idea for non-English speakers. It's also guaranteed not to date unless/until BMI change their livery again.