PSA Nightmares- UNICEF - Protection Against Mines
A rather brutal CINAR production
An ad for UNICEF done by none other than the TV company CINAR (who would later be known as Cookie Jar, before being bought out by DHX Media/Wildbrain). This was released presumably in the mid to late 1990s.
Plot[]
It shows a little girl playing with her dog and chasing butterflies in a field as happy music plays... until the girl and dog fall on a landmine that explodes as the music becomes what TV Tropes calls a drone of dread, leaving an empty shot of the field. It is succeeded by a drawing of several heavily bandaged, realistically drawn children, including some that have prosthetic body parts.
Why this is (thankfully) one of CINAR's lesser known works[]
If you're familiar with other UNICEF ads, you probably won't be surprised to hear that they seem to have quite a thing for the "Sugar Apocalypse" trope. The whole idea of an animated girl falling into a landmine sounds like your average landmine PSA on steroids. And to make matters worse, they threw in realistically drawn children with bandages and prosthetic body parts.