1951 - Civil Defense Drill, New York City

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Title: Civil Defense - By night & day, New York City stages two air raid drills... 03:00:50 Night, burst water main, fire trucks & emergency trucks past w/ smoke behind. Firemen backlighted playing hoses, climbing ladders. Cameraman. Men in white coats w/ geiger counters, hospital crews, searchlights / spot lights. Stretchers lowered from upper stories of apartment houses. 03:01:51 Daytime w/ Times Square traffic; intersection. 03:01:59 Montage, people running to shelters, cars & buses stopping, policemen directing traffic. 03:02:24 Montage, woman lowers blinds, turns off gas, people in shelters, office empty into hallways, children duck & cover / duck and cover, subways as shelters. 03:02:47 Aerial of Times Square looking north w/ traffic stopped. Ground shots & aerials of empty crosstown streets. 03:03:01 People out of buildings, Pedestrians, people back tob buses, traffic moving. 1951 Cold War; Atomic Attack Preparations; Practice; Drill; NOTE: Porbably 28Nov51. NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk