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1955 - Civil Defense Exercise

Reel Number: 221597-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1955

Country: USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 05:25:53

TC Ends: 05:33:35

Duration: 00:07:42

1955 - Civil Defense Exercise MCU Soldier & girlfriend goodbye kills beside Greyhoud bus. 05:26:01 LS of marchers w/ bouquets, some w/ VFW caps. 05:26:08 Sign: Office of Civil Defense; CU sleeve badge Medical CD. MS Man talking, pointing. Men w/ fire hoses, lantern. CU Men in CD helmets. CU surgeon & nurse in operating room. MS woman w/ scarf on head looking at camera. CD men on telephones at phone bank. 05:28:12 CD man in to mobile rescue trucks leave in convoy. CD man gesturing people into Shelter Area. Fire truck arrives & CD men pull hoses off. Men inspect equipment in shed; servicing coffee & soup from table. 05:30:24 CD man w/ policeman directing traffic. Men in CD helmets listen to instructor; inspecting electrical transmission poles. 05:30:59 Partially collapsed concrete building, man checking w/ geiger counter. Two men carry injured on stretcher & treated by nurse. Operating room w/ surgeon & nurses. Loading stretchers into ice cream van. 05:31:52 Men at radio console. 05:32:16 Woman putting push-pins on board, men on phone. 05:32:36 Woman hanging up laundry on clothesline. 05:32:42 Men & women in line giving forms to woman at desk. 05:33:05 Many B-36s fly-over (animation?) 1950s Cold War Defensive Preparations;

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