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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221504-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950s
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 03:01:03
TC Ends: 03:12:15
Duration: 00:11:12
Civil Defense In Schools Pt. 1 of 2 Office of Civil And Defense Mobilization Elementary school children writing at desks, interrupted by civil defense warning horn, CU. Empty hallway & kids walking out of classrooms. 03:02:01 Storm clouds, CU sign: tornado shelter. School nurse & boy. School bus w/ lights flashing, cars on highway in residential area & school crossing signs. Traffic stops. Older man gesturing kids across four lane street. 03:03:56 Atomic cloud. City rooftops & tall buildings tilt down to school playground. Rural schools. Manuals for civil defense programs. School board meeting & plan presented (SOF) in rural drawl & using flip chart on Protection Program. CUs of board members, on e smoking in CU. Secretary taking notes. 03:05:10 CU sign: Superintendent’s Office. Staff meeting, CU of various employees & tasks named. Other meetings, nodding. Model of school, looking at architectural drawings. 03:07:25 LS of school cafeteria full of students. Men surveying basement of school for converting to shelter; kids painting & building theater sets. Old school & playground; school shop & kids at machines & tables. 03:08:34 School kids out of building, onto bicycles & riding home. High school & kids leaving on school buses. Wall map & two men point & look. 03:09:30 CU of Civil Defense logo on tall siren & view past. CU horn. People into large building, CU feet. Indoor warning system w/ telephone operator at switchboard. Principal at public address system reading from note paper. Desktop Civil Defense dialer that starts horn, bells. Principal on public address system; chart: Know Your Schools’ Emergency Warning Plan. Cold War Lecture film; Protection; 1950s; Preparations; Government Propaganda; Nuclear Threats;