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Port Preparedness Pt 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221408-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1963

Country: USA

Location: California,Long Beach,Pennsylvania,Philadelphia

TC Begins: 15:04:56

TC Ends: 15:16:27

Duration: 00:11:31

Port Preparedness Pt 2 of 2 Continued... Long Beach, California port alternate headquarters drill. Man on telephone, women at desks. Maps. Railroad cars w/ steel wire loaded by crane; ships; hysters forklifts, coal; cranes, monitored. Tugs working, trucks moving, man checking on stacks of fuel drums. Pan over port. Map of US w/ various ports marked. 15:06:50 Gulf Coast port illustrated. Tractor pulling trailers of cotton bales Forklift, dockworkers alongside ship to / from work. Moving cotton bales; crane unloading sacks in nets. Empty dock. Employees & emergency first aid program. CU of dockworkers. Gantry crane at work. Training men to handle small water craft. Tug alongside ship. 15:09:11 Great Lakes port as example. Pan over factories surrounding water. Sign: Buffalo Port Terminal Property of Niagara Frontier Port Authority. Class for shelter managers, taking notes. Teaching use of monitoring equipment for radioactivity; clean-up of contamination taught. First aid instruction & treating broken bones. CU various signs for Fallout Shelters. Interior of building w/ arrows & signs. Supplies. Siren testing. 15:12:00 Atlantic Coast port. Coal cars, loading dumping. Hysters & forklifts. Pan over burned out dock & warehouse. 15:12:51 Microfilm & machine in use. Filming documents. Microfilm storage vaults in mountain. View thru concrete lined corridor. POV policeman stops man on cart to see papers. Philadelphia port & shots at dock & docking. Large suspension bridge w/ shipping beneath. Semi-trucks w/ trailers. View of large freighters on water from above & at docks. Summary. Seven lanes across suspension bridge from above on tower. The End. Cold War Paranoia; 1960s Americana; Fear; Hysteria; Atomic Age; Natural Disasters; Preparedness Planning Nuclear War; Atomic Fallout Shelters;

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