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Civil Defense In Schools Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221370-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 10:16:21

TC Ends: 10:23:04

Duration: 00:06:43

Civil Defense In Schools Pt. 3 of 3 Tenth-Grade students in home economics class shown how to make food on large scale by cafeteria manager, gathered around huge vat of soup. Students in lunch queue; noisy cafeteria. Twelfth-Grade class in American Government, teacher at blackboard talking “...to preserve our Constitutional Government” list on blackboard titled ‘Continuity of Government’. 10:17:37 CU boy w/ headphones conducting experiment; zoom out to Twelfth-Grade physics class studying radioactive fallout - radioactivity detection kit, geiger counter, distributed to schools by OCDM. 10:18:33 CU ‘Lincoln Junior High School PTA Program: Guests Speaker Mr. Ralph Miller, City Civil Defense Director’. Miller addressing PTA meeting from podium on stage (SOF) “...it’s just as important that we take this knowledge into the home...” He points to chart w/ ‘Five Points For Survival’. “Prepare your family shelter & equip it w/ two weeks supply of food & water...” CUs audience looking concerned. Scale model of family fallout shelter. 10:20:48 Review of steps taken in preparing school civil defense programme, initial meeting w/ superintendent’s proposal to school board, meeting of defense staff & principals; architect-engineer w/ shelter plans, warning systems, evacuation drill, civil defense & survival techniques taught at school. 10:22:08 Various shots urban & rural schools. INT high school students in class. VO “We cannot ignore the threat, the stakes are too high”. Cold War Paranoia; American Life; Nuclear Warfare; Education; Preparedness; Americana; 1950s Fashions.

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