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Radiological Defense Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221640-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 15:14:19

TC Ends: 15:27:23

Duration: 00:13:04

Radiological Defense Pt 2 of 2 Continued... Man explains underground shelters w/ model showing 3 ft of earth & basement shelters. “This is why we believe most people who live beyond the areas destroyed by blast or heat can survive fallout, if they will follow civil defense instructions.” 15:14:46 Men at wall map; pamphlets; men at desk; men around table (Federal) taking notes w/ name tags: GSA, Labor, Agriculture, Commerce as man points at chart. Man w/ geiger counter, fireman & state policeman w/ geiger counter. 15:15:49 Montage: teletype, telegraph key, radio console, men in civil defense center, kids out of high school into school bus; CUs signs: shelter area inside, airport & man w/ geiger counter, men in station wagon car, weather station balloon launch, radar, CU dials, men reading charts or graphs & at drawing board, teletype working, charting map, men talking at table w/ training kit, CU wall map, men on phone, teletypes, map. 15:18:39 Man w/ geiger counter walking on grass by roadside; small plane overhead. POV in plane w/ geiger counter. Aerial over highway, urban industrial site, men & woman at table plotting on map. 15:19:39 Suburban street w/ traffic past & ext. of Damascus Volunteer Fire Department w/ men standing outside w/ test kit & map. 15:20:52 Men at desk, others meet in garage; radio contact w/ offices etc. Monitors on street into basement; man monitors then returns to Damascus Health Center; firemen walking on empty small town street. Man into pickup truck & radio. People in RADEF center at work. Ext. montage: water, empty street, empty farm, firemen hosing down outside of building, farmer bulldozing alongside barn. Family out of shelter 15:22:03 Jeep thru empty small rural town. Men putting up basement fallout signs; couple reading pamphlet by farm fence. People into basement shelter w/ water & food, radio. School kids into basement. Man brushing off coat on porch; washing. 15:23:45 CU training sessions around large table, around equipment, at fire station, in hospital. Pan over instruments: geiger counters, survey meters, dosimeters, instrument kits for science classes & class taking notes. 15:25:33 Newspapers off press w/ super-imposed type: fallout held worse war hazard; survival possible in nuclear war, lives could be saved by fallout shelter... City & men buying newspapers; street w/ traffic & pedestrians. Meetings. defense office activity & wall map focussing on West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Teletype machines. CU teletype: The End. Cold War Preparations; Defenses; Atomic Bomb Aftermath; Hydrogen Bomb; Civil Defense Agency; Americana 1950s; 1960s; Bomb Shelters; Technology; Protection; Safety; NOTE: Any ten continuous minutes priced at per reel rate.

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