Port Preparedness Pt 1 of 2
Montage: harvesting, construction. Large freighter into harbor; ships docked. CU whistle; tug alongside ship ; unloading; containers loaded; bananas loaded; hysters working; POV from small boat around ship. fishing boat; variety of shots of cargo. Drawings of chart of total cargo & value; workers. Damaged ships, hurricane, earthquake.
14:56:47 Main title sequence.
14:57:01 POV from small boat around tugs; CU signs: civil defense shelter, no unauthorized personnel, no parking, no smoking. Sign: Philadelphia Police Harbor Patrol; ...Fire Department.
14:57:22 Montage: Two firemen or policemen pointing; fireboat; police boat; helicopter; Coast Guard; navy ships. Door sign: Port Emergency Planning Committee. Booklet: Current Planning for Operation of U.S. Seaports Under Emergency Conditions. Index.
14:58:21 Meeting w/ charts re disaster preparedness. SOF explaining what the committee does. Others tell what they do; how responsibility assigned. All talk to camera.
15:02:25 In 1959 national co-ordination of planning by ports for emergencies. Narrator explains over stack of plans & pamphlets generated.
15:02:58 Aerial of large warehouse facilities & traffic at Port of Long Beach, California. Pan over many docks; goods; ships; trucks; headquarters. Alternate headquarters shown containing duplicate port files, etc. HQ team having practice exercise w/ phones, shortwave radio, checking stock of food & water. Woman w/ clipboard by water drums. Continued...
Cold War Paranoia; 1960s Americana; Fear; Hysteria; Atomic Age; Natural Disasters; Preparedness Planning; 1967; Nuclear War; Fallout;
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Port Preparedness Pt 1 of 2 Montage: harvesting, construction. Large freighter into harbor; ships docked. CU whistle; tug alongside ship ; unloading; containers loaded; bananas loaded; hysters working; POV from small boat around ship. fishing boat; variety of shots of cargo. Drawings of chart of total cargo & value; workers. Damaged ships, hurricane, earthquake. 14:56:47 Main title sequence. 14:57:01 POV from small boat around tugs; CU signs: civil defense shelter, no unauthorized personnel, no parking, no smoking. Sign: Philadelphia Police Harbor Patrol; ...Fire Department. 14:57:22 Montage: Two firemen or policemen pointing; fireboat; police boat; helicopter; Coast Guard; navy ships. Door sign: Port Emergency Planning Committee. Booklet: Current Planning for Operation of U.S. Seaports Under Emergency Conditions. Index. 14:58:21 Meeting w/ charts re disaster preparedness. SOF explaining what the committee does. Others tell what they do; how responsibility assigned. All talk to camera. 15:02:25 In 1959 national co-ordination of planning by ports for emergencies. Narrator explains over stack of plans & pamphlets generated. 15:02:58 Aerial of large warehouse facilities & traffic at Port of Long Beach, California. Pan over many docks; goods; ships; trucks; headquarters. Alternate headquarters shown containing duplicate port files, etc. HQ team having practice exercise w/ phones, shortwave radio, checking stock of food & water. Woman w/ clipboard by water drums. Continued... Cold War Paranoia; 1960s Americana; Fear; Hysteria; Atomic Age; Natural Disasters; Preparedness Planning; 1967; Nuclear War; Fallout;