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Title: CIVIL DEFENCE

Reference number: 0158

Date: 1942c

Director: [attributed to Ben H. Humble]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 19.00 mins

Description: A demonstration by the Civil Defence Corps, showing a basic rescue operation involving fire-fighting and searching for survivors beneath the rubble. Includes footage of resuscitation techniques now obsolete.

Humble papers deposited in National Library of Scotland. Further information can be found at https://manuscripts.nls.uk/agents/57836?agent_type=agent_person [last accessed 26/08/2021]

Credits: filmed by Glasgow Group Production, SEFA

Shotlist: Credits (0.19) gvs demonstration by Civil Defence Corps of a "Basic rescue" operation; fire-fighting using a stirrup-pump; making makeshift stretchers from a board, washing line and blankets to move casualties, showing wardens checking for broken bones first, a patient is lashed to the board, and labelled (fatality?) (3.40) splinting a broken leg by tying both together, applying a head dressing; checking Anderson shelter for survivors; listening for sounds beneath rubble, in a model of a bomb-damaged house. Each casualty is labelled and wrapped up tightly (6.02) Full rescue by Rescue Parties from Dunbarton County, Lanark County Stirling Burgh and City of Glasgow. c/u "Warden" badge, man writing into a notepad (6.15) Member of the team uses breathing apparatus and protective gloves taken from the rescue van and artificial respiration to rescue and then revive a casualty; respiration is performed by leaning firmly on the back at intervals, then six wardens seesawing patient on a stretcher to simulate circulation?(8.07) Casualty tied to a stretcher is lowered from top floor by ropes, while front handles are attached to a ladder to stabilise its descent; gaining access to a house by breaking through the wall; Lean-to collapse. Demonstration of prevention (14.30) Pancake collapse. Jacking up of joints and construction of temporary supports, while removing casualties; c/u DCO keeping a record in his notebook; valuable possessions recovered from the household are recorded; warden chalks "SWRD" on a sheet of metal in the bombed house. (19.00)