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Title: OPERATION COUNTY

Reference number: 2989

Date: 1961c

Director: [filmed by William Stewart]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.09 mins

Description: Made as part of a recruitment drive for the Civil Defence Corps with the enactment of a rescue by a Civil Defence team and footage of the Civil Defence school at Taymouth Castle.

Shotlist: gvs Coatbridge Division of the Lanarkshire County Defence outside their HQ (?); groups of defence volunteers; shots women cooking over outdoor stoves (0.50) pan Coatbridge (?) street where a crowd have assembled to watch a Civil Defence display with shops, church in background; children examine overturned double-decker bus (1.22) gvs Civil Defence volunteers rescuing and giving first-aid to volunteers pretending to be victims of an unspecified disaster, Civil Defence vehicles in background; shot of victims writhing [some wear make-up to simulate wounds] (2.48) using a ladder to rescue from the first floor; girl is lifted onto a stretcher using straps; c/u make-up on hand (3.30) stretcher on first floor is lowered by a rope; three schoolboys in head bandages, wearing labels; (4.32) overturned bus is set on its wheels, using a hand cranked crane on the back of a SMT maintenance van (5.38) female members cooking in field kitchen; group shot women; cleaning kitchen utensils; group shot men, four Lanarkshire Council School Meals Service vans in b/ground (6.55) group shots in front of Operations Vehicle; c/us individual faces (7.55) pan over groups assembled before "Signal Office" and Defence Corps vans (8.59) blank (9.04) gvs a church; crossing a bridge; countryside at eastern end of Loch Tay (9.32) couple walking along country lane; c/u Lanarkshire CDC badge (9.48) gvs Civil Defence school at Taymouth Castle, including shot of an RAF jet aircraft (10.29) gvs wreckage of training site; gvs Defence Corps searching site for bodies; (12.30) female corps members working in field kitchen [building stoves?] (12.44) spectators watching field kitchen (13.39) different sections of Defence Corps arrive, including signal office staff; (16.26) Corps members remove bodies from wreckage and apply first aid (18.16)