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Title: EVERY FIVE MINUTES

Reference number: 3031

Date: 1953*

Director: d. Max Anderson

Production company: Basic Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 09.00 mins

Description: Four different scenarios, highlighting the dangers of fire and the work of the fire service in tackling them.

Credits: sc. Donald Alexander
ph. Walter Lassally
p. John Taylor
in charge of production Leon Clore

Shotlist: During transfer film timing found to be 9 mins.

credits (.21) c/u of fire engine's bell being rung and of fire engine racing through street (.30) int. house with woman bringing meal to the table and then adjusting the radio while husband eats at table (.51) int. office where man sits at desk and throws discarded papers into open coal fire (1.25) int. tenement flat where children are playing while mother goes out to the shops (2.22) watchman stoking the boiler before leaving to answer the bell (3.02) man has fixed the radio and tidies the wires under carpet (3.24) man in office leaves office with discarded papers strewn around the open fire (3.40) children playing in tenement flat, with baby in cot, wee boy finds a box of matches (4.18) shot of boiler in watchman's office overheating (4.32) two women talking on steps as first woman hears her radio going off (4.55) shot of burning piece of paper falling out of coal fire in office (5.00) wee boy in tenement lighting matches (5.24) shot of overheating boiler (5.33) fire breaking out in all four situations and people shouting fire (5.52) policeman in street sets off fire alarm and shots of firemen in station getting into fire engine and shot of fire engines leaving fire station and pulling out in front of tram (6.31) firemen at burning tenement where fireman climbs ladder and goes into burning room, saving baby (7.26) shots of firemen inspecting the fire damage to find the cause of fire and night shot of fire pumps at work on burning factory (8.16) fire engines returning to station (8.45) shot of fire alarm going and firemen rushing to fire engine and pulling out of station (9.30)