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Title: IN THE EVENT...

Reference number: 3380

Date: 1961

Sponsor: Distillers Company Limited

Production company: Swift Film Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.15 mins

Description: Demonstration from September 1961 of the Civil Defence procedures in and around a factory following a nuclear explosion, consisting mainly of Distillers factory workers. shot at the Army Civil Defence Training School in Epsom. [Also held by the B.F.I.]

Credits: ph. and nar. Peter Hadingham.

The Distillers Company Limited wishes to acknowledge the assistance received in connection with this demonstration by:- The War Office, The Commandant and Staff, Army School of Civil Defence, Epsom. Casulaties Union, Other Organisations which assisted and- Over 200 from the Industial Civil Defence Units of D.C.L.

Shotlist: credits (0.14) Sir Graham Hayman Chairman of The Distillers Company Limited sitting at his desk introducing the subject of the film by stating that the company had started Civil Defence recruiting and training in 1951 soon after the Government had asked Industry to do so (1.46) nuclear explosion, title superimposed; The Situation Some Miles from Ground Zero (2.22) Following a nuclear explosion a Warden's Post has demolished and all the occupants killed...The action covers three patrol areas attached to this post... (2.46) shots of "survivors" in radiation burn makeup, behaving as though confused in a mock-up of a ruined town (4.24) CD arrive; warden makes initial reconnaissance after "ground has already been checked ... for radioactivity"; messages are carried on foot (5.00) first rescue team tackle a fire in a wrecked building, using powder extinguishers (5.41) first aid team arrive (5.52) wardens carrying out emergency first aid, labelling each victim, [each casualty is moaning or whimpering] (6.37) second rescue team arrive; removing debris from roadways; methods of carrying injured; coping with worried and hysterical casualties (7.42) first aid team; injured man carried using "four handed seat"; forward medical aid unit; different lifts; hysterical casualty; v/o emphasises unhurried, deliberate action of teams (10.47) Field Cable Party arrives to reestablish communication (10.56) female "Factory Welfare Section" building brick ovens (11.13) shot of spectators in covered seating (11.16) techniques for rescue from heights, e.g. "ladder derrick"; removal of debris by human chain (16.03) soup is dispensed in plastic cups from the Field Kitchen (16.45) ladder hinge method of rescue from first floor of building, using improvised timber frame, intercut with spectators; removing casualty over dangerous rubble (18.52) a stretcher is lowered down a rope using a pulley from a third floor (20.20) spectators leaving (20.48) e.c.s.(21.15)