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Title: EXERCISE "CHALLENGE"

Reference number: 6771

Date: 1963

Director: filmed by David Crichton

Sponsor: Dundee Public Libraries

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.28 mins

Description: Civil Defence Corps, Dundee Division on exercise at Taymouth Castle. General views of the various civil defence sectors arriving, lunch table, close ups of various painted injuries on the participants and general views of a simulated disaster. Speeches and debriefing after the exercise. Volunteers heading home.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from timecoded VHS copy]

ecs (0.10) EXERCISE "CHALLENGE" WAS A DIVISIONAL EXERCISE IN WHICH ELEMENTS OF ALL SECTIONS OF THE DUNDEE DIVISION OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS, THE AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE AND THE SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE TOOK PART (0.17) THE EXERCISE WAS HELD AT THE CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING SCHOOL, TAYMOUTH CASTLE, PERTHSHIRE AND WAS DIRECTED BY JOHN GORMAN, CIVIL DEFENCE OFFICER OF DUNDEE. THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO ALL THOSE WHO TOOK PART AND TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL (0.39) ASSEMBLY AND ROUTE BRIEFING AT LONG WYND, DUNDEE (0.44) gvs of same, shots of defence corps members talking in groups beside CDC cars and vans; corps members climb onto buses (2.07) DEPARTURE FOR TAYMOUTH CASTLE, 61 MILES DISTANT (2.11) gvs of vans, Land Rovers, a motorcycle and buses moving (3.11) HALT AT THE "SMA GLEN" (3.15) gvs of same, includes shots of defence corps members and others eating orange halves (4.41) ARRIVAL AT TAYMOUTH CASTLE (4.44) gvs of same (6.06) gvs meal including c/u of cold ham and salad, and brief ints of dining room with stained glass windows (6.20) PREPARATION AND BRIEFING OF "CASUALTIES" (6.24) gvs of same. Includes shots of injury make-up being applied; blisters, broken bones and severed limbs; c/u lady wearing eye wound makeup (7.35) AREA CONTROL ROOM AND "SIGNALS SECTION" (7.39) gvs of same. Exterior shots of man wiring for communication, from a roll mounted on back of a Land Rover (8.16) ints. woman sitting at an old fashioned switchboard; bank of women sitting under signs marked "Telephonist" (8.32) THE EXERCISE BEGINS - WARDENS, FIRST AID AND AMBULANCE TEAMS, RESCUE WORKERS AND AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE IN ACTION (8.42) gvs of same includes shots of firefighting in amongst rubble of ruined buildings, giving first aid to casualties, also brief shots of teams drawing water from a river, a black van with "Scottish Ambulance Service Civil Defence" printed on the side, and gvs retrieving a casualty from the first floor of a stairless house (18.15) AN EXCELLENT LUNCH- PREPARED BY THE W.V.S. (18.19) gvs same, includes exts of women cooking with wood-burning stoves and setting a long trestle table (19.05) ms two men and women not in uniform (19.15) gvs whole group sits to eat, served by women (19.34) DEBRIEFING IN McGREGOR HALL (19.46) gvs of same (20.25) PRESENTATION OF SILVER STAR AWARDS (20.29) gvs of same. includes brief shot of gift to unid. prize-giver, of two silver cups (21.54) HOMEWARD BOUND (21.56) gvs of groups of the CDC in front of their vehicles, includes a shot of a young man on a motorcycle (23.57) Shot of cars and buses arriving back in Dundee (24.25) THE END (24.28)