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Title: CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS EXERCISES

Reference number: 9561

Date: 1965c

Director: filmed by S.E. Smith

Sound: silent

Original format: std.8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.09 mins

Description: Amateur footage of Civil Defence Corps exercises.

Shotlist: [underexposed] Civil Defence exercises. Men working to rescue a man trapped under rubble. Men in uniform climb up a red ladder. Using a ladder and ropes to lower man from a platform to the ground. [exposure OK] men getting out of the back of a Civil Defence van. They put on their backpacks and are given ladders. Covering a body and putting a blanket on a stretcher. A man is lowered onto the stretcher. Stretcher being lowered from a building roof. Stretchers carried away. [underexposed, magenta] shots of a building falling down. Men saw wood and are shown removing a man from the rubble. Man lowered from a building with a rope. Shot of a sign: “Operation Chesmor”. A man on the telephone and two men look at a map together. Dark shots of men shown playing pool, getting into a van. Men in uniform taking their orders. Men walking through rubble, working to free a man covered in rubble. More scenes of people being rescued in different buildings. Military vans are shown driving down the motorway and men again talking to their superiors.