Crown copyright, not a US Government work. Made 1975–76 by Richard Taylor Cartoons for the Central Office of Information and the Home Office; first shown publicly in 1980. 17 U.S.C. 105 covers only works of the United States Government, so Public Reel's registry rules do not clear this film. The Imperial War Museum reproduces the series as © Crown copyright under delegated authority. The Archive uploads carry an uploader's public-domain mark, which is a claim, not a licence. The atlas indexes it because the series is a landmark of government public information film; the video stays on the Archive.
7 shots over 1:28, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive12Sanitation (Protect_and_Survive_12_Sanitation.mp4, 636×360, 25.00 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Part of Protect And Survive. JSON
Measurements: colour film on its keyframes (7 of 7 shots judged colour), average shot 12.7s long, a frontal face detected in 0% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.
Released 1980 (Internet Archive).
4 beats in 3 sequences, cut automatically at shot boundaries scored on picture change, pauses in speech, topic shifts, on-screen text and cutting rhythm (each beat says why it starts where it does). Each is annotated by a vision-language model from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in it, as observations with evidence; anything the frames and lines do not support is left null. Machine annotation (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct), checked automatically: quotes must be verbatim, names must be spoken, "visible" events are sampled to a second model. 4 of 4 beats annotated, 4 passed the checks, 0 flagged.
Passages cut at shot boundaries and annotated by a machine from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in them. Each beat says why it starts where it does and what was checked; sequences are visual groups, not scenes.
0:13Model synopsis: The video displays a title card reading 'PREPARATORY STEPS' and includes a voiceover explaining that after a nuclear attack, lavatories may be unusable due to lack of water or system damage, advising viewers to begin collecting now. No people or specific locations are shown in the frames provided.
“After a nuclear attack.” 0:12 · “You may not be able to use your lavatory.” 0:15
0:30Model synopsis: The beat displays a blue screen with text listing items for an emergency toilet, accompanied by a voiceover instructing to keep them in the fallout room. No people or physical environment are shown.
“Items which will help you prepare your emergency toilet arrangements.” 0:26 · “keep them in your fallout room.” 0:30
Model synopsis: Two white buckets with lids are shown; one is lined with a black plastic bag. The voiceover advises using containers with lids and lining them with plastic bags for easier emptying.
“buckets or containers.” 0:35 · “with lids or cupboards.” 0:38
Model synopsis: The segment shows instructional visuals for sanitation during a fallout, including a makeshift toilet seat, disinfectant, toilet paper, and labeled bins for waste. The voiceover gives specific directions on storing these items and separating waste types.
“Try to rig up some kind of seat across the top of the bucket or container.” 0:48 · “plenty of strong disinfectant and toilet paper.” 0:55
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 23 segments kept. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.
Protect And Survive 17 Sanitation Care 1980
Protect And Survive 9 What To Put In Your Fall Out Room 1980
Protect And Survive 18 Water Consumption 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement