Protect And Survive 14 The Importance Of Your Radio (1980)
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.
How this page was made
7 shots over 1:16, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive14TheImportanceOfYourRadio (Protect_and_Survive_14_The_Importance_Of_Your_Radio.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 10.9s 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).
3 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. 3 of 3 beats annotated, 3 passed the checks, 0 flagged.
Beats
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.
1:061 of 1 shots sampled
Transcript
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 15 segments kept, 1 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.
- 0:00 *Burrish*
- 0:09 When you take cover in your inner refuge...
- 0:12 You must not go outside until it is absolutely safe. And if the fallout is heavy, you may be in your refuge for quite a long time. Although the danger from fallout will get less and less as time goes by.
- 0:27 You will never be able to judge for yourself.
- 0:30 How bad it is?
- 0:32 Advice will be given to you on the radio.
- 0:34 So keep listening.
- 0:36 This advice over the radio and other instructions and news
- 0:40 will be very important to you while you're cut off from the people living around you.
- 0:45 so make sure your radio is in good working order.
- 0:50 And if you have a spare radio,
- 0:52 Keep it in your fallout room.
- 0:54 Radios must be battery operated.
- 0:57 because your electricity may be cut off.
- 1:00 so be sure to get some spare batteries.
Similar frames
By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement
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Protect And Survive 7 Materials To Use For Your Fall Out Room And Refuge 
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