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.
14 shots over 2:24, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive16WhatToDoAfterAnAttack (Protect_and_Survive_16_What_To_Do_After_An_Attack.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 (14 of 14 shots judged colour), average shot 10.3s 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).
6 beats in 5 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. 6 of 6 beats annotated, 6 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.
Model synopsis: The video opens with a nuclear explosion and a city skyline at dusk, then shows close-ups of a gas valve and an electrical panel. The narrator advises turning off gas and electricity at the mains after an attack.
“After an attack,” 0:09 · “Fires will start in many places.” 0:10
Model synopsis: A public information film advises against smoking and instructs viewers to check for fires starting at the top of the house, using water, earth, or sand to extinguish small fires immediately. The visuals show a cigarette with a cross over it and a two-story house.
“Don't smoke.” 0:32 · “Then start checking for fires.” 0:34
Model synopsis: A fire burns inside a house while a model house is shown with a red glow outside. The voiceover instructs household members to extinguish internal fires, check the exterior for nearby fires, and then assist neighbors.
“Put all the members of your family to work putting out fires in the house.” 1:04 · “When you are satisfied that the inside is safe,” 1:10
Model synopsis: A tap fills a glass bottle with water, followed by a shot of multiple water containers filled and covered. The voiceover instructs viewers to replenish drinking water reserves after using them to fight fires.
“If you have used any of your precious drinking water to fight fires, make good your reserves.” 1:28 · “Fill up all your containers again and put covers on them.” 1:36
Model synopsis: A sequence shows a water valve being turned off, a broken window covered with a sheet, and a house with red explosion graphics. The voiceover instructs turning off water, covering broken windows, and taking cover if a fallout warning is issued.
“Turn off your water supply at the mains.” 1:40 · “you may have a little time before a fallout warning to carry out minor jobs to keep the weather out.” 1:47
2:17Model synopsis: A blue screen displays the title 'PROTECT AND SURVIVE' with a white silhouette of three figures. The transcript includes the phrases 'and stay there.' and 'No!' at 2:12 and 2:15 respectively.
“and stay there.” 2:12 · “No!” 2:15
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 38 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.
Protect And Survive 13 Fire Precautions 1980
Protect And Survive 7 Materials To Use For Your Fall Out Room And Refuge 1980
Protect And Survive 10 Action After Warnings 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement
