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.
8 shots over 1:22, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive18WaterConsumption (Protect_and_Survive_18_Water_Consumption.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 (8 of 8 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).
5 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. 5 of 5 beats annotated, 5 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: A public information film segment from 1980 warns that after an air attack, tap water may be unavailable or contaminated by fallout. The segment uses a mushroom cloud image, a title card, and a close-up of a tap to illustrate the message.
“After an air attack” 0:08 · “Your water taps may run dry.” 0:10
Model synopsis: The segment shows containers of stored water and a graphic illustrating two pints per person, while the voiceover explains water conservation and storage requirements for survival. No named individuals appear, and the setting is a studio with no identifiable location or time of day.
1 person observed.
“So your life may depend entirely on what you have stored.” 0:18 · “Keep it clean by covering the containers.” 0:23
0:51Model synopsis: A saucepan with water and a can inside is shown; instructions advise conserving water used for heating canned food and piercing the can before heating. No people are visible or named in this segment.
“If you must use water for cooking, use as little as possible.” 0:42 · “If you heat cans of food in a saucepan of water,” 0:46
1:05Model synopsis: A pan with water and cutlery is shown; a voice instructs to dip dirty utensils into the hot water. No people are visible or named.
“Dip your dirty knives and forks into the pan while the water is still hot.” 1:02
1:15Model synopsis: A blue screen displays the 'PROTECT AND SURVIVE' logo with a silhouette of three figures. The transcript includes the phrases 'Water is life. Save it. No.' spoken during this segment.
“Water” 1:08 · “is life.” 1:09
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 21 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 16 What To Do After An Attack 1980
Protect And Survive 11 Water And Food 1980
Protect And Survive 19 Food Consumption 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement