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.
6 shots over 2:55, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive2TheWarnings_201806 (Protect_and_Survive_2_The_Warnings.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 (6 of 6 shots judged colour), average shot 29.2s 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 4 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.
0:07Model synopsis: A single frame shows a stylized nuclear explosion with a family silhouette inside a warning symbol. The transcript states these are warning sounds to recognize if attacked by nuclear weapons.
“If we are attacked by nuclear weapons, these are the warning sounds you must recognize.” 0:08
0:19Model synopsis: A blue screen displays the text 'the attack' at 19 seconds. The transcript from 0:14 to 0:22 describes an expected attack warning and the sound of sirens.
“The attack warning” 0:15 · “the sirens will sound a rising and falling note” 0:19
0:25Model synopsis: A graphic with red wavy lines on a blue background displays the text 'the attack'. No people, locations, or events are depicted beyond this title card.
Model synopsis: The segment explains the audio signals for a fallout warning, including maroons, gongs, and whistles, with visual examples of a radio and on-screen text. No people are visible or named; the focus is on instructional content and sound demonstrations.
“When fallout is expected,” 0:52 · “you will hear three bangs in short succession.” 0:54
2:15Model synopsis: A single frame shows a stylized house with red waves passing through it, while the transcript describes warning siren sounds for air attack and fallout. No named individuals appear, and no time of day or historical period is established.
“when the immediate danger of air attack or fallout has passed,” 1:36 · “the siren will sound a steady note.” 1:40
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 35 segments kept, 9 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 15 Life Under Fall Out Conditions 1980
Protect And Survive 20 Casualties 1980
Protect And Survive 14 The Importance Of Your Radio 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement