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.
10 shots over 1:32, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive20Casualties (Protect_and_Survive_20_Casualties.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 (10 of 10 shots judged colour), average shot 9.2s 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 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: The beat opens with a dark screen, shows a nuclear explosion, and ends with a red screen displaying the word 'CASUALTIES'. No people are visible or named, and no specific place or time is established.
“*Police*” 0:00 · “*Burps*” 0:05
Model synopsis: The segment shows animated illustrations of an ambulance, a radio, and a room layout while a voice instructs on handling casualties and listening to broadcasts. No named individuals appear; the instructions refer to generic people in a fallout scenario.
1 person observed.
“Arrangements will be made as soon as possible to treat any people who are ill or injured.” 0:19 · “Listen to your radio.” 0:25
Model synopsis: A silhouette figure is shown with a tag for name and address, as instructions are given to label and cover a body. The radio is mentioned as the source for further burial instructions.
1 person observed.
“Label the body with name and address.” 0:42 · “and cover it as tightly as possible in polythene, paper, sheets or blankets.” 0:45
1:03Model synopsis: A calendar page is shown with dates 13–18 highlighted. The transcript discusses leaving a body in the house for over five days and going outside if safe.
“You have had a body in the house for more than five days.” 1:01 · “If it is safe to go outside,” 1:06
1:19Model synopsis: A single frame shows a blue screen with the text 'PROTECT AND SURVIVE' and a silhouette of three figures. The transcript includes instructions on burying a body and a single exclamation 'No!' at 1:18.
“then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench or cover it with earth.” 1:08 · “and mark the spot of the burial.” 1:13
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 10 Action After Warnings 1980
Protect And Survive 16 What To Do After An Attack 1980
Protect And Survive 15 Life Under Fall Out Conditions 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement