Public Reel

Protect And Survive 4 Stay At Home (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.

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ProtectAndSurvive4StayAtHome on the Internet Archive; released 1980
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3 shots over 1:41 · 2 beats in 2 sequences · 14 transcript lines · JSON
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Protect And Survive
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3 shots over 1:41, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive4StayAtHome (Protect_and_Survive_4_Stay_at_Home.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 (3 of 3 shots judged colour), average shot 33.8s 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).

2 beats in 2 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. 2 of 2 beats annotated, 2 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.

Sequence 1 from 0:00

Sequence 2 from 0:25

Frame at 1:03, shot 11:03Frame at 1:41, shot 21:41
2 of 2 shots sampled

2. Other

0:25–1:41 Machine checks passed (partial)

Model synopsis: The segment advises staying at home during a crisis, stating no location in the UK is safer than another and that leaving home may result in loss of housing and aid. A stylized house model with a family silhouette is shown, followed by a black screen.

  • A stylized house model with a family silhouette is visible. [frame:1]
  • The screen is black. [frame:2]

1 person observed.

“nobody can tell where the safest place will be. So you are just as safe in your own home area as anywhere else.” 0:44 · “If you leave your home, your local authority may take it over for homeless families.” 1:02

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Transcript

Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 14 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.

  1. 0:00 *Burz sound*
  2. 0:10 the most widespread danger from nuclear explosions
  3. 0:14 is fallout. Fallout is dust that is sucked up from the ground by the explosion. Fallout can kill.
  4. 0:26 Since it can be carried for great distances by the winds, it can eventually settle anywhere. So no place in the United Kingdom is safer than any other. The risk is as great in the countryside
  5. 0:44 nobody can tell where the safest place will be. So you are just as safe in your own home area as anywhere else. In fact, you are far better off at home because it is the place
  6. 0:59 and where you are known.
  7. 1:02 So...
  8. 1:03 Stay where you are.
  9. 1:06 If you leave your home, your local authority may take it over for homeless families.
  10. 1:12 And if you move,
  11. 1:13 The authorities in the new place will not help you with food, accommodation or other essentials.
  12. 1:21 You are better off.
  13. 1:22 in your own home.
  14. 1:25 Stay there.

Similar frames

By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement