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.
5 shots over 2:04, read from the Internet Archive copy ProtectAndSurvive5ChoosingAFallOutRoom (Protect_and_Survive_5_Choosing_a_Fall-Out_Room.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 (5 of 5 shots judged colour), average shot 24.8s 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).
4 beats in 3 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. 4 of 4 beats annotated, 4 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.
0:16Model synopsis: A narrator instructs viewers to select a room in their home for fallout protection, recommending ground floor or basement locations with minimal outside walls. A single frame at 16s shows a two-story house model against a blue background.
1 person observed.
“You must now choose a room in your home which will give the best protection from fallout.” 0:10 · “If you live in a house,” 0:16
0:42Model synopsis: A model of a multi-story building is shown while a voice explains that in a block of flats over five floors, the top two floors should not be used as fallout rooms. The safest areas are described as interior passages away from external walls and windows.
1 person observed.
“If you live in a block of flats,” 0:32 · “which is more than five floors high” 0:34
Model synopsis: The segment shows a four-story building model with a basement, illustrating advice on selecting a fallout room. The voiceover recommends basements or ground floors and suggests arrangements with neighbors if one lives too high.
“If the block is four floors or less...” 0:53 · “The best place for a fallout room is the basement...” 0:56
1:40Model synopsis: The segment advises viewers in one-story homes to seek shelter with neighbors or choose an interior room far from walls and roof. A model house is shown to illustrate room selection for fallout protection.
1 person observed.
“The building itself will not give you much protection.” 1:22 · “Look for a space in your home which is farthest from the roof and the outside walls.” 1:38
Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 28 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 8 Make Your Fall Out Room And Refuge Now 1980
Protect And Survive 3 What To Do When The Warnings Sound 1980
Protect And Survive 15 Life Under Fall Out Conditions 1980By the average clip vector of the keyframes; a measurement, not a judgement