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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
- People
- unseen narrator audible
- Seen happening
- An animated mushroom cloud appears over a circular target. [frame:1]
- An animated house with a red roof and a highlighted inner room is shown. [frame:2]
- The animated house is shown with a sky full of falling particles, representing fallout. [frame:3]
- Seen
- animated mushroom cloud, animated house with red roof, animated house with fallout particles
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sober and instructional; themes: civil defense, nuclear preparedness, shelter safety; style notes: flat 2D animation with simple shapes and bright colors; static camera; no human figures; designed for clarity and direct communication
A public information film from 1980 shows animated diagrams of a house and a nuclear explosion to explain fallout shelter procedures. The narrator instructs viewers to remain inside their inner refuge until it is safe, noting that heavy fallout may require staying inside for a long time.
“When you take cover in your inner refuge...” 0:09 · “You must not go outside until it is absolutely safe. And if the fallout is heavy, you may be in your refuge for quite a long time. Although the danger from fallout will get less and less as time goes by.” 0:12 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
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. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.
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