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ProtectAndSurvive20Casualties · Beat 1 · permalink

Beat 1

0:00–0:18 Released 1980

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:020:02Frame at 0:090:09Frame at 0:150:15

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Evidence and details

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.

Seen happening
  • A dark screen is shown. [frame:1]
  • A nuclear explosion is depicted against a blue background. [frame:2]
  • The word 'CASUALTIES' appears on a red screen. [frame:3]
Also said
“After an attack is over and the all clear has been sounded,” 0:14
Seen
nuclear explosion graphic, red screen with text
On screen
CASUALTIES
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sober and instructional; themes: nuclear aftermath, public information; style notes: graphic and minimalist; uses stark color contrasts and symbolic imagery (explosion, text screen) with no live-action footage

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 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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Frame from ProtectAndSurvive20Casualties (1980) at 0:02 (passage 0:00–0:18)

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