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ProtectAndSurvive2TheWarnings_201806 · Beat 4 · permalink

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0:27–1:35 Released 1980

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:590:59Frame at 1:331:33

Play from 0:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 3–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Also said
“Or you may hear three gongs, like this.” 1:08 · “These all mean that fallout is expected.” 1:27
Seen
radio
On screen
fall-out
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: instructional and urgent; themes: civil defense, public warning systems, nuclear preparedness; style notes: static shots, graphic overlays, and studio lighting; minimalistic and direct visual presentation

The segment explains the audio signals for a fallout warning, including maroons, gongs, and whistles, with visual examples of a radio and on-screen text. No people are visible or named; the focus is on instructional content and sound demonstrations.

“When fallout is expected,” 0:52 · “you will hear three bangs in short succession.” 0:54 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 ProtectAndSurvive2TheWarnings_201806 (1980) at 0:59 (passage 0:27–1:35)

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