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ProtectAndSurvive2TheWarnings_201806 · Beat 5 · permalink

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1:35–2:55 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 2:152:15

Play from 1:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 5–5. 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
Also said
“Here are the warning sounds again.” 1:54 · “No!” 2:41
Seen
stylized house, red waves
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and instructional; themes: civil defense, nuclear threat, public warning systems; style notes: flat animation with bold colors, minimal background, and symbolic imagery (red waves) to convey danger

A single frame shows a stylized house with red waves passing through it, while the transcript describes warning siren sounds for air attack and fallout. No named individuals appear, and no time of day or historical period is established.

“when the immediate danger of air attack or fallout has passed,” 1:36 · “the siren will sound a steady note.” 1:40 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 2:15 (passage 1:35–2:55)

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