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700 Practice Civil Defence 1963
Description
London.
Various shots of the people being made up to look like casualties during preparation for the largest civil defence exercise against nuclear attack ever to be staged in London. Various shots of the Civil Defence people gathering and long lines of ambulances waiting. Various shots of...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 54379
- Sort Number:
- 63/029
- Time in/Out:
- 01:27:46:00 / 01:30:06:00
- Canister:
- 63/29
- Film ID:
- 1756.14
- Issue Date:
- 08/04/1963
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"Various shots of the people being made up" - this footage takes place inside County Hall, London.
"Various shots of staged bomb site" - the location here is Bully Fen in Hackney.
"loaded into line of ambulances" - the vehicles are Ford Thames 400e van ambulances.