EMERGENCY WATER BASINS : evacuation and lining [Main Title]

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  • Title: EMERGENCY WATER BASINS : evacuation and lining [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 481
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  • Summary: This film depicts the mechanical excavation and lining with plastic sheets of three emergency water basins at Devizes, for the training of TA personnel in emergency firefighting.
  • Description: The three basins, each containing 500,000 gallons, are excavated in nine hours. The film concludes that many hundreds of such temporary reservoirs might be needed for firefighting in a nuclear emergency.
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  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: COI 481
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1955
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Public Works (Production sponsor) Home Office Fire Service Inspectorate (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Territorial Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) society, British - precautionary: emergency water basins (object name) Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK (geography) Instruction (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 510 ft; Running time: 14 mins
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