AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS - RESCUE SQUADS AT PRACTICE (STOKE-ON-TRENT SQUAD) [Main Title]

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  • Title: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS - RESCUE SQUADS AT PRACTICE (STOKE-ON-TRENT SQUAD) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 251
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. "Rescue of casualty from upper floor of building": A stretcher case is rescued from loft of barn by a team using lorry, ladders, rope and stretcher. II. "Rescue of casualty trapped under heap of debris in the presence of poison gas": The team don gas masks and protective clothing, remove timbers trapping casualty, put gas mask on him. A lifting derrick improvised from three logs and ropes is used. The casualty is removed and placed on stretcher.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: BTF 251
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 251)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: London Midland and Scottish Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: London Midland and Scottish Railway (regiment/service) Air Raid Precautions (ARP) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, British civilian - movement: stretcher (object name) operations [simulated], British civilian - rescue (object name) society, British - precautionary: Air Raid Precautions (object name) society, British - precautionary: rescue squads (object name) Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 801 ft; Running time: 9 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 251

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