INCENDIARY BOMB TRAINING [Main Title]

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  • Title: INCENDIARY BOMB TRAINING [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 217-5-6
  • Other titles: MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY TRAINING FILMS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Using titles and filmed reconstruction, the film shows the effects and action of incendiary bombs, and the appropriate equipment and action for dealing with them.
  • Description: Examples shown include the stirrup pump and the use of the fine spray and jet, and the "Redkill" outfit for spreading sand on an incendiary. The appropriate action if trapped in a burning building, for moving an insensible person, for dealing with a person whose clothes are on fire, to lower a person by rope from a window, to escape using knotted sheets, to jump unaided from a first floor window.
  • Alternative Title: MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY TRAINING FILMS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MGH 217-5-6
  • Sound: Silent
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  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Home Security (Production company) Air Raid Precautions (ARP) (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 579 ft; Running time: 24 mins
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