https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/53293b47-eeb9-4636-97c7-10aaab3a98a0 Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to 1963, "Protection Factor 100" was written by Gordon Russell and made by Norwood Studios. The film is about the National Fallout Shelter Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. The film explains the process of identifying and recording buildings that can serve as shelters in the event of a nuclear attack. The survey aims to ensure that every American has access to a safe place to go to protect against radioactive fallout. The film details the training of architects and engineers, the methods used to evaluate buildings, and the steps taken to stock and mark these shelters. It emphasizes the importance of community cooperation and the role of civil defense in safeguarding the population. • 0:08: Introduction of Department of Defense Form 1356, used to record vital statistics of buildings for fallout shelter purposes. • 0:27: Example of the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, which could shelter 30,000 people. • 0:40: National fallout shelter survey aims to locate shelter space for tens of millions of people. Visual: The Alexandria Hospital • 1:23: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense, Stuart L. Pitman, explains the importance of the shelter survey. • 2:01: Fallout radiation can spread widely; shielding is necessary for protection. Visuals: U.S. Army School of Engineering handbook, classroom full of engineers, Effects of Nuclear Weapons handbook. • 3:00: The shelter survey began in August 1961, with training for civilian architect engineers. Visuals: main gate at Port Hueneme, the Seabees or Combat Battalion base in Ventura, California. Architects sitting in a classroom listening to a U.S. Army engineer discussing atomic effects. "Building analysis for fallout protection" sign. • 4:01: Trained architects conduct surveys to determine shelter protection factors. Visual: men studying maps. Office of Civil Defense office space with desk of high ranking official. • 4:54: Kansas City architects meet with local officials to plan the survey. They visit an underground bank vault. • 5:02: Survey teams identify buildings capable of providing suitable shelter space. • 5:30: Example of a school basement as a suitable shelter. • 5:55: Municipal Auditorium and its underground garage in Kansas City provide significant shelter space. • 6:16: Survey of unconventional structures like an underground factory. • 6:41: Survey of a modern church building for potential shelter space. • 7:01: Architects recheck structural information on Form 1356. • 7:25: The survey is conducted in both metropolitan and smaller communities. 7:48: Official unfolds a "Fallout Shelter" sign decal. • 8:02: Vicksburg, Mississippi, survey process and coordination with local officials. • 8:20: Example of a Sears and Roebuck department store being surveyed. Shot of exterior of the store with foot traffic. • 8:51: Licenses for public shelters are signed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense and local officials. • 9:13: Information from surveys is processed and stored using electronic computers and microfilm. Visuals: African American employee uses a microfilm scanner to rapidly scan documents using FOSDIC or the Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers. FOSDIC is a family of optical scanners for converting data on microfilm to computer-readable magnetic tape that was designed and built by the United States National Bureau of Standards for use by the United States Census Bureau and other government agencies. 9:30: An IBM 7000 mainframe is seen in use at the National Bureau of Standards. At 9:54, a dot matrix printer spews out pages of data. • 10:12: Next step is to stock shelters with necessary survival equipment. This includes food in the form of boxes of crackers which are shown being moved by workers with a forklift. • 10:47: Pilot stocking programs in 14 cities, including Washington's Union Station. • 11:00: Community shelters will be marked with yellow and black signs. • 11:10: The inventory forms the basis for future shelter planning, ensuring nationwide fallout protection. 11:22: Pedestrians walk past a waffle shop and go about their daily lives, feeling safe because fallout shelters are close by. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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