https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/7cb0f9f2-7573-4036-99a2-b80a9837fdfe Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD The US Army (:08) presents an instructional training film detailing the role of medical professionals in organizing the community in order to deliver medical service in the event of an atomic disaster. It details actions which should be undertaken in order to prepare for such an event. It features a medical society meeting during which a speaker reviews the issues. A film within the film details how a well prepared city may handle an atomic bomb. The invention and subsequent use of the atomic bomb sent tremors through the globe; anxiety and paranoia erupted over further use of such a massive tool for destruction. An opening note warms viewers the atomic bomb was here to stay following the close of the war (1:13). A group of female card players discuss the idea of being hit with an atomic bomb (1:27). The Daily Sun runs a story about food costs dropping (1:37). Another article details the fear of atomic war (1:40). Business men at the barber shop discuss the topic (1:59). A pamphlet appears from the UN over the international control of atomic energy (2:37). A meeting appears of the Medical Society Committee on Atomic Medicine (3:10). The speaker addresses the role of doctors (3:30) using an example city with a population of about a quarter of a million (4:43). He proceeds to detail the rate of casualties which would be expected (5:26) and the number of actual cities in the US with the same population (6:06). He also notes how easily the atomic bomb can penetrate a city’s defense (6:51). Burns and trauma (7:27) constitute much of the medical problem. Medical supplies and services expended on a burn victim are detailed (8:08). Loss of medical services and personnel add to the rate of causalities (8:43). The decimated city becomes dependent on surrounding cities (9:05). How civilians can be of use for preventative measures in the medical field is presented (9:52). Plasma donations are vital (10:10) calling for whole populations to be blood typed and tagged in the event of an emergency. A donor is set up to have his blood drawn (11:02). Laymen are instructed in techniques of blood count techniques (11:24). First aide classes are conducted (11:36). A whistle is blown and civilian first responders move out with their 'casualties' on a litter (11:59). Locals learn to drive convoys (12:14). A Plymouth Woodie is used for the demonstration (12:25). The instructor reprimands two women not taking the course seriously (12:58). Public education is stressed (13:51) as a man looks over an educational exhibit. He stops at an atomic energy for industry stand (14:08). The film within a film appears displaying a factitious city called Centerville (14:54). An air defense radar system captures an incoming aircraft (15:28). A warning is sent to the control point of the area (15:30). A family heads for an underground shelter (16:00). Inhabitants are pictured moving calmly (16:13). A mushroom cloud billows out as the bomb is released (16:46). Action is noted within the bombed area (17:05). Civilians provide aide to one another (17:13). Well stocked depots are set up throughout the city (17:27). First aid workers load improvised ambulances (17:32) and head for predestinated thoroughfares (17:56). Bulldozers mow through debris from the bombs explosion (18:09). A 1941 Ford (18:30) unloads a rescue team (18:32). The dead are taken to a casualty collection station (19:15). Wounded receive treatment (19:33). A control point is set up (19:47). Actions are noted within the casualty collection station (20:24). Some are evacuated to special treatment centers (21:44). Refugees flow to temporary shelters (22:20). Public health authorities set quarantine notifications on designated doors (22:35). Water food and sewage are maintained under strict control (22:46). Viewers discuss the film (23:38). The barber expresses interest in a safety course (24:09). The speaker insinuates the atomic bomb can be survived in a well prepared society (24:38). 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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