Ready On The Home Front

Duration: 0:24:00

Genre: Educational | Sponsored

Creator: Wilding Picture Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Stock shots to be logged; historical (antiquated) war footage; hand taking musket off wall; Explosion in front of suburban houses (good); VS bombing and wreckage in Europe; POV bombs falling from plane; VS citizens on watch for airplanes; VS CUs various angles of people talking on telephone and telephone operators with headsets and microphones; Radio studio; VS montage of radios; Mother and son extinguishing incendiary flare that falls through roof into house attic (sequence); VS civil defense house-hardening protective measures for householders, Presents the general aims of the civilian defense program during World War II. Describes the training and duties of the air raid warden. Closes with a proclamation by Governor Schricker.

Complete Record: Stock shots to be logged; historical (antiquated) war footage; hand taking musket off wall; Explosion in front of suburban houses (good); VS bombing and wreckage in Europe; POV bombs falling from plane; VS citizens on watch for airplanes; VS CUs various angles of people talking on telephone and telephone operators with headsets and microphones; Radio studio; VS montage of radios; Mother and son extinguishing incendiary flare that falls through roof into house attic (sequence); VS civil defense house-hardening protective measures for householders, NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.