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Extract : Comic ‘how not to do it” display of fire fighting after an air raid. Hoses part, buckets are kicked over, water is spilt as ‘firemen’ try to extinguish a small fire. (clip) [74960812]
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Title: FIRE FIGHTING
Reference number: 1082
Date: 1942*
Director: [filmed by Ben H. Humble]
Sound: silent
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.40 mins
Description:
Comic display of fire fighting after an air raid.
Humble papers deposited in National Library of Scotland. Further information can be found at
http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/snpc/detail.cfm?id=73&keyword=&subjectid=87&collection=73&passedsubject=-99&passedcollection=73&passedkeyword= [last accessed 2/11/2011]
See also "The Voice of the Hills: The Story of Ben Humble" by Roy M Humble. Additional information file also held at Scottish Screen Archive.
Shotlist: Credits (.04); Shots in open air yard of three men in ARP overalls demonstrating how not to attempt to put out a small fire by dropping buckets, tripping over the hoses, etc. and using hand-pumped mobile equipment. Comic demonstration of artificial respiration (2.40)
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