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Title: BOMB FELL, a

Reference number: 1084

Date: 1941

Director: [filmed by Ben H. Humble]

Sponsor: glasgow Casualty and Rescue Party Services

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.13 mins

Description: Shots of bomb damaged buildings during reconstruction of the aftermath of an air raid. Rescue services demonstrate their techniques and first aid methods.

Humble papers deposited in National Library of Scotland. Further information can be found at https://manuscripts.nls.uk/agents/57836?agent_type=agent_person [last accessed 26/08/2021]

See also "The Voice of the Hills: The Story of Ben Humble" by Roy M. Humble. Preservation of this film supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

Credits: [glasgow Casualty and Rescue Party Services. Wound-faking by Dr A G Mearns and Mr R McDonald. Those who took part were from Knightswood First Aid Post, Knightscliffe First Aid Party Depot, Bellshaugh Rescue Party Depot, Pollokshaws First Aid Post and Elmvale First Aid Party Depot. ]

Shotlist: No credits. Shots of bomb damaged building during reconstruction of the aftermath of a bombing raid. Rescue service men demonstrate several different ways of bringing the injured people out of the rubble and ruins. Several on-the-spot first aid methods are then demonstrated with treatment for broken limbs, cuts and burns (3.40); Shots inside a First Aid post as the injured are treated for their wounds. Gruesome detail to demonstrate methods. Medical cards filled out for each of the injured (8.02); Picture of Sir Winston Churchill with slogan "Nothing to offer you but blood and toil, tears and sweat." (8.11); Civil Defence armband (8.12); The End (8.13)