REVIEW OF PAISLEY'S CIVIL DEFENCE
Older policeman and young policewomen, Women’s Voluntary Service members of all ages parade past the camera with vehicles of various sizes and purposes as a military band plays to help keep non-military people in step. (clip)
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Title: REVIEW OF PAISLEY'S CIVIL DEFENCE
Reference number: 0561F
Date: 1941*
Sponsor: [ La Scala Cinema, Paisley]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 14 mins
Description: The Rt. Hon. Tom Johnston, MP visits the Warden post, and inspects the civil defence parade.
Shotlist:
[Continued from previous sequence - see ref. 0561E]
Credits (10.46); Shots of streets, Tom Johnston and colleagues wearing masks (gas masks). They visit the Warden Post. Shot of ARP members (12.00); Parade of Civil Defence units in St Mirren's football stadium (?). Parade inspected by Tom Johnston. March past of units and vehicles (14.09).