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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

838

Title

NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE MOBILIZING PROCEDURE

Producer

Shell Film Unit for the Ministry of Information/National Fire Service

Date

*1942

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

21 mins 30 secs

Description

Shows how the formation of the National Fire Service in 1941 created multiple subdivisions for the control of wartime firefighting. Diagrams are used, together with footage of Communications HQ. Factory fires - fire crews are mobilised.

 

 



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