Film Number

145

Title

ALERT!

Producer

G Dunkerley, J Lancaster, JH Haffner for Burnley Borough Council

Date

1941

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

21 mins 39 secs

Description

The film records an ARP exercise in Burnley, on 23rd November 1941.
Reel 1: The role played by the ARP wardens during an air raid - includes women and children entering a shelter, and the rescue and resuscitation of a driver from a burning car.
Reel 2: Firemen fight a fire in a bombed out terrace - a child is rescued; stretchered injured are taken to hospital - they are shown having treatment. The all-clear siren sounds and the people come out of the shelter - counted by the warden.
[The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]