CIVIL DEFENSE EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTERS 1967 GOVERNMENT FILM 87654
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- EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTERS - THE BASIC CONCEPTS, a film from 1967, begins with amazing footage of various emergencies such as a forest fire (00:00:15:00) , a tsunami (00:00:25:00) , a blizzard (00:00:035:00) and a nuclear mushroom cloud. (00:00:49:00) We then are taught some basic information about what the EOC stands for. (00:01:25:00) Police and fire dispatch equipment are seen at (00:04:32:00). More equipment from a standard emergency operating center is shown at (00:05:50:00).
Emergency Operating Centers: The Basic Concepts was created by the Department of Defense to serve as an introduction for a series of instructional films designed to train radiological monitors in the process of fallout detection. The film's host, a young Conrad Bain (00:01:10:00) just years before his breakout role as Mr. Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, creates an extensive back-story for his command center, which provides exposition for the subsequent films in the series. Set in "Central City" he theorizes that the emergency now threatening the population is a nuclear attack.
Throughout the film Bain spars with a sarcastic and thickly accented janitorial assistant. Played by comedian Arnold Stang, (00:03:45:00) he is gifted with the ability to make office equipment appear with a snap of his fingers and subsequently provides Bain's EOC with all the supplies needed to maintain a functioning government, though he louses about every task. (00:06:53:00) His presence offers a unique comic relief to an otherwise grievous situation, and was likely designed to help keep audience attention focused on Bain's procedural descriptions. To help the EOC personnel allocate already strained resources in such a way as to be effective, Bain and Stang turn to the Emergency Log, a massive chalkboard occupying an entire wall in the EOC (00:08:20:00) which tracks, in painstaking detail, the location of every ambulance, police cruiser, fire engine, rescue crew, and whatever other elements the city has on hand to help including mobile public address systems. The second section of the board, Bain explains, is a comprehensive overview of the Central City shelter system (00:12:45:00), documenting the shelter occupancy, and other issues such as overcrowding and contamination.
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Conrad Bain had his breakthrough role on Maude, several years before "Different Strokes"! And comedian Arnold Stang, four years after "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad world!" .
There's no way you can run communications without soundproofing between each work stations. Some kind of partitions would have to be erected between each station if you want anyone to be able to hear their own radio and phone traffic. It's one thing to separate all the communications from the operations area, but then you have to subdivide all the communications work stations. This was the beginnings of what later became the standardized method of handling all emergencies, the Incident Command System. This later morphed into what we use today, the National Incident Management System (NIMS). I spent a good [art of my life developing and then working within these systems. We are orders of magnitude better prepared to handle any emergency today than we were in 1967.
Excellent point. But I think these films are high level overviews and gloss over important details like that. I also note that in some of the films there's supposedly 50-60 people in the shelter but chairs for maybe 8-10 people, and maybe 2-3 bunkbeds, so people are either going to be sitting and sleeping on the concrete floor for the next few weeks, or it's another detail they glossed over.
Sure we are, ask the folks in New Orleans how “prepared “ we were. 😂😂
@@rapman5363 the residents didn't listen to evacuate the area. Obviously, in hindsight, it could have been better, but when social order breakdown, chaos reigns. If that happens, I'm skating with my own preparations.
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I love these old civil defence films, they convey hope, and security in the knowledge that “everything will be ok” as long as you do as instructed, what a pity that we all know that it won’t, and that, at least in the United Kingdom, civil defence on the scale needed has long since gone, and if the worst ever happens you will be on your own, for the most part anyway, and of course governments will be ok, although that doesn’t matter because there will be nothing left to govern, and unless the whole of the United Kingdom is evacuated, before a strike happens, then our nation, along with most others, will cease to exist, and, assuming anyone does survive, I have to ask, is it worth it? My answer, NO.
Still another great trip back down memory lane, this type of film was required viewing when I first enlisted in the military, and even back then the instructors would say “take it all with a pinch of salt”, never a truer word spoken. Thanks again 👍🇬🇧🏴
P.S, today all those status boards would be computer generated graphics and digital displays, how on earth would the present generations manage if power was completely shut down with generators only supplying enough electricity for essential systems, that wouldn’t include computer systems, they wouldn’t know their arse from their elbow, a bit like the scene in “Star Trek- The Journey Home” when scotty has to use a computer from the 70s-very early 80s and he try’s getting the computer to work by voice command and when Doc McCoy says something like try the keyboard, Scotty says “How quaint” like a fish out of water.
AND Arnold Stang, voice of Top Cat and many other rolls.
ROLES (English is a confuzzling language, isn't it?)?)
He was in that epic "Hercules In New York", with a badly dubbed Arnold "Strong", one of Ahnuld's early roles.
Love all the arm chair EM's. If there is a nuclear attack, it doesn't mean that that entire area will be gone (especially if you are a suburb or outside a larger city). There will still be areas of functional people who may have damage but are not vaporized or burnt to a crisp. It is the same thing with the duck and cover drills, yes those in the direct impact will not survive, but those on the outskirts may if the roof collapses and they have protection over their heads.
"What nuclear attack chu talkin' about, Mr. Drummond???"
A 60's Civil Defense film featuring Conrad Bain & Arnold Stang. Makes it less anxiety-inducing, I suppose. ❔
this looks like it could've used a RiffTrax treatment XD
Is this Conrad Bain, better known as Mr. Drummond on "Diff'rent Strokes"?
Yes it is.
And the other fellow (the "propman", I guess) is Arnold Stang, famous for his "MAKEUP!" routine with Milton Berle among other things.
Looks like it after some research.
Conrad Bain also played Arthur Harmon on Maude before playing Phillip Drummond on Different Strokes.
Someone should sub in the line "what cha talkin about Willis?"
Drummond with hair and T.C. Gotta' love it.
The man saying "thank you" at 16:41 played a shelter manager in a earlier Civil Defence film
And the concept remains the same today. The only thing that has changed are the "gimmicks".
LOVE THE PERILOUS MUSIC.
FIRE...FLOOD, ..OR NUCLEAR ATTACK...OK, I'LL CHECK MY HOMEOWNERS POLICY.
WHOOPS...ACT OF WAR ISN'T COVERED. SORRY.
Hey, that's the guy from Maude!
And then there's Maude!
Phillip Drummond!
Nuke day will be absolute chaos in shelters. People will be hysterical, especially emergency responders. These films paint a false picture of order.
They may do so now, but they didn't back then when they were made when people were more civilized. Now the entitled horde that's been on the Government tit for the past 50 years would rip you apart for the Snickers bar you had in your pocket, and demand that same Government take care of them. Your comment isn't applicable anymore regardless; the Government hasn't cared about or maintained public shelters since shortly after this film was made in any case. We're all on our own. Besides, in an emergency I would rather stay in my own well-supplied and well-defended home than be shoved into a place like the Superdome with roving gangs of thieves and rapists assaulting people like what happened after Katrina.
Possibly true for a nuclear attack, however this system works well for natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes. I know this first hand from serving as Public Information Officer in my small community.
Looks like the stage hand was a Boy Scout lolll
A Civil Defense Film where he constantly mispronounces "nuclear"
It’s hard to believe that they think there’s going to be any people left that they’ll be able to order around after nuclear explosion I don’t know if they’re just trying to be hopeful or they just that naïve
Nuclear Detonations are far more survivable than you realize. Thats actually the terrifying thing about them. Not only did testing in the 50s n 60s show that airforce men could stand completely unprotected at Ground Zero of an airburst Detonation and survive with only burst ear drums, but that in a full scale global thermonuclear exchange the majority of humanity is going to survive. That means the psychopathic politicians in control of those bombs know that nuking the world wont personally hurt them. :(
Hi Doug, the government wanted people to believe that there was a chance of survival, but they knew it wasn't really possible. The isotopes produced by thermonuclear explosions precludes that possibility. If the public had known that use of the weapons would result in universal armageddon, well, you can imagine the result.
Possibly true for a nuclear attack, however this system works well for natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes. I know this first hand from serving as Public Information Officer in my small community.
Opening music reminds me of Marvel Super Heroes
where's willis and Gary Coleman?
Main host looks like Mr. Drummond from Different Strokes lol
It is
20 to 30 yr. And all of these people will be replaced by a computer the size of a clipboard.
its A Nuclear END. One Way, Or The Other
You realize back in the 50's, nuclear bombs are a mere fraction of the destructive power of today's nuclear warheads. ☢️
“A nucular attack” 🤦♂️🤣🤣
A lot of people get that wrong.
@@booklover6753 Like Bush?
Did they ever think there would be no phone lines remaining to connect to?
Ham radio system?
Back then, if necessary there would have been specially-laid landlines (not too different from that laid in military combat zones). Also, RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) would have been activated.
Nowadays, maybe some landlines, but emergency/backup cellphone equipment would be pressed into service. Amateur ("Ham") Radio, I'm not sure of, anymore.