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Civil Defense: Heat Wave (1973)
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2022
- Another 16mm film in the strange series made by American Civil Defense in the early 1970's for various preparations for disasters of all kinds. This reel is mostly pink and required a lot of correction. I transferred this reel with my Eiki Telecine, so enjoy!
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Peter Thomas narrates. He and Alexander Scourby narrated everything during the era of my youth. Love their voices.
I worked sound design on a miniseries he did called "How The West Was Lost." His voice is ever engrained in my membrane.
His narration of NOVA will always be the best!
Well at seventy years old, I'm more than happy to sit inside and watch Fran Lab on You Tube.
Great job Fran. Love this video to try and scare some sense into people.
Still very relevant advice concerning hot weather and heat. That is one thing that will never change, if not get worse.
I'll never forget seeing someone (an older man) collapse right in front of me from heat exhaustion. Medics got to him almost immediately and I think he ended up OK. This was at an airshow which had many more attendees than they expected so the lines were very long for all the food and drink vendors and they were running out of drinks. It was at an Air National Guard base and the guardsmen did eventually bring out emergency water supplies and start distributing free water which saved it from being much worse.
And now, we have state legislators passing laws to make it illegal to hand out water to people waiting in line to vote.
In our area the WWII Weekend is the first weekend in June at one of the local Regional Airports (its a big place). Oh, maybe 15 or so years ago, it hit 100+ and several of the old pilots had to be kept inside the hangar with big fans blowing on them to keep them from fading. There were a few people taken out in the ambulance due to the heat that year.
At around the same time I worked for an underground utility locator that also used big compressed air digging tools and vacuums to expose the utilities for verification. The guy I worked with (both of us in our 40's) would normally run the air digger and I would run the vac. Those trucks blew the radiator air out the back at us. It was 103 that day and we did all the holes we were supposed to do in our 8 hour shift. We went through a case of water, and 20 gatorades that day, all sweat out, without the need to go. You can do it, but you have be very well prepared. To be honest, we were happy the heat wave broke the next day. Ooofff!
Really scary.
I dig the music... the drone sounds and the flutes.
All those shots of the bank digital temperature reminded me of a trip to Atlanta to hang out with friends about 25 years ago. We'd just left the Coca Cola museum and I remember looking up at the nearby bank thermometer reading 100°. It was around 5 pm. This was the same trip where we had done a really short hike, and I'd developed a migraine from the combination of heat and exertion (my usual kryptonite). The group were patient enough to sit inside an air conditioned room with me while I somehow managed to close my eyes, breathe deeply, lay my head on the cool table, and willed away the pain and nausea after only 45 minutes. Hot-lanta, indeed!
I've had heat stroke twice. The first time was during basic training at Fort Dix. We were on a force march and I passed out and went right on my face, woke up to a medic dousing me with water. The second time I was playing golf, hit my drive and could feel myself losing consciousness as I walked up the fairway so, despite it being a great shot, I picked up my ball and went and sat under a tree for a while.
Crazy stuff. I have a past co-worker who used to do roof work as a side job. He was telling me a story how he overdid it on a hot day and drove the half-hour back to his house and started losing the ability to control his arm and leg muscles on the interstate (electrolytes?). He managed to pull to the emergency lane and then realized he couldn't use his cell phone effectively and ended up having to use he mouth or nose (I forget the details) after spending minutes attempting to hit the correct areas on the touch screen with his fingers.
How timely. You just know, when the string section starts playing backwards, things aren't going to go well. Then, when the Ghostbusters show up, it's all over but the heavenly choir...
Anyone else recognise the background music - it was regularly used in a certain 1980's Australian soap set in a women's prison :)
Boy this film DRAAGGGSSS on!
Those rounded corners are BEAUTIFUL!
Great old film! It can be so much worse when you are standing over blacktop, too.
Aww they thought 96 was hot back then, bless their little hearts.
Love the soundtrack.
gosh those synth sounds are so good
A hot topic back then when common sense was in short supply. That old saw about "Mad dogs and Englishmen" comes to mind.
Being from Arizona, this soundtrack is what our summers would sound like if it could play music.
I'll trade our high 80s - mid 90s temps with 80%+ humidity for 6 - 8 months out of the year for your dry heat! Our county Parks department has at least a few maintenance staff get Workers' Comp claims for heat stress or heat stroke every single year, despite being given breaks and being allowed to bring water with them on jobs. The humidity will absolutely kill you if you can't get out of it, especially if you're forced to wear long sleeves for protection against irritants, pesticides, insects, etc.
-- miserable South Floridian
The main direction from producers of these films to the directors and editors seems to always have been "Just make it as nightmarish as you possibly can. We really need this one creepy and unsettling."
Great 16mm film transfer to video!
As a hobby and for fun, I transferred some 16mm & 8mm movie film to video some years back just using a consumer grade projector and video camera, with mixed results... I didn't have access to pro equipment or a film chain.
I even experimented with a video camera and a 35mm projector in a old theater once. Used a small screen set up in the balcony.
Had a terrible time getting the shutter to stay synced to the video.
Damn, Fran. Love these! Meticulously collecting, splicing, transferring, and releasing these is a tremendous public service. Keep it up!
yeh yeh, Damn, Fran!
Love this old stuff Fran a great touch of nostalgia.. Thanks
These 70s films seemed super ancient when they were shown to school kids just a decade later.
Fran, your 16mm film transfers are the BEST I've ever seen! If I ever come across any vintage film reels I'm sending them straight to you!
thanks Fran 👍
i never felt better in my life
Jeans and dark Tshirt. Dad pushing the mower in long pants and a nagging wife.
No or very little water.
A recipe for disaster!
Well timed
You know you got this video for the cool signs!
Aww, he had me right up to "salt tablets" LOL
Salt is an important electrolyte that is needed for muscles such as those in your arms, legs, and even heart to work. It can get confusing when doctors say that salt is bad for you. It is if you don't do any strenuous activities and engorge yourself in it. However, when you sweat a lot, you quickly drain your body's reserves of salt. Salt tablets are an older way to take salt. These days, people often take salt in the form of sports drinks. If you remain weak after strenuous work, even just adding extra salt to your food will help a lot in quickly regaining your strength.
@@robertgaines-tulsa I get it, but salt is an essential nutrient that it's awfully hard not to get enough of in any normal modern diet without the need to supplement with salt tablets or even sports drinks. Most sports drinks are high enough in sugar and salt that they ought to be diluted 50/50 with water to begin with.
@@robertgaines-tulsa, some of us sweat out far more salt than others do, and there seems to be a genetic component to it. Myself, I lose so much salt in my sweat that if the sweat drips into my eyes it stings almost as much as vinegar would! I was on the edge of heatstroke or heat exhaustion several times as a kid, so I now know to stay hydrated, keep my head covered and take periodic breaks in the shade.
@@marcberm You piss away most excess salt almost as soon as you eat it. To be fair, potassium is the electrolyte in much shorter supply and is more responsible for muscle cramps and cardiac arrhythmias in heat stroke.
that is a beautiful Cadillac amublance
wow that soundtrack is something
Well now that was an ominous introduction... "YOUR CHANCE TO LIVE" ... I was like ... eek?
Nice Colors! 😻
AND the crappy air quality back then! Smog and smoke!
Thanks for the flick!
Yes, with all the coal-fueled industry alive and kicking in the Western world, it was no wonder.
It looks like this was filmed during a 60 degree day. No one's hair is actually sweaty. And most people in the passers-by scenes are wearing long pants, as are the two future NBA stars.
Shorts were not that big a thing back in the 70's.
'You may not be able to do anything about the heat except try to avoid it. And in the long run that's the very best thing you can do.'
Yeah. Come move here, to Scotland. LOL
Wow! The educational film means business. Great find
No copyright restrictions on that "music".
these ACD flicks are trippy... 3:56 Hotel Sequoia was this filmed in Redwood City CA?
I remember those days of my youth. Yeah, I played baseball and basketball when I probably shouldn't have, but I always had water with me. To be young stupid (at times). I also remember the weather in the 60's and 70's. The heat could be relentless, a heat wave could last for days. And the winter, we didn't just have storms, we had blizzards. Several feet of snow would accumulate, not counting the drifts. All this in NJ, I can imagine these numbers were dwarfed by amounts found in Minnesota, and the Dakotas during that time.
I remember those days in NJ, we used to get blizzards that would drop three feet at a time. Now we get three inches and everybody panics.
@@cheechwizard60 So true 😄😄
I like your audio work, Fran.
FEDERAL SAVINGS! I get it!
kinda surreal with the music, isn't it?
Fran backtracking the music to keep it in, and still avoid the copyright trolls.
Kinda wonder what that sound track sounds like the the opposite direction.
The backtracking actually added to the eeriness of the film.
I would love to know how you collected all this film, very awesome.
I was 8 in 1973. We lived in an apartment complex that had a pool. My little brother and I lived in that pool all summer long. We probably took years off of our lives by the high doses of solar radiation burns to our skin. Thank God for Mom and her “Noxezema” treatments. 😵💫. Remember, never put butter on a burn or go swimming right after eating.
was the lad with the basketball from war games ?
The federal savings got some nice advertising that day
“ only mad dogs and English men go out in the noon day sun.”
Thank God for sports drinks and air conditioning.
Interesting film. Looks as though some of the direction style could be taken straight from the 1950’s film the invasion of the body snatchers. The feeling of a dramatic, eerie doomed life under communist rule.
Nice Xfer & color. The tedious stuff they showed in health and PE: Horrible pacing worsened by music playing backwards. Did I hear an early synth or was it someone expelling gas? Played at 1.5X it’s over quickly. lol
The stubborn old man’s caretaker (?) did such a good acting job in this film… wonder if she earned any sort of additional cred for her role in it? Also.. side-note: My brother’s always been a bit of a “hot head” AND born in ‘73… I now wonder if the heatwave of ‘73 had anything to do with this??? 🌞😡
i thought the backwards music was a part of the film lol
Hot enough to melt synapses.
I looked up the Hotel sequoia it's in Nevada and the average temperatures are generally warm in summer with a maximum ranging from 80-100 degrees F.
So that's about the same as it was back in 1973
So much for global warming or as it was called back then global cooling and we were all to be frozen by the year 2000 lol
"...strange series made by American Civil Defense" I think their credibility on the idea that surviving a nuclear war was just a matter of stocking a few weeks of food and water in the basement and then depending upon your super competent governments at the local, state, and federal level to take care of you had justifiably faded and they needed something else to justify their existence.
Hot outside? Don't complain. Pakistan reached 124° F yesterday. BTW, "simmer" is 180°.
A movie sans the sweat....
And today 110°F+ is "normal" in summer...
It’s been normal here in Phoenix since the 40’s 😅
Especially in an urban heat island....
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 You guys have A/Cs. Germany doesn't. And you cannot even just mount one. It's forbidden if you live in an apartment.
No hat, long pants, long sleeve shirt, no drinking water, of course you will pop your clogs from heat stroke. Funny though is it had to be a lot hotter than that to have schools close when I was in high school, pretty much only when the teachers melted did we get off. Oh yes, long pants and blazer in summer, with a school tie...... You can bet the trees and shade were a sought after item during breaks.
What? Two guys of different races just playing some basketball and no racial slurs or bigotry thrown about and the minority wasn't the one portrayed as an idiot. Who would have thought that we could behave like that way back then. I miss those days.
Too bad th kid with the thermos wasn't taught to turn the cap to the left until it clicks and then turn turn to the right until it's locked!😉
Just in time for Global Warming, thanks Fran!
Way before the global warming became a problem talked over and over (and still denied by some asshats, meh). Will definitely be useful in the future - more and more, I fear.
Nice lightbulb signage. I wonder how all these not so teeny weeny bulbs were controlled. Not sure if they used electromechanical switching, or diode logic like I would.
And I wonder if a theremin was used in the musical score. Some backward playback certainly was.
Signs like that made in the '60's were usually completely mechanically driven. Later on in the 70's SCR control was popular too.
@@FranLab just like this cute neon bulb clock? Only that one used 7 segments per digit and this would be vastly more complex.
Controlled by relays to drive the lights, and the data was either fed in manually from the weather service broadcast, alternating with a digital clock (mains derived timing) providing the time, or they used one of the FM broadcast SCA receivers, that periodically transmitted weather info on a data subcarrier along with things like store audio and such.
Clock would have either had discrete transistors making the dividers, or a mix of transistors and early logic, not necessarily TTL 74 series, could have been any of the competing logic families then around, or diode logic, to do the dividers and such controls. LKights are basically lots of 120V 15W pygmy lamps, each segment with a keep alive resistor to keep thermal shock down, and normally fed from a tapped autotransformer, such that during the day they ran off 90VAC, and during the night 60VAC, so making the display dimmer at night, and also ensuring long bulb life. Was common with lights, and a lot of traffic controls had the transformer there to provide those 2 voltages, along with the controller voltage as well, so your lamps would last more than 2 years, even being switched all the time.
@@SeanBZA very interesting info, thanks a lot! :)
@@KeritechElectronics Like Fran showed a few episodes ago, some even used a mechanical clock to drive the time, using a synchronous motor and gear reduction to drive a set of switches, that then provided the drive to the relays. A totally mechanical solution.