Description: The film begins with a sign reading 'Exercise Only Danger! Gas', and shots of wooden rattles being spun in alarm. A woman in a gas mask passes by a policeman dressed in a gas mask and rain poncho. Various men in gas masks and uniforms mill about the streets. Some other men wearing white coats and gas masks stand outside a building (the building has a war bond poster upon it reading 'Lend us Your Money - Freedom's a good dividend'), while a small smoking flare burns on a street corner. Outside a tobacconist shop (Lewis for Tobaccos), some children mill around watching the exercise. Uniformed men with helmets marked with the letters DC, hosing down the street. A close up of metal bell being rung indicates the end of the exercise, and men walk past a sandbagged area and remove the exercise sign seen at the beginning of the film. The film ends with a shot of a Union Jack flying and the sunset.
Keywords: Air raid precautions; Civil defence
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Bexley
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