Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum

A powerful local Civil Defence recruiting film which makes much use of archive film of the Sheffield Blitz to wake people up out of their apathy.

As in other trailers, this film emphasises that unlike the Second World War, traditional forms of defence against air attack will be far less effective than before, as "it only takes one plane to drop an atom bomb".

To those who choose not to join the Civil Defence, the film contains a chilling and authoritarian warning that survivors would be divided into the "leaders or the led", "drifting aimlessly with the crowd or on the job", as the commentary repeatedly points up the difference between the trained person in control and the helpless mob at the mercy of the situation.

The audience is urged to join the Civil Defence organisation upon leaving the cinema.

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