Target Usa

Creator: Cornell Productions Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Great civil defense imagery, empty Manhattan streets, signs, sirens, people running and squeezing into shelters, panic, people waiting in shelters, civil defense planners with building models.; 21:03:25:25 Men working in automobile factory, assembly line.; 21:05:17:26 Surreal atomic or hydrogen bomb explosion, mushroom cloud.; 21:05:34:02 VS map illustrating six explosion radii, CU one bull’s eye explosion radius animated with cartoon ambulance and fire trucks pulling into scene, bull’s eyes on map turn into periscope view into cartoon renderings of each target on the ground.; 21:07:50:15 MS profile of serious man wearing large metal glasses and suit in his fifties, typing on typewriter at desk, stops typing, removes glasses, faces camera and begins to address camera.; 21:09:34:29 CU Middle-age man consulting “Defense Organization Chart.”; 21:09:39:06 VS men in suits gathered around table with two models of building, man leading group pulls out blue prints and points at features of building on drawing.; 21:10:01:22 Cartoon rendering of hallway in building interior, two exit doors circled in red, cartoon rendering of shelter in basement, two exits in shelter circled in red, zoom in three open windows in shelter being covered three metal window shields unlatched from ceiling above windows inside shelter.; 21:10:28:19 CU man tacks paper on to “Air Raid Security Bulletin” board, CU man tapes “Shelter Zone” sign onto grey brick wall, CU man stencils “To Air Raid Shelter” onto whitewashed brick wall, CU “Public Shelter” sign.; 21:10:47:24 Rows of male and female workers in factory workshop soldering parts into machines, all at once get up for drill and follow “Shelter Zone” signs to bomb shelter, CU men and women’s feet scurrying to shelter.; 21:20:01:22 CU man showing three other men the exits and routes to shelter on building floor plan on wall.; 21:20:13:26 Strangely artificial looking shot of broken window, reddish brown dirt falls outside window.; 21:20:17:19 Vacant desk with papers scatter about, ceiling caves in and reddish brown dirt pours all over desk.; 21:20:23:08 VS CU men grab fire extinguishers.; 21:20:28:16 VS injured man with dirty face and burned shirt has arm injury treated by doctor in mask, CU doctor removing sanitary bandage to wrap man’s arm wound, CU doctor’s first aid supplies gauze, bandages and Vaseline.; 21:20:42:09 CU man flips switches and reads dial.; 21:20:43:29 VS business people and workers exiting shelter and returning to work, workers filtering back into work stations in workshop, female clerical workers returning to desks with typewriters in office.; 21:21:08:16 Old nurse seated in chair reads magazine, looks up, camera follows gaze along row of empty cots.; 21:21:22:00 Large office of mostly men working at large drafting tables.; 21:21:32:26 Woman slides papers into large old-fashioned photocopier.; 21:21:34:15 VS men wearing blue-gray workers jumpsuits working in automobile factory, workers in row working at large blue and red machines on car tire rims, workers assembling car frame.; 21:21:43:02 MS man and woman working side by side in workshop soldering electronics.; 21:21:49:06 Large mob of workers just outside factory marching walking toward camera.; 21:23:55:05 VS bustling downtown area (New York?), pedestrians pass camera on street.; 21:24:13:26 Woman reading magazine in chair with mushroom cloud illustrated on cover, closes magazine, looks distraught, camera pans to little boy lying on floor at mother’s feet playing with toy airplane.; 21:26:28:05 Great shot of all fifty states cut out from map jumbled together in pile on blue background reassembled in stop-motion animation.; 21:28:03:12 Military with headphones on and microphone in hand reads radar screen, CU radar screen.; 21:28:22:22 Nice shot of military plane taking off at dusk leaving thick exhaust trail behind.; 21:28:34:19 Low angle solder in helmet and green army shirt monitoring skies with binoculars.; 21:28:43:11 CU soldier behind machine gun swivels toward camera until guns aim is set directly facing camera.; 21:28:46:22 Seven then nine visible large bomber planes (B-52s) fly into cloudy sky.; 21:29:38:08 CU booklet “Case Study in Civil Defense”, hands opens booklet, article titles “What Happens When Alert Comes,” “What Happens During Raid,” turns to page “How to Protect Your People and Property in an Air Raid.”; 21:32:08:26 VS CU feet running, people running past camera in direction of arrow on “To Shelter” sign, people in panic running to get to shelter, CU people jammed in crowded doorway.; 21:32:48:05 Black phone on brick wall with blinking red light, CU man enters frame and plugs phone receiver into phone.; 21:33:19:18 CU two radios pans to RCA radio batteries.; 21:33:25:25 VS men with white arm bans running out of “Alert Room”, pushing carts with fire extinguisher, yellow helmets and other emergency firefighting equipment, man grabs firehouse off grey brick wall, CU fie extinguishers grabbed from walls, CU red box fire alarm box is opened and pulled.; 21:34:46:23 Two men pull down cage in front of window, “Shelter Zone” sign visible on brick wall outside window.; 21:34:57:27 CU Mosler Safe, woman removes files from safe.; 21:35:12:27 Pan over detailed scale model of building and traffic outside, cross-section of office building model.; 21:35:29:20 Great montage sequence of air raid and emergency response, blinking yellow light on white brick wall, man at monitoring station flipping switches on radios, nine planes flying, blinking yellow light, two men, one broadcasting on radio, man answering call on portable radio telephone hooked up to box, CU red light flashing, CU two yellow helmets removed from red wall, workers evacuate building, safe is locked, CU flashing red light, army jeep with loudspeaker mounted on hood driving through city street, soldiers firing antiaircraft gun on plane, Man breaks glass of red box to access key to yellow door of “Air Raid Shelter”, workers fill in shelter.; 21:38:24:05 Concerned professional-looking man with salt and pepper hair and moustache looks down at watch, CU man’s wristwatch reads 2:30.; 21:28:30:16 VS people waiting in air raid shelter, reading magazines, playing cards to pass time.; 21:39:49:18 CU watch reads 2:44.; 21:40:15:02 CU worried man with two hands on face.; 21:40:20:01 VS surreal, eerie, empty city, stopped trains, empty stadium, abandoned car with door open on city street, post-apocalyptic feel.; 21:40:49:21 CU one cigarette butt in ash tray.; 21:40:54:26 VS of terror-stricken people with backs to camera, turning to camera in horror.