Fire Service Demonstrate House Fire
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Fire Service Demonstrate House Fire (About Anglia)
Demonstration to show spread of fire and smoke in an empty terraced house in Kettering.
Northamptonshire Fire Service invited an Anglia Television news team to film them setting fire to a sofa in the living room of a Ketting terraced house (due for demolition) to demonstrate how quickly fire and smoke can engulf a home. Senior Fire Prevention Officer Les Pritchard stresses that it is the smoke that kills, and that it spreads rapidly. The display shows how quickly smoke detectors placed around the building are triggered, and the best location for a detector is discussed.
The reporter was Owen Spencer-Thomas for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. Local people and organisations could communicate with a wide public if they managed to get their story on About Anglia.
video made to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.
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Health & Safety at Work
Work can be a matter of life and death. Explore how video helped spread the gospel of ‘Elf’n’Safety’ and improved Britain’s workplaces
As employers and government grew gradually but increasingly conscious of responsibilities towards the wellbeing of staff at work, so grew the role of film in the workplace. The moving image, with its emotional power and its ability to stick in the memory (especially when resorting to graphic imagery), was well placed to help get key health and safety messaging across both to employees, exhorted to follow safe practices, and to employers and managers encouraged to make conditions as safe as possible (or at least, as safe as the law requires of them).
And when things go wrong, the filmmaker may be there to help pick up the pieces, documenting or dramatising the consequences. In the era of videotape cameras and videotape viewing, late in the 20th century, the role of film in ‘Elf’n’Safety’ only grew bigger. This collection explores how it did it
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First Aid in the Laboratory: Chemical Spillages
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Health and Safety at Work for Enfield
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Safety's No Accident
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Illegal Manriding
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The Self Rescuer
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Contraband Kills
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Fighting the Odds
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Fire Service Demonstrate House Fire
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: Caring Occupations
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: Equestrian Work
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: In a Garage
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