Car Safety

Child Restraints, circa 1970s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Two PSAs on the importance of child safety in vehicles. Uses crash test footage to demonstrate the impact of collision on unrestrained children.

Driver safety PSAs, circa 1970s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: “Dynamics of a Crash,” “Safety Belts Save Lives,” “Risk,” “Heartache. Four short PSAs on the importance of wearing a seatbelt. One includes excerpts from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety film “Crashes That Need Not Kill”; the second is a Chrysler PSA; the third emphasizes the odds of being in a car crash and the importance of a safety belt; the fourth is a U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ad on safety belts.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Ashland Disaster Exercise, 1976 December 17
Physical Description: 1/2-inch open reel 

Emergency Airway: A Plan of Action, 1963
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: United States, Department of the Army. Describes and demonstrates, in a clinical situation, emergency procedures for restoring breathing when the airway is either partially or completely obstructed.

EMS, 1973
Physical Description: 1/2-inch open reel 

EMS news clip, undated
Physical Description: 1/2-inch open reel 

EMS PSAs

Emergency Medical Service, circa 1970s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: The Commission of Emergency Medical Services and the American Medical Association. One PSA on how to have a coordinated EMS program in your community.

Family Dinner, circa 1970s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: American Medical Association. Two PSAs about knowing how to respond to a medical emergency. Scenario presented is a family gathering in which a relative has a heart attack.

One Heart, One Life, 1978
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: American Heart Association, Communications Division and Jim Murray Film. Stresses the importance of learning the technique of CPR and what to do in the event of a heart attack.

Wanted Alive: The Role of the Emergency Medical Technician, 1974
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: Paramount Pictures Corporation in Cooperation with American College of Emergency Physicians, Educational Services Division. Dramatic presentation depicting the life-saving performance of an EMT team. Film explores training and the personality characteristics needed to meet the profession's standards.

Disaster Planning

Medical Self-Help Training, circa 1960s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: Produced by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service in Cooperation with the Office of Civil Defense. Series on how to respond to various emergency situations when medical assistance might not be available. The majority of the episodes take place in situations resulting from radioactive fallout.

Burns

Fractures and Splinting

Healthful Living in Emergencies

Infant and Child Care

Nursing Care of the Sick and Injured

Radioactive Fallout and Shelter

Shock

Transportation of the Injured

The Price of Survival, 1967
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. Depicts the reactions of a hospital staff and local citizens to disaster (tornado). Portrays the preparation and planning necessary to correct the weak points in a hospital's disaster plan and illustrates a successful test of an improved disaster plan.

The Price of Survival, Community Emergency Health Services Training Program, discussion guide

Public Health Problems in Mass Evacuation, circa 1950s
Physical Description: 16 mm, color, sound 
Scope and Content Note: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, a Communicable Disease Center Production. Documentary exploring major public health problems and sanitation concerns that accompany any situation during a mass evacuation such as nuclear fallout.