From a dramatized civilian protection film produced as a public service announcement or PSA by the Clorox Chemical company. Shows the precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack and the first aid measures to be used after gas exposure during World War 2. Aircraft in flight. Bomb wreckage during World War II including scenes from blitz firebombed areas in Europe or England, and scenes from China under attack by Japanese. Civilians fleeing in China as a Japanese attack begins. Back in the U.S., view of a new tank rolling into final assembly at a factory, and bullets being manufactured and poured into large containers in a munitions or ammunition factory. Narrator covers various precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack while at home, and actors depict: Closing the windows and other openings in the house. Woman seals kitchen exhaust fan. Man checks and closes fireplace flue in house. A man and woman move upstairs in the house to escape fumes. Air Warden sounds alert using a spinning handheld device, and asks people to stay indoors. Clothes affected by gas attack are left outside a house. Liquid gas removed from the skin by blotting with a tissue. Exposed skin cleaned and rinsed with bleaching solution. A baking soda solution containing water used to irrigate eyes. Man takes a shower and soaks himself up. Nose irrigated with baking soda solution. In case of unavailability of first aid one must take a bath. Woman takes a shower and rinses face and eyes. War scenes including a German Luftwaffe aircraft hit and diving toward ground. Wreckage of a German warplane. Views of a bottle of bleach, and baking soda solution, and a bar of soap used as cleaning tools in gas attack.
Bottles of pills on a conveyor belt at a Pharmaceutical and Food and Drugs Administration Laboratory in Washington DC, United States. A man works on an instrument and writes down on a paper. Food and drugs inspectors check bottles of pills. Bottles of pills on conveyor belt.
A man conducts an experiment with a solution at Food and Drugs Administration Laboratory in Washington DC, United States. Another man with some instruments. A man draws a chemical structure of a compound. A ledger with Compound 432 written on it. An experiment conducted.
A technician picks up white mice from a container and weighs them on a machine at Pharmaceutical and Food and Drugs Administration Laboratory in Washington DC, United States. He writes down the weight in a ledger. Technician injects a serum in the tail of mice.
A technician removes large rats from containers and weighs them on a Toledo scale at Pharmaceutical and Food and Drugs Administration Laboratory in Washington DC, United States. He types on a keyboard to record data. Amount of food for rats weighed and put in their containers. An IBM 526 punched card machine records data.
Four technicians or scientists at Pharmaceutical and Food and Drugs Administration Laboratory in Washington DC, United States. Monkeys for animal testing seen in cages on a wall in the background. A technician with mice in containers in the background. Doctors examine a monkey with a stethoscope and a man writes in a ledger.
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