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Some half-century-old fire service videos... the two-part "Your Fire Department" has some neat apparatus shots, especially from 27's in Hollywood

Your Fire Department (Part I)  1949
Producer: Los Angeles Fire Department (?)
Sponsor: Los Angeles Fire Department
Detailed treatment of the Los Angeles Fire Department, its equipment, personnel and activities. With excellent Kodachrome footage of firefighters at work, fires, nighttime neon signs, and fire prevention and safety activities.
Descriptors: Fires and firefighting;  California: Los Angeles
Run time: 15:50
Download: MPEG-4 file coming soon  01474a.mpg (439 MB)
Streaming: 450kb/sec | 220kb/sec

Your Fire Department (Part II)  1949
Producer: Los Angeles Fire Department (?)
Sponsor: Los Angeles Fire Department
Detailed treatment of the Los Angeles Fire Department, its equipment, personnel and activities. With excellent Kodachrome footage of firefighters at work, fires, nighttime neon signs, and fire prevention and safety activities.
Descriptors: Fires and firefighting;  California: Los Angeles
Run time: 15:45
Download: MPEG-4 file coming soon  01474b.mpg (436.4 MB)
Streaming: 450kb/sec | 220kb/sec

Fire! Patty Learns What to Do  1951
Producer: Frith Films
Sponsor: N/A
Fire safety film filmed in and around the Chatsworth fire of 1947 in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, at a time when many parts of the Valley were still farming communities. The film takes the point of view of a child whose family farm is threatened by the fire. Director: Emily Benton Frith. Narrator: Don McNamara.
Descriptors: Fires and firefighting;  Safety: Fire;  California: Los Angeles: History
Run time: 16:25
Download: 00257.avi (51.4 MB)    00257.mpg (455 MB)
Streaming: 450kb/sec | 220kb/sec

Fire and Police Service  1947
Producer: Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Sponsor: Vocation Guidance Films, Inc.
Vocational film showing the work of emergency service personnel.
Descriptors: Occupations: Public safety
Run time: 10:18
Download: 04923.avi (32.9 MB)    04923.mpg (246.5 MB)
Streaming: 450kb/sec | 220kb/sec

Fire  1946
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Sponsor: N/A
The benefits and dangers of fire.
Descriptors: Fire;  Chemistry
Run time: 10:22
Download: 00253.avi (32.7 MB)    00253.mpg (247.9 MB)
Streaming: 450kb/sec | 220kb/sec