“DATE WITH DISASTER” 1971 SYLMAR EARTHQUAKE LOS ANGELES DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FILM XD50174

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Narrated by actor Jack Webb, this 1971 color film presents “a model for multi-hospital disaster preparedness,” dramatising communications developments at 4 Los Angeles Hospitals: Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, and Kaiser Foundation Hospital. Administrative issues are discussed and elaborate practice drills with makeup injuries are documented and analyzed (TRT: 30:40). The film was made in the immediate wake of the magnitude 6.5 Sylmar earthquake, also known as the San Fernando earthquake of February 9, 1971. The seal of the President’s Office of Emergency Preparedness (0:08). Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Kaiser Foundation Hospital in montage. Crash zooms on damaged structures and precariously leaning architecture following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake. A wheelchair