# CIVIL DEFENSE EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTERS 1967 GOVERNMENT FILM 87654

EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTERS – THE BASIC CONCEPTS, a film from 1967, begins with amazing footage of various emergencies such as a forest fire (00:00:15:00) , a tsunami (00:00:25:00) , a blizzard (00:00:035:00) and a nuclear mushroom cloud. (00:00:49:00) We then are taught some basic information about what the EOC stands for. (00:01:25:00) Police and fire dispatch equipment are seen at (00:04:32:00). More equipment from a standard emergency operating center is shown at (00:05:50:00). Emergency Operating Centers: The Basic Concepts was created by the Department of Defense to serve as an introduction for a series of instructional films designed to train radiological monitors in the process of fallout detection. The film's host, a young Conrad Bain (00:01:10:00) just years before his breakout role as Mr. Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, creates an extensive back-story for his command center, which provides exposition for the subsequent films in the series. Set in "Central City" he theorizes that the emergency now threatening the population is a nuclear attack. Throughout the film Bain spars with a sarcastic and thickly accented janitorial assistant. Played by comedian Arnold Stang, (00:03:45:00) he is gifted with the ability to make office equipment appear with a snap of his fingers and subsequently provides Bain's EOC with all the supplies needed to maintain a functioning government, though he louses about every task. (00:06:53:00) His presence offers a unique comic relief to an…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/87654-emergency-operating-centers-the-basic-concepts)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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