Ray Jelinek Collection, no.1 - Houston Fire Department Presents - Incendiary Bombing and Fire Defense School
Jan Valentine
Silent | 1940s
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Title Card: Houston Fire Department Presents
Title Card: Incendiary Bombing and Fire Defense School
Title Card: With world conditions as they are today, it is our duty to organize and equip ourselves now... To meet any emergency with these things in mind... We offer all citizens the opportunity to avail themselves of the facilities of this school... We welcome you. Sincerely, Frank E. Mann
Title Card: This picture dedicated to the people of Houston with the hope that they will never have to use any of the following information
Title Card: Off to New York for War Gas and Bombing Instructions
Names of Firefighters who appear in this film: Commissioner Frank E. Mann, District Chief D.W. Heath, Captain H.L. Mathews, Captain F.E. Jaynes, Lieutenant J.P. Clooney, and Theo Felds
Firefighters boarding plane to New York
Views from airplane
Fire College in New York
Men looking at fire fighting boat
Title Card: Comm. Mann Opens Fire Defense School
Comm. Mann giving opening speech at Fire School
Title Card: Lieutenant Clooney lectures on bombs
Lieutenant Clooney lecturing on bombs to (possibly) servicemen
Title Card: The Thermite Bomb
Demonstration of Thermite Bomb
Title Card: Oil Bomb
Showing and talking about oil bombs
Title Card: The Calling Card
Talking about and demonstrating 'The Calling Card'
Title Card: Liquid Fire
Demonstrating Liquid Fire
Title Card: War Gas
Discussing mustard gas and treatment
Title Card: Gas Mask Instructions
Giving Gas Mask Instructions
Demonstration of gas masks in gas chamber
Title Card: Women's City Club Attends School
Women's City Club attends fire school
Women trying on gas masks
Men coming out of building on fire truck
Women coming out of building on fire truck
Man in fire suit demonstrating a rescue
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This film features six members of the Houston Fire Department – Commissioner Frank E. Mann, District Chief D.W. Heath, Captain H.L. Mathews, Captain F.E. Jaynes, Lieutenant J.P. Clooney, and Theo Felds – leading classes at a conference in New York City. Along with standard fire rescue techniques,lessons appear to include a lecture on incendiary bombs complete with demonstrations (explosions in the classroom!) and a simulated exercise on coping with exposure to various war gasses. Classes are attended by men in uniform as well as the Women's City Club.
The films of the Ray Jelinek Collection were rescued from a flooded trailer in Galveston after Hurricane Ike. They were donated by Jan Valentine and are permanently housed in the archives at the Alfred R. Neumann Library, University of Houston - Clear Lake.
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