An amateur film by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association member S. J. Rosslyn Smith of three vicars acting as Air Raid Precautions (ARP) wardens. Title: ARP logo Title: Wardens in Action [over ARP logo] Three clergymen emerge from a wood, smoking and in conversation. Portrait shots of the three chatting and smoking, smiling to camera, and one mock fighting with a colleague. Two of the clerics are standing outside a brick built air raid shelter with a code number...

An amateur film by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association member S. J. Rosslyn Smith of three vicars acting as Air Raid Precautions (ARP) wardens. Title: ARP logo Title: Wardens in Action [over ARP logo] Three clergymen emerge from a wood, smoking and in conversation. Portrait shots of the three chatting and smoking, smiling to camera, and one mock fighting with a colleague. Two of the clerics are standing outside a brick built air raid shelter with a code number painted near the entrance which reads ‘B 70’. There's a brief shot of two mock fighting with a long pole which has at the end a cone shaped spike. A colleague helps hold the pole up by supporting it at the ‘pointed’ end, then lets it go. Again, the two clerics appear from the shelter, wearing steel helmets. They grab fire fighting equipment from outside the shelter including a ladder and head off.  The two men then deploy the stirrup pump, the can providing the water. One of the men pumps the water while the other goes off with the ‘business end’ of the hose. The remaining length of hose trails behind him. Portrait shot of the elder clergyman laughingly watching the exercise. One of the younger team of two clerics is trying to unravel the hose in a very amateur way. The film ends with the man who has wrestled with the hose, standing with one hand on the pump and his colleague nearby, both laughing and smiling at their ineptitude.