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This educational film from 1982 features a school fire alarm sounding like a 6" bell (possibly the school bell) ringing in California Code, like in “Our Obligation” from 1960 but nowhere as scary or depressing, not even when an actual fire breaks out at the school in this.
Also note they try to pass off a Chemtronics 600-series heat detector as a “smoke detector,” complete with dubbing in one of those “squealer” alarms, along with an old Standard Electric Time pull station, and an old-looking fire alarm panel at the 12:41 mark. I can’t really read the label on the bell they show afterward.
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It’s an Archer vibratory bell; I have an Archer 275498 device in my collection which is DC-powered. The bell in this video looks like a model 332L, which I found by looking up an eBay listing with an Archer bell practically identical to the one in the video.
The panel is anybody’s guess. Archer (which was a RadioShack brand) made panels, but not to the scale of the unit shown in the video. I made out a red oval on a label a little above the panel’s center, which suggests it could be either Ademco, Auth Electric, or Standard Electric (Setco), but I don’t know how prevalent either of these three brands were in Los Angeles/San Diego.
Starting at 11:36, you can make out the side of a bell on an interior wall, and it reminds me of Simplex’s STR series of bells. I saw one eBay listing of an Auth rebrand of an STR, so if I had to guess, the panel is from Auth.
Yeah, Auth Electric would probably make the most sense. The Archer bell could’ve been filmed at another school, along with the Standard Electric Time pull station. Said Archer bell also looked like an 8” model, though they used the sound of a 6” vibrating bell ringing in California Code.