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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Note: if you are considering suicide or know someone who is, help is available 24/7/365. Speak with someone today. Just dial the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Languages: English, Spanish. You can also text BRAVE to the Crisis Text Line at 741741, and a trained crisis counselor will receive it and respond within minutes. Then, the crisis counselor will help you de-escalate your situation and connect you to help locally. This film “Suicide“ is an episode in a 1960s TV series called, “Survival!” that was narrated by James Whitmore. This film seeks to educate audiences about how to prevent suicides and what the Suicide Prevention Center (at the time a fairly new idea) does. The executive producer was veteran TV producer Sherman Grinberg. This film was directed by N.H. Cominos. It was written by Elizabeth Murphy. It was made with the cooperation of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. (Note: founded in 1958 by Didi Hirsch, the Suicide Prevention Center was the nation’s first and a model for suicide prevention centers across the globe. The center still exists and served and trained more than 175,000 individuals in 2022.) Tourists gazing from a double-decker bus (0:09). Suicidal man stands on the side of a building (0:11). Man looks like he wants to jump off a building’s roof (0:15). Police officer and another man try to get him to back away from the edge of the roof (0:17). Man climbs over a building’s railing (0:20). James Whitmore, who narrates the episode, speaks to the camera (0:25). Man walks on the beams of a bridge while smoke comes up from a train (1:22). Police officers and the crowd watch him (1:28). Woman who looks deeply troubled stands by train tracks (1:49). Man is carried by police on a stretcher (1:52). Cadillac (2:06). Man stands out of the opening in his car alongside a crowd of people (2:21). Photographers laying on the sidewalk (2:22). Man on the side of a building (2:24). Police officer on the phone (2:30). Large building (2:37). Woman sitting on the edge of a window (2:39). Woman lowers herself from a rope (2:530. Woman falls into a net (3:02). Woman cries into her hands while police apprehend her (3:04). Men lay material down to cover the body of someone who took his life (3:09). Large crowd of people and police horses (3:16). Old record player (3:27). Woman looks distressed and smokes a cigarette on her coach (3:37). Man types a document on a typewriter (4:17). Woman drives a car (4:55). Older woman walks by a body of water (5:12). Man walks down a hallway (5:35). Man in a suit and trench coat walks in front of a building (6:24). Professor explains a math concept on a chalkboard (6:44). Sign for “” (Suicide Prevention Center) (7:22). Man walks hurriedly down a city street and goes into a phone booth (7:25). Woman from the Suicide Prevention Center answers the phone (7:45). Mr. Heilig at the Suicide Prevention Center speaks to the man on the phone (7:59). Suicide Prevention Center sheet to assess the severity of the situation (8:34). Female receptionist at the Suicide Presentation Center picks up the phone (9:54). This part of the film features social workers Sam M. Heilig and David J. Klugman. Mr. Klugman speaks on the phone to someone who wants to commit suicide (10:09). Man in a room talking on the phone (10:32). Mr. Klugman fills out a form (11:02). Mr. Klugman on the phone (11:38). Man in distress and holding a gun, on the phone with Mr. Klugman (11:57). Man walks to the Suicide Prevention Center (14:10). Female receptionist checks in the man to the center (14:30). Worker at the center gives the man pictures to look at (14:58). The man tells a story with the pictures and illustrates his life (15:30). Woman at the center opens the “suicide notes” drawer (17:51). Man reviews the suicide notes (18:05). Woman looks at the city at night in her nightgown and then walks back into her room and looks at a bottle of pills (19:27). Man answers the phone at the suicide prevention center (20:54). Woman on the phone with the center (21:07). Woman collapses on the bed and the phone falls on the floor (23:08). Night manager knocks on the door and enters the woman’s room only to find her unconscious (23:26). Emergency vehicle drives down the street at night (24:14). Discussion group at the Suicide Prevention Center sit around a table (25:01). James Whitmore speaks to the camera (25:17). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
