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Duck and Cover 1951
How can you forget watching this film in school as a child? Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures.
In this famous Civil Defense film for children, Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack; "Duck and Cover!"
Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month)
Includes footage from: "Survival Town" Atom Test, Operation "Teapot", and more Atomic Test Footage,including other amazing films of the H-Bomb, actual footage of nuclear bomb testing, the scientists and military people involved in a the South Pacific and the American Southwest. Frighteningly slim and few precautions are taken with the lives of those people who jobs were to be present at the test sites. Film attempts to prove that survival of nuclear attack is possible!
First Picture Atomic Blast! 1946
The dramatic film history of the atom bomb test at Bikini and pictures of the actual bomb drop! Blasted ships and the terrible destructive force of the world's fourth atom bomb! Universal Newsreel, in cooperation with the Army and Navy, presents the motion picture drama, 'Operation Crossroads.' This film's record of the historical event shows in dramatic detail the various phases of the experiment, from takeoff to the awful blast that destroyed or damaged more than half the ships in Bikini Lagoon. Scenes of Admiral William H. Blandy commanding Operation Crossroads at Bikini Lagoon, test animals put on ships, sheep is sheared, Secretary of Navy Forrestal speaks on deck of ship (sound distorted), crews leave, Bikini fleet ready, A-bomb loaded on B-29 Dave's Dream, plane takes off, bomb doors open, men put on protective goggles; "The bomb's away! It's falling . . . " then explosion, "motion picture spectacle of all time" and another view of the explosion. Includes the complete newsreel!
About Fallout 1955
An attempt to dispel many common myths and fallacies about radioactive fallout. Ken Smith says: "Radiation is something we live with every day." This film shows Eisenhower; promoting a cozy, nuclear-war-isn't-so-bad approach, as opposed to the more frenetic drumbeat of the Truman years. As long as we "know the facts" and "act intelligently," the narrator assures us, we'll be able to weather any nuclear firestorm that blows our way. "The key to survival is adequate shelter," we are told. "The fallout shelter is the best defense." To ensure that we understand this, we are shown an animated map of the U.S. after its been hit with about 1000 nuclear warheads, all ground bursts, and we see a terrible cloud of resulting fallout that quickly covers the entire country. It's a bone-chilling graphic, but this is, after all, a motivational movie.
About Fallout 1963
Discusses the physics, effects and defense against nuclear fallout. Describes the phenomena of natural radiation and the dangers of fallout. Explains the value of time, distance and mass in weakening the effect of residual radiation. Examines the effects of radiation on the body, food and water. Underscores adequate shelter and prescribed decontamination measures. Film attempts to explain to the viewer how to safely handle one of the after effects of an atomic bomb blast: fallout.
A Day Called X - Part I
CBS Television Network's dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon
A Tale of Two Cities 1946
A film by the US War Department showing how the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The film focuses on what power the atom bomb possesses, in regards to the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The film stresses how the bomb was detonated in the air to further spread it's radioactive effect. The film shows destruction after destruction, and the viewer is quick to recognize the narrator appears to be salivating in all this destruction and appears not willing to bother mentioning anything about the loss of human life.
Survival Under Atomic Attack 1951
A U.S. Office of Civil Defense film, explaining the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home.
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