Soooo........in the event of a nuclear war, hide under a kitchen table? I mean.....society is ruined, food is poisoned and you risk disease every time you step outside for at least the next 30 years (Is Chernobyl safe yet?) But...hey....you're alive.
Am I being daft here, or does the all clear warning sound the same as the attack. So all the enemy needed to do was to wait, then send another attack, the second alarm would be rung, everyone would think it was the all clear, come running out and get blown to kingdom come. Just because soem dumb arse couldn't think up another sound for the all clear. Shit. And to think we won the bloody cold war...
so old ww2 sirens mean a bomb is coming. Then if a bomb lands we hear tiny little clangs and whistles? Surely the huge boom of a nuclear explosion would be clue enough.
I like how he said draw curtains. Because everyone knows curtains are impervious to nuclear fallout.
if there's a nuclear explosion. and you're outside remember to hide under a bridge. cos we all know fall-out can't get under bridges. basically if you're outside you're knackered.
It makes you wonder how much Money Richard Taylor Cartoons and Patrick Allen made from this, doesn't it? Mr Allen was also a very sucessful businessman as well, running a recording studio and post-production house.
I am just old enought to remember these films and still when i hire the old siren it sends i chill down my spine BBBBBRRRRAAAAA. if ever hired the siren for the real thing, you had a few seconds. NO such thing as a 4mint warning
I listened to a Radio 4 doc a few years back. The only reason they told us to stay indoors was to make it easier to identify the bodies afterwards. Nothing to with protect and survive.
Now according to some crap i`v read this was deemed liable to cause a panic in the general population....well no you don't say!!
I mean there were a lot of older people that knew first hand the air raid warning and what it means, as in the film "When The Wind Blows" he says the paper is late today "that never happened in the last war..." So lets all hope the birds stay in the silo`s and "may all the warheads rust in peace" don't forget to close the windows in case a 100MT bomb hits the street
IN the us it said stuff along the lines of even a newspaper can protect you from a thermonuclear blast... it was all garbage. But trying to help keep down panic.
Turn off the gas an electric. Heaven forbid you run up an expensive gas and electric bill during the middle of a nuclear holocaust. Fallout is a noisy pesk. Make sure to pack some earmuffs in your inner refuge.
@daggerheart03 its a post-apocalyptic novel dealing with the reactions of many people to the fact that the whole human race will be extinct due to radiation poisoning in a few months. Some people had the exact same reaction as your comment. Its very interesting, I recommend that book to everyone.
"The longer you stay in your refuge, the better it will be for you." And for us... we'll need slave labor when the radiation subsides. A message from your government.
A NUDET is survivable if you are far enough away from ground zero, but if I were so near a primary target where a multi stage thermonuclear warhead was going to detonate within four minutes, the probability of survival would be so low and the risk of horrific injury so high even if you did survive, I would likely head to the closest point to probable ground zero. Just a flash, and you wouldn't feel a thing....better than roasting alive in a half baked shelter that will be turned into a furnace.
Does anyone know when the Protect and Survive PIF series was originally created? I have heard 1975 and 1976 put forward in the past. It must have been some time before 1983/84 since of course they appeared on Threads.
3:48 "For the time being?" Does that mean more nukes are expected? That the world will somehow recover it's supplies of weapons and goods? That government still exists? What is that supposed to mean?
@123aycaramba It could save you from major burns from the initial flash of the nuclear blast. A person could be burned badly from the flash of a nuclear explosion even if they are far enough away not to be killed by it. Even something as thin as a curtain could shield you at certain distances. Of course, if you're within a certain range of the blast, it won't do any good to draw the curtains.
Do all this shit first THEN go to your fallout room...well anyway, unless your fallout room is lined with lead your pretty much like oven ready chickens anyway.
I can believe that this used to scare people but seriously...do all that and you're still going to look like a bit of beef jerky!
It's absolutley pathetic how they expected us to swallow that rubbish, should the worst come to the worst. The only thing id've swallowed would've been a mouthfull of fallout dust
I laughed at 3:15. ok yeah, brush myself down after the bomb has droped! You dont want fallout all over the rug, could be confused with 'shake'n'vack' and bugger up the hoover!
How naive we must have been to think any of that information would save you life. Don't come out for at least 2 days!, close windows and curtains! lay on the ground!...lol
It should have said "If you hear the attack sound stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye" for all the good that public information film would do.
Apparently these films were made but not to be shown unless the prospect of a nuclear confrontation became a real threat. Why then do I seem to remember them being broadcast? I've asked a few other people I know, and they remember them too, mainly because of the haunting music at the end of each film written by Roger Limb.
@planejunky You probably remember them from the harrowing film 'Threads' which dramatised the period leading up to, and after, nuclear attack... that was the first time the public got to see these films which, as you rightly note were only to be shown when an attack became likely. In the film, they were broadcast continuously in the days leading up to the attack on all TV and radio stations... nothing like terrifying the population in an already scary time, after all :)
The world is more dangerous than ever and having at least a basic knowledge of civil defense, radological protection, improvised fall-out shelters and having the ability to survive on one's own supply of food and water are all needed as much in 2010 as they were in 1950.
@ElProfGringo The world is more dangerous than ever? Are you quite sure about that? Is that why since the end of WW2 we have had the longest period of peace in british history?
Civil Defense is more important than ever! A very real threat remains from nuclear weapons held by nuclear powers (Russia, China, Pakistan) as well as rogue states (Iran, North Korea) and from terrorists using "dirty" bombs and crude atomic weapons. Also protection from non-nuke mass casualty weapons i.e. biological and chemical.
@ElProfGringo Russia is at fairly good relations with the United States now, meaning Britain should also be pretty much safe from them. China attacking would potentially destroy their economy due to the HUGE amount of business that China and America do with each other. Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea, however, yes.
Yeah, the music is kind of creepy. One thing I noticed the UK's sirens are the reverse of ours (United States) where the alert/take cover signal is one continuous siren blast whereas the all clear is up and down.
@ 3:22 WTF! They are treating radioactive fallout like you are dusting off some excess pollen off yourself. Could you imagine the panic and fear that these PSAs would have conjured up if they actually ever aired.
i love the idea people were supposed to believe some doors and a ridiculously massive amount of luggage will protect you from a nuclear bomb.
The fact all your doors are off their hinges probably makes the fallout risk greater as it makes its way freely through the house.
They shouldn't have bothered telling people so that in the case of a bomb, only the strongest, cleverest and most inventive people survived, thus rebuilding a better society.
Basic actual things to do in attack: If fallout shelter, curl up in one, bring rations and water with you, the only correct advice this video gives.
If not. 90% of the cases, you're fucked. Protect your neck with your hands while on ground. Do NOT. IN ANY CASE. Dust yourself off. Remove top layers of clothing when moving downwind from them, one at a time.
In addition, would there be nuclear attack, move toward the wind direction to be safe. Usually toward the shore in early day is the safest
the best thing to do in that attack would be, just get as far away from the blast as you can. i.e. if the blast is in london and youre in like, essex, head as far north as you can
I know round my area they were on top of council buildings or police stations. they looked like long cylinders and inside a series of mechanisims that spin fast and then slow, creating the pitch bend effect for an attack warning.
or constant for ''all clear'' like you'd ever hear that after a full ICBM exchange!!
Is it me,or is that music at the end kind of creepy? No Offense to anybody from the U.K.,but if there was a real crisis,and they were showing these all the time(every hour if I remember right),wouldn't it CAUSE the very panic and sense of helplessness the films claim they are trying to prevent? I am SOOO glad they never got used.
@BrianMaki2005 Actually, my mother said they actually showed these for a short time. She said they where rather scary at the time because no one knew what was going to happen.
Well, you could try and do something useful. Like tell your family you love them or whatever, god would hardly be helpful in a crisis situation, if His followers weren't the cause of the bomb being dropped in the first place.
You have crazy people with atomic weapons and you have nuclear power which crazy people can get. I won't feel comfy unless the warheads and/or proliferation is agreed by all. I happen to know some countries haven't got this legislation in plane.
I just wish people would see sense and get rid of nuclear once and for all. I knoe there is radioacitive elements in deep sea suits and smoke detectors.
its called that because it literally falls out of the atmoshere.
I think its when the particles in the air have been exposed to gamma radiation, exept instead of turning into the incredible hulk, it will destroy the main organs.
after a nuclear bomb explodes the surrounding area become radioactive, (the radius of which is determined by the height at which the bomb explodes) this radiation is the fallout. I hope this was helpful to you.
That other guy is dumb... it may be a possibility that you'll die but nukes only have so much power with it's blast... the fallout is in fact the more deadly weapon. The warning sound will have a wavering tone, while the all clear sound will have a solid tone playing the whole time. (You're probably getting confused because they both start off the same but they have to because of the sound system they use)
That's just weird. Why would an alarm freak you out? It is intended to alert you to imminent danger so you can take steps to protect yourself. If the weather man issues a storm warning, do you freak out and o outside to be in the midst of it? Or do you seek the protection of shelter? Just wondering?
The reason the siren is scary is because of the connotations it carrys.
if each time the weatherman told us there was bad weather, and imminent death to follow, with the siren, our brains would be hardwired into the sound, and danger associated with it.
and the comparison really isnt founded, in the cold war, the fear everybody had was turned up to 11 with these info films.
and with the weather you dont tend to have goverment info films to tell you to do into a fallout shelter.
god thse films are dated lol if the bomb was to dro would really want to carry on living the world we know is gone id rather die still nice little dolls house my neice would love that house
i agree with markwrightrf they were never shown.but we did get to see different chunks which i first remember seeing in 1984 in the bbc drama threads.the plan and survive booklets were available to buy and local government printed their own versions of which i remember leeds city council producing and were available at libaries
You need to be underground, inside reinforced cement walls with a WHOLE lot of food, water, and oxygen. Because nobody's coming to save you for a long time if a nuke hits near you.
Imagine sitting down to emmerdale farm in 1975 and this comes on, basically if this were to happen we would all be fucked, I love the "safe from attack or fallout" bit, doh!
It's curious that several posters here apparently "remember" this being broadcast on TV. In fact, it was *never* broadcast, but very short sanitised clips were definitely featured in topical programmes of the day such as World In Action and Panorama. This particular film wasn't de-classified until the 90s. It was most definitely *not* scheduled after Rainbow!
"If you are out of doors...take cover." How? Where? That's like when your computer crashes, and the only help you get is, "Contact your systems administrator."
This is pure crowd control. Its not designed with any real purpose to save you. Its designed to make you feel better and safer. You'll die for sure if you follow most of it, but at least you'll feel like youre being responsible!
Ha ha ha! I would reckon you'd probably shit yourself already. I well remember one sunday morning in 1984, when the siren on top of the local 'tardis' style police block was set off. After a few seconds of shock, I realised it was the 'steady' all clear signal (they were testing the siren). The next thing I realised was that I urgently needed clean underwear.
These films were made for the government by the same company that made alot of Government information films for schools - if like me you were a late 70's/early 80's UK schoolboy and remember that they were real genuine topics of concern at the time - they remain absolutley frightening......
I was in grade school in the US in the 1970's. At least where I grew up, in a rural community, they didn't discuss nuclear war that much, even though it was in printed literature on emergency procedures. When I was about 10, I asked my Teacher what this was about. She turned pale and refused to discuss the matter.
When my nephew was a little boy in the 1980s, his teachers here in Scotland refused to tell him about nuclear weapons. As I was involved in the anti-nuclear movement at the time, my sister asked me to explain it to him. In the most objective way possible, I explained to him about the bomb and how 'we' had it and 'they' had it but not to worry. I don't agree with involving children in politics - even when it's their future we're fighting for. Perhaps your teacher felt the same way, yes/no?
LNER4468, At that age, I was very precocious, and could always d be counted on to ask the hard questions no one else would. I think I caught her off guard, and her reaction was a combination of denial (there was a military target barely 30 miles away) and desire to prevent a panic among the other students. She was a fine lady and one of my favorites.
Much like the "Duck & Cover" film in the US, this advice is for those further away from ground zero. Closing light colored curtains or painting over the windows with white paint will reflect much of the flash, so as to avoid burnination inside your home. Now, if you're close enough that the wood ignites instantly, then, yeah, closing the curtains is just p***ing in the wind. Again, this sort of thing is to reduce casualties further away from ground zero.
Soooo........in the event of a nuclear war, hide under a kitchen table? I mean.....society is ruined, food is poisoned and you risk disease every time you step outside for at least the next 30 years (Is Chernobyl safe yet?) But...hey....you're alive.
PinkFloydFan74 2 weeks ago
@PinkFloydFan74 There's a reason why they tell you to hide in the corner of your house, rather than out in the open and it's not to keep you alive...
tezzrexx 1 week ago
it's all useless anyway
Nicky131Popstar 3 weeks ago
Am I being daft here, or does the all clear warning sound the same as the attack. So all the enemy needed to do was to wait, then send another attack, the second alarm would be rung, everyone would think it was the all clear, come running out and get blown to kingdom come. Just because soem dumb arse couldn't think up another sound for the all clear. Shit. And to think we won the bloody cold war...
oxfordinvestigations 1 month ago
wtf
TheSatsRule 1 month ago
yes draw curtains
the curtains are a frontline defense
KiersellMikean 2 months ago 5
@KiersellMikean It would help weaken the heat going into your home.
efcboy 1 month ago
As a 9 year old I was left in a darkened living room alone watching this while my parents talked in the kitchen. Scared me for life!
wearesunshineradio 2 months ago 3
why must they tell me thats the thing with goverements they always wanna tell other people what they MUST do??? strange hey
blazecronik2011 2 months ago
I can remember this as a kid .... scary times
scatteredmist 2 months ago
i really want to play fallout 3 now
soipmeotnh 2 months ago
so old ww2 sirens mean a bomb is coming. Then if a bomb lands we hear tiny little clangs and whistles? Surely the huge boom of a nuclear explosion would be clue enough.
I like how he said draw curtains. Because everyone knows curtains are impervious to nuclear fallout.
pickering86 3 months ago in playlist A Public information films
i was watching this so closely when a car alarm went off outside i nearly jumped out of my skin.
philthroughfire29 3 months ago 2
On the out doors bit, he might as well have just said "you're fucked"
alextankian 3 months ago 4
yeh, cos we all have fallout shelters in our basements don't we?
ol987986 4 months ago
There worrying about fallout but not the explosion
newtspidwing1 5 months ago
So you need to do all that while your inpending doom looms above you have you really got all that time
newtspidwing1 5 months ago
if your outside but survive the initial blast, you have approx 1 hour to get indoors before the fallout starts to land
Anotherrnumber 5 months ago 9
if there's a nuclear explosion. and you're outside remember to hide under a bridge. cos we all know fall-out can't get under bridges. basically if you're outside you're knackered.
disjoinedchip2 5 months ago
It makes you wonder how much Money Richard Taylor Cartoons and Patrick Allen made from this, doesn't it? Mr Allen was also a very sucessful businessman as well, running a recording studio and post-production house.
ChrisHenniker 5 months ago
I am just old enought to remember these films and still when i hire the old siren it sends i chill down my spine BBBBBRRRRAAAAA. if ever hired the siren for the real thing, you had a few seconds. NO such thing as a 4mint warning
YorkshireTown 6 months ago
I listened to a Radio 4 doc a few years back. The only reason they told us to stay indoors was to make it easier to identify the bodies afterwards. Nothing to with protect and survive.
danprice2 6 months ago
@danprice2 where can i listen to this?
vef444 6 months ago
What if you're naked outdoors?
eyebawl1 6 months ago
If you hear the fallout warning...you're screwed.
Xxharukapanda 6 months ago
does ayone know if britain still has a warning stategy in place anymore ?
mrrezdude1 7 months ago
@mrrezdude1 I do believe we can ask this, in a similar manner that we found out that Britain does not have a zombie apocalypse strategy.
fearthefurby 2 months ago
@mrrezdude1 They've removed the sirens from most towns, only kept in some coastal towns.Not sure if they have a Emergency Alert System though.
efcboy 1 month ago
Now according to some crap i`v read this was deemed liable to cause a panic in the general population....well no you don't say!!
I mean there were a lot of older people that knew first hand the air raid warning and what it means, as in the film "When The Wind Blows" he says the paper is late today "that never happened in the last war..." So lets all hope the birds stay in the silo`s and "may all the warheads rust in peace" don't forget to close the windows in case a 100MT bomb hits the street
blackcountryme 8 months ago
IN the us it said stuff along the lines of even a newspaper can protect you from a thermonuclear blast... it was all garbage. But trying to help keep down panic.
ZILOGz80VIDEOS 8 months ago
Turn off the gas an electric. Heaven forbid you run up an expensive gas and electric bill during the middle of a nuclear holocaust. Fallout is a noisy pesk. Make sure to pack some earmuffs in your inner refuge.
RightWingHunter666 9 months ago
Close the curtains. THAT'LL DO THE TRICK.
Richiepookinshoo 9 months ago
if it can disintegrate a house, then what use is a ditch???
akcarbine949 9 months ago
@akcarbine949 please think for a moment before asking questions.
KingNast 9 months ago
lie in a ditch, if you hear the fallout warning...your fucked.
Supertoaster1576 10 months ago
@EmperorMarcusNovius We're all screwed, then.
eltonator 10 months ago
If nuclear attack was imminent, i would have lots of sex, take lots of drugs, and tell everyone i love them. Then just die (or kill myself)
daggerheart03 11 months ago
@daggerheart03 you ever read the book "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute?
buyfarmfresheggs 10 months ago
@buyfarmfresheggs No, why?
daggerheart03 10 months ago
@daggerheart03 its a post-apocalyptic novel dealing with the reactions of many people to the fact that the whole human race will be extinct due to radiation poisoning in a few months. Some people had the exact same reaction as your comment. Its very interesting, I recommend that book to everyone.
buyfarmfresheggs 10 months ago
I certainly would be volunteering to send out the fallout warning
a10077 11 months ago
if you brushed fallout off with your hands your hands would'nt be there for long
drewster4895 11 months ago 2
i remember these as a child...terrified me beyond belief.
auxlen 11 months ago
my god those windows are thin
TheDEATHSTARIII 11 months ago
Anyone else think the sound of that air raid siren is really eerie?
CommonJezebelle 1 year ago
yeah laying on the ground and covering your head with your jacket will save you from a nuclear bomb
Goonboy7777 1 year ago 3
@Goonboy7777 yeah, actually, it will. This is about protecting yourself from nuclear fallout, not the
KingNast 9 months ago
Think you're gonna have time to shut everything off before you get turned to nuclear waste?
Symos 1 year ago
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Tommysgirl14 1 year ago
"The longer you stay in your refuge, the better it will be for you." And for us... we'll need slave labor when the radiation subsides. A message from your government.
brethynda123 1 year ago
A NUDET is survivable if you are far enough away from ground zero, but if I were so near a primary target where a multi stage thermonuclear warhead was going to detonate within four minutes, the probability of survival would be so low and the risk of horrific injury so high even if you did survive, I would likely head to the closest point to probable ground zero. Just a flash, and you wouldn't feel a thing....better than roasting alive in a half baked shelter that will be turned into a furnace.
geoffck6969 1 year ago
Does anyone know when the Protect and Survive PIF series was originally created? I have heard 1975 and 1976 put forward in the past. It must have been some time before 1983/84 since of course they appeared on Threads.
NathanF11989 1 year ago
3:48 "For the time being?" Does that mean more nukes are expected? That the world will somehow recover it's supplies of weapons and goods? That government still exists? What is that supposed to mean?
fictionalfigment 1 year ago
dont forget to draw the curtains! This could save your life! unbelievebal what they told the peope just that there arent scared anymore...
123aycaramba 1 year ago
@123aycaramba It could save you from major burns from the initial flash of the nuclear blast. A person could be burned badly from the flash of a nuclear explosion even if they are far enough away not to be killed by it. Even something as thin as a curtain could shield you at certain distances. Of course, if you're within a certain range of the blast, it won't do any good to draw the curtains.
Mainsail76 1 year ago
THAT SCARED THE S**T OUTTA ME I SAW THIS WHEN I WAS A KID
BOSSINBRIXTON 1 year ago 2
Do all this shit first THEN go to your fallout room...well anyway, unless your fallout room is lined with lead your pretty much like oven ready chickens anyway.
I can believe that this used to scare people but seriously...do all that and you're still going to look like a bit of beef jerky!
sarahannah10 1 year ago
It's absolutley pathetic how they expected us to swallow that rubbish, should the worst come to the worst. The only thing id've swallowed would've been a mouthfull of fallout dust
BuddyFantastic 1 year ago
So when a siren sounds a giant red beam will apear infront of my house?
I'll be more scared of that then the bomb.
deadpie1234 1 year ago 15
@deadpie1234 haha
jonathanevans1990 8 months ago
@deadpie1234 It's supposed to be a visualization of the wailing tone
racer927 8 months ago
I laughed at 3:15. ok yeah, brush myself down after the bomb has droped! You dont want fallout all over the rug, could be confused with 'shake'n'vack' and bugger up the hoover!
morrismagic08 1 year ago 2
Well almost every country has nuclear weapons, so if or when World War 3 brakes out we're all F***ked
gallafey 1 year ago
@gallafey world war 3 is already underway......it just hasnt came to the boil yet.
007bondspy 1 year ago
yeah you dont want to be paying for gas and electricity your not going to use.
timmythevoe 1 year ago
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Throw the politicians out of the bunkers seeing as they start the wars in the
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VANHELSING433 1 year ago
Easy. Throw the politicians out of the bunkers seeing as they start the wars in
the first place.
VANHELSING433 1 year ago 4
that looks like a grand spot under that bridge...scenic place to burn...
noclass33 1 year ago
How naive we must have been to think any of that information would save you life. Don't come out for at least 2 days!, close windows and curtains! lay on the ground!...lol
It should have said "If you hear the attack sound stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye" for all the good that public information film would do.
landybitz 1 year ago
Apparently these films were made but not to be shown unless the prospect of a nuclear confrontation became a real threat. Why then do I seem to remember them being broadcast? I've asked a few other people I know, and they remember them too, mainly because of the haunting music at the end of each film written by Roger Limb.
planejunky 1 year ago
@planejunky You probably remember them from the harrowing film 'Threads' which dramatised the period leading up to, and after, nuclear attack... that was the first time the public got to see these films which, as you rightly note were only to be shown when an attack became likely. In the film, they were broadcast continuously in the days leading up to the attack on all TV and radio stations... nothing like terrifying the population in an already scary time, after all :)
divinedegenerate 5 months ago
@planejunky Cold War. Everyone was two seconds away from getting fucked.
fearthefurby 2 months ago
@fearthefurby I'm living on the edge, I'm always, without fail, ONE second. ;)
IToe4Kids 1 month ago
@EmperorMarcusNovius No, but it stops a lot of flying glass (apparantly)
TissieSaffie 1 year ago
After Warning..? am shagging nearest bitch xD
GoodByeKyle 1 year ago
What if this was for kids? Imagine a British kid: "Where the fuck is Bert?!"
NikThaStik22 1 year ago
What the hell is that fallout warning? Is that bigfoot coming
NikThaStik22 1 year ago
@NikThaStik22 Three flares would be fired from the nearest ROC post, that's what the three bangs are.
planejunky 1 year ago
another way to tell if there's a nuclear explosion nearby, giant goddamn boom.
static56um 1 year ago
Does anyone remember the animation film "When The Wind Blows"?
hugglebear69 1 year ago 16
@hugglebear69 Yes huggle its on here - very spooky
kinetix100 6 months ago in playlist Public Information Films
The world is more dangerous than ever and having at least a basic knowledge of civil defense, radological protection, improvised fall-out shelters and having the ability to survive on one's own supply of food and water are all needed as much in 2010 as they were in 1950.
ElProfGringo 1 year ago
@ElProfGringo The world is more dangerous than ever? Are you quite sure about that? Is that why since the end of WW2 we have had the longest period of peace in british history?
Kozzy06 1 year ago
Civil Defense is more important than ever! A very real threat remains from nuclear weapons held by nuclear powers (Russia, China, Pakistan) as well as rogue states (Iran, North Korea) and from terrorists using "dirty" bombs and crude atomic weapons. Also protection from non-nuke mass casualty weapons i.e. biological and chemical.
ElProfGringo 1 year ago
@ElProfGringo Russia is at fairly good relations with the United States now, meaning Britain should also be pretty much safe from them. China attacking would potentially destroy their economy due to the HUGE amount of business that China and America do with each other. Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea, however, yes.
Obstkuchen14 1 year ago
Yeah, the music is kind of creepy. One thing I noticed the UK's sirens are the reverse of ours (United States) where the alert/take cover signal is one continuous siren blast whereas the all clear is up and down.
NowhereMan1966 1 year ago
@ 3:22 WTF! They are treating radioactive fallout like you are dusting off some excess pollen off yourself. Could you imagine the panic and fear that these PSAs would have conjured up if they actually ever aired.
waveali 1 year ago
What a waste of time this film is.
They would be much better off playing the end of "Life of Brian" instead.
"Always look on the bright side of life ..." [tweet, tweet - tweet tweety tweety tweet]
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DeathOfTheDollar2010 1 year ago
IF OUT DOORS bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
TheBigBlueDoor 1 year ago
More of a case of 'say the Lord's prayer and hope you get hit straight away. You wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war.
MDreadedTV 1 year ago
What do do if you are at home, If attack is imminent, kiss your ass goodbye.
RainbowManification 1 year ago
Look on the bright side, Fallout was an awesome game.
PoisonInc 1 year ago
i love the idea people were supposed to believe some doors and a ridiculously massive amount of luggage will protect you from a nuclear bomb.
The fact all your doors are off their hinges probably makes the fallout risk greater as it makes its way freely through the house.
They shouldn't have bothered telling people so that in the case of a bomb, only the strongest, cleverest and most inventive people survived, thus rebuilding a better society.
twolfend 2 years ago
Basic actual things to do in attack: If fallout shelter, curl up in one, bring rations and water with you, the only correct advice this video gives.
If not. 90% of the cases, you're fucked. Protect your neck with your hands while on ground. Do NOT. IN ANY CASE. Dust yourself off. Remove top layers of clothing when moving downwind from them, one at a time.
In addition, would there be nuclear attack, move toward the wind direction to be safe. Usually toward the shore in early day is the safest
Kanakotka 2 years ago
Ridiculous.instructions from the government
You'd rather be dead than follow this shallow advice.
JamesAOK 2 years ago 5
@JamesAOK so what would you do? stand in a field and bask in the fallout? dumbass
KingNast 9 months ago
living through another cuba
mayitpleasethecourt 2 years ago
the best thing to do in that attack would be, just get as far away from the blast as you can. i.e. if the blast is in london and youre in like, essex, head as far north as you can
racingfan2k10 2 years ago
i used to look for those sirens, never found one though!.
KOLSARNIT 2 years ago
I know round my area they were on top of council buildings or police stations. they looked like long cylinders and inside a series of mechanisims that spin fast and then slow, creating the pitch bend effect for an attack warning.
or constant for ''all clear'' like you'd ever hear that after a full ICBM exchange!!
lostronin666 2 years ago
"close the curtains"... why? So you can't see the disfigured zombies roaming the streets looking for victims?
pikuorguk 2 years ago 2
put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye!
cutterschoicenotmine 2 years ago 3
go to google video and whatch the movie "threads".disturbing, but a good movie
dazzelknight 2 years ago 3
never before has a film made me want to kill myself more than that. Saw it a few years ago.. Oh God...
Kainlarsen 2 years ago
very scary, I was ten when this was a real thraet, very scary.
DarthCoors 2 years ago
this is so sick
boigen 2 years ago
When you hear the attack signal, run outside and go toward the exploding nuclear device. Who in the world would want to survive something like that?
Meatpies62 2 years ago 5
true upto a point but unless your totally insane human nature is to survive, not just give up and die.
racistgayclown 2 years ago
Is it me,or is that music at the end kind of creepy? No Offense to anybody from the U.K.,but if there was a real crisis,and they were showing these all the time(every hour if I remember right),wouldn't it CAUSE the very panic and sense of helplessness the films claim they are trying to prevent? I am SOOO glad they never got used.
BrianMaki2005 2 years ago 18
@BrianMaki2005 Actually, my mother said they actually showed these for a short time. She said they where rather scary at the time because no one knew what was going to happen.
viperxeon 1 year ago
@BrianMaki2005 yeah, keeping people in the dark would be a lot better.
KingNast 9 months ago
@BrianMaki2005
I am from the UK and I am offended!
...Joking :L
brendude95 9 months ago
why would i even listen to this bloody shit i dont care if people say there is a neclear bomb ill just pray to my god and hope. wont do anythig else.
XxMuslimDeenxX 2 years ago
"god" is imaginary
dmwilliams01 2 years ago
god might be imaginary to you, sure. but its better than sitting in a corner and crying
phelan511 2 years ago
agreed. at that point thats all you can do.
phelan511 2 years ago
Well, you could try and do something useful. Like tell your family you love them or whatever, god would hardly be helpful in a crisis situation, if His followers weren't the cause of the bomb being dropped in the first place.
J2124123 2 years ago
its kinda saying "dont worry dont worry sand and your curtins will save you "
brigeboy95 2 years ago 3
"Brush of the fallout dust if you can". Priceless.
animatetime 2 years ago 7
well you MAY be wearing lead gloves
billabongodrum 2 years ago
Which I why I am anti radiation.
You have crazy people with atomic weapons and you have nuclear power which crazy people can get. I won't feel comfy unless the warheads and/or proliferation is agreed by all. I happen to know some countries haven't got this legislation in plane.
I just wish people would see sense and get rid of nuclear once and for all. I knoe there is radioacitive elements in deep sea suits and smoke detectors.
lilmissglentoran 2 years ago
Basically get a 9 mil browning ,cock it! place it in your mouth , then pull the fuckin trigger .
Ive seen threads , who would want to survive that!
theblackmafia71 2 years ago 4
quicker than dying a slow painful death by rad poisoning
phelan511 2 years ago
what does fallout mean?
Darkestrose99 2 years ago
Kinda radioactive dust.
its called that because it literally falls out of the atmoshere.
I think its when the particles in the air have been exposed to gamma radiation, exept instead of turning into the incredible hulk, it will destroy the main organs.
rorrt 2 years ago 3
after a nuclear bomb explodes the surrounding area become radioactive, (the radius of which is determined by the height at which the bomb explodes) this radiation is the fallout. I hope this was helpful to you.
Chainmailhater14 2 years ago
Then go to the fallout room and DIE
umahuma4 2 years ago 5
we should bring somone living in the cold war and bring them to the future in a tornado warning, THEY WILL FREAK THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!
umahuma4 2 years ago 3
Close your curtains? Shit, I have blinds.
TROUSERFLAP 2 years ago 8
what's the diff between the warning souond and the all cleared sound?
badmuthaphucka 2 years ago
If you heard the bomb warning for real you wouldent be alive to hear the all clear anyway
robuk1981 2 years ago 3
That other guy is dumb... it may be a possibility that you'll die but nukes only have so much power with it's blast... the fallout is in fact the more deadly weapon. The warning sound will have a wavering tone, while the all clear sound will have a solid tone playing the whole time. (You're probably getting confused because they both start off the same but they have to because of the sound system they use)
drdoey 2 years ago 2
"Damp down fires" - with a shovel and supply of sand you just happen to have in your house!!!!
afcfan75 2 years ago
Under new labour no-one can afford to have gas an electricity and have had their homes reposessed.
MavisRileyJunior 2 years ago
hahaha hide under a bridge, have one last wank
sour8vein00 2 years ago 54
Those fallout alarms really freak me out.
janbvo 2 years ago 5
That's just weird. Why would an alarm freak you out? It is intended to alert you to imminent danger so you can take steps to protect yourself. If the weather man issues a storm warning, do you freak out and o outside to be in the midst of it? Or do you seek the protection of shelter? Just wondering?
geoffck1969 2 years ago
The reason the siren is scary is because of the connotations it carrys.
if each time the weatherman told us there was bad weather, and imminent death to follow, with the siren, our brains would be hardwired into the sound, and danger associated with it.
and the comparison really isnt founded, in the cold war, the fear everybody had was turned up to 11 with these info films.
and with the weather you dont tend to have goverment info films to tell you to do into a fallout shelter.
rorrt 2 years ago
god thse films are dated lol if the bomb was to dro would really want to carry on living the world we know is gone id rather die still nice little dolls house my neice would love that house
freacls 2 years ago
i agree with markwrightrf they were never shown.but we did get to see different chunks which i first remember seeing in 1984 in the bbc drama threads.the plan and survive booklets were available to buy and local government printed their own versions of which i remember leeds city council producing and were available at libaries
nigelhorsl 2 years ago
If you are out of doors, you are fucked. But if you are in doors you are still fucked. Heads they win, tails you lose.
FirstWave12 2 years ago
Shut windows and draw curtains!! Yeah, that will stop the fire storm and Gamma rays! PMSL
bwfc1975 2 years ago 3
You need to be underground, inside reinforced cement walls with a WHOLE lot of food, water, and oxygen. Because nobody's coming to save you for a long time if a nuke hits near you.
robwgibbons 2 years ago 5
that sound is kinda creeepy and it goes right thrue me
Jan756 2 years ago 3
Imagine sitting down to emmerdale farm in 1975 and this comes on, basically if this were to happen we would all be fucked, I love the "safe from attack or fallout" bit, doh!
gobbygirl77 2 years ago
That air raid noise sends something so chilling through me.
fiveandahalfguys 2 years ago 5
It's curious that several posters here apparently "remember" this being broadcast on TV. In fact, it was *never* broadcast, but very short sanitised clips were definitely featured in topical programmes of the day such as World In Action and Panorama. This particular film wasn't de-classified until the 90s. It was most definitely *not* scheduled after Rainbow!
markwrightrf 3 years ago 5
When you are out of doors... anyone actually had a problem of not having enough doors to be out of doors? LOL.
TheRichFather 3 years ago 4
lol
1thinkthereforeiam 3 years ago
yeah cos radiation can't travel under bridges..
sattski 3 years ago 6
"In the event of a nuclear attack, sit down, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye"
JoseyLondon 3 years ago 2
"If you are out of doors...take cover." How? Where? That's like when your computer crashes, and the only help you get is, "Contact your systems administrator."
Except more fatal, obviously.
Pedgerow 3 years ago 6
This is pure crowd control. Its not designed with any real purpose to save you. Its designed to make you feel better and safer. You'll die for sure if you follow most of it, but at least you'll feel like youre being responsible!
seamanrob 3 years ago
If caught up in this, your fucked. All of this is basically trying to say "shut Up, and die quietly"
Kevster1993 3 years ago
when out side run like f**k
bmwman1981 3 years ago
No friendly 'duck and cover' turtle here. This is Britain.
dogblessamerica 3 years ago 18
@dogblessamerica Duck and Cover was made for kids, I believe that this was for adults.
NikThaStik22 1 year ago
So someone will be banging on a pot and pans to declare fallout? lol
myrnaloysboy 3 years ago 7
Holy crap, my parents lived through this...
crazymelon 3 years ago 3
I was a youngster when these were on the telly, one minute I'm watching Rainbow - then this comes on.......
simpson30 3 years ago
These videos make the whole idea of nuclear war look very old fashioned, although of course it's not.
brwhizz 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Fucking wankers!
MURDERyourLEADERS 3 years ago
We watched these in history- we couldnt stop laughing at the Bridge and the Ditch bit
xD
Hillarious. but rather scary :S
kizzaangel7 3 years ago
plufffffffff.....bye bye humans
tenedle 3 years ago
theres something about these that is pretty haunting
MrAppleby56 3 years ago
What to do after attack warning:
1. Place head between legs.
2. Kiss butt goodbye.
LNER4468 3 years ago
Wrong !
1. Place head between legs.
2. Shit yourself.
roddy76to86 3 years ago
Ha ha ha! I would reckon you'd probably shit yourself already. I well remember one sunday morning in 1984, when the siren on top of the local 'tardis' style police block was set off. After a few seconds of shock, I realised it was the 'steady' all clear signal (they were testing the siren). The next thing I realised was that I urgently needed clean underwear.
This is probably way too much information.
LNER4468 3 years ago 4
this is like the dont do drugs school films from the 80s lol
2possi 3 years ago
These films were made for the government by the same company that made alot of Government information films for schools - if like me you were a late 70's/early 80's UK schoolboy and remember that they were real genuine topics of concern at the time - they remain absolutley frightening......
yardelli 3 years ago
yardelli,
I was in grade school in the US in the 1970's. At least where I grew up, in a rural community, they didn't discuss nuclear war that much, even though it was in printed literature on emergency procedures. When I was about 10, I asked my Teacher what this was about. She turned pale and refused to discuss the matter.
wardenphil 3 years ago
When my nephew was a little boy in the 1980s, his teachers here in Scotland refused to tell him about nuclear weapons. As I was involved in the anti-nuclear movement at the time, my sister asked me to explain it to him. In the most objective way possible, I explained to him about the bomb and how 'we' had it and 'they' had it but not to worry. I don't agree with involving children in politics - even when it's their future we're fighting for. Perhaps your teacher felt the same way, yes/no?
LNER4468 3 years ago
LNER4468, At that age, I was very precocious, and could always d be counted on to ask the hard questions no one else would. I think I caught her off guard, and her reaction was a combination of denial (there was a military target barely 30 miles away) and desire to prevent a panic among the other students. She was a fine lady and one of my favorites.
wardenphil 3 years ago
safe for the time being!? damn what a let down lol
obnoxiousnickname 3 years ago
Yeah draw your curtains, that should do the trick!
bluesugarmonkeys 3 years ago
Much like the "Duck & Cover" film in the US, this advice is for those further away from ground zero. Closing light colored curtains or painting over the windows with white paint will reflect much of the flash, so as to avoid burnination inside your home. Now, if you're close enough that the wood ignites instantly, then, yeah, closing the curtains is just p***ing in the wind. Again, this sort of thing is to reduce casualties further away from ground zero.
Cybrludite 3 years ago