Duck and Cover: Famous Civil Defense film for children

[sergiorambolt]

ya our gov lol

[Melensko]

this was really really grim

[HistoryIsLame]

Professor Massey is an assbutt.

[Shybaby863]

@HistoryIsLame do be talkin about my professor just because ur dumb ass failed his class. His class is too easy to not past. Idoit

[hplexmark1]

ha ha ha- the monkey is a "suicide bomber"!

[Relugus]

The Swiss built bunkers for their entire population.

Indeed, the "evil" Soviets spent more on civil defence than America.

The reason America didn't have any meaningful civil defence was because a scared population is much more easier to manipulate into supporting wars.

Its disgusting.

[Paragus10]

Damn,they must of made desks real sturdy back in the old days. :D

[jaggedkill]

such scary propagana imgine what would happen!!

[aaronaaronjarvis]

duck in cover only gavekids a false sense of security after all if you are close enough to an a-bomb then you can be completly obliterated your only hope is a concrete bunker that is airtight seal but there were a lot of them back then

[Cybrludite]

Bear in mind, that at the time this was made, nukes were smaller than 100 Kt, nuclear arsenals were measured in dozens, and the weapons were delivered by bombers. A very different sort of threat than thousands of megaton yield weapons delivered by MIRVed ICBMs.

[ITILII]

made in the 50s which by then, there were already thermonuclear weapons in the megaton range, just that the only way to deliver them at the time was by bombers

[snappertjuh]

duck and cover! but what to do when the heat is to close? duck and burn?

[Pendulum711]

Worry not, the heat will not burn you, as long as you 'duck and cover' -brought to you by the civil defense

[imgonnapissuoff]

How are turtle shells for shielding radiation? doo doo da do duck n cover Burt!

[philbiglicks]

no wonder all the kids these days are fucked up after what there parents were brought up on duck and cover lol may aswell stand in the road

[furydeath]

But I feel so safe on this bus.

[MannaBoBannaPeople]

Ha ha, I remember these vids and drills. And the BULL onie

[sergiorambolt]

SEE HOW OUR GOV LIES ! DAMN STUPID !

[kuroshashu]

Hell, if only this shit were still shown in schools. Imagine the fun you could have with a humble camera flash.... ;P

[radioactiveshoes]

at around 6:20 when the kids duck against the wall there is a guy in the backround when the flash goes off and he just keeps walking

[randall2020]

For those of you for whom this is ancient history, I actually did these things when I was a kid. There were real practices.

[fang4643]

I thought the US only lost its brains recently.

[4Article1]

You know, the saddest thing was the government tested these bombs in the desert and they knew no one would survive the blast, much less the radioactive fallout. I think the real point was to help us fear the Russians and the Cubans.

[jpguinness]

The biggest load of crap ever thrusted before the American public at that time. Even if you "Duck and Cover" you would still be vaporized by the blast. It would probably work if you were like 50 miles away.

[URBANRUST]

Yeah!! Atomic Cafe Has alot of these old propaganda shorts,havent seen it in years though,if you upload it,let me know!

[ginzo1pk]

There is a very "matter of fact" tone to this video. It's almost as if they want you to expect weekly nuclear flahes... Kids just ducking and covering all over the place. I guess your less likely to be any sort of dissenter when you're constantly worried about be attacked and bombed. That sounds familiar.

[TKGB2006]

A newspaper wouldn't save you from getting burned. Heck, it be the first thing to go up in flames.

Was this the best the Civil Defense team can do?

[GeofChaucer]

Duck and cover would be fine, unless you were close enough for instant inceneration.

Frightening and traumatic for children.

O brave new world! That has such people in't. - Hamlet

[kreuztraeger]

I would have hated to be shown that in elementary school! How terrible!

[malonlonlonownsyou]

Wow...This film is so messed up XD The monkey blowing itself up and ducking under a desk to save themselves from an atomic attack. Did people actually believe this?

[4Article1]

No!!!! I remember seeing the mushroom clouds and heat blasts in the films and thinking, right, and this desk is going to protect me from that! Look what it did to the damn house, get real!