A Day Called 'X' - Part 1/3

[seani0]

These men are expendable. Power plant workers; fuck em.

[IParkeStudios]

Woohoo! Go Portland! I support anything that has my home city in it :D

[ObssesedNuker]

8:09-8:20 Jee, I'm sure all those power workers who saw this were having second thoughts about their jobs afterward.

[nukewarfare2]

Ah, see... in this case, they had enemy bombers headed for them, so they had three hours to prepare. In a few years after this, it would have been ICBMs and SLBMs headed to Portland. And if missiles were over the Aleutians, instead of three hours, they would have had maybe three minutes to impact.

[aznate27]

Could these people be any more nonhalant that their probably going to die?? LOL.

[pavilionking06]

Wow lol this is pretty funny. Yeah for Portland.

[cautionthisissparta]

Lol at 8:52

[DandDskeeto]

I'm 40.  Among other things, the trouble with youth today is none of these kids ever woke up knowing a warhead was pointing at them. It think it built character in our generation and those before us

LOL I am kidding !!!

[NoBuyForYou]

I understand your kidding, but I'm 15 and I know how to survive! ^^

[cautionthisissparta]

meh... i'd rather die than suffer through all the radiation sickness and misery and dead people

[YimChun]

@cautionthisissparta...no doubt...that's why i'm not scared of Nuclear War...if I do die, it'll be relatively quick....what I'm scared of is SURVIVING the nuclear war...lol....have you seen a Super Mutant? Not somethin' I look forward to...lol

[QuasiTraction]

Mt. Tabor Park @ 2:42 looking West.

8:51......man, Mickey Mouse is gonna be pissed when he finds out Minnie got left behind.

[zekepig]

Not as exciting as "The Day After", but scary enough for a 1957 audience to take heed.

[DandDskeeto]

watch the BBC one from like 84 or so. I forgot the name,but I watched it here on YouTube "Threads" ? maybe ??

It was scary.

[ktmggg]

@DandDskeeto I always thought the movie Testament was terrifying. Everyone is just sitting around waiting for the fallout to kill them like in the movie On The Beach, even though they're trying to find safety. It's the waiting for death (whether slow and painful or quick and relatively painless) that instills fear.

[MattShizzle]

@DandDskeeto

Yeah I have it. The one that scared the crap out of me and gave me nightmares back in the day was "The Day After." You kids have no idea how scary the 80s were. We had a president who a lot of people who weren't born yet then think was good now who all but tried to start WWIII. Reagan was a lunatic.

[marcinohio575]

This is a very good film indeed! A++

[snakes3425]

Quick to the Vaults

[swedishgorilla1]

I love how calm everyone stayed. Oh, the era of the common man, and his bad acting! Curse you and your terrible acting, CURSE YOU!

[ktmggg]

He pronounced Oregon correctly!

[swedishgorilla1]

I know! He didn't say Or-yeah-gone. Isn't said when people can't even pronounce a states name correctly? This is weird looking at this video when you look at modern Portland compared to this.

[walleyrt69]

"We've got 10 minutes,Hurry,pull your pants down and bend over".

[DandDskeeto]

LOL ! If things were getting bad. I'd make sure I was no more than 20 ft away from some gorgeous woman Give them the old "the earth is going to end ..line"

[Connerisawesome]

Quick! To the Emergency Operations Center!

[nightflyer28]

Love those 50s style 'wholesome' references - "She turned to the womens' page" "Cat stuck in tree" - weird stuff.

What cop would waste time with a cat in a tree?

[DefconWarningSystem]

They really thought they could evacuate a 400K population in less than three hours? That's some hard core optimism!

[silikon2]

I love the incredibly calm meeting.

[Upiio21]

" We're gonna be nuked by a H-bomb, lets continue the meeting at the emergency center "

Yes, go to the emergency center and discuss sewage systems -.-

[DandDskeeto]

LOL DUCK AND COVER head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye,

[Karletto555]

@DandDskeeto

Take a spade into the garden

And dig like merry hell sir

[DandDskeeto]

:-P

[wiley207]

At 08:08, that fire alarm horn is the same kind that was at my dad's elementary school!

[wiley207]

I don't get it why the sound effects editor dubbed a different air raid siren noise over the footage of that Chrysler siren. Would actually recording it damage the tape recorder or whatever

[chardman1]

WOW!

That's some amazing stuff. Thanks for uploading!

Your information if very helpful, too.

When and where was this broadcast in '04?

Was it shown in Portland?

Fascinating!

[mudylafeet]

amazing,thank you for uploading