About Fallout (1955)

Like many of these Cold War relics, this film is meant to reassure the viewer that the nuclear family is strong enough to survive a nuclear war, and that fallout isn't really that dangerous if you wait two weeks in your shelter before dealing with it. I wonder if these films did not serve a twofold purpose: to encourage the populace to remain calm in the face of what we now know to be a potentially far more dangerous situation, and to reassure us that our own use of nuclear weapons on a certain other country was not that horrible. I find the narrator's tone particularly unsettling here. In the calm tones of science and authority, he tells us that the thing that may kill us is our friend, like the doctor in the Milgrim Experiment that says it's okay to increase the voltage on the test subject when in fact, we're frying the poor guy to death.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Cold
• War
• Civil
• Defense
• Nuclear
• Fallout
• 1955
• USA
• Army

[suomalainen121]

computer is neccessary so you can play fallout 1-3.

[Renegen1]

How impressive, no superstars, no exaggeration of the threats, just factual. Doesn't happen often nowadays.

[4136god]

There's a school by where I live that has a fallout shelter sign,but it's filled with asbestose... So it's eather die by radiation,or get lung cancer and die over time.

[w8ingtocu]

@Renegen1 i know right straight to the damn point. "if our country should be attacked by nuclear weapons,many would die instantly from the destructive blast and heat." lol

[rangeclerk]

In '69 '70 a Sr Master Sgt (USMC) told me DIAL was the soap they had found to be the most effective in removing "fallout" from clothes, skin etc...outside surfaces...

He had been in the battles of Korea and also took part in the Atomic and Nuke Tests.

[rangeclerk]

At the time this film was made the U.S.A. could not be struck by a nuclear wpn either by missile or aircraft from Commie Russia. According to WAR AND PEACE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE (PBS late 1980s) and book of the same name, the Head of the Soviet Stag Rocket Forces stated they (the Russians) had no means of hitting. any part of the Contin. United States with their nuke warheads---no means of delivery---

[4everfrankenstein]

To anyone who feels secure in the belief that the country wielding the most nuclear weapons stands the best chance of survival, allow me to possibly enlighten you w/ a small illustration; Imagine two opponents are squaring off against each other in a room awash in gasoline, and that they are both armed with books of matches. Do you really think the man with the most matches in his book will emerge victorious or even survive the conflict if they decide to throw lit matches at one another?

[TheJojo45678]

This stuff from the 50s absolutely fascinates me. The sheer stupidity of our species is really a contrasting testament to our limitless imagination. Anyone know where I can find more videos like this?

[Spacemongerr]

haha amazing video. Sure, just wait in a fallout shelter for two weeks, and you'll be fiiiine..

[Mitchum411]

I know that an old church by me has a sign saying fallout shelter it can hold a max. of 75 people.

[DrMotorDude]

"Many people have difficulty understanding how silent, invisible rays which cannot even be felt can be so damaging."

NO! EVERYBODY who's anybody with a computer can go on the internet and understand EVERYTHING! Black helicopter/space aliens/Church's Chicken biscuit butter makes black men sterile conspiracy nuts put the "DUH" in PROPAGAN-DUH!

[Erminiaz]

And where did you find this information? Playing Fallout 3?