THREE REACTIONS TO LIFE IN A FALLOUT SHELTER 1950s CIVIL DEFENSE FILM 29142
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One of the more bizarre, but perhaps more intriguing and realistic Civil Defense films of all time, "Three Reactions to Shelter Life" attempts to highlight the negative psychological reactions that people might experience, living in a fallout shelter following a devastating thermonuclear war. These include aggression, regression, and of course depression. Released in 1964 by the Office of Civil Defense the film highlights the mental suffering likely to occur even when the occupants of a public fallout shelter remain physically safe. Interestingly, Three Reactions to Shelter Life leaves each scenario unsolved, suggesting there can be no easy answers to the problems of human interaction.
The subject of the film, and its content, seem right out of Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone".
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5: 20 ' forget about your f-ing missing family during this nuclear attack and move those chairs over there '
These little stories sway me in the direction of just wanting to stay out in the open during an attack
Yeah I can see why Charlie got so angry.... when you're confined in an area for your own protection the last thing you want is a reason to prefer to die. When the people are worse than the radiation. Though I guess by now we know for a fact that avoiding radiation poisoning is just living our last days in misery, but gosh this one still feels so real to this day.
Wait until they run out of coffee and cigs. They'll rip each other to shreds.
Just running out of smokes alone will drive some of them to killing. Some people become Mr (or Ms. Hyde) when they're quitting smoking.
Springbok295 There's another civil defense film I saw. It shows a family preparing to go into there family shelter. Dad calmly smoking his pipe while Mom checked off what they had. As the panned along the shelves of supplies you can see a couple cartons of cigarettes. (I presume for Mom.) After two weeks with 4 people, being in an 8×12 space with limited ventilation, two of whom are chain smoking to deal with boredom and stress, maybe fallout wouldn't seem so bad.
I know... so the bombs fly, I'd rather have 100 cases of Scotch and 1000 Cartons of Winstons. Now there's postapocalyptic rich man!
@@LaPabst appropriate screen name
What would you do when one of them in the food line asks......" Are these crackers gluten free? "
I would put them on the list to be sent to the Soylent Green Plant.
So basically, treat the guy worried about his family like shit, then wonder why he becomes “trouble.”
Basically yes and it makes sense
18:02 when the lady goes on a rant about candy and the kid gives her a shiteating grin- priceless.
Thank you to Periscope Films for the riffing fuel while I wait for my last uncle on my mom's side to get out of surgery. This is cathartic...
9:20 telling him to do it now isn't going to help the situation
I can't understand why Mary Dennis isn't married.
5:10
The guy on the right in the jacket is Barry Primus, who later went on to play Tully Bodine in the Sega CD game Loadstar.
Hey, I recognize some faces from a different civil defense fallout shelter film!
They were all done by the Not Ready For Civil Defense Film Players. ... a well known improv group, at the time.
Read “The Emily Post Guide to Manners and Etiquette in the Fallout Shelter.”
Nurse: Get me the alcohol, the isopropyl alcohol.
Me: Get me the alcohol, too. The vodka or whiskey, Jamieson’s, and a slice of lime.
I always bring my own. Drugs get mighty scarce and Americans get mighty selfish once the hatch slams shut. Don't forget the extra clips for your nine.
Cyanide capsules too, once they realize the hatch can't be open from the inside, morale will decline along with the air supply.
I'm on Charlie's side. Why is everyone in the shelter being such a dick to him? Even the narrator calls him 'Carry'. WTF?
I'm with you guys!
Yeah, he should have decked the fat guy trying to make him work and made an example of him for the rest of the residents.
6:15 The guy in the glasses is just asking to be shoved out into the fallout and looters.
They're just keeping him around until the food supplies dwindle. Old tubby's going to be good eatin'.
Yeet, the gnawed bones out of the shelter.. LOL
Don't forget the radscorpins.
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"This door must be kept closed". Sounds a bit tempting for some. Also a shelter sign next to it.
Narrator is the iconic Alexander Scourby.
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This would have been perfect for an MST3K riff.
You know, the distinct possibility of being vaporized, or trying to survive an attack, not really a laughing matter at that time, your comment is insensitive to ones living in those dangerous times.
@@JDAbelRN Ever hear of gallows' humor?
@@jonathanstern5537 I lived in those times.
@@JDAbelRN Did duck and cover drills in school. It was drilled into our heads that we could get nuked at pretty much any time.
It may be more than a half-century old, but human nature hasn't really changed, and there are valuable lessons to be learned...including about oneself.
Oh human nature has changed, but for the WORSE. People nowadays will end up killing someone over a can of beans or a piece of candy when it gets tough enough. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalkerTo be fair, we only see what people were willing to film and share in the 50s. Now that we ALL have cameras and instant access to media, we see the cold truth of how bad we really are. All the stories our grandparents would tell us about how nasty things were. When I watch these videos I notice there aren't a lot of black people and when they do show up, they're treated like caged animals or as a background element.... and tragically, we all know how they were really treated back then so we can't pretend everything was clean and orderly for "everyone".
That's why the series "Twilight Zone" is immortal.
Narrated by Alexander Scourby.
I got this game fallout shelter for PS4,PC and Nintendo switch and all the other fallout games for PS4 and PC for but one fallout tactics brotherhood which I am getting for the PC and PS2 hopefully this month
The first two segments were pretty intense with the endings, but the third one is more subtle and mysterious.
#rd they made it pretty plain... he left the shelter.
That early after the bomb... he's got about an hour outdoors before he has a lethal dose of radiation. 3 hours and he's dead.
No shelter's going to admit him once he shows up covered in fallout.
@@fhuber7507 death is better then surviving in those "shelters"...
keep merijuana as a psychological survival ration.
Mary Dennis is Large Marge from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure"
"Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!!!!"
No that’s not her.
Narrated by Alexander Scourby who later narrated many National Geographic episodes.
Quality production!
This was brilliant.
Sometimes the best videos really are the ones that show the good, the bad, and the ugly even if just to make us aware.
The problem in this shelter is the lack of productive work for everyone .
Like Dad said, read a book.
I believe that's New York-based actress Lori March playing "Miss Prince." There's also Michael Vale (of Dunkin' Donuts commercials fame) as one of the poker players and again remarking to "Mr. Sweeter" that the radiation is decreasing outside. Others have already pointed out Alexander Scourby doing the narration, actor James Karen playing "Frank," and actress Alice Nunn ("Large Marge" from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) as "Mary Dennis."
You don't happen to know who plays the beatnik do you?
I didn't know that they got cots in vault 111 , 76 and 3 I'd always thought that they slept in beds and got frozen in carbonfreezer
“Sorry, boy, but we voted you out of the shelter.”
Is that John Cassavetes in the first segment??
I want the 50s vintage Square-D disconnect in my workshop as a decoration...
Most people cant handle being alone let alone isolated! No surprise they cant cope with others they dont know. We are doomed! Lol
Forgot checkers or chess play blast radius instead
After having seen "The Day After" "Threads", and read/watched "The Road, I can fairly say that the survivors will envy the dead...
Like a giant underground YMCA that you can never leave
The intellectual types might get a bloody nose.....
I thought he was about to snap the kids neck! 23:49
Smoming in an airtight space, so fifties
What's "smoming"?
@@JDAbelRN smoking, i made a typo somehow
Originally released in 1969.
The "fallout shelter" sequences were videotaped, and transferred to film.
Looks like that's possible. The contrast is very dodgy in those sections. However if so they must have used pretty good studio cameras because there isn't much noise or other problems we often see with kinescoped film.
@@PeriscopeFilm Definite video origination, you can see some of the halo effect around bright objects. This indicates a camera with an image orthicon pickup was used.
1964
Mary Dennis is the original Karen.
These people need some protectrons and some Mr.handys and maybe a pipboy could be useful in this video
This is so surreal.
9:30 "My mother said, to get things done! You better not mess with Major Tom!"
Honesty... 51 year old woman crying about candy. Priceless.
They forgot about the over pressure wave ! That;s why real shelters have blast doors. The whole public shelter was more of a PR job.
27:33 they couldn't say to put a lock on the doorway to hell?
The actor James Karen is the one playing Frank. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Karen
Good catch. I'm a fan of his "reprised" stuck-in-a-small-space Frank in Return of the Living Dead
I always wondered what’s behind that door at 24:17.
A film camera, audio mics, mixer board and 2 sound technitions.
@@crankychris2 and concrete walls and probably another door down a hallway leading to the stairs
Those people are rude to Charlie. I would have gotten upset too. Bunch of lazy bums ordering him around.
Mrs. Dennis needs to leave the shelter.
You're treating Old Boy like shit, dismissing the grief over his dead family, and you wonder why he lost his collective sh@t?!
Humanity is the greatest plauge on the earth
I would’ve quietly whispered to the shelter manager that Arnold Sweeter had snuck out.
Narc lol
On a positive note: Charlie Cary and Ms. Dennis later married, in a private ceremony in the bomb shelter.
I'd sooner walk out into the fallout than try to survive with all these weirdos
After 10:00 the lesson is direct enough to transcend the 60 or 70 years .
Comment on the wrong film , sorry .
Toilet wine's ready!
Timely.
Oh God, it smells like cigarette smoke, chemically treated crap, and eventual doom in this fallout shelter...
I can be a messy toilet user, and can use up to a 1/3rd roll per experience. I would go nuts if I ran out of toilet paper.
Good thing you told us before hand.
We will shut the door when we see you coming!
You really won't have much to poop out.
Nuke 'em high. Nuke 'em low. Nuke 'em until they glow, glow, glow.
"Yeeeeeeeeeee-haaa!" ---Slim Pickens
"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen."
―Mendez XXVI
Now you know I have seen this since quratine started with how everybody acts
Nowadays people in those shelters would stare down into their smartphones and tablets.
Imagine no wifi or cell data, no power. Have a supply of baby pacifiers ready!
Until the battery dies
Even with the generators on in the shelters there would be no way to really use them for days because of the emp from a high altitude blast.
@@loganknowsnoneofyourbusine263 its easy to make a Faraday's cage that can sorta protect gadgets from EMP
@@loganmacgyver2625 or equip the shelters power supply with EMP Shield.
Mr. Sweeter I would have held the door open for him. Young Charlie Carey I would have kept
in restraints until some heavy lifting was needed and used him as a human forklift.
The woman who hated everyone I would keep alive but gagged in another room
in case we needed a last ditch source of protein.
It's not fair, there was time enough at last...
The lesson of the video is - you're better off outside the shelter.
Yoda: "A Canticle for Liebowitz" this is not...
That shelter in the third segment has washing machines! Clever!
I thought they were some sort of an iron lung at first
@@loganmacgyver2625 That's what happens when you don't get your Salk vaccine.
@@crankychris2 the film could have been made before the vaccine was invented
@@loganmacgyver2625 this film was made 1964
It's probably in the basement of an apartment building and people go down there to do laundry all the time. They would keep the austere supplies in a locked closet.
This is fallout 4 in real life
I think they need a commercial every 10 seconds instead of waiting every 60 seconds
commercials?
I think Charlie is having benzindrine withdrawal.
Cyanide capsules should be freely provided. Give everyone an option out.
thoughtprovoking. the importance of being balanced, happy and strong in order to better cope with hardships. and the importance to be balanced to be able to do good to others, too. Some ppl were nice though, and usually ppl aren't psychologically-pedagogically that aware and experienced. Someone stable and warm should take care of shocks, traumas at once for them not to escalate, build up. Kind child. ppl are often egoistic out of thoughtlessness, not evil.
Does remind me of Covid and the 2020 lockdowns. Some of us already spent all day at home so it didn't bother us, but a lot of people (mostly young ones) acted like the mere enforcement of lockdown meant they suddenly had the urge to go out and party and act up (having literal "Covid parties" out of defiance) only to see people die from the disease they helped spread. Yeah it's just ego and ignorance mostly, but there really is something to people taking defiance to a lethal extreme where it kind of becomes borderline evil/malicious. But yeah I do agree I don't think these people are evil as much as reasonably frustrated to irrational levels. No one is deliberately trying to spread radiation or kill/ruin other people's lives.
No wonder we're able to stay calm...Alfred Pennyworth is in charge,lol.
If you think this is bad, see "The Divide" with Michael Biehn
I love how they go over marital status lol who comes up with this? Like was this really going to help? What was the real purpose here?
If this were today, everyone would be hanging themselves with their belt because their smart phones got EMP'd.
Watch out for the signs of Ghoulification. Pop your Rad-X when the Geiger Counter goes tick-ticketty-tick. And watch out for the Yao Guai...
The fallout shelter in the third segment where Arnold Sweeter snuck out should have the following:
A 45 inch flatscreen TV on the wall next to the shelter door with the message written on it. (Weather, news, entertainment, fallout information)
Dishwashers and sinks and water fountains and toilets and showers and bathtubs that all can recycle water and filter out contaminants.
Robot assistants like Roomba and R2-D2.
Computer for the shelter manager and laptops.
Charging ports for smartphones.
An air purifier inside the shelter and one just outside the shelter door in a corridor to filter out fallout that may seep in.
A security camera just outside the shelter next to the shelter door with night vision to alert the manager any late arrivals after fallout begins.
A drone outside the shelter to gather radiation status.
And not one bit of that shit will work post-nuke due to lack of power, lack of networks, and probably EMP frying it all anyway. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker not unless the shelter is heavily protected by EMP Shield and has its own Internet service and power grid
@@razvandobos9759 you seriously think there'll be an internet to connect to? LOL
@@lukestrawwalker we can make our own in the shelter
@@razvandobos9759 Better start building that shelter!!
"More often than not, he has a family, he has friends, he has a house or apartment, and is surrounded by normal social institutions." Probably the most outdated information in the whole film.
Wow, people were tough back in the 50's, this lot took 4 days before some of them started to break down, nowadays some people wouldn't last 1/2 hour after getting over that initial phase that was mentioned, if that long, and I don't mean that as a joke. And only a checker board and a deck of cards for how many people for two or so weeks? How will this current smart phone addicted generation handle no cell service at all? Also, what are they going to do with the smokers or the drinkers, and the like, or even the food addicts, when they can't indulge? I can't see more than one person making it through to the release time, and that's only by killing and eating everyone else.
it's simple, anybody makes trouble, you just push them outside and lock the door again
negative. put them in to submission. the same shelter manager mishandled things from the get go. the woman causing trouble was going to be trouble either way. once she reached her end situation, she needed sedation if possible or just a good attitude adjustment.
Frank kinda reminds me of Ed Kemper...
And now we return to The Edge of Night.
Fallout: Shelter IRL...
Rad Sickness:
1. You'll feel bad.
2. You'll feel slightly better.
3. You'll feel really bad
4. Death or Ghoulification should you have FEV in your system...
Covid 19
The Twilight Zone!
Chill out and huff some Jet, man...
"Can you imagine that? Private candy?"
Mary Dennis: Age 51, unmarried, book keeper for 32 years, and a communist.
and they will try to come out to get hair cuts , but will not wear a mask and breath in fallout then die from radiation .
Charlie is doing prison pullups to quell his murderous rage, Boomer...
Charlie was better off becoming radioctive vapor, a post-nuclear novelty skeleton, or a shadow instead of being in the shelter with those Boomers...
Don't worry about your family, smoke a Marlboro, drink a Nuka-Cola, have some Blamco Mac and Cheese, you'll be fine...
Same as with Covid. Suddenly everyone is a boss.
Nice to see clean shaved men in ties and jackets LOL
hey boy!
There's no more Nuka Cola, no more puppies and kitties, ain't no sunshine when she's gone! It's over, we're in some pretty 5h@t, now. Game Over, Game Over, Man...
Don't forget the truck load of cigarettes
I don't think losing govt, salesmen, the mail, or police would get me really worked up. Might even make me more adept and willing to survive. Lol. I'd probably be like, damn...this is supposed to be a bad thing?