" SHELTER ON A QUIET STREET " 1963 CIVIL DEFENSE FILM CONSTRUCTION OF HOME FALLOUT SHELTER XD13814
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This Cold War civil defense film attempts to persuade viewers that building a home fallout shelter is a smart thing to do, and they are easy and economical to build. The film shows how to construct a durable, concrete shelter suitable for surviving a nuclear blast; it was made in 1963 and presented by the Department of Defense. The basic premise of the film is that it follows Civil Defense Director Hank Adams as he guides the Warren Family through construction of their own basement fallout shelter. The original catalog entry for this movie noted that: "This film is designed not only for those living in suburban or rural areas too far removed from the nearest community shelter-but also for those in urban sections who, for reasons of personal preference or convenience, would rather rely on a family shelter for fallout protection."
Opening: Clock on a large commercial building in an urban downtown shows 5:00 p.m. An elevator door opens and people exit. People leave the building as others enter. Titles (:08-:58). Exterior of a building, with Fallout Shelter signage visible. Two men talk in front of a van. Food and water is being carted into the building to stock the fallout shelter on the side of the building. People leave work and exit the building. A man gets into his Ford Falcon automobile. Drives off. Drives through a city (:59-2:28). Car drives onward. Exterior of multiple buildings. Exterior of an industrial plant. School, apartments, many of them have fallout shelters. The man in the car pulls up in front of a suburban home on a quiet street. Outside the house (2:29-4:39). A couple who is interested in having a home fallout shelter talks with Civil Defense Director Hank Adams. Adams shows the couple a model of an above ground shelter, he describes it and points with a pencil. He shows another metal shelter followed by a basement shelter. He points at a model for an underground concrete shelter (4:40-7:16). The couple sits at a table inside their house. The homeowner decides to build a shelter himself. He measures in his basement. Two younger boys move stuff around to help him. A premixed mortar is being made with water. The man measures from the wall to the middle. The man starts laying the mortar. He places a concrete block onto it in place. Measures to make sure it's straight. He lays mortar for the second block nearby. He places mortar on one end of the new block and lays it down connecting the two (7:17-10:40). He pounds the block down with his hand. He uses a carpenter's tool to make sure there is a true right angle. The man starts laying more mortar. He lays more blocks. The wall is rising as he does it. A right angle corner is built six courses high. The younger boys continue to assist in some capacity. The man stretches a guideline along the wall to assist in placing the blocks correctly. he places a new block down. The woman visits them as they are pausing during work. She takes the boys away and the man lays more mortar. The woman writes a list. She takes a can of beets out of a cabinet, looks at it, puts it back (10:41-15:06). The man continues to build the wall. Mortar placed on a block and then its put in place. More mortar is laid with a trowel. The trowel is scrapped against excess mortar to smooth it out. The outer walls are almost all complete. The man bolts upright posts to the wall for the roof structure. He then places a piece of wood on top and hammers it. The boys help the man lift wood. One of the boys guides it. The man hammers some nails into the wood. He is putting beams across the roof (15:07-18:22). More wood for the roof is put across. The man then fills the roof with mortar and evens it with a trowel. The boys carry concrete blocks. Wood and concrete help make the roof. No mortar is needed (18:23-20:40). The boys move a concrete block. They hand it to the man and he put it on the roof. He smooths out concrete with a trowel. The woman is outside and hands the boy a bag of groceries. The younger boy leads the woman into the newly constructed shelter. The other boy and man come in as well. The woman has her shelter all set with food and a bed. The man comes in and praises her good work. He hands her a flashlight. The boys bring in board games. Exterior of the house (20:41-23:28). End credits (23:29-24:09).
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A dad doing a project and no cursing at all? What a time to be alive!
Oh they cut those parts out. With only 2 hours of flim and limited sound recording, they had to make ABSOULTEY sure only the best parts of the 60s were shown. Heck how many times were those boys beaten for screwing up the mix or spilling some on the floor? Hate being facetious but the way some of these "father" characters talk makes it sound like that was meant to be the norm back then...
There is a dad and he’s not portrayed as an incompetent dolt like they are now!
2:02 I love the light, carefree music lilting in the background while the narrator talks about no hope of surviving the blast and heat.
And that's the same music used in the 1963 Civil Defense film About Fallout!
I had a nice '62 Falcon just like that guy. My buddy Larry ran it off the side of a mountain road. After we got it pulled out of there it still ran pretty good...looked like shit, though. He worked all summer to get the money to pay for the body work. We had it repaired, and it looked perfect again. That was in 1967 and he's still my best friend. Thanks, Larry.
Way to go Larry! You're not THE LARRY MONDELO, are you???
My dad had a '62 Falcon station wagon until around 1978. Had a 180ci (?) straight 6, and when it had well over 100K miles on it, he had the head reworked and new piston rings installed. That little thing was practically bullet proof! Not bad gas mileage, too.
It's a 1961 the grill has the parking lights 62 had them in the bumper
Thanks Larry
Cool!
Cleaned out an old storage shed years ago in an older part of town near a shut down bank. Found loads of CD rations (crackers mainly), sanitation cylinders and a massive amount of pamphlets, posters, etc. most of it was dated 1963. Wish I had kept some of it.
My grandparents farm had the same pamphlets.
Yeah; the government never restocked fallout shelters in the 70s because they figured there would be a nuclear war before 1980. That's a fact. So when the war never happened everything just was left to waste. Well now, there might be a real nuclear war, but no one seems to give a shit. (especially our government)
Love CD rations. Some awesome music in there!
Omg the first few minutes could be today. Really need to refurbish all of those for modern survival considering how the world is right now.
The only way to prepare for thermonuclear war is to stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
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I worked for the telephone company. I got to a lot of old office buildings and you'd find the emergency stores of canned water, survival crackers and drugs in the first aid kits. Lots of amphetamines in bottles of a 1000 tablets. This was the 1980s and 1990s. Everythng was way out of date and unusable. By that time we weren't really as paranoid about a nuclear attack and the stuff was forgotten.
Telco CO's are sometimes like time capsules....especially in their basements where the batteries are. Only a few people ever get to see this shit.
Hehe often makes you wonder what the real purpose of the nuclear drills were in retrospect. Every step felt like a chance for someone to take control of the population through fear mongering, especially when they say stupid things like "If the Japanese just stood behind concrete bars they'd have all survived the explosion. What idiots." If we were to blow up by a nuclear bomb of any kind....it'd be us blowing ourselves up by sheer arrogance. Still would be cool to see those shelters though and they do inspire many great ideas like the man cave and other DIY projects at home, so they certainly weren't a bad idea at least.
Fred just built himself a man cave. Add in a widescreen TV and a minibar and he’s set to get away from the misses 😆
Bruce Smith. …and spend time with his other wife.
What a terrifying time this must of been. As a child growing up in the 80s I remember seeing those fallout shelter signs on buildings around town, even on my own primary school. I didn't know at that time what they meant but I wonder now if those shelters are still there, with supplies mouldering away.
a lot of them are still there, they found one bricked up in an NYC Subway tunnel not so long ago with stuff in it still from the 50s.
In the rural school I went to in the mid-60's, it doubled as the tornado shelter. When we were down there amidst the supplies, it was comforting to know that if a twister hit the school and it collapsed over our heads, we would have water and crackers while we waited for rescue.
As a child growing up in the 60s, it was never really terrifying. We went through duck-n-cover drills and knew about fallout shelters in our neighbors' yards, but we were too young to understand what was really going on. We were busy riding our bikes just anywhere, playing cowboys, Barbies, or army men. My parents and our neighbors never discussed it much as I recall. The real "terror" began in the late 70s / early 80s with filmmakers portraying what could happen in a nuclear war.💣💥
@@themagus5906 I like hearing from first hand experience what candid life was really like back then. Watching these films have us believe everyone lived the Hollywood life, but knowing the limitations of fliming and publishing back then, we really have our parents and grandparents to ask what life in the 40s-60s really was like. It's interesting comparing the context of the movies to the context of their memories. Plus I'd argue the real terror is when the internet started to really get global and any idiot in thier bedroom could spread misinformation like wildfire that affects the top positions in our nations.
My old elementary school had a CD shelter in the basement. The building was built in the 1930s under FDR, and it never received that "extra shielding." I remember the days of "duck, and take cover," where we students would drop to the floor, and hide under our desks. A friend of mine used to say that it was so we could kiss our sweet arses goodbye.
Duck and cover sounds ludicrous today but it actually had a purpose based on experience. The idea was to avoid having the schoolchildren rush to the windows upon seeing the flash of a distant detonation, only to have the shock wave blow window glass into their faces. Civil Defense authorities wanted to avoid the experience of the 1917 ammunition ship explosion in Nova Scotia, in which something like 200 people who had been watching the burning ship through windows were left blind when the explosion shattered the windows.
This is the only common sense comment on duck and cover that I have ever read.
Kudos to you, where everyone else makes fun of this precaution.
My friend was saying one day, "why plan ahead, we'd all be dead anyway." I thought to myself that he surely would be, with that outlook.
Someone has to crawl out of the rubble and rebuild.
What does arses mean?
@@auburn_and_cordsdude7415 British English for Asses.
@@jamesrice6096 You're only dead instantly if you're right under the blast. Your far greater concern is getting trapped in a collapsed flaming building or something similar. Also, blocking line of sight for thermal radiation can significantly reduce burns (people had silhouettes of their clothes burned into their skins after Hiroshima).
When that shockwave hits after everyone's been momentarily dumbstruck its good to have something over your head to keep all the falling debris from knocking you out or worse
Was RadChem monitor and radio operator at our town CD hq. Was very heavy on our mind then. 30 miles across Sandy Hook Bay and outer NY Harbor. Brooklyn visible from our small yacht harbor. We were on a big hill overlooking Atlantic to east, NYC to north. Besides the A Bomb we had major hurricaines every few years. When a USAF Nike missle site on top of our small mountain blew ip in 1959 we all thought it was WW3. This is all very real to me. Still in CD after 27 years in military.
*US Army controlled the Nike sites and the USAF controlled the BOMARC sites. Just saying.
Is there still a CD
@@danielmorse4213I believe that it became part of FEMA.
Glaring omission: the Warrens don't appear to have an air circulation system for that little bunker. But, then again, it doesn't have a door so it probably gets fallout-contaminated air from outside! LOL... love these old flicks from my youth!
it didn't have a door either!! i'm sure that dogleg kept the rads out!
@@keithmoore5306 Yeah, apparently they get lost in the maze.
@@crustycurmudgeon2182 Radiation goes in a straight line from the source. It doesn't turn corners. This was the logic behind the open entrance with a baffle wall.
@@arise2945 I know, learned that in the Navy. Just joking around.
Funny, the bomb shelter in my brother's old house has a dogleg entry. I didn't realize that was part of the shelter specs. (His does have a very heavy, tight-sealing door.)
Watching this film after 60 years, it became clear that you can’t hide underground for life.
It was just meant to be two weeks.
@@DJKinney In two weeks, radiation contamination will not disappear anywhere
@@DJKinneyCould still be life...
Besides sanitary needs, I couldn't help but think what if the house proper caught fire or collapsed. Some wood and flammables with the free blocks in the ceiling.
Would need to bear the weight of a collapsed house, have air, and a way to cut/dig yourself out.
We've had the same thoughts about our basement during tornado season.
After 2 weeks though, mom would never set foot in it again after sharing it with 3 males.
Notice Fred might barely be able to stand fully upright for 3 weeks.
Radiation protection, check.
Nukes survivable given some distance, check
Seems pretty reasonable and better than nothing.
You'll note that there is no sure-fire guarantee of survival in this video.
Very scary.... grew up in the 80s... in the UK. We had a 4 minute warning, no way to get to a shelter
I remember watching ads for stuff like this in the 70s all the time. Some how a much safer time in our world history.
Back in the 80s I remember seeing these fallout shelter signs on tons of buildings especially downtown in larger cities. I love the shelter salesman! 😂 "3' thick walls all around a roof of reinforced concrete. Now, if u want to save a couple coins u could stack some bricks in corner of your basement.
Meanwhile, here in in the UK, we're all going to get an emergency text message at 3pm on Sunday. It's a test, the first of its type here in preparation for when there's an emergency like a tsunami or an earthquake, and you know how common they are in England. There is no suggestion WHATSOEVER that it's anything to do with a possible escalation in the war in Ukraine, so we needn't worry our heads about that.
Have you seen the movie "Threads"? It's the British version of "The Day After". Pretty brutal depiction of a nuclear war. Rather bleak😮.
@@theboyisnotright6312 We (British) also had a series of TV shorts called "Protect & Survive", but unlike the US equivalent "Duck & Cover", they were never shown officially.
@@rambo1152 You limeys should have never removed your air raid sirens. Those had the best sounding tones on the planet. Lol!
@@allen480 Now that is rude call the British limeys. Please, let's have a little more consideration of our cousins over the pond.
A friend of mine was in Hawaii when they had that false scare. While he was in his hotel sitting on the balcony waiting for the nuke to come, the locals were trying to throw their kids down the sewer manholes.
I think Fred was building a soundproof dungeon.....
He’s driving a nice new Ford Falcon.
Seriously though my dad bought a house in 1949. They lived there all their lives. It was four rooms and one had the furnace. No basement.
He dug it by hand. Cribbed up the house. And laid the block himself.
A couple additions and remodeling and they made a house a home.
This is basically an updated version of Walt Builds a Fallout Shelter, made a few years before.
I thought this video was familiar!
I really love that video. Seeing Walt build a room mostly by himself is really inspiring DIY. Even if the purpose isn't necessary, they really sold us on the idea that it's a really good idea for general purposes like dry storage, a place to put grand kids sleeping over, etc.
"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." -Ronald Reagan
He should remind the war heads that ended up being his voters about that quote....
By that point, the Soviets had enough missiles to carpet bomb America. In the early sixties, fallout shelters might have been useful because the bombs wouldn't have been meant for suburbia. Though the Soviet's aim was notoriously bad, and the missiles meant for direct hits may have wandered to suburbia. Also the bombs got bigger and more powerful by the 80s.
No doubt there are still many such shelters in the basements of older houses. In some areas they still could be useful for tornadoes.
I think the city at the beginning is Newark, though I'm not certain.
I think so, I recognized the unique architectural apartment building a few minutes into the film.
@@unclenunzie The office building is 1060 Broad Street, across from Lincoln Park. While the entrance is somewhat different today the "1060" is still in the same font.
Yep, my brother's house has a bomb shelter in it! Complete with ventilation, water, and bunks. They use it for storage now, but still refer to it as "the bomb shelter."
It's got the happy music playing "gonna build me a fallout shelter" ☢️
The Warren's must not need to use the restroom.
Yes perhaps it should be retitled "Smelly Shelter on a Quiet Street"
Most women never need to use the restroom only men
TV and film people didn't need to use the bathroom until about 1973.
@@steveb9151 Patriotic Americans can hold it in for two weeks, or until they die from radiation poisoning.
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Interesting thanks 👍
I lived in Southern California in the 1960's. In our own neighborhood I knew of several "Bomb Shelters" within a two block radius!
A few were big! Could hold 6-8 adults for about three months.
I can just see it now. I was born in 56. And my brothers in 45 and 48.
If we watched this film together they’d say. Yup. That’s just the way it was.
Dad would say. Want to play with some blocks?!
We’d say Yeah!
The blocks.
And the Warren kids at school..."Guess what we're building with dad in the basement!"...
11:25 Fred is wishing he hired a contractor.
Fred is smiling because he knows he just built the most awesome man cave possible back in the mid-1960’s 🎉
He knows when Betsy is on her monthly menses he has a place for some peace and quiet 🙏
Wonder if the house is still there…
I love the ironic implication of the question. XD
great one.
I'd rather shelter on a quiet street than a noisy street any day.
Buckets to be flushed down drain or back yard later. Civil Defense gave plans for them out.
Betsy is choosing can sizes that will minimize waste, and she’s comfortable with a 1.74lb can because those Warren boys sure love eating them some cold beets, in utter darkness, on a concrete floor, and then smelling beet juice for two weeks. Go Betsy!
Not the only thing they'll be smelling. Sure isn't any room for a flush toilet.
@@R32R38 Wouldn't do much good when water service would undoubtedly be interrupted.
O my. I recently remodeled one of tries shelters. I removed the block ceiling extended the wall all the way to the basement ceiling. Added outlets lights and an exact fan It’s a small art studio know
Sometime It was a good book "Nuclear war survival guide", its not easy to find it in Internet, but you can. The authors tested their advice in practice and some of them are quite good, others are obviously outdated.
That’s why they’re so many dungeons in quiet streets in suburban areas. ☠️
People had to get real creative before the internet.
Great film that gave people a little piece of safety during this time in history, thanks for sharing. Cheers
How can u see "piece of safety" in wishes to own personal nuclear shelter?! It's like about owning a gun: if u think u need a gun - u need to change town or country.😂
@@nDkHDf Or COUNTRY.
Here in the UK even the police don't need to carry guns routinely, and we don't get all precious about our "constitutional rights".
@@rambo1152 Amen. I'm glad I live near a military base because they stopped a LOT of the 2020 assault from getting a lot worse due to the numerous checkpoints we have in Virginia.
This was my life in the late 50s early 60s. No wonder I turned into a monumental f,,,, up even some 60 years later. PTSD from too many duck and covers as I grew up about 25 mile from the SAC HQ at Ouffut Field in Nebraska.
Actually pretty funny after playing the Fallout games.
22:30 "A few extra batteries for Betsy."
It's important to survive the fallout so you can get to the starvation/cancer/murderous mobs stage of a nuclear apocalypse as quickly as possible.
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exactly .. not to mention who the f wants to live in a fall out shelter knowing the future is gone and life outside is hell if you try to venture out .. run towards g zero I say .. I get the survival instinct but watching this I just shake my head .. it's some futile exercise .. although they're probably useful for somethng like tornados or hurricanes or something like that if you live in such a place
Yup then you can learn crafting and get your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. up to become GOAT
@Dan the point is that shelters like this provide really nothing as we've discovered nuclear fallout is not stopped by a cement wall with air tubes going in and out with a few weeks worth of food. The radiation lasts for literally centuries. Any damage done is done and hiding in your basement isn't going to make a lick of difference. You're either in the blast or you're not.
Stocking some supplies for emergency use isa great idea.
Thinking your home built basement is some sort of radiation shelter is ludicrous. 🤣
Just like they told kids to hide under the desk ina nuclear attack, yeah, kiss your a goodbye.
Lol, you're funny! 😂
And a thousand years later, when radiation levels had decreased enough to allow very short visits by people wearing lead lined suits, they found four skeletons in a basement room smaller than a guest bathroom that had no running water, sewage or electricity.
That is only in old sci-fi movies. Two weeks is usually more than enough time for the fallout to dissipate and if you are not near any hard targets then they will be air bursts with minimum fallout. Still would be terrible with a frightening death toll. But if you look at WWII and Ukraine you can see that you really don't need nukes to destroy whole cities. Honestly, I am more worried about the members of the fear cult. People are now constantly looking for things to fear it is human nature to find what you look for. I would rather look for solutions.
Oh come now; It’s the thought that counts.
48 hrs to take a peak, 14-ish days to take a scouting walk, two or three months to start decon and rebuild, then a lifetime of being my servants. I will be a benevolent military dictator, but a dictator is a dictator. You'll have to learn to adjust.
fallout radiation dissipates in two weeks. At the time, that's what these shelters were meant to protect against.
Всё же американцы - замечательная нация. Всё у них по деловому.
Нужны убежища? Пожалуйста, вас проконсультируют специалисты, предоставят макеты и помогут выбрать лучший вариант.
Вообще, даже в тяжкую годину ядерной войны, они не забывают про комфорт населения. Каждый волен строить себе бункер с нужным уровнем комфорта.
Не то что у нас - право на место в бункере имеют только работники крупных заводов, естественно без семей.
При сигнале "атом" их насильно сгоняют в сырую бетонную дыру. Подавляют любое недовольство избиениями, и уже через три дня выгоняют наружу, в радиоактивный ад - под дулами наганов восстанавливать никому не нужный завод во славу Партии! Кстати, полноценную еду им выдадут только через пять дней, ибо за это время умрёт много облучённых - и тратить на них ресурсы Партия не намерена.
В то время как советские граждане машут кирками, валькуют бетонные блоки и носят в носилках битый камень, американцы с семьями сидят в уютных и светлых убежищах.
От камина веет приятным теплом, по радио негромко играет Глен Миллер.
Батя покуривает трубку и читает Хеменгуэя, мамка сидит рядом и занимается вышивкой на пяльцах, а дети мастерят что-то из конструктора Лего, то и дело издавая радостные клики. Так можно провести хоть год - никто не будет заставлять восстанавливать безнадёжно разрушенную инфраструктуру. Просто потому, что разрушения будут мизерными, ибо США выбрала стратегию защиты всей площади страны, а не как эта наша страна - зонтик ПВО развёрнут только над Москвой и военными объектами в глубине страны.
боже мой
Gospodin pomilu. Kristos Boskres!
“A hundred dollars” 😂😂😂
Ya, mortar was 7 cents a bag....
The sarcasim in the comments are funny, more importantly, we can actually learn someting from them. The Videos a Great! Thanks for posting.
Hehe we're all facetious, but remember a lot of these old films WERE propoganda and it's actually a good thing people today are reviewing the content with healthy skepticism. Even in the 90s and early 2000s I grew up with schools teaching us via these films about how much "better" life was when people seemingily lived clean perfect lives, but as I reached adulthood and took college classes on the topic, we learned to think critically and ask questions about the source and purpose so we could better address the same kind of content being paraded in our faces today.
Think about it....why would any serious well meaning adult vote for politicians that literally brag about how they will castrate our children because of some internet trolls? and how many politicians back then actually DID that stuff once the cameras were turned off? We ONLY know what was filmed, but our grandparents who lived through these times remember things VERY differently. back when they didn't have that Hollywood voice.
We lived in a house once that had a bomb shelter built under it. I said, if it ever came down to it. I was gonna go outside and hope for the nuclear bomb to land right on my nose. I don't want to be around after that.
Now go watch “Threads” to see what it will really be like.
EXACTLY! LOL!
Or "As The Wind Blows." Hell, even "The Day After," which soft pedals a lot of the reality, is more accurate than this thing.
Really? Like the mutant baby at the end?😂
Yes, "The Day After". I would much rather watch the farmwife being hauled into the shelter kicking and screaming than this bunk!
@@Doodlesthegreat Those are all ideological anti-nuclear films. Threads might be accurate out to 6 months. Maybe a year at most. People would begin trying to rebuild fairly quickly. Do you seriously think that people would forget how to speak English?
Where was the power coming from for the lights? 2 WEEKS all 4 of them in that 8ft room??? No bathroom? Where does all the diarrhea go? So many unanswered questions! Does that house still exist? Does that shelter?
Today, it could be used as a wine cellar, if cool enough.
Ja. Ja. Ja Yes, save as much wine as you can in case of a nuclear war ... who cares about all the rest.
Back in the good old days , when our government actually cared about us .
They cared about you so much they tricked you.
Well, I suppose given they provided graham crackers, water and sanitary supplies to city shelters, they did care, in a way. But not like the Swiss. In Switzerland every home had to have a fallout shelter, and government paid half the cost. Also every Swiss citizen was trained in civil defense. In the US and UK, it was protect the continuance of government, and let the citizens die. There was little to nothing spent on civil defense, compared to weaponry.
Our town filled in all the CD shelters in town after the flood in 92 or 94. I can think of only one place in the area and that's 33 miles away. Given the politcal climate these days, shelters at home make a lot of sense but any data on building is out of date and bunkers are stupidly expensive.
2:04 same music used in the film About Fallout from 1963!
Good idea but with a family of four I think that I would double the size of it because to me that looked like it was only 6 feet long on a side maybe less. I know it's just a demo movie but still they could have made it look a bit more realistic.
Had to keep below the $100 pricepoint
The city looks like Newark, NJ.
I think one of Fred's kids was in Lassie.
Where is Lassie? They didn't eat the dog did they?
Keeping people in fear is a business.
I personally prefer “Walt builds a family fallout shelter”… and in either video they never discuss how hundreds of solid blocks made their way into the basement lollll…and how that preexisting light made it into the shelter
Walt is the man!! At least this basement doesn't have what appears to be a ten or twelve foot ceiling....
@@arise2945 loll yeahhh walts basement was higher
Amen! Love how practical Walt's video was. Felt less like propaganda or an advertisement and more like a proper tutorial on a cool DIY project you could do even today. Walt was the GOAT.
1:35
Hank, not sure we need to know about the nights you need 'protection'
$100?!?!?!
None of these shelters would survive a direct hit or even a close one.
These aren't BOMB shelters. They were FALLOUT shelters.
How many bomb shelters, were built, in GARFIELD, OHIO, after this film, in 1964?
I’ve seen pretty much all of these fallout shelter films and for the outdoor shelters they never explain how rainwater won’t just wash radioactive particles down through cracks in the 3 foot layer of dirt over your head.
They seem to have forgotten something sort of important- a bathroom! And if you have a full basement, use most of it. Do you really want 4 people to be crammed together in an 8X12 space for 2 weeks?
That is one small shelter
This would NEVER work today!!! How would all 4 of them get cell phone reception????
Can you imagine his gender confused children mixing cement?
@@mountainjeff Seriously though can you imagine ANYONE'S children mixing cement now a days?
The film did not say how to build the door. 8" concrete block walls aren't any good unless the door offers equal protection.
There are some (I said "some") merits to the idea of being able to shelter in place, but good grief that's an undersized shelter even for one person, let alone four, and where are the toilet and body cleaning facilities? Not to mention laundry or spare clothes, etcetera, in case they are needed while having to stay in the shelter for at least the minimum 2 weeks, such as if they shelter in the middle of winter and the heat and power went and stayed out? If it was ever needed I'll bet the whole family would be practically psychotic by the time it was safe to leave the shelter again. Heaven help them if for some reason they had to stay longer in the shelter. Within limits bigger is a bit better. And then there's the issue of air circulation...
Sorry for bringing up the subject but: Where do they poo?
The metal trash can has a purpose.
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Yep, Fred sure did not know how to build.
Atleast ed brought the essentials flashlight radio and batteries
But would this shelter actually work? Even if the 1 MT nuclear bomb detonated only a few miles away, you'll still be dead from the intense heat and initial radiation of the explosion. You really wonder did the Russians studied this by building actual shelters and then dropping a megaton-yield nuclear weapon nearby at the Semipalatinsk test site.
Given another video literally has an American going to Japan and saying "As you can see, if the Japanese just stood behind concrete structures, they'd have survived both nuclear attacks." I think the point was to make sure no one felt sympathy for any Americans who died from this foolishness. That's seriously how little these PSA givers cares about the survival of the people.
what a load no air cleaner and no door!! at best as is it's a storm shelter!!
Imagine what thatvshelter is going to smell like in a cupla weeks...
Fred made the shelter so small only he could live in for the needed 2 weeks plus because he wanted his family to suffer from radiation poisoning. Fred sure is a swell guy.
They were embarassingly shameless about how important the adult male's role in society was compared to everyone else. Like they all give an air of "The ONLY reason to keep the wife alive is so she can keep cooking and cleaning the shelter. and the sons are just extra free labor, don't bother with saving daughters. They won't keep your last name anyway.
gee whally thts neat allright! 100 dollars what a joke
i want to see the 3 Stooges version 😂
the weapons used today would vaporize all that... so i guess no need to pee poop breathe or do anything in there 🤔
😒So you pump in the air you're hiding from???🤔
It's not the air that's the problem. It's the radioactive fallout dust in the air.
Makes your hair 'fallout' !
I wonder how well that shelter would hold up if the house came down on top of it... and good that the milk lobby got the mention of a glass of milk in there!
In Walt's version, he emphasized building a sturdy roof within the shelter so that if the house came crashing down, it'd be a barrier. He used long boards and cross beams and 2 layers of bricks on top. But yeah, a shelter like this is useless without a sturdy reinforced roof. Gonna be a way more painful death to be crushed than quickly incinerated.
It's hard to believe how naive people were back then.
...or how naïve they are today, suckers for anything.
Not naive at all. Nukes were much smaller back then.
@@teresabenson3385based on a comment from someone who lived through this era, fortunately people weren't as stupid as these PSAs make them out to be. I figure most people built these shelters out of convienence of having an extra store room if they could, as many people in the midwest build tornado shelters or in the coast build anti-flood shelters anyway. Still the whole point of propoganda is to make a large mass of people believe that everyone is a paranoid idiot praying today's not thier last day and given how cynical people are today, I think most of us kind of agree with what people likely thought back then. If a nuke goes off near our homes, sayonara....we probably deserved it.
They were protecting against fallout, not a direct hit.
Thanks to Joes minders, it is 1963 all over again.
Okay Boomer.
'Thanks to an utterly corrupt political system', more like.
@@Doodlesthegreat GFY
Proof being the annoying right wingers constantly suffering from the clear radiation sickness that detiorated their brain. We REALLY appreciate the constant reminder that everything they suffered is somehow Joe's fault....or Hillary, or Obama or blacks, or jews, or New Yorkers, or whatever other arbitrary group that isn't them they hate THIS week....
60 years later no need, Ed could have sent both kids to college what a waste. I love how hardware store brick is gonna stop a titan missile. Dumbells
These weren't bomb shelters. They were fallout shelters. In the late fifties, early sixties when these were made, the soviets didn't have that many bombs and those were destined for strategic targets, not suburbia. Fallout dissipates in two weeks. So the point was to have a shelter capable of protecting from fallout, not titan missiles.
We cant even protect our borders😅
What do we protect an imaginary line in the sand from?😅
Here's another one of the mindless dolts running loose everywhere like cockroaches
Are you seriously still beating that dead and debunked lie?
The time to protect them was before a bunch of idiotic europeans sailed here 300 years ago....we're STILL suffering from the mess they made....
Americans must be paranoid lol
With Biden in the White House everything old is new again.
What a waste of time. But hey, free child labor! 🤣
Its only watching this that i realise just how armageddon was felt as a real risk in the 50s/60s, but it was later known that soviet nuclear capability was pretty poor in reality and they were scared of the west. Theres actually way more risk now with a resurgent Russia bent on european domination, but for some reason it just doesn't seem to worry people now. Weird
Sometime It was a good book "Nuclear war survival guide", its not easy to find it in Internet, but you can. The authors tested their advice in practice and some of them are quite good, others are obviously outdated.