FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTERS: Nuclear War for Housewives Vintage Film - 1960s American Civil Defense
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Family Fallout Shelters -- Civil Defense Home Preparedness Workshop Filmstrip 2 of 5 (1960)
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"Family Fallout Shelters"
A filmstrip presentation produced in 1960 by the U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization for use in the "Home Preparedness Workshops" held in local communities. Target audience was the average American housewife and homemaker of the period. This is number 2 in a series of 5 filmstrips made by the OCDM for use in the Home Preparedness Workshop.
Producer: U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Keywords: civil defense; home preparedness; fallout shelter; CONELRAD; atomic; nuclear; cold war; filmstrip
Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Ok let me explain for the kids here about the BEEP. When I was a kid (in the 1980s) the teacher would bring in a small, brown projector to show these slides. They weren't animated. She would play a tape cassette which was the audio, and when the beep sounded, it let the person tending to the projector, usually a student, to turn a metal dial which would flip to the next slide.
thank you!
And don't forget to duck and cover!
Then,, bend over and kiss yoass goodbye.
Yes. They were called film strips. The slides were all on a single long film that fit over a spool on the projector and was advanced at the sound of each beep. When I was a kid the sound was played on a record. There were no cassettes then.
Even older strips had the audio on vinyl records.(And there would always be one wisenheimer in every class who’d learned to mimic the “BEEP!” and the audio would finish well before the filmstrip).
@@smittykins wisenhaimer? What is it? Thanks
I remember when we would watch one of these slide shows in school. Someone would always tell the kid running the slides that he missed a beep and when he advanced it the rest of the class would yell at him to go back one. Then the teacher would try to intervene, but she had no idea what slide it was supposed to be on because she slipped out to the teachers lounge for a smoke...Ahhh-the melee that would ensue!
I LOVE your description of this! I can just see it, and can imagine the ensuing chaos.
...It could have been such a quality afternoon, full of new ideas and valuable life saving discoveries, delivered in an entertaining audio visual format for all to enjoy....BUT N O ....>:)
Then you had the wiseacre who learned to imitate the “BEEP!” and the filmstrip would always finish ahead of the audio.
Bro went to school with orks
Having grown up in that era, these would be strips of film that would be played through a special projector that had a dial you could turn to advance one frame. Playing to a record or cassette, the "beeps" were meant to show where you were suppose to advance to the next frame. That's all there was. It was a treat if the teacher let you handle the business of running it!
it sounds a lot easier to reserve a spot in a vault tec vault.
Lol
Come to vault 420
Ernesto Ramirez
We forgot to pack food, but we sure do have alot of weed.
Kyle Hill that's all we need for survival
Ernesto Ramirez
We'll be too high to tell if we are dying.
boy that beep takes me back..my generation was probably the last where a kid sat at the back of the class with the projector and waited for that beep.
Anybody else hear Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek TNG when this woman speaks?
My family had shelter No 2. It came with a house we bought in Pensacola, FL in 1966. We used it for sleep-overs and parties.
theoldar although my house is quite old (Circa 1950) the past residents from the time of the cold war probably didn't have the money or just didn't care, I wish we did have a shelter, would be so cool, but the residents of the 50s and 60s probably didn't bother.
I want that house
We're in Pensacola Florida I live there
Amazing. Sleep-overs... festa do pijama!!! We have it also before globalisation! But nuclear shelters? Many people here may believe it is SciFi. Yes I know it is true. Regards
My mother was living in Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She told me that if an attack had come during a school day teachers were instructed to leave their students in their classrooms under their desks while the teachers went to an onsite blast/fallout shelter.
So your telling me if a attack had come on a school day teachers had to tell their student’s “hey get under your desk while we go to a fallout shelter but hey atleast you don’t have to do school. Because your going to be dead now by then”?
@@adventureboy7855Pretty much. I grew up in the 1970s and '80s, but I don't remember eve seeing fallout shelter signs in any of my school. I did see the signs on buildings downtown, but between 2 naval air stations and a major aircraft carrier base I doubt that the Soviets would have left much standing around here. The few buildings that have basements would end up flooding anyway.
You need two weeks of supplies? Is that two actual weeks, or "two weeks" that last 17+ months?
this was better than most movies today,and it has a moral to the story, never leave your house.
Radiation lasts longer than two weeks.
"Fortunately, men with ties, in front of chalk boards, assure us that we'll be okay"! BEEEP.
These civil defense efforts were telling the truth back than, when there were both fewer and smaller nuclear weapons. Of course, it's no longer true today (bigger bombs, greater numbers), which is why they no longer show these films - and why there's no longer designated bomb shelters in cities or towns.
Dwight Stewart
Well, thats true. Modern Russian R-28 missile will wipe out the area size of Texas. The whole state gone in just 30 seconds. R-28 can carry up to 60 mega tons divided into smaller MIRV. 60x1 MT, 30x2MT etc.
@@dwightstewart7181 This was made at a time when the US & USSR thought bigger bombs were better. Now we know that is a strategically stupid attitude. We use much smaller warheads aimed more strategically. But I was surprised to hear Beaver's mom say that the center of a house would give you only half the radiation that was outside. That's a very grim fact delivered without any sugar coating, other than her sappy voice. It's better than nothing, I suppose, though it might just mean it will take you and your kids twice as long to die.
Beena .. Isn't that what I said? The two powers built ever larger bombs throughout the 40's and 50's (the time period of these videos) and, once that was accomplished, dropped the videos as no longer relevant in the period of those bigger bombs. These videos also had a deeper purpose - the save as many overall as possible, not necessarily you. Any shelter was better than nothing.
@@dwightstewart7181 Slight difference in what we were saying. I was referring to today, 2019. In 1955, for example, the Soviets might have had a 20 MT warhead aimed at Minneapolis. Nowadays they would probably only use 2 MT or smaller, strategically (and more precisely) aimed. You said "no longer true today," and I thought you were talking about now, not in the time shortly after these films were made. Just a misunderstanding. In that context, you are of course correct. That was when we gave up a lot of our civil defenses.
"rubber gloves and a shovel may come in handy" Yeah, for the poop and dead bodies!
This is great! A real classic complete with the slide change beeps. Made me smile.
hahaha Oh how I forgot that beep...lol good times. Oh how i miss the 80's
This was what they called a "filmstrip" -- they were essentially a group of slides on a continuous film loop that used a manual projector. The beeps (on the provided cassette or record soundtrack) were the cue for the operator to advance to the next frame. I remember these from elementary school back in the '80s.
Ah, the good old filmstrip! I remember those! Grade school memories...
When I was 6 years old the kid next door told me he wasn't going to let me in his fallout shelter.
It could be the beginning of another war!! Grin Regards from Brasil
Rod Serling, The Shelter (c) Twilight Zone
That was common back in the time period. Parents would caution children not to even tell their best friends of the family shelter. There was a real fear that neighbors who were caught unprepared in the event of a nuclear strike would come to the family shelter and quickly overwhelm and consume valuable resources. It was a real fear.
14:02 "Remember how hard it is to keep the children entertained on a rainy day?"
Since I was a kid I wished for rainy days so I have another reason to stay home and play video-games all day, and yes I'm a millennial, crazy how things change :D
m3t4llic Gen Z here, honestly same! Except when it was raining and ur in the black ops 2 lobby and the internet just gives out now ur stuck playing like uno or the campaign
Also a Gen Z, but I used to love rainy days so I could play Animal Crossing City Folk with the rain in the background. It would be very relaxing. Either that, or I would be in my room comforting my dog :p
i made it into being Gen X by the skin of my teeth..i was born in 1979. My brother was a millennial.
I love the Loony Toons presentation of WW-3. Almost expect the Road Runner and Coyote to zoom past.
Cool. An audio film strip. Love the beeps. Kids cannot comprehend this primitive educational medium.
the thing to do, is to equip your whole house as a shelter, with the upstairs for floods, and the downstairs for tornadoes and other emergencies. each floor should have a steel door separating it from the other floor.
Moose1imb G0AT Packers yeah good luck getting the money for steel doors, and if a tornado is close enough, it might as well destroy the whole house, but in the even of a nuclear attack, the house has a 98.8% chance of being completely obliterated, it also depends on the material of the structure, but it seems that the ground for the most part survives, but plenty of radiation will penetrate through, enough gamma rays to kill a man.
@@marlonvasquez6531 or just reinforce the basement to be earthquak/nuke/flood/tornadeoproof op is an idiot
After those 2 weeks in the fallout shelter, I bet everyone will want to dine out in town... oh right, the nuclear holocaust.
Its called business opportunities. All you gotta do is be the first person to rig up some wooden boards to make the first post apocalypse restaurant, advertise that VIP get access to the fallout shelter that you "purchased" from a neighbor that shortly thereafter died of "radiation poisoning"
Two weeks on a baked bean diet, I'd rather run towards the blast.
who else is watching this for school
Me
Same
So cozy! Finally the family MUST spend some quality time together. Without the internet as a distraction! Don't forget to stock plenty of cigarettes and beer.
Oh...and the "pill". Don't forget that or we'll have a population explosion after we all come out of our holes in the ground.
don't forget the canned spam, Old Crow, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Slim Jims and tooth picks
eddie telleed It was a thing from the sixties, so not so much "stock up on cigarettes and beer" more like "stock up on grass and LSD" :D
@@wolf1066 I don't think this was aimed at the counterculture crowd. Cigarettes and whiskey, maybe the ingredients for a martini, would be more appropriate.
@@GoGreen1977 The ":D" at the end of my post means "grinning/laughing". I was making a joke.
The beep tells the teacher when it is time to load a different slide in the slide projector. I was shown audio tapes and slide shows like this one when I was in school as a young child.
When I was in grade school,I(1960'sP) we wlould have air raid drills, the horn would go off, they would herd us to school busses, and take us to our designated shelter. We enjoyed these immensly. Not only did they get us out of class for an hour or so, but the man in charge of the shelter would always break open a box of one of the government supplied shelter rations, a fruit flavored, nutrient and vitamin fortified, high energy hard candy, that came in a 20 pound wax coated box, and was very good and tasty, think a cross between wild cherry and grape lifesavers, and us kids would fill our pockets with the stuff. I don't know what this stuff was fortified with, and the teachers hated it, because we would just about be bouncing off the school room walls when we got back to school, and usually they would just turn us loose on the school playground until it was time to go home for the day.
That's a good story, I'm in my early thirties, seems like governments were more invested in their people the during 1900's
Interesting. This is the first of these films I've seen that realizes that you will likely need an external AM radio antenna in your bomb shelter. Because of EMP of course it's best not to connect it to a radio until needed.
I remember the sound tracks were on vinyl phonograph records. The beep told the teacher when to advance to the next slide.
I have a basement apartment and I like it! Given enough alcohol I can be here for a while
Our filmstrip projectors usually advanced automatically in response to the beeps. This was in the late 1960's.
This is useful for today.
The beeps are from what we used to call film strips-the film strip projectors had a hand crank on the side and when the phonograph record "beeped" it was the signal to the person turning the crank (the teacher, or a lucky student who got chosen for the chore) to advance to the next frame on the film strip.
Love the filmstrip beeps LOL
You don't mess with a 50s/60s American woman.
No you dont. Feminism absolutely destroyed the most powerful economic and social force in human history by turning those strong powerful nurturing women into a whole bunch of victims. :(
Cool video. I'm not sure how accurate the requirements for a safe shelter are, based on today's standards and weapons, but it sure beats "Duck and Cover" :-)
Duck and Cover is what you do if there’s a surprise attack. After ducking immediately and covering until the heat and blast waves pass, you’d put out fires for a few minutes then go to the nearest fallout shelter for a couple weeks…
Actually it is drama free excellent advice.
@@danielmorse4213 I'm sorry, the statute of limitations on correcting this comment has passed.
"Let's stack some book up in the windows. That will save us from a 100 megaton thermonuclear blast." Lol. I remember when I was a kid I lived and went to school less than a mile from a government nuclear research laboratory that would certainly have been a target of a nuclear attack. So at school we had nuke drills. We had to get under our desks. Then the teacher drew the curtains on the windows. As if we stood a snowball's chance in hell of not being instantly vaporized in a nuclear war. That was wishful thinking. But as I got older I actually felt better about living next to a prime target. I felt better because I was afraid of surviving an nuclear attack more than I was afraid of being killed in an instant. Strange but true...
i have played fallout 3 and new vegas so i am prepared!! lol
Why am i getting recommended these videos 0-0
I'm old enough to remember slide shows in school (dang i'm old! hehe) the audio of the program was on tape and the beep alerts the person operating the projector to advance the slide so both are in sync.
Wow, I love this automatic filmstrip!
Thanks vault tec
If you have a basement, it's pretty easy to make a shelter out of it without those blocks. Just pile up all your crap around you on your open sides and the floor above you. (Think thick and dense!!) Block windows if possible, tarps or heavy duty contractor garbage bags work wonders with boxes of books blocking them (on shelves, etc.). There WILL be survivors like there were in Japan and unless you live in a target city and are a direct hit, you need to be prepared for long term survival. Buy as much extra food, hygiene, medical, protection supplies as possible every paycheck, protect yourself as much as possible and pray for the best. Unless you're a quitter, then just stay out in the open and don't waste anyone's preps!
Such preparations would proceed based upon a false assumption. The fallout from thermonuclear weapons is not short lived.
@@booklover6753 I can live for months in my prepped basement space. I believe you may have some false assumptions. Lol
enough food for two weeks?
well some one underestimated a little bit.
Rusty Nickels so nuclear fallout is like a fart - it starts out in one place but drifts to other areas .
You will be able to escape this by joining us in Vault 111...
On November 10!
Be There!!
I was there, but they killed my wife and kidnapped my son!
+cflorack6
Damn cereal brands!
fuck no vault 111 is probably the worst choice if you ask me...
Mr. Handy are you forreal?
The nuclear winter is cold... Keep warm with Vault-Tec!
Shelter Skeleter
The audio sounds like it was recorded on a answering machine.
leave your message after the tone and first strike.
Back when I was in school the kid that got to set up the audio visual equipment for class was the today's computer geek.
16mm film projectors! LOL
I have a six month supply of Spaghetti-Os and Spam.
Probably be glowing, anway.
Yum, Spam-ghetti-O's o.o
You're set!
This was a filmstrip where a record was played at the same time. The "beep" on the "soundtrack" was a sign for the teacher to advance the filmstrip. This was common in the 60s and 70s. With the invent of cassette tapes, they replaced the record.
Love the Video and thanks for posting it... but i had to laugh at 13:55 "A 5 % solution of * DDT * will protect you from Insects.... "
Ahh Hell, Nuclear Bugs, might want to go with 20% DDT for the Kids....
geesh...
I'm an Atom Bomb Baby! Sweet as a plum!
I prefer 'Crawl out through the Fallout" but Atom Bomb baby is pretty good too
+marylain69 I hate you Bethesda noobs
amani mango
I love you too.
+amani mango interplay/obsidian bring the true fallout
I forgot about the BEEP in old filmstrips!
I visited Chicago last month. I am pretty sure it has been nuked in the last few years.
Lol it's the blacks
+vladimyr morris racist
Super_Coal_Blox Nope. Truth
+vladimyr morris I know I seen it. I seen the south side of Chicago
+vladimyr morris I live in the NorthWest side of Chicago (Polish and Hispanic community) and it's cleaner than the south side
1000 dollars 1960 = 9300ish Dollars Today
got it ladies? inbetween all that bacon makin' and child rearin'.. 3 foot of earth moved around the house walls.
you make me uncomfy
LoL the teacher's pet! So true! it also cued my friends and me to spit ball the little pet muahahaha.
Actually, as I recall, most of the slide projectors were able to advance the film strip automatically when the beep happened.
In 1957(Memphis)after the "Duck Cover" film for children the teacher passed out Civil Defense Pamphlets that showed a woman vacuuming radioactive dust off objects. Even then this seemed a little silly. Our school did have a basement with food, water and blankets which we drilled for. Guess that was still better than "Katrina" preps.
Ladies and gentlemen: Please feel free to smoke during the film strip presentation...
fallout 3 FTW
"Everybody Can Survive Radation Fallout" -----So Says A Civil Servant Who Would Be Ushered To A Fallout Shelter Under The Gov't Bldg They Work In
Unless it's in Sheffield during Threads, then you're going to spend two weeks arguing and wind up royally fudged as your air conditioning gives out.
In the 50s, I saw bomb shelter signs everywhere in the Seattle area. Nowadays, I only see house-challenged people.
Anybody else remember having to sit in the back of the room with the clicker in school,waiting for the beep? Just a lonely kid and their thoughts,banished to the outer realms of nerdhood.
I remember those beeps...when we had slide presentations the projectors did not run automatically and the beeps cued the slide operator when to change to the next slide.
Remember Slide Projectors, those forgotten antiques were a reason to corner many a family with slides from a vacation usually most tedious. The beep from an audio tape told someone to change the slide, (usually the teachers pet.)
And if all else fails, PANIC!
The DDT solution will…protect you
La la la la everthing is perfect ............................. then the doom music .
Hello, can I use this in a short film?
Yeah... that's true.
OH MY GOSH ITS HUGE MY GRANDMA WAS IN A ATOMIC BLAST
AND SURVIVED
its good the americans killed all of her family back in japan :D
Anyone younger than about 50 laughs at this shit... but it was a very scary reality for many of us boomers. And while most people say "Kiss your ass good bye" it is indeed not all that difficult to survive. The problem is, what next after the two weeks? Where's the food? Water? Who is going to deal with the roving gangs of rapist cannibals?
The number 1 problem in many of the targeted areas would be the intense heat from the explosion...radiating miles outward from the locus of the detonation, it would literally cook the people huddling in their shelters.
TheIrishrogue68
No one denies that, but 80% of a targeted population would be well outside the thermal pulse.
no worries, i play 60 seconds everyday, tsar bomba mode. wins everytime.
There's one of these in back of a house I rented, fully stocked
These civil defense efforts were telling the truth back than, when there were both fewer and smaller nuclear weapons. Of course, it's no longer true today (bigger bombs, greater numbers), which is why they no longer show these films - and why there's no longer designated bomb shelters in cities or towns.
Ok i finally saved up $1500 any contractors looking for work
Ah ha! There's a house down the block that sticks out like a sore thumb. It's built off the ground and directly in front of it is a 3 ft tall, about 20x12 triangle of earth. Half of the top is a concrete slab. On each end there are hollow metal poles. Its had me curious since we moved here lol.
hehe, Bright is close. Basically old videos in schools had the slide projectors separate from the audio player (which was usually in a cassette player, etc). And the beep would indicate to the person to flip it to the next slide on the projector (which was a manual process). My guess is that the uploader left the beeps intact to leave the audio in its authenticate original form.
But does it block against Covid 19?
my father worked for a rich boss and always felt he had to compete with him.
he turned our entire basement into a bomb shelter, complete with water supply, ample food and a pool table.
then he had the whole thing paddled over to make it look normal and cheerful.
he was a very brilliant man!
paneled over.
+BlacksAttack InPacks very paranoid man, fallout shelters would be of little use over the long term considering nuclear winter.
The 5% DDT solution for insects, LOL
Well, this is nightmare-inducing!
Try to not let you hair catch fire, kids!
Where can I get the two week Civil Defense menu ?
In these old shelter films they always recommend supply of food for 2 weeks but we know high levels of radiation can linger for years
Where do you suggest we look to find out that information? I've heard to give the radiation 2 days to 2 weeks, to die down. However, I had heard something about the "lingering for years" also.
Don't understand how the radiation stays outside if you are constantly ventilating the shelter with air from outside. . .
Filters?
Plus the bulk of fallout just falls out of the air. A gooseneck pipe thats 3 or more feet off the ground will not allow any past it. Once the fallout is on the ground, it's radioactivity could be 2000 REM. It reduces fairly rapidly, after 7 hours about 10 percent of it's strength is gone. At 49 hrs, most of it's most dangerous levels are past. At 2 weeks out, just a couple REM per hour. Of course, if there's subsequent hits, the clock resets, so expect 6 to 10 weeks in the shelter, coming out and doing essential work more as time passes.
Reading thru comments b4 I do. What happens under water (sea)?
Imagine millennial parents doing this!
ROFLMAO....
I loved this. But I don’t think 2 weeks is long enough and the government won’t be coming to help us.
At 14:00, “...a 5% DDT solution should protect you from insects”...hahaha
DDT was used during EXPO 67. Killing the mosquitos.
I feel for these fictional people because this situation is basically hopeless
our new house has one but i havent been in it yet i wonder how big it is?
Don't go to a shelter go to a vault
Since I kno what happens in the vault I will take my chances in the wastelands
It beeps every time the slide changes... Perhaps it was originally intended to be viewed along with reading material, and the beep would notify readers that a new slide was being displayed? Best I can come up with.
Bright Enlightenment no these are the slides we would watch in school when I was young. The teacher would play an audio cassette and the beep let the projectionist, usually a student, to turn to the next slide.
Why watch if you have a preconceived negative comment!
Ahhhh. When men were men and women were ladies.
Billy Burd ok boomer
Melanie X if recognizing that men are men and women are women makes us “boomers,” I couldn’t be more content to be one
Can you believe that people actually thought this was gonna help them? If a nuke drops the best thing you can do is make sure you have a gun with one bullet
This was before the big escalation in bombs, at a time when it was thought that only 75% of Soviet bombs would successfully detonate. It's quite possible that in 1960 only ten or fifteen bombs would have hit US targets. That would have been survivable, especially for people further inland.
(By the way, Soviet generals would have seen that 75% figure as wildly optimistic. They were operating under the presumption that over half their warheads would be duds, but that every American bomb would detonate. That's one reason why they had no intention of striking first.)
Old film strip?
Why didn’t they ever show this in “The Day After”?
Night sounds for night people.