In 1955, this was how information was distributed to the public. Always on Saturday between movies and cartoons, CIVIL DEFENSE films were common, along with air raid warning drills. First-hand knowledge 😢 ! ! !
You should be safe enough from fallout if you stay inside for a few days. Maybe spend the first day in the centre of your house, under some stairs or behind some heavy furniture.
It's startling that the man in the Wayfarer shades came from 7 years in the future driving that 1962 Chevy II and nobody in 1955 even batted an eye! Almost like Marty McFly...
We Boomers grew up with the nuclear war/fallout/nuclear winter threat. These films and similar ones were shown in grade school, jr. high and high school. We wrote essays in English classes about how we might survive. Our fathers built bomb shelters in our basements. You can't store enough food or water to outlast how long it takes for nuclear radiation to come to half-life. Crops grown in nuclear irradiated soil and watered with contaminated radiated particles means that either everything is going to die or be horribly disfigured. There are two versions of "On the Beach". One is the American and the other is the Australian point of view. Watch them both in addition to "The Day After" and "Barefoot Gen" about a Japanese boy surviving the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending WWII in the Pacific.
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Dogma? Bucko, we Boomers forced a POTUS to end an unpopular war that killed almost 60K of our brothers, forced the selective service to recaliber their conscription policies to reduce the number of minorities that were drafted, developed a space shuttle, opened military careers to women, advocated civil rights, broke the glass ceiling, opened traditionally male fields to women and minorities, were the best-educated cohort in history, and chose to give birth to you. Your mother might be rethinking that choice right now.
@@content_enjoyer4458 Oh, God, I hope not. Aging isn't for the faint of heart. Our bodies betray us. Then our minds don't work so well. Look at Biden. Who wants to end up like that?
Wrong-o. Did you watch the video and assume it was all a lie? 72 hours of isolation sees the end of most of the fallout's radiation. Sure, you'll not outlive it all - there's radiation in granite, brazil nuts, smoke detectors. You want to enjoy that helpless feeling, go ahead, but don't lie to people who can be saved if they don't listen to you.
No, not a throwback, but an on-going watch. The difference being, the government isn't spending money where it won't help. When the time comes for that, there will be no help for the masses. Only the oligarchy and their bootlickers will have any chance.
It totally cracks me up they actually thought they could decently survive an all out nuclear attack. I mean it’s so bizarrely stupid. Like in 3 weeks, you’d be back to work and having picnics or something.
Seeing as this was made in 1955, that most certainly was the case. ICBMs hadn't even been tested yet, much less fielded. There were only 200 Soviet nuclear warheads in existence in 1955, and most of those would probably have been successfully intercepted before reaching the contiguous US. Meanwhile, the plan was still to evacuate potentially targeted US cities (which had been practiced in drills before). Seeing as they had hours from the first radar returns to potential detonations, this was possible. In other words, very few targets would actually be hit. Fallout would be the real danger because it spreads outside of the immediate area. It's entirely possible that for all intents and purposes the vast majority of Americans *would* be back to work and having picnics in three weeks.
What about a lead suit with a targeting system as well as some other helpful “things”. How can you tell me that wouldn’t protect against even some gamma particles? Come on?
I absolutely love watching old educational/informational shorts from the bygone era...
Me too. I’m addicted to watching them. They really help me relax before bed.
Then, they believed the masses had a chance.
It is no longer the case.
Only the wealthy will survive.
If only life right now was more “simpler” like back then
In 1955, this was how information was distributed to the public.
Always on Saturday between movies and cartoons, CIVIL DEFENSE films were common, along with air raid warning drills.
First-hand knowledge 😢 ! ! !
Only in 1955?
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe NO, all thru elementary school.
@Raya14 Thanks I just needed some clarification.
Now, they will quietly go to their bunkers and announce the falling bombs minutes before arrival, if at all.😢
@christopherleubner6633 NO, neither you nor I will know til the flash.
They don't want civil unrest and the masses to panic.
We won't be told ! ! !
I would date this to 1962, judging by the brand new '62 Nova convertible which appears here. Very well made and informative.
I was thinking that convertible looks good for 1955.
I love your films. Great site
Those animations at around 4min in are amazing
Very informative and good information to know I remember living in the age of The Fallout Shelter and I also love watching these old films.
I think we need to revisit this national fallout shelter project
You should be safe enough from fallout if you stay inside for a few days. Maybe spend the first day in the centre of your house, under some stairs or behind some heavy furniture.
It's startling that the man in the Wayfarer shades came from 7 years in the future driving that 1962 Chevy II and nobody in 1955 even batted an eye! Almost like Marty McFly...
We Boomers grew up with the nuclear war/fallout/nuclear winter threat. These films and similar ones were shown in grade school, jr. high and high school. We wrote essays in English classes about how we might survive. Our fathers built bomb shelters in our basements. You can't store enough food or water to outlast how long it takes for nuclear radiation to come to half-life. Crops grown in nuclear irradiated soil and watered with contaminated radiated particles means that either everything is going to die or be horribly disfigured. There are two versions of "On the Beach". One is the American and the other is the Australian point of view. Watch them both in addition to "The Day After" and "Barefoot Gen" about a Japanese boy surviving the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending WWII in the Pacific.
@content_enjoyer4458 The Boomers are dying off, and Millennials aren't prone to heeding cautions.
This is only one example of why the world may not miss pedantic boomer dogma.
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Dogma? Bucko, we Boomers forced a POTUS to end an unpopular war that killed almost 60K of our brothers, forced the selective service to recaliber their conscription policies to reduce the number of minorities that were drafted, developed a space shuttle, opened military careers to women, advocated civil rights, broke the glass ceiling, opened traditionally male fields to women and minorities, were the best-educated cohort in history, and chose to give birth to you. Your mother might be rethinking that choice right now.
@@content_enjoyer4458 Oh, God, I hope not. Aging isn't for the faint of heart. Our bodies betray us. Then our minds don't work so well. Look at Biden. Who wants to end up like that?
Wrong-o. Did you watch the video and assume it was all a lie? 72 hours of isolation sees the end of most of the fallout's radiation.
Sure, you'll not outlive it all - there's radiation in granite, brazil nuts, smoke detectors.
You want to enjoy that helpless feeling, go ahead, but don't lie to people who can be saved if they don't listen to you.
War never changes
Survival through knowledge 🤘
That was a throw back. Let's pray it never comes to that.
No, not a throwback, but an on-going watch.
The difference being, the government isn't spending money where it won't help.
When the time comes for that, there will be no help for the masses.
Only the oligarchy and their bootlickers will have any chance.
@@Raya14 yeah that whole line is what creates the need for nuclear proliferation.
I remember this episode in the early sixties
Gloves? Respirators? Hazmat suits?
Who needs them?😂
Seriously though, I’d go crazy if I had to stay in a fallout shelter.
Remember you are Safe from fallout
Lol
@@65gtotripsWhen has there ever been nuclear fallout? Or a nuclear winter? Never. It's fear propaganda.
13:19 d.b. cooper
Burt the Turtle 🐢 says 🦆 and 🏖️ and you should be 👍.
Because a nuclear weapon is no match for an indestructible school desk! 😉
cute
It totally cracks me up they actually thought they could decently survive an all out nuclear attack. I mean it’s so bizarrely stupid. Like in 3 weeks, you’d be back to work and having picnics or something.
Seeing as this was made in 1955, that most certainly was the case. ICBMs hadn't even been tested yet, much less fielded. There were only 200 Soviet nuclear warheads in existence in 1955, and most of those would probably have been successfully intercepted before reaching the contiguous US. Meanwhile, the plan was still to evacuate potentially targeted US cities (which had been practiced in drills before). Seeing as they had hours from the first radar returns to potential detonations, this was possible.
In other words, very few targets would actually be hit. Fallout would be the real danger because it spreads outside of the immediate area. It's entirely possible that for all intents and purposes the vast majority of Americans *would* be back to work and having picnics in three weeks.
What about a lead suit with a targeting system as well as some other helpful “things”. How can you tell me that wouldn’t protect against even some gamma particles? Come on?
@00:50 Ya think ?
Obviously this film was made before Godzilla ravaged Tokyo.
1955 but the scene where the car is driving is a first generation Nova, that didn’t come out until the early 60s… cool video but way wrong date
You have a good eye. I would think it was 1962. I saw other 1962 cars. The first year of the Nova was 1962.
Thank god so far it hasn’t come to this.
Those red lines describe the sort of emf pollution these days eek
You can see the interference on the film.
Duck and cover.
Fascjnating.
@4:08 - No, nature didn’t deposit anything, God created and sustains us.
DUCK & COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know I have never heard those words before. I was born in 60s.