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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221311-05
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: N/A
Country: USA
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TC Begins: 21:40:42
TC Ends: 21:54:26
Duration: 00:13:44
Fallout - When And How To Protect Yourself Against It Explosion w/ boiling cloud going from white to black & tilting up w/ it. Another wispier cloud. Large cloud dissolving to animation of fallout falling. Animated man in front of small portable movie screen, sits down. “Watch & listen, some day these facts may save your life.” Title card Fallout - what is it? Animated fallout. 21:42:38 Explosion of atomic bomb & cloud moving up. Animation of cloud drifting. “usually you can see the fallout” 21:44:25 “The particles behave as miniature x-ray machines...” 21:45:00 Drawing of radio set to Conalrad station; men w/ geiger counters at wreckage. Drawing of central monitoring point & board. 21:46:05 “Just what can you do if fallout comes your way?” Shelter, effect of a house, basement; large buildings & improvised shelters. Sandbagged space & covered w/ books. Exterior storm cellar or vegetable cellar stocked w/ supplies. “you need some of the same things you might take on a vacation or camping trip.” Drawings of supplies; of shelter “best is constructed shelter...get busy on construction.” 21:50:37 Animation of woman in house fililing containers; family in basement. “Don’t be discouraged.” 21:51:55 “...exposure can even cause death. If you have had considerable exposure you will vomit & grow weak; but after a few hours this sensation will pass & by the next day you may have had the last of it.” Talks about other symptoms including loss of hair, nose bleed, etc. 21:53:23 Animation of family listening to radio. CU card of Civil Defense Preparedness Five Steps To Safety. Office of Civil And Defense Mobilization The End. 1960s; 1950s; Cold War; Civil Defense; Instructional Films; Educational Films; Atomic Energy; Nuclear Disasters; Lecture Film; Atomic Attack Defenses;