Atomic Bomb Fallout Biological Chemical Attack Civil Defense 14 Films 2 DVDs

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. I strive to produce the best DVD's possible from the sometimes VERY old Public Domain material. Films that are public domain are unpreserved and not professionally re-mastered. I re-master all of my films myself to the best possible quality achievable. My DVDs are not the quality of todays Modern DVDs or Bluray discs. If you are looking for this kind of quality then these discs are not for you. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. To keep my prices as low as possible all my DVDs are delivered in plain paper DVD sleeves and the DVDs title will be labeled on the back of the DVD envelope. This way you can write the contents of the DVD on the DVD yourself if you want to. (See picture). All of my DVD's come with a menu for easy film selection. 　 Total runtime of these 2 DVDs is 3 hours and 25 minutes. Disc 1: Film 1: The Day Called "X" (1955) B&W Runtime 27 Minutes Glenn Ford narrates this excellently paced film about the possible nuclear attack on Portland Oregon. Well thought out pace and narration add to the mounting tension to this film to great effect. Release Date: 1955 Entered the Public Domain: 1984 Film 2: Atomic Alert (Elementary version) (1951) B&W Runtime 10 Minutes Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school students. Release Date: 1951 Entered the Public Domain: 1980 Film 3: Rural Civil Defense TV Spots (1965) B&W Runtime 10 Minutes Public service announcements by the U.S. Civil Defense office inform farmers what to do in case of nuclear attack using marionettes. Release Date: 1965 Entered the Public Domain: 1994 Film 4: Our Cities Must Fight (1951) B&W Runtime 9 Minutes Civil defense film admonishing U.S. city dwellers to stay and fight in case of enemy invasion, rather than evacuate. Filmed in New York and other cities. Release Date: 1951 Entered the Public Domain: 1980 Film 5: About Fallout (1963) COLOR Runtime 23 Minutes Optimistic vision of fallout and civil defense countermeasures. Release Date: 1963 Entered the Public Domain: 1992 Film 6: Operation Cue (1964 revision) COLOR Runtime 14 Minutes Some of the more dramatic color footage of nuke tests (albeit a little faded) can be found in this short overview of the destruction of a test site by a nuclear blast. Phony "reporter" makes such pithy observations as noting that the color of a tan jacket on a life-life dummy had faded from the heat of the blast; there's also a puzzling line about how "salvaged cans from demolished buildings could have been used for preparing meat" so that the assembled masses at the test can be fed. The simultaneously calming and menacing tone of the film is notable, and the conclusion finds the narrator mentioning that the relatively low level of destruction seen in the film pales in comparison to what would probably happen if a modern, more powerful weapon was to be used on a city, but that's OK because "many lessons were learned", anyway. Release Date: 1964 Entered the Public Domain: 1993 Film 7: The House in the Middle (1954) COLOR Runtime 12 Minutes Atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds (later the Nevada Test Site) show effects on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash and combustibles, and homes painted with reflective white paint. Asserts that cleanliness is an essential part of civil defense preparedness and that it increased survivability. Selected for the 2002 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant" films. Release Date: 1954 Entered the Public Domain: 1983 Disc 2: Film 8: Survival Under Atomic Attack (1951) B&W Runtime 8 Minutes "Explains" the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home. Release Date: 1951 Entered the Public Domain: 1980 Film 9: Radiological Defense (1961) COLOR Runtime 27 Minutes Great nuclear fallout scare film. Made much like a sci-fi film, with it's hyper-dramatic narrator, intense musical stings, and crazy-cool atomic graphics. The first half is the real keeper, as people on the street are shot through a red filter to indicate contamination, a man is shown dying in a hospital bed (close-up of his hand going limp), and we are told that "ALL of us live within fallout range of a likely target!" The second half drags a bit, with the standard descriptions of civil defense procedures, but all in all, great stuff. The picture and sound are in excellent condition, though the color fades a bit in the second half. Release Date: 1961 Entered the Public Domain: 1990 Film 10: Fallout: When and How to Protect Yourself Against It (1950s) B&W Runtime 14 Minutes Animated film produced by the United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, designed to educate the public about the dangers of wartime nuclear explosions from hydrogen bombs and atomic weapons. Release Date: 1950 Entered the Public Domain: 1979 Film 11: Duck and Cover (1951) B&W Runtime 9 Minutes Duck and Cover was a film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing. Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made with the help of schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York, it was shown in schools as the cornerstone of the government's "duck and cover" public awareness campaign. The movie states that nuclear war could happen at any time without warning, and U.S. citizens should keep this constantly in mind and be ever ready. Release Date: 1951 Entered the Public Domain: 1980 Film 12: News Magazine of the Screen: Atomic Energy (1950s) B&W Runtime 22 Minutes Compilation of 1950s newsreel stories on atomic weapons testing, civil defense and nuclear energy. Release Date: 1950s Entered the Public Domain: 1980s Film 13: What to Do in a Gas Attack (1942) B&W Runtime 14 Minutes Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. Release Date: 1942 Entered the Public Domain: 1971 Film 14: What You Should Know About Biological Warfare (1952) B&W Runtime 7 Minutes This film is pretty classic Civil Defense Department stuff. The CD folks had the unhappy job of trying to keep Joe Q. Public from mass panic. They often did this by treating the citizenry like a dying cancer patient...just keep them comfortable until the end finally comes. There is some classic "cloak and dagger" type stuff showing the bad guys tainting the water supply etc. We are told that modern science and doctors would save us all from B.W. (toxins, germs, and plant growth regulators). I wonder if anyone in the Department of Homeland Defense has dusted this film off recently? Release Date: 1952 Entered the Public Domain: 1981 I claim ownership and rights to this media. All the films on this DVD have been researched and are copyright free or the copyrights have expired due to non renewal.

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