A Day Called X (1957)

[@godfreecharlie]

35 of my 61yrs as an Oregonian were spent in Portland. Yes, everybody in the film are the real people. Harvey Scott school was one of my school's (Rose City Park) rivals in sports. I moved to PDX in '64, 7yrs after this film but all the landmarks and bridges, streets etc are recognizable. Never knew this film existed. Never thought the world knew Portland existed! lol Mayor Schrunk was still in office in '64 and as I remember was well liked.

[@dennissvitak6453]

I was born in Portland, and was three months old when this exercise happened.

[@bradmyers7109]

I was three years old in Los angeles.

[@TheWpelt]

Did you take part as an extra?

[@certaindeed]

At 15:24 "The great dangers are...jam ups and bottlenecks." I think "bombs" should be added to this list. At 21:04 They levied a 1 mil tax for this program. I wonder if they repealed the tax after ICBM's made it useless? The two most interesting statements are: 11:58 The local government officials are brought to a shelter to survive. 12:16 The government's top priority is for it to survive. As was stated previously at 8:05 the engineers and power technicians and those who are actually doing the work during the crises are expendable! If you are not a government official, good luck.

[@helenpilla9114]

The lack of clean underwear would be a problem as well.

[@Wa3ypx]

Please bend over, place your head firmly between your knees and proceed to kiss your butt good bye.

[@bigdanbear]

People. Laugh all you want, but this is a very real situation thta could have happened. I will not dwell the the waste of war. Lets just make sure IT DOES NOT HAPPEN! Kindness and peace starts in our hearts. Demand a better world.

[@pilgrim33]

First thought. "Good evening Mr Director. Let me open this door so that you can go and hide while I stay out here and get burned to vapour." Like hell!

[@crossbowsniper]

And THAT is why you will never be a part of such planning. And now for number two: had you been paying attention that underground shelter was outside the city limits and the blast radius. It was merely underground in case that area was a tertiary target. As for radioactive fallout, meters would monitor that and NOWADAYS we know about dispensing potassium iodide to prevent absorption of radioactive particles.

[@leelarson107]

Sounds like Biden-Harris-Pelosi in action.

[@paulrichards2365]

The pay is good, but the hours are bad.

[@leelarson107]

Don't expect the gov't----in any of its branches----to be of any help if such a disaster strikes. *Anyone left standing will be on their own.

[@ruvoodoo4862]

EXACTLY! But back when this was made people DID trust that the government would help.

[@Ed-ty1kr]

LOL.. naw, if the big gov bureaucracy does anything, it will only do something like impose fines on you for not keeping up with their nuclear war guidelines... citizen. And then take that money without calling it additional taxes, and establish for itself the assurence that continuation of government is guaranteed, in case of nuclear war.

[@RealCptHammonds]

Yep! And lots of people are going to shocked that so many people survived and how crewel they will be to others.

[@Ed-ty1kr]

@@RealCptHammonds Well.. maybe, but I think otherwise. Cruelty is usually done by those with an upper hand, and always by those that have it good, or have it easy. What I mean is cruelty is usually done by those that are full of arrogance, pride, and its a byproduct of the ego. When everyone is having hardship, people tend to be more kind to one anouther, and no one has the need to cause more cruelty in an already cruel world. That nonsense is the product of Hollywood fiction. I think you misunderstand what nuclear war will cause, its not just the radiation from the nuclear bombs, that will only be 1% of the fallout. The real fallout will happen once every one of the thousands of nuclear reactors begin to melt down, in unison. That is what will cause the real nuclear fallout that will have people feeling the constant hunger and nausia from radiation sickness everywhere. Its quite possibly the worst way to die you can imagine, and no one will have the strenght to be cruel to anyone else. Besides, if you wana know what a lawless world looks like, all you need to do is read about how humanity lived pretty much until the industrial revolution, throughout history.

[@thomthumbe]

Years ago, I was asked to staff a position in a govt bunker. I was actually giving it serious consideration…..that is until they made it clear that my family was not welcome in the event of an attack. And that is when I laughed it off and told them I’d rather be walking the streets, skin and hair falling off/out, helping my wife and kids look thru garbage cans for food before I would even consider sitting a thousand feet underground, eating MRE’s and occasional fresh food every day while my family scrounged the Earth for food. Thanks for the offer, but not only no, but HELL NO!!

[@neshobe]

Well, I lived through this era, and the drills and exercises. It was kinda weird times. Yes, it seems overblown, and certainly is outdated now. Many commenters have made jokes about it, and the 50s drama. However, these exercises, created around the fear of a nuclear war, led to the methodical development of emergency planning throughout America, meant to address a variety of crises that affect communities: floods, earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, epidemics, etc. Most cities have some form of emergency planning in place. And many have large drills to test out various aspects of the plan. Some important things were learned by the Portland evacuation drill. Some important things were also learned when New Orleans was hit by hurricane Harvey-- and there wasn't a real emergency evacuation/response plan in place. How many people died in that debacle? Think about this: inevitably Portland is going to have a big earthquake at some point, and that point could be any day. A massive response will be required. Yes, Portland taxed themselves to pay for this, and additional planning since. Let's hope it's done well, because when we need it, there will be literally no time to second guess what we are doing. It will have to work right the first time.

[@jessiematthews2432]

Great comment.

[@owiro6609]

This didńt age well.

[@50buttfish]

Grew up on a SAC base; we joked about all the documentaries and teaching aids about nuclear war, WE WERE all dead anyways - enjoyed everyday as a kid.

[@kenwilson4775]

Today we are probably closer to nuclear war than any other time in history. Yet we are the least prepared for such an event. Plan accordingly

[@lindycorgey2743]

Portland isn't ready for sh*t. They proved that with the riots. It's going to be a KEYSTONE COMEDY.

[@arthurlewis9193]

The DJ on KOYM is still there. He's now doing the 3.00AM "fall asleep Portland" show.

[@rah62]

KOIN radio lived from 1926-1977 (AM) and 1948-1977 (FM) as an affiliate of CBS (this program aired on CBS TV) when they were both sold and the call letters changed to KYTE. KOIN as a CBS TV affiliate was born in 1953 and still lives today, still with CBS.

[@Ronbo710]

I LOVE these documentaries now. But seeing the projector in the middle of the classroom back in the early '70s only meant one thing - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :).

[@summerbeemeadow]

Not so loveable or so boring for those of us who grew up in that time.

[@rah62]

2:32 Speaking as a Portland native, sunrise at six thirty-one would have placed this right around the 1st of September, because otherwise it would have been somewhere in early March and there would be no way a kid would be riding a bike wearing a t-shirt in the middle of Portland's rainy season.

[@kernals12]

That's incredible, people in Portland used to boil their coffee!

[@inkey2]

yeah 4 years ago, i know......in regard to boiling coffee. That coffee pot is whats known as a "percolator"......that's the way everyone used to make coffee. I bought an old coffee pot like that on Ebay, You can make really good coffee in a percolator as long as it's glass or stainless steel.

[@ZakWolf]

My dad's elementary school had the fire alarm horns like the one seen at 7:52. Surprisingly they still have them (an old Gamewell FlexAlarm system from 1963.) Unlike the redubbed Chrysler Victory siren, here it sounds like they actually recorded that fire alarm going off when filming that scene (but you can tell they apparently just recorded 5 to 10 seconds of it sounding and then looped it in post.)

[@Trainlover1995]

"In three hours, an H-bomb might fall over Portland." Back in those days, it was a "might", because nuclear war was conducted exclusively using bombers. When this aired in 1957, ballistic missiles were still in their infancy, and the first ballistic missile submarine wouldn't be commissioned for two years. Therefore, it was mainly bombers. The reason it was a "might" is because bombers are large, slow, and easily shot down. This is why modern-day nuclear bombers use standoff cruise missiles with a nuclear warhead, and gravity bombs are used on fighters for a tactical role.

[@MomentousGaming]

It's fascinating to watch this, the threat of nuclear war lasted almost 40 years; methods of evacuation changed significantly when missiles started to be used instead of bombers. Back in the 50's and 60's you had a chance to survive a nuclear attack, later on you had no chance in hell.

[@8800081]

The threat of nuclear war lasted for 40 years? It still exists today as much as it ever did.

[@MomentousGaming]

@@c.s.oneill2079 Replying to a 6 year old comment lol

[@MomentousGaming]

@@c.s.oneill2079 Fair.

[@danielallen5538]

that bunker is on Kelly butte in south east Portland. Been there many times

[@okokokok987]

I worked up there, until it closed in 1992.

[@inkey2]

@3:01 is a "Revere" brand coffee percolator circa 1950. I went back to making coffee this way after remembering my mother using one of these. Makes really tasty coffee. You can buy an original, working, vintage one on Ebay. In my opinion the brand "Revere" or "Revere ware" is the best.

[@alexcarter8807]

Revere Ware was a line of pots and pans, stainless steel with copper bottoms, and just about indestructable.

[@inkey2]

@@alexcarter8807 " indestructable " is right-on. My mother who just died at 95 years old had been using all the Revere Ware she got as wedding presents in 1950 up till she passed away. Only an atomic blast could damage Revere Ware.

[@almostfm]

BTW, really useless bit of trivia-the inkjet printer was invented by an engineer at HP who saw a coffee percolator and realized that you could heat ink and force it through a tiny nozzle onto the paper.

[@f4windex]

I lived near Rome, NY growing up, and remember the Revere plant. Mom used a set of those pots and pans back then and I also still have an iconic tea kettle like my Mom used that says it was made in Rome. Indestructible!

[@cityboy9301]

....I like the way they portrayed a normal life day in the police...as a cat stuck up a tree..or an apple pie cooling by an open window was stolen... Witnesses report 2 rosy cheeked street urchins running away from the scene.

[@tomhughes8472]

Meanwhile in reality, the women and children who were regularly beaten and terrorized by the head of household drunk father had zero legal recourse against their abuser. What would be the point of calling the police when the officer would simply refuse to take any action? Women couldn't even have their own bank account until 1974!

[@certaindeed]

Ha. Three hours before the bombers arrive? How quaint and so much time to change our minds! When I grew up in the 70's...just as now...we have 45 minutes for an over the pole ICBM and about 10 to 20 minutes after a ballistic submarine launch. No one today has these procedure...training...or skills. No one.

[@bestshowontheweb]

That's because the ICBM has made M.A.D. doctrine the most effective deterrent from engaging in warfare beyond small proxy wars in countries where influence matters. The ICBM has been the primary delivery system for nuclear warheads since the 1960s. This film had been outdated by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The advantage the US had over the Soviet Union was that it could outproduce them on all fronts, and we still likely would "win" the ultimate war of attrition, as we alone have stockpiles enough to wipe out life on earth six times over.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

I Put The Slav in Slave The other advantage the US had was quality of manufacture. Even the most optimistic Soviet estimates had 30% of their nuclear weapons failing to detonate due to manufacturing defects; a more realistic estimate was 50%. American defense scientists estimated a 95-100% success rate for American and allied nations’ devices.

[@highlander723]

@@bestshowontheweb I wish I were that simple The problem with nuclear war on a massive scale it's the same as one person having five matches and another person having three matches and they're both standing in a puddle of gasoline

[@DougPaulley]

@highlander723 that is the most apt metaphor for nuclear war I've heard, respect.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on December 8, 1957.

[@joehnunya]

No wonder some of us early 60s kids are messed up. I remember hiding under my wood desk from the bomb. Testing the system on Friday afternoon. Now, go out and play.

[@dreemsnake1]

Duuuuck and cuuu-ver! Same as a tornado drill.

[@davelowets]

Nah, it was tue hippie movement, and all the drugs that messed people up.

[@Ironclad62]

Back when this was made (1957), the Soviets didn't have the ICBM's and supersonic bombers they did just a few years later. Back then, there WAS the capability of a 3.5 hour warning, because that was all the faster the bombers could get here from over the pole. No one had even thought of the concept of EMP attack and wouldn't until several years later. They certainly couldn't pull something like this off in today's world.

[@521cjb]

And not one word about nuclear winter, they hadn't thought about that yet.

[@jacobsparry8525]

@@521cjb - nuclear winter will only happen if we have a HUGE number of ground burst weapons get used in a very short time frame. But if the “war” was say, only 75 or 80 bombs or 40 to 80 by each side, we would not have a nuclear winter as most have been taught to think. In just 1 period of 2 to 3 days , less if I recall correctly, the US tested 24 ABOVE GROUND H-bombs and then more just a while later and they had no ill effects or bad weather events . And I am assuming any war using nukes will likely be very short after both sides see what it does to their cities in real life. I am a believer in MAD and I think all nuclear power leaders realize what it means in reality terms if there was a full release of nuclear weapons. - I grew up with 3 SAC bases within 50 miles of us, 2 were less than 10 miles and right in our city. On top of that we had a huge concrete block house about 4 or 5 stories high on top of the mountains that were between us and the ocean that housed a VERY large and powerful RADAR system. And every day we would watch “Conies” with big RADAR domes both on top of the fuselage and on the bottom taking off and heading out to sea to patrol from near San Jose to Alaska in a big circle just watching, part of the Air Early Warning Picket that covered the upper west coast. And daily we would have our windows rattled and hear the sonic boom of jet fighters taking off with after burners on full and appearing to head out to sea also, tho they could have turned aside at any point. - we always paid attention to the warnings and educational materials because we lived right in the middle of it. My foster son’s grandfather and father actually worked at the Aerojet facility in Sacramento and his grandfather helped to design the Polaris A-1 and A-2 Missiles which were the first dry fueled SLBMs ( Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles )! They were the missiles that allowed our nuclear submarines to launch their missiles from over 5 stories under water! Before that they had to store 2 incredibly flammable, explosive and toxic liquids on board and to fire a missile they had to first surface the boat and open the ventilation hatches fully, then connect one liquid fuel tank to a missile and fill it and then fill another missile tank with the other liquid fuel. The problem is that both of these liquids are HYPERGOLIC as well as hyper toxic and hyper flammable and hyper explosive! If even 1 droplet of liquid A contacts liquid B you will get an explosion or hypergolic intensive fire. And if one droplet of either drops on the deck, both are hyper toxic so if you are not in a special suit then you are already dead. If the liquids contact each other, being hypergolic, you will have either a intense fire or explosion and nuclear missiles do carry also pounds of just regular explosives so the point is you could lose the boat easily. You would have to stay surfaced and fire the missile to which made you a big target. - with dry fuel the missile could be launched at +55 feet under water, rise in a bubble of steam, broach the surface, ignite and launch towards space, never being seen! That’s the world I grew up in and when we got missiles ours were super accurate and theirs were not, but as kids we just figured there was no actual way to hide because we were like 4 to 8 minutes from multi-megaton Soviet SLBMs ( we called them Slam Bams ) and there was no hiding from them so MAD made perfect sense to us. No more duck & cover, just live your life and don’t worry about what you can never control. So far it has worked OK. BUT now nukes are getting into the hands of mad man dictators. Now 1 or even may be 100 will not endanger the human race so thus far none of these idiots are truly dangerous, except now we appear to have a singular mad dictator of a super power. This is new territory and even though I still think MAD is a good thing, I am worried that our weak tit President is letting our capabilities become second rate and THAT IS DANGEROUS!! That all these sing Kumbaya together around the camp fire is actually believed by some of these fools on the liberal left. They do not understand history, that the BEST defense for peace is the strongest plan for offense. AKA : MAD ( Mutually Assured Destruction!!! )

[@summerbeemeadow]

@@jacobsparry8525 Kindly provide your education and certification as a nuclear weapons effect science expert. While you are at it, provide any reason why anyone should give your right wing extremism-biased opinions any weight at all.

[@jacobsparry8525]

@@summerbeemeadow Sure stupid ass, show to me yours first! Blow hards as you abound around at here and try to maked every one thinked are they experts. I amed no expert, just do I READED! And too at least i do not haved to uped thumbed my owned commentings neither. And only thing did i mistaked on was number of days did I writed for aboved ground USA detonations. It was being 24 ined 60 days and there haved been other series when haved they set off others too. And thosed 29 were being ALL large aboved grounds detonations too even! Too all so my writed stuff at here is being pretty very diffrenter be caused whened haved I writed it this I was being at home and I haved noned of my therapys helpers or my school roomed mates or my fosters parentals arounded to do it edited stuff for me. BUT ifed do you haved any of brains as acshully do you tryd to insinuated thened you should to be able to readed it thised stuff. For your informations I am at just turned to 15 and I go at a magnets school for gifted kids. I taked all most all AP classes and included physics. My grand of father worked as a engineer for a corporation called as Aerojet and helped to maked the first of dry fuels SLBM , the Polaris A-1, A-2 and A-3s. They dided to maked it so cand USA submarines launched a SLBM fromed +55 of feet under the waters and haved it to go uped to the surfaced ined a bubble of dryd steam, broached the surfaced and popped out of the waters, thened when did it stop going uped it would to ignitioned and blasted off uped to space to go at the targets for it and too the MIRVs. And too dided my grand of father worked on to others stuff as projects NERVA and ROVER whiched was being nuclear engines for space crafts and evened one for atmospheric aircrafts! I do evened to remembered it that they dided to do testings at Jackassed Flats Nevada test ranges ined Area #25 and #26, ined samed reservations as Area #51 ! Sinced you are believed it just of about any dumbed thing do you geted told by yours libtards firends thened probly you do thinked it they geted helped fromed little of purples dudes or greened dudes to maked stuff worked! May be now do I haved aphasias but still cand I remembered stuff dided my grand of father and my Mom and too my father evened say to me. And all of them and too my olders brother dided to geted dead at whened was I at 7. And my father worked as weapon engineer and he did created weapon systems . And my mom did teached at CAL Technicals College until was I borned. That is being my pedigree jerked off. They are dead at now and only I am left and do I writed as this be caused I geted my head craxked and TBI and others stuff and after brains opiration now do I haved damagings called as APHASIAS and I am MUTED and others stuff be caused did a vile evil fosters father pedophile dided tryd for beated me for deathed when was I at 11. So now do you know it about me but you could haved just to looked at my ABOUT place ined my room ifed dided you haved any great of brains as are you insinuated withed yours big ignoranted commenting. Too dided I readed it you just are a big of TROLL i do guessed it be cause at YOURS room you haved NOTHING of abouted who are YOU. Are you being just scared of may be a 15 years old cand be smarters thened are you being?? OH too all so, there is NOTHING being kindly about of you at all butt head. Ifed dided YOU acshully READ stuff a lot as do I thened may be you woulded not called persons as names or tryd for castigating of them until do YOU acshully haved writed to them and showed YOURS own of bonafides about of what do you demanded of them. My mom and my father and my grand of father were I amed totallys sure 10x times smarter thened ever you will be and they dided to teached me about acshully the threating of nuclear weapons and what is acshully being real and what is acshully being bulls craps spreaded by bung holes morons as you. AND …MAD does worked too even, it is ONLY of reason we haved not had nuclear wars beyond it the first one! BUT i do supposed it that YOU do thinked we should to trusted the Soviets Union and the Communist of Chinese and a backed shooter as ADOLF PUTIN to lived uped to their promising to eliminated theirs nuclear weaponry’s when do we ! And ifed do you wished to looked uped it, Operationed Plumbob did haved 29 aboved ground detonations fromed MAY 28 to October 07 of 1957 and there was NONE of nuclear winters ! And that just was being only 1 of test series aboved ground dided they do. Operation Castle did to haved 6 high yielding Hydrogen Bomb aboved ground testings ined that series aloned. Mostly being aimed for about of 5 - 6 MEGATONS, they dided to fluked uped to on Castle Bravo test and ined stead of being 6 Megatons it did go off withed 15 MEGATONS of power, the most powers full bomb ever doned by the USA and whiched did to cover near by Atolls withed highly radio actived ionizing fall out. Even on some of small islands dided it comed downed as white powders of 2 -3 inches of thick. And indigenous of persons on to thosed islands did thinked it was being SNOW as never they haved seen it snow before. So did they play withed it and maked “snow balls” and haved snow balls fights withed it and some dided to evened EATED IT !! It haved been a estimationed of 75,000 of indigenous islander persons were killed as by fallout fromed Castle BRAVO aboved ground test! SEVENTYFIVE THOUSANDS !!! THERE WERE BEING 67, SIXTYSEVEN, HIGH YIELDS ABOVED GROUNDS HYDROGENED TESTINGS DONED INED THIS PART OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN over 12 of years! 67 of HIGH YIELDS H-BOMBS and still none of any nuclear winters. And thesed do not to included bombs dropped fromed the Soviets Union neither! And that doesed to skipped the Czar Bomb of 50 MEGATONS ABOVED GROUNDS TEST. THE USA haved done 215 intentional aboved grounds nuclear events. AND the USA all so haved done 815 unders ground testing events, of about 1/2 did vent materials to ined the atmosphere. Of all KNOWNED tests of the world there haved been 528 aboved grounds nuclear testing events, not included are the 2 fromed WW2, and there haved been 1528 unders ground events. The USA haved doned 1030 nuclear testing events, not included the 2 of WW2. FOR the WHOLE of world there haved beened 2056 KNOWNED nuclears testing events. AND guess of what? STILL none of any nuclear winters haved happened. NONED. NONED of nuclear winters at all misters door knob! AND all thised stuff haved I learned by READING of stuff about of war and weapons and physics and many others stuff do i haved interests to ined. And too stuff dided my parentals, my REAL of parentals dided to teached to me as be caused I geted homes school to at 7 be caused all ways haved I geted attentions decifits and too hypers activness pretty very a lot. Regulars of schools dided not wished hypers activness kids and wished drugs for them and my Mom saided no way! May be YOU should to taked yours ignoranted nosed fromed unders cars hoods and tryd for acshully doing some of READING on what are you pontificating about of. And too tryd what all ways do persons tell to me whiched is being to be niced to until are they being not niced! And now ifed do you wished to haved real conversing withed me you cand ifed do you asked of POLITE. OTHER wised go pissed uped a rope!

[@DEW409]

@@summerbeemeadow Says another weak ass Biden supporter. Your worthless president is what enabled and emboldened Putin to do what he is doing to Ukraine. So just shut up.

[@davidpar2]

Love that diamond shaped door knob back plate at 2:49

[@nickatnights]

I went to Portland last year and I can attest that this did happen.

[@tylerlondon5052]

Top comment.

[@leelarson107]

@@tylerlondon5052 For sure. Our worst enemy is here on our soil.

[@lilblackduc7312]

That's right!

[@michaelcap9550]

@@leelarson107 Progressive policies.

[@anthonylegore1517]

A strike on Portland today would do the country a world of good.

[@sferrell1000]

This must have been late in 1957, the cop stopped a new 1958 Edsel Pacer. The sportscaster driving and listing to his radio, from the dashboard, that was a new Edsel convertible.

[@alexcarter8807]

Nothing like a little product placement...

[@grunt4life657]

They gave the time of arrival in Pacific Standard Time, so it would have been at least November.

[@neonhomer]

Guy in the convertible looked like Leonardo DiCaprio...

[@EndingSummerwithRalph]

Watch Panic In The Year Zero if you want to watch the real thing. This Is Not A Test is another good one! I joke, but they are two cool nuke films if you like this stuff.

[@redwingfan9393]

It's very easy to not panic and calmly walk to a shelter when there is a planned drill. If an actual nuclear attack was under way it would be every man for himself.

[@spankynater4242]

That's why they drill repeatedly, so panic won't happen. Most people would act like people.

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I spent a year in Portland one day. 😳

[@royrice8597]

😯No way this kind of calm and orderliness and preparation will happen! Mass panic would be the rule.

[@neshobe]

And yet every time there is a disaster of any kind, people do their best to help each other, and to organize to get things done. The "mass panic" trope is left over from the 50s post-war survivalists, who were basically damaged people, similar to many of the extreme right militant groups now, only not at all organized. And today's extreme right-wing militants are not only organizing for the wrong thing, their organization, such as it is, is tenuous at best. It comes apart pretty quickly when things don't follow their script. Which is just about all the time. Sadly, the resulting chaos is when individuals start acting out their own scripts.

[@daryllect6659]

1:00 Chrysler 331 hemi-powered siren. Garlitts has one.

[@samrussell4065]

And to think that none of them knew what Vault-Tec had in mind for them...

[@masonsykes2240]

Portland meets _Fallout_? www.falloutthefrontier.com/

[@certaindeed]

Love the translation which is messed up anyway, but a moment to breath: 23:05 "And now with a moment to breed some can take time for coffee...and a post intercourse cigarette" LOL

[@aliprey7047]

Lol that's great, I like how u think! The smallest most minute mistake is often THE MOST HILARIOUS when someone just blurts out whatever random/confuzzled/inappropriate way their brain interpreted the moment! I mean if the world's gonna blow up and you're not guaranteed a spot underground, to space or some genius with a brilliant idea to save it all (that they'll all listen to) then might as well go out happy as ya can...!🤷‍♀️

[@Ronbo710]

About time for another 12000 degree Summer of Love.

[@TalismanPHX]

Today, people would panic, it'd be pure pandemonium, and no sense of decorum

[@maxkronader5225]

People in the 1960s: This stuff might not do any good if there's a direct hit, but the bomb might be off-target and it's better than doing nothing. People today: WTF bruuhh!? You mean it's not 100% guaranteed without me having to do anything for myself!?

[@trashcanman6649]

You sound like a true boomer. The truth is that nowadays people don't accept 1950s/60s BS about how nuclear warfare with multimegaton bombs is "not that bad". A 20 megaton airburst at an altitude of about 8.5 kilometers will cause most buildings within a radius of 19 kilometers to be utterly destroyed and it will cause severe burns beyond that radius. Considering the fact that in a nuclear war several nukes would be used against each designated target I would say that you are screwed unless you are in a rural area.

[@neonhomer]

Notice the fire bell rings, but the mechanism does not move.

[@nataliemae8516]

Most have no clue o this, due to failures in our education systems sadly

[@raffaeleirlanda6966]

Men at Power Plant are expendable. Excellent, Electric Company! Excellent! 👴👍

[@N617A]

the 138 DB chrysler air raid siren would have distorted the microphone of the cameras they had (if it would even get a signal at all.) the chrysler air raid sirens were not only deeper but they had a cold "chill" to them as well. something even scarier? we were playing at a park that had a siren right there and being from nebraska, i can only imagine the terror and the suprise a siren test/alert would be.

[@ZakWolf]

That would probably explain why they ended up dubbing in the sound of a completely different siren. In my YTP "Arthur Watches 'The Day After'" I used some footage of the Chrysler siren here but dubbed in audio of an actual Chrysler siren being tested by a private collector.

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

That's not Portland! Where are all the people living under the bridges and overpass?

[@losttapes219]

I came here for the rotating Chrysler Air Raid Sirens.

[@Elizabeth-ts4om]

Same! Did the siren board send you?

[@losttapes219]

Yep! Stumbled on to this video while browsing the forum.

[@Elizabeth-ts4om]

Sucks it's dubbed over

[@sharronpotocki7130]

l watched this just to listen to glen fords voice

[@alexcarter8807]

I think those are the same ones used in Hawaii ... nostalgia time.

[@mikeshue8088]

Did they really think that people would actually remain calm when evacuating like this? It would be every man for himself and to hell with everybody else. Not to mention you'd have to go a lot farther than 6 miles from ground zero. More like 600 miles.

[@ehurtley]

The bombs of the 50s where weaker. Because of the layout of the land in Portland, 10-15 miles would have been "minimum safe" distance from a bomb falling on downtown. There is no bomb, not even the 50 Megaton Soviet "Tsar Bomba" that would kill people 600 miles away from the detonation. (The United States is only 2700 miles across East/West, and 1500 miles across North/South - if a bomb were made that could kill at 600 miles, six bombs would be enough to kill the entire population of the continental US. One bomb would destroy France, or Germany, or the UK.) You only have to get to minimum safe distance before the bomb explodes - the fallout may travel further, but you have longer to escape that.

[@ObamaTookMyCat]

Portland actually DID do a full downtown evacuation in the 50s, it was called operation GreenLight. This video actually dramatizes it and it inspired by it.

[@dreemsnake1]

Everyone had a fallout shelter.

[@RealCptHammonds]

Nope. 40-60 will do it.

[@mr.jelloman4926]

i love the fact that they have to say "an attack is not taking place" love it

[@Radioman909]

brandon SIMMONS They had to put that sign on so people watching wouldn't freak out an panic like they did in 1938 on the "The Night the Panicked America"

[@mr.jelloman4926]

+Radioman909 i know but i love it

[@davidh9844]

There really was a time in America when the news media and Hollywood were credible and truthful. That probably ended around the time of the Kennedy assassination.

[@MistressGlowWorm]

mr.jelloman I believe they had learned from the H.G. Wells Incident of 1938. “The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic. Perhaps they didn’t want a repeat?

[@robertduckham3377]

You have to remember what had gone in the recent past. The Russians had launched sputnik I on a converted ICBM. A lot of people were afraid that the Russians could launch A bombs on missiles and attack the US.

[@thomashatcher836]

This is when Portland was sane and reasonable

[@thomasschreiber9559]

We thought we won the cold war but the communists seem to be winning

[@thelowmein9143]

What happened after that moment....the special effects budget ran out?

[@mnirwin5112]

+The Lowmein No, but nobody back then would've wanted to see nuclear war as it really was. Most of those movies were very sanitized. Nothing even remotely like "Testament" or "Threads."

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

And how would Portland react in a similar situation today?..........🤔

[@BARRIEMOREBARLOW]

I guess I would have enough time to write in my journal and go through my coin collection.

[@RCAvhstape]

Well I must say the ending was a letdown...

[@kentcyclist]

Helium Road I won’t bother to watch it then 😆

[@donjming]

It's amazing how many people don't know that it's there.

[@geoffck6969]

9:31 If I was that bank manager, my "well thought out plan" would be grabbing a handful of the loot in that vault, scooting off to the nearest grocery store, filling a cart FAST with essential supplies, scooting back to the vault, shopping cart in tow, and locking myself in that vault for the next 2-3 weeks.

[@danzig159]

@Flavaboy Well it doesn't tell me anything about what kind person he is, maybe you could explain to me what kind of person he really is.

[@danzig159]

@Flavaboy It's not a crime to take money from a bank vault to buy groceries to last you after a NUCLEAR BLAST. What do you think the money in the bank is gonna be worth after a nuclear blast destroys an entire city?

[@samueljaramillo4221]

Why would you grab handfuls of money that don’t belong to you. And buying supplies and locking yourself in that vault. That selfish mentality. It’s all about you.

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

@Flavaboy Lighten up! The thought of a nuclear attack is unthinkable. It merits a little levity.

[@chickenheart896]

@Flavaboy Get a grip. It's a JOKE!

[@runforrestrun6103]

I remember those days. Everything was in black and white... and grey. I remember eating grey apples and tomatoes. Just didn't taste the same as now.

[@delavalmilker]

This was WAAAAYY years before the much ballyhoooed 1981's "Special Bulletin".

[@norahjaneeast5450]

It's interesting they show a civil defense radio I had seen a program about there's also a tie in as well since KOIN Channel 6 is the channel that you can hear on FM radio as well so showing that civil defense FM radio is cross promotion I just realized my friend who lived on that mountain right underneath that transmission tower was also born in 1957

[@MixerVM]

This is the only time I have ever seen a Chrysler siren rotate. Not the true sound of one though, as some users stated below, but still cool nonetheless!

[@cloudtx]

Decent film, it's purpose was to inform and not entertain after all. Still, such a massive tease!.

[@theq4602]

1:02 good old Chrysler air raid siren.

[@Elizabeth-ts4om]

If only it actually sounded like one 🙄

[@circuitsmith]

There's a 'site for that: www.victorysiren.com/x/index.htm

[@okokokok987]

When this old bomb shelter (later Portlan's 9-1-1 Center) facility at Kelly Butte was retired in 1992, I picked up the maintenance manual for that Chrysler Air Raid Siren from a bunch of books that were being thrown away. Interesting reading! I also found an old black and white picture of the six "new" sirens together, getting ready for testing, after they had been delivered from the factory.

[@spudnikflyover1227]

I wonder if they ever had the fear that the designated evacuation points would be themselves targets.

[@venangoproductions]

I love how it has to say “AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE”

[@Ronbo710]

Thank Orson Welles.

[@venangoproductions]

@@Ronbo710Yep, famous War of the Worlds

[@ericzerkle5214]

24:03 a Chrysler siren!!! Those things are bad ass.

[@shook0002]

Hemi!

[@Norfolk250]

This is more of an instruction of how to efficiently attack a group than it is how to protect oneself. This tells the attacker to do-so not in the city, but in the hideaways.

[@LordZontar]

The film does no such thing. Bombers would not divert from their main targets in the hopes of potting a dispersed population. Destroying key industrial, military and infrastructure facilities is the sole focus of a strategic attack. The destruction of survival of the population is wholly incidental to that main object.

[@bluefaery1865]

It's so rude and callous to say " These men are expendable" about the men at the power plant.

[@davidpar2]

Those men probably said that about themselves first

[@bluefaery1865]

@@davidpar2 Doubt it. It was the white collar blokes who viewed them as expendable. Same as today.

[@conradsieber7883]

Is there a reason we can't shoot the enemy aircraft down if we know it's coming for 3 hours?

[@crossbowsniper]

Back in that time frame the bombers could fly higher than fighters for one thing. And for another thing we didn’t have the extensive quantity of air force bases to launch from that we have now.

[@robertmandell526]

There were 653 B-52 Strategic Bombers in the Strategic Air Command by 1957, actually before that. Fully 20% of them were in constant airborne alert, meaning flying predeter.ined routes to targets in the Soviet Union. Almost ALL others were on Alerts varying from 15 minutes to 6 hours. It's certain multiple bombers were routed to Moscow and other major cities. This was common knowledge in the general population. We had the DEW LINE (Distant Early Warning) System in place at that time, with PAVE PAWS searching Over the Horizon acrood the Pole. The IDEA of the Soviets pushing old Bear Bombers over the Pole for an attack, given our early warning system and the certain SAC response, was and is preposterous. Much of the "imminent"nuclear war drumbeat, like Glenn Ford's narration of this piece here, was politically motivated, and encouraged by the "military-indutrial complex" that Ike warned about in his farewell address before leaving the presidency. They all wanted the Big Bucks to keep flowing out of Congress. After the development of ICBMs, and later SLBMs (Poseiden and Trident), all that Evacuation nonsense became absurd and pointless. A one Megatron warhead detonating within several MILES of it's intended target point, would still wipe OUT EVERYTHING for the or twenty miles around. Blast, heat, gamma radiation, and firestorms would leave nothing untouched. So all the "Duck and Cover" (which I did in school) and "Civil Defense" evacuations....were just so much crap. SAC knew it; Washington knew it; the Press knew it....and most importantly, the Russkies knew it to, for their own people as well as our's.

[@EndingSummerwithRalph]

I catch some cool stuff on KZbin! Thanks for posting! I just wonder how the CBS censors missed that Asian kid @ 8:20?

[@venangoproductions]

I don’t get it

[@davidpar2]

Chrysler air raid siren at the beginning

[@rockystelone21]

Chrysler V8 engine was the power behind the air raid siren

[@HDcreature]

...I live a couple hours away from there O_O

[@normansmith02]

Fighting a house fire 60 minutes before an expected A-bomb drop? Why?

[@BohemothWatts-vz1lc]

Every person for themselves and God for us all

[@railgap]

The air raid siren sound heard at the beginning is NOT the actual correct sound of the siren shown, which happens to be the Chrysler Air Raid Siren, the loudest ever made AFAIK.

[@SarahB1863]

There is one massive flaw in this video, and that is the assumption that if we were to undergo a nuclear attack, that you'd want to survive it.

[@rileywilliams9799]

I was a kid in the 80s and people were still talking about shelter plans and supplies, still waiting for the Soviets to launch the Bomb. Then Chernobyl happened, which many say was the beginning of the end for the Soviet government.

[@maxkronader5225]

Actually the Soviet System was gradually failing for years before Chernobyl. Chernobyl was simply something so big the Soviets couldn't hide it from their own people. The Soviet Union failed because communism is simply an unworkable system on any large scale. The only way the Soviets pulled it off for as long as they did was a combination of vast natural resources, a large labor pool, thorough indoctrination of youth through the school system, strict censorship, and totalitarian crackdown on any alleged "counterrevolutionary" activity.

[@cathyrowe594]

@@maxkronader5225 And that sounds eerily similar to what's being done to us today!

[@Josh-le6lu]

8:37 That thing looked beat up, even back then.

[@vernscheck2658]

Why wouldn't they hit Seattle first?

[@tonyduncan9852]

Beyond any belief.

[@kurtthewurt]

Well Portland just can't seem to avoid bombs now, can it?

[@tonyrusso6983]

Thank God I live in Portland.....Maine haha!

[@Ronbo710]

Portland Rocks. I was stationed up in Brunswick when it was a Naval Air Station. I LOVE Maine !!

[@tonyrusso6983]

I Luv Maine Too!! LOL

[@kentcyclist]

Tony Russo thanks goodness I live in Portland, England

[@ARedMagicMarker]

Nah, Dean, you live in Rockwell, Maine. XD

[@aliciajaneryder]

Its called Rocky Bute it is the old 911 center

[@dohc22h]

I live in Portland Oregon.... Now-a-days Everybody would come back to Squatters living in their Houses while selling all their Shit.. In the Marine Corps Nuclear Attack Training Class was only about 10 Minutes long.... They said.. "If a Nuclear Bomb goes off....... Hit the Deck and don't look up" SMH

[@ericbrett3095]

As a current resident of Portland, 2022, there is no plan in place by our local politicians except them getting their butts out of Portland. The public is on their own and we are so screwed.

[@cathyrowe594]

The people of Portland are screwed even without a nuclear threat. Thank your politicians for that.

[@mmurray1983]

12:26 "Things look pretty bad" is the opposite of what you should say next to a hot mic.

[@firstlastname7437]

If only they could have seen what Antifa and the homeless would do.

[@booklover6753]

So you are pro fascism?

[@davidpar2]

@@booklover6753that’s a non sequitur. “The fascists of tomorrow will call themselves anti-fascists.” Well, tomorrow’s here today, and those fascists are antifa

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

Traffic 1957 ???

[@RedCrossPDX]

Thank you for posting!

[@Skrubbzdubbz]

actually the bunker in this video is on kelly butte. right next to the lower entrance of the bunker. like all i have to do is step outside and walk up my driveway, and down the street maybe 50 feet

[@carlmanvers5009]

Quick everyone. Follow the carefully thought out plan by slowly walking to the shelters. Don't say anything either. The Russians might hear you.

[@nicholasnicholas3306]

is the narrator rod Stirling?

[@almostfm]

Glenn Ford. A really well-known actor, especially in the 1950s and 60s.

[@garybobst9107]

The way things are now, getting nuked would be putting Portland out of it's misery...

[@skatpak2967]

a day called "10"?? now thats strange indeed!!

[@dutchgoing]

No it wouldn't have distorted the mic. There were no mics on cameras in the 1950s and you can either turn down the gain of the mic and/or record the siren from further away as a wild track.

[@samuallance1395]

Chances are Portland would be the least interest to 'enemy' planes. Seattle would be hit - Naval base around there, army base around there. Nothing in Portland area in 1957 - nor now.

[@maxkol4380]

Just a bunch of Antifa idiots. I say nuke 'em

[@GaomonAndLucario]

@@maxkol4380 Oh so I can say nuke farms or rural communities because there's racist militias there? Don't make that argument because not only it is stupid, but it is also VERY applicable to the other side.

[@maxkol4380]

@@GaomonAndLucario Good point. We shouldn't nuke whole cities just because of a few bad apples. Maybe we should just root out every Antifa scumbag and bludgeon them with a ballpeen hammer. dude, I like the way you think.

[@GaomonAndLucario]

@@maxkol4380 Why are you so for violence against people? What is wrong with you?! They got families and people expecting them at home! Children who want them to come home safely and give them the attention they need at home! I certainly don't want to go to your community and start bludgeoning your folks in a cruel manner! You may disagree with them but advocating VIOLENCE against them is a step too far!

[@maxkol4380]

@@GaomonAndLucario If you want to see violence then come to Seattle, where I live, and look at the devastation that has been done by left-wing Antifa thugs.

[@royrice8597]

This was no doubt a Cold War Atomic attack prep film.

[@eldepavas]

October 23, 2077...

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

8:00 these men are expendable. Pretty harsh.

[@blex5579]

nothing worth saving in Portland these days...

[@wilhat]

But would it work now.?

[@badcompany-w6s]

Oh! Man! An Edsel!

[@brew2415]

In Portland right now. This is chilling and also hilarious.

[@jackoneil3933]

Interesting to see how psycho-political operations achieved what the Soviets could not.

[@scarakus]

X stands for time to take Xanax

[@theDyingAtheist]

Exactly how it happened.

[@williamboone1834]

Today you have one minute n thirty seconds to prepare!

[@Skrubbzdubbz]

my house is literally 200 feet from it.