ATOMIC BOMB AND FALLOUT CIVIL DEFENSE FILM "YOU CAN BEAT THE ATOMIC BOMB" 26092

[@mr.pavone9719]

Boy, Buddy looks to be in pretty good shape for having been in the danger zone. He has all his skin, hair and clothes intact.

[@TimperialBroadcastingAgency]

Boy of Steel, clearly. His school was close to ground zero and all he needs is a bath and a lie down, while everybody else on the baseball diamond is now a bunch of permanent shadows in the vitrified dirt.

[@christopherconard2831]

Dad in full protective gear, the rest of the family in regular clothes. Dad "Sorry, but I guess I should have told you what I thought about you sooner."

[@MarioMastar]

Or society as a whole. Gotta love how the men who are telling us how to survive and what to do are the same men who got us into this situation in the first place and keep acting like their petty fight is more important than our survival. Thank goodness hindsight is 20/20 and we HAVEN'T Blown ourselves up in the past 70 years....

[@nastypupp]

Thanks for saving these films. I'm happy you're showing them on KZbin for free. I was born in 1967 so I missed them showing these in schools. I'm fascinated by these atomic age short films. People were so naive, yet suspicious.

[@MrScottie68]

I was born in 1968 and when I was in elementary school in the 70s we still had nuclear attack drills 2-3x during the school year. To this day, and now in my 50’s, if I hear that wailing siren sound, all the hairs on my arms stand on end and I get goosebumps on my arms.

[@therealxunil2]

1967. Best year to be born.

[@MarioMastar]

@@therealxunil2 Just a few years younger than my parents. XD Though I do agree the next generations born in the home internet age (2000s and on) are f8cked... misinformation was bad enough back then, but I'm fairly certain y'all weren't putting salt and ice on your arm, or jumping head first into empty pools cause "Evel Kinieval did it" otherwise I wouldn't be here to side with my parents generation ultimately. XD

[@zudemaster]

They make it seem like this is something that happens once a month. A hour after the bomb Dad goes to work and mom goes grocery shopping.

[@donreinke5863]

No mention is made of iodine 131 from fallout. Having a half-life of only a few days, staying inside for as long as possible minimizes exposure greatly, as do iodine tablets since iodine 131 will collect in the thyroid.

[@UtilityCurve]

In the era of fission weapons (pre-1952) and ICBM's, this was not entirely implausible, particularly with favorable geography and residential patterns. Soviet bombers would have had great difficulty beating NORAD. With missile warfare and the H-bomb, those bets were off.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Hey listen the bills aren’t gunna pay themselves😂

[@UtilityCurve]

Psy-op directed at the Soviets: "Pffffft. Most Americans won't even break stride."

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

As an RN, the best place to protect yourself from radiation is in a hospital's Radiology dept. A Heart Cath Lab is lead lined, as is most of Radiology. That's where I'm headed to in case of nuclear war. Just make sure you have plenty of food & water. There are refrigerators & water dispensers in most Radiology Dept. And that department can hold a good hundred people. Just not enough food for everyone to last 2-4 weeks.

[@jim7627]

Thank you.

[@NyanCatHerder]

Wrong. The best place to hide from fallout in the event of a global thermonuclear war is in the sweet embrace of death.

[@beeorganic]

As an RN and not a radiological/nuclear expert, you really should stay in your lane. Your advice is ill-conceived and will only serve to get people killed if they heed your suggestions. Most cardiac catheter labs are located in the larger cities... in other words, primary target locations. Say your suggested location wasn't in a targeted area, you'd still have to live within 30 minutes to get to it. If such an event would occur during rush hour... good luck. If there were pre-emptive air detonations causing an EMP (electromagnetic pulse), your vehicle will not run because anything with transistors and not protected in a Faraday cage will be fried. Most but not all hospitals have backup generators, which may or may not work because of an EMP. All municipal water systems will be down as well. Lastly, you NEVER, EVER tell ANYONE aside from family and close friends your intentions. You will find that you will have competition for places that people believe will be "safe" areas and it may be you on the outside.

[@bannedfor30daysonfacebook41]

@@beeorganic no one gives a damn what you have to say if you are a dick about it. think about that next time.

[@bannedfor30daysonfacebook41]

@@beeorganic try being less of a pos in your next comment

[@davidwelty9763]

I like how she has to turn off the vacuum after the blast because the power is still on.

[@malcolmt7883]

Blame Russia, if your floor is dirty

[@AntonioGomez-lk6jm]

I remember these films during the fifties and sixties, I remember in my lower grades having to drop under out desks and cover our heads with our hands as we got older we were asked to line up facing the hallway walls drop and cover our heads with our hands, what an experience that was.

[@elinderfler9358]

Now they do drills for safety in the event of a school shooter. My daughter once texted me from under a desk, it wasn't a drill. It turned out to be ok but we didn't know it for over an hour. Absolutely terrifying...

[@nightblizzard3160]

Love the title. Reminds me of the unsinkable Titanic. But don’t worry, after this film I did learn to stop worrying and love the bomb. ❤️

[@Zoomer30_]

"I've been carrying around radioactivity with me and didn't even know it." Note to self. Go back in time and have him read the book Radium Girls. Radium, while seemingly harmless, is a very bad form of radioactive material because of its very long half-life. The radium girls who painted the dials of the clock faces would be instructed to put the paintings brush in their mouth to create a point. They would the of course ingest the radium salt.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

If the actor explaining how radioactivity will be used at 2:12 looks familiar, it's the late Clark Howat who appeared in about 20 episodes of "Dragnet", usually as Joe's boss.

[@almostfm]

I thought he looked and sounded familiar, but I just couldn't place him.

[@jaminova_1969]

That's rather optimistic! Best of luck, everyone!

[@rapman5791]

Oh Thank God!!! It was only an air burst 💥 That 40mk nuclear bomb won’t hardly touch us. Yup. Let’s pack up the shelter and get back on with our lives. Come on now Johnny and Mary upstairs you go, you’ve got school tomorrow! 😂😂

[@simfaithguitar1]

I get the feeling Dad doesn’t like Buddy too much….

[@kevinjhonson5925]

I love the old propaganda films. I guess giving people hope no matter how pointless is still hope. Thanks for uploading.

[@NyanCatHerder]

I mean, *most* of the info in this was reasonably accurate for the time when it was made. You can actually survive a nuclear blast if you're not killed, seriously injured, or suffer severe ARS in the immediate aftermath. Some things weren't well understood (see: "harmless radium") and some were downplayed, but nothing was known to be untrue by its creators. Most of the time, mild ARS doesn't cause death even without medical care, and flash blindness *can* be temporary if you're not too close and look away quickly. Whether you'd *want* to survive or not is another question entirely.

[@kevinjhonson5925]

@@NyanCatHerder I been thinking if I’d want to survive with everything that’s going on in the world. I think I’d rather have the bomb fall right on me than live in post nuclear war world.

[@booklover6753]

Uh, dudes.....There won't be a post nuclear war world.

[@WealthyIndustrialist]

@@booklover6753um… Yeah there would be

[@MarioMastar]

Well ironically, the "hope" isn't so much for the sake of keeping people calm, as much as damage control. The only use of nuclear bombs to ever go off were by the US dropping them on Japan, and a lot of the propaganda blew off the destruction as "Oh those people just forgot to "Duck and cover". If anything, in retrospect, it looked more like a way of saying "Oopos, we might accidently sell the secrets for the bomb or drop the bomb on ourselves... but dont' worry, you can still trust us to keep you all safe! We have protocals that will ensure no one will die if we drop a bomb in the heart of New York or DC or LA or whatever." Which if anything is even more sardonic.... There's a good reason why in modern day, despite a far larger threat of nuclear war at any moment we don't continue to do these drills. We want the military to PREVENT anyone from striking us in the first place. No more of this "Oops, we let a bomber slip through and blow ourselves up, but here's how you can survive as if it's actually happening" This stuff doesn't happen on accident.

[@manhoot]

I'm not sure I'd want to get into a fight with the "bomb"

[@NyanCatHerder]

I love the bit about the radium dial on the stereotypical blue collar worker's watch. I have a radium-painted clock. It's locked in a cabinet, normally facing away from the parts of my house where I live. It's not incredibly dangerous, but it's not safe either.

[@Musicradio77Network]

What is going on at 0:05? The RKO logo was at a glimpse before the start of film.

[@jumpdawg799]

They should have talked to the Vault-Tec salesman. And I would take the radiation over scrubbing with Trend Laundry Detergent.

[@donreinke5863]

Lol could be worse...Pioneer soap made from cooking grease and lye. A neighbor lady who grew up on a farm taught me how to make it back in 1963.

[@kellyvaters1689]

11:20, it's possible that the actress playing Alice may have "passed" - she appears to be at least partially African-American, but is clearly protraying the man's wife. No racism intended, but it's an interesting detail of this film.

[@nastypupp]

Hmmmm, maybe. My bf says she don't look black to him. I thought she was the maid actually 😂

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Seeing the age of this film, were the hands of the watch painted with radium?

[@lindaeasley5606]

1:30 About the radium in the guys wrist watch - people who wore radium infused make up and wrist watches got cancer from the exposure so this attempt to show how harmless small doses can be was irresponsible bullshit

[@dezbiggs6363]

I never heard of that. Just that people who licked the paint and ingested it.

[@malcolmt7883]

Everyone was a little disappointed when Buddy came home

[@DJKinney]

Is the actress at 11:23 not clearly African American? Does no one find that odd? She isn't the maid. She's the wife, clearly.

[@MarioMastar]

Well civil rights was a movement even well before the 60s with Martin Luther King Jr's march. There were respected black folk back then, just not very common in major media due to strong racism. She looks like she might be mixed or light skinned, who generally were treated better than dark skinned blacks.

[@satanofficial3902]

All things bright and beautiful. All creatures great and small. All things wise and wonderful. The good Bomb made us all. He gave us eyes to see with. And lips that we might tell How great the Bomb Almighty Who made all things well.

[@satanofficial3902]

May the blessings of the Bomb Almighty and the fellowship of the Holy Fallout descend on us all, this night and for evermore. Amen

[@satanofficial3902]

Almighty and everlasting Bomb, who came down among us to make heaven under Earth, lighten our darkness. Glory be to the Bomb and to the Holy Fallout as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

[@95blahblahhaha]

We have to make this drafty old house airtight!!!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@danielmorse4213]

Calm, cool, do your job. No drama.

[@2bigmovies]

1950 teenage sweaters - so attractive!

[@MarioMastar]

That's hollywood at the time for ya. Kids wearing suits and ties to their own dinner. Talk about making living in your own personal home feel more like walking on eggshells than going to church....

[@mohinderkaur6671]

what about air and water/food contamination? that tube radio useless without electric power

[@simonjackson7269]

YEAH RIGHTO!

[@seanedwards8406]

yeah thats the ticket

[@rickcoona]

Why in the world do you add the annoying timecode to the bottom of these videos? --Rick

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: tens of thousands of films like this one have been destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.

[@rickcoona]

you folks are doing a great job of preserving these films, that's fine and dandy... one point of contention i have is that these were produced by the U.S. Government with taxpayer money at the time, and when they were "Declassified" and released to the public, they should have been public domain, free to use for all the people who paid for them. Having private company grab them up and then claim copyright on them as of they had any claim to the intellectual property which was produced by the U.S. Government to my way of thinking is akin to what china is doing, i see this kind of action as downright Unamerican! now, that being said, i can understand the business model you are using, and if it is working for you, great, i am a big fan of these kind of things and am very glad you good folks are posting them here. i just wanted to voice my opinion on the manor in which you are posting them is all. do you have the stock film you provide likewise timecoded? or can acquire clean footage? as an indie filmmaker this subject interests me. keep up the great work folks!~ --Rick

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Yes, we provide stock footage under license to many broadcasters and independent producers. You can send an email to: contact(at)periscopefilm.com for more information. Regarding your "point of contention", what you say makes sense of course but the reality is that this film (and many others) were rescued by us from the dumpster, preserved and transferred to video -- at our expense.

[@rickcoona]

well done and thank you for the great reply made note of the email thanks! --Rick

[@wrenchofpower]

Fallout!

[@95blahblahhaha]

They dont say anything about iodine pills or anything like that

[@robertanzalone5853]

Oh brother!

[@mr.goodpliers6988]

A bit outdated, possibly, but good information nonetheless.

[@jim7627]

I'm a Prepper now too :P

[@booklover6753]

Jim, don't spend too much time on it. Having some supplies on hand in case of a natural disaster is a good idea. In an exchange of thermonuclear weapons, your supplies won't help.

[@KbB-kz9qp]

“You can beat the A-Bob”. Yeah right.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, by preventing it from being fired in the first place and NOT taunting enemies who could...

[@necrophagus9]

But you can't kill terror...

[@grandpahickory613]

what a blinking joke......we were all LIED to.....

[@nastypupp]

16:00 the man in basement washing off the radiation & his daughter asking if she can catch it from him.

[@therealxunil2]

Yeah my bullshit detector is pegged.

[@booklover6753]

Mine broke the needle off. 🤣

[@MarioMastar]

Spoilers: We survived didn't we? XD XD XD

[@mbabist01]

He was married to Elsie the Cow!?

[@allandavis8201]

The worst discovery ever, nuclear fission/fusion, but of course without it we would still be burning coal and gas in our power stations, oh, wait, we are. But we wouldn’t have nuclear medicine and would still be treating/investigating illness with pills potions and doctors skill, oh, wait, we are. But we wouldn’t have............oh, wait!!!!!. I love these films for the nostalgic look back at our recent history, they are so full of enthusiasm and positivity, but to say that shielding would stop gamma rays is totally wrong, gamma rays can be reduced but never blocked completely, and as gamma rays are the ones that kill, time and distance between you and ground zero or the blast zone are your only real hope of surviving, but then you need to survive all the other side effects of WWIII.

[@dayaninikhaton]

They dumbed it down since the films were meant to be assimilated by all ages. Much of it checks out- not all, and as you said other items were oversimplified. But there is a thing very alien here that by and large Americans have trouble dealing with. The math that goes into this does not factor in people as individuals. The numbers simply don't allow it. This is a wartime mentality geared towards saving the most people, the most infrastructure (civillian population is considered strategic infrastructure here), with the most efficient use of resources. Its a concept that has come up again since 2001 when FEMA and HHS were forced to take mass casualty events MUCH more seriously. So yeah, survival in this system is about hedging your bets and doing what you can under the circumstances as one number among millions.

[@MarioMastar]

Worst discovery ever, Man's insatiable will to be constantly at war.... We COULD be using this technology for good things, but NO...we need more weapons.

[@calvinjackson8110]

Hope for a hopeless world bent on destruction.

[@briankistner4331]

I can beat the atomic bomb??? Homie don't think dat, but guess we'll never know for sure till there's a nuclear war......

[@marksark1119]

This film was about as hoaky as it gets. Except for the teen daughter. No tight fitting clothes there.

[@bluefaery1865]

The 50s cone bra😂

[@kingfish4575]

The propaganda is strong in this one 😅

[@jesus.christis.lord.foreve899]

how far back the lies go is astounding

[@thomaspaine7098]

?

[@MarioMastar]

The worst thing about the pre-home internet days is THIS was the only source of information outside of local. So if Hollywood or whoever had the funds wanted to lie to everyone about how everyone was being treated, they could and you'd have no way to cross check references. It's no wonder it took so long for people to realize "Maybe we shouldn't automatically treat people worse cause they have different skin tones...." and "Maybe having a penis doesn't automatically make you smarter and better than everyone who has a vagina...." I mean f8ck look at the modern Olympics....

[@enyaw1948]

GET THE DAMN TIMER OFF THE SCREEN

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: this film and others like it may have been made by taxpayers, but the U.S. Government in its infinite wisdom, threw it away. Tens of thousands of films were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.

[@martha-anastasia]

Jacka** complaining about their free entertainment

[@berniestarzewski5482]

Important safety tips in the age of Trump!

[@ITILII]

Yep you're as dumb as your namesake, Burnout the Commie Sanders....oh it's all his fault, that evil orange haired monster, for the coronavirus....that has infected over 99.9% of the Earth's population. This classic public service film is bad but nowhere near the bs we hear from the leftist propoganda of the mainstream Mediots. Propaganda, with a huge political agenda (election year and they have to prop up the senile pervert Joe Biden) paranoia and panic. So wash your hands, just go to places where you really need to go and do some reading and research to educate yourselves. GOD bless America.....and MAGA !!!!!!!!!

[@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo]

Yeah, right Bernie. It’s all the fault of bad orange man. What a libtard.

[@raywitte7354]

Lol nope. But look at WW3 Biden is starting hoss.

[@MarioMastar]

His followers are a far bigger threat to our lives than radiation.... they're more like human sized homing radiation....

[@SwedeProof]

Women's "hairdo's" and clothes during that era were often terribly unflattering. And...well... this'll sound mean or "catty," but, seeing the hubby, I looked for a (similarly aged) wife, and figured that the matronly woman following him around was his Mother or Mother-in-law. Truly didn't realize she WAS the wife and mother until family were huddling (but not cuddling!) in the basement. And -- I dunno -- but after surviving a (safe-ish) bomb, wouldn't your first reaction be to grab, hug, and kiss your family? Nope, not this guy. He merely handed out brooms, mops, and reminded the kids about school. 🤯 💣🚸 💣🥼😱💣 🧹🧹🧽 🚿

[@MarioMastar]

Men at the time were trained to not see family and kids as family, but rather as tools. Women were made to keep the house tidy and have food prepared and kids, boys were raised to carry on the business and daughters were trained to marry into another rich, similarly typed family. Trained...but the reality was generally the opposite if my parents and grandparents had anything to say about it. Just goes to show how fake Hollywood was with relationships. Though Harvey Weinstein got away with his sh8t for a long while so is it THAT surprising?

[@Driver-UK]

God help Mrs Chatting 🥲🥲