FALLOUT 1955 1950s CIVIL DEFENSE FILM FALLOUT SHELTER PROGRAM 71642

Created by the Office of Civil Defense in 1955, "Fallout" drolly discusses the fallout produced by nuclear explosions. The goal of the film was to promote nationwide adoption of fallout shelters as part of the Civil Defense program and indeed, at the time it was made, these kind of shelters were required for public buildings including schools. A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.
As the film explains, radiation can make a person sick and even kill them. The three best defenses are distance, mass, and time. Get as far from the fallout as possible, which may mean going to the middle of a large building rather than near its outside; have concrete and other materials between you and fallout; and, allow for the fact that radioactive material loses its potency over time: e.g., two weeks after an explosion, it's at 1/1000th of its initial strength. Fallout shelters are the best civil defense: the federal government has a program to ensure adequate fallout shelters for all.
A booklet that accompanied this film, with the same title, was widely disseminated by the Office of Civil Defense and can be found on line.
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[@bboucharde]

The headline indicates 1955, but at 12:34 there is a 1962 Chevy II convertible, so this film is probably from 1962 or 1963. The Office of Civil Defense updated this film in the late 60s. I see that a comment below indicates 1963.

[@uthyrgreywick5702]

There are so many variables that come into play. If it happened on a rainy, or foggy day and you're lucky enough to be up wind you wouldn't be affected nearly as much as if it were sunny and you were down wind - bad news. The old saying goes "bend over, grab your ankles, and kiss your butt goodbye". Cheerful thought.

[@christopherconard2831]

I spent most of my life in the flash fry zone. I didn't have to worry about fallout, I was going to be part of it.

[@MerleOberon]

Not 1955 if he's driving a '63 Chevy II Nova convertible.

[@Redbirds1100]

Thanks for the upload!

[@coley2340]

A correction: This film is "About Fallout" from 1963, not "Facts about Fallout" from 1955, which does exist but is a different film. I thought the style of dress, hairstyles etc. didn't fit 1955 and decided to look further into it. See the title sequence starting at 1:18, and ask me for sources, if you like. Sorry, but I believe correctness is important with this kind of historical "document". But thanks everso for posting this gem! Keep up the good work.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@sissycarolina4863]

@@PeriscopeFilm I do want to know how you can license a Civil Defense film since it is a federal agency, you can't copyright federally government owned films. Right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_in_the_United_States

[@ronalddaub9740]

​@@sissycarolina4863the way I look at it all of those civil defense cans in the basement of the courthouse that never got you are ours still even though people ransacked them so I think the least you can be able to do is take their film which I love watching by the way and take the film for free. I used to eat really good hard candy from the old green canisters. I think it's such a shame that's all of those canisters were gone to waste And looted by whatever political hack within the courthouse that year

[@sissycarolina4863]

@@ronalddaub9740 Just remember that people can claim to own things all they want. People have to double check with the copyright search feature at the copyright web site and do other appropriate research to be sure because there are a lot of liars and con artists out there.

[@lilblackduc7312]

A very informative film! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I showed this and other films of this type to a young friend from India who didn't know films like this existed. He could see how shelters would be useful protection from disasters such as tornadoes, but asked "What about after the attack? What would that be like?" I told him he asked the most important question these films didn't address.

[@Iquitlmfao]

Exactly. What are WE all going to do after an attack? I'm doing a wild guess but I think the goverment would become chaos and we are being sent to work camps until we slowly die of radiation

[@minirock000]

Ask this of your young friend from the Indian sub-continent, how would these fare in monsoon? Tornadoes are just a meteorological event, only when stupid humans get in the way is something termed a disaster. They have happened before us and likely will continue to happen long after we have gone extinct. His interrogative is irrelevant. These had nothing to do with survival. Shelters were only designed for nationalism. "We are the best. We will survive because our god gave us these weapons to do with what we will. We will crawl out of our holes fighting!" That is what these were about. Want to know what happens after, watch "Threads". Almost as many scientific advisers as actors including Carl Sagan.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Informative , Thank You :) QC

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Wouldn't the nuclear firestorms kick this stuff so high into the Troposphere, that the Fallout would be a danger for a century or more from hot particle circulation and Nuclear Winter?

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

I'm sure all the people at Hanford, Rocky Flats, Y12, and Savannah River that huffed one Plutonium speck would beg to differ with this video.

[@fhuber7507]

10:00 The "rule" about weight = shielding is a bad guide. different materials are better for different types of radiation and weight has little to do with it for some types of radiation.

[@corettaha7855]

F Huber density does matter. That’s why lead blocks more of certain types of radiation than steel does. The particles are more densely arranged to absorb hits from radioactive particles. That’s why they recognize you’d need more wood than earth etc. not bad advice actually. Just no guarantees. But it’s not as deadly as people reared in the Cold War (or educated by them) make it out to be either. It’s not magical.

[@grahamfisher5436]

Alpha = paper Beta = concrete Gamma = HULK SMASH 💪

[@marlonvasquez6531]

This has to be made in 1961 as the "CFSP" began in 1961 and everything was in color

[@nuckelheddjones6502]

+Marlon Vasquez They had color in the 50s bro. In fact as early as 1899 there was a color additive process. These were films shown in theaters as well NOT television programs.

[@marlonvasquez6531]

+Nuckelhedd Jones but the fallout shelter program came in the early 60s, how can it be in the 50s

[@atomicfilmsite]

+Marlon Vasquez You're correct. The actual title for this film is About Fallout. It was released in 1963. There was a film titled Facts About Fallout (which is also on this channel) released in 1957.

[@lonniedobbins778]

@@marlonvasquez6531 No it didn't. We had the shelters already for conventional bombs that was tranfered into fallout shelters IN THE 50'S.

[@lonniedobbins778]

@@atomicfilmsite The Release is not the same as the movie production. Several movies made years and months before release. Release only means the public gets to see it.

[@SuV33358]

Why am I addicted to watching these 😂

[@KristinkaAranova]

Bc the atomic attack is coming

[@PeterBacon]

@@KristinkaAranova Or any of the Periscope films, atomic or not.

[@minirock000]

Because of a flaw in your genetics or upbringing? Keep watching to find out.

[@minirock000]

@@KristinkaAranova There were atomics in the BCE epoch. We are in the CE epoch. I think you have confused their order.

[@ronin_user]

That’s why you should leave VAULT-TEC in charge of your family’s continuing wellbeing. VAULT-TEC will be there for you when you need them the most. Be smart about Fallout.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Sean Connery: Mwahahaha, my time has at last, Trebek!

[@stevenmerlock9971]

11:21 showed at the time our government cared for the citizens.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Watch "The Day After" and see what happened to Howie Mandel and Levar Burton from fallout, you'll wish you were a shadow or novelty nuclear skeleton instead of a survivor on the surface...

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Watch how optimistic the farmers in Joplin, Kansas were about farming post-nukes in "The Day After".

[@disoriented1]

I think it the farm family featured in the film were near Harrisonville, Missouri...now a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, about 40 miles southeast of KCMO.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Prepare for the Future: Vault-Tec

[@knownunknown1959]

Time to brush up...

[@wrh41]

yikes, all those striken cities on the map of the US! that scenario truly would be the end. how have we managed to survive this far?

[@RonJohn63]

"how have we managed to survive this far?" Neither the Sovs nor the Americans really wanted to die; thus we talked, negotiated treaties, etc.

[@WhitefolksT]

@@RonJohn63 think about the close calls, Able Archer 83, the one time both sides went on alert and neither were in control or responsible and then it all shut down, broken arrows, Cuba '62 missiles and the Russian sub armed with nuclear torpedoes that refused to fire when being depth charged and forced to surface....Its an absolute miracle I was even born in the 80's.

[@RonJohn63]

@@WhitefolksT your examples all confirm my statement that neither the Sovs (including men in submarines and early warning radar stations) nor the Americans (the training tape left mounted in computers at NORAD caused quite the panic when they "saw" a massive first strike approaching) really wanted to die. As for absolute miracle... given the chain of events extending back to prehistory, it's definitely a miracle that you were born, nukes or not.

[@WhitefolksT]

@@RonJohn63 Dig that, thanks for the reply. Like your comments on this stuff.

[@knownunknown1959]

Closer today than in the past...nothing is new...

[@Josh-le6lu]

0:37 Oh, Gee whiz! It looks like a goddamn depressed geezer!

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Maybe you'll sit and sigh wishing that I were near.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Radiation Sickness: 1. You feel terrible 2. You feel better 3. Your bone marrow dies and your guts rot. 4. Death

[@RonJohn63]

16:00 Wouldn't her hands soon be badly "burned"? And while the first few items would be cleaned, subsequent items would just be rinsed in radioactive water...

[@markkrause4407]

About 10,000 rads for instantaneous burns. so no.

[@RonJohn63]

@@markkrause4407 *soon.* I wrote *"soon",* which does *not* mean "instantaneous".

[@markkrause4407]

@@RonJohn63 Not even soon unless you are talking 30 to 50 years at about 1 % .

[@RonJohn63]

@@markkrause4407 you should have written that the first time.

[@markkrause4407]

@@RonJohn63 So Now its my responsibility to educate you ?

[@kellyvaters1689]

Back when ICBMs were still in their infancy and MAD had not yet become the primary nuclear doctrine for NATO. The weapons are larger and the fissile material has changed. While the basic principles still apply, the numbers mentioned here may no longer suffice in the event of a modern nuclear strike.

[@bill-pn7vz]

of course,if you are 5 miles or closer to a modern 500+ kiloton yield termonuclear weapon,disreguard this announcement

[@RonJohn63]

Which is why the film hasn't been updated, and CD infrastructure has been dismantled or left to rot.

[@grahamfisher5436]

@@RonJohn63 yep.. they quickly realised. nothing would survive..

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Any difference between Rads and Roentgens? The Pipboys used Rads as a measurement.

[@ernestcline2868]

Yes, there is a difference. The roentgen is a unit of radiation exposure. The rad is a unit of radiation absorption. The rem is a unit of radiation damage. Roentgens are the easiest to directly measure, while rems (or sieverts, the SI unit of radiation damage, 1 rem = 10 mSv) are what people need to actually worry about. Rads (or greys, the SI unit of radiation absorption, 1 rad = 10 mGy) are midway between both roentgens and rems in both ease of measurement and relevance. (Radiation exposure is so minimally relevant that there is not an SI derived unit for it. 1 roentgen = 0.258 millicoulomb per kilogram in SI units.)

[@tommycat1313]

Shatner?

[@namseer]

"The living would envy the dead" after a nuclear war. If it happens, I sure hope that I'll be dead before it starts.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Every liquidator at Chernobyl and Fukushima got the worst of this.

[@grahamfisher5436]

if you want to watch a true example of normal folks trying to build and exist in a shelter KZbin - QED A guild to Armageddon ( and that's without the actual power of the sun exploding on the surface of the earth) I call it ... brutal reality viewing

[@lilblackduc7312]

Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕

[@skatpak2967]

and he handled that stuff with no suit..no googles..no gloves..no mask!! boom so how did they de activate?? thought it took thousands of years?? how can some eat it with no ill affects?? what do you also add for the death point?? wondering/???? and again i ask this: "where are the fallout shelters now?? do you have one in your town or city?? do you go there?? do you have drills?? things are worse now than ever on the plain..so why would we not have thousands of these now?? other countries do!! WHERE ARE OUR FALL OUT SHELTERS/? WHERE ARE THEY??

[@corettaha7855]

It depends on the damage the particles do to your dna before excretion. They said it might lead to cancer. But it’s not swallowing cyanide

[@manhoot]

I don't want this stuff in my neighborhood

[@BigboiiTone]

Be sure to tell that to the radiation. Im sure it will be happy to oblige

[@MerleOberon]

So, why ain't Chernobyl all cleaned up?

[@grevensher594]

The reactor is still active is why. will be for a long time.

[@davidprescott6631]

Truly frightening reminder of the horrors of nuclear weapons, insanity for the human race..

[@RonJohn63]

As opposed to the Tokyo firestorms, which were OK because they were caused by conventional weapons. :eyeroll:

[@davidprescott6631]

RonJohn63​ You misunderstand me friend" all forms of war are unexceptable. God bless this place so we all become peacemakers.

[@RonJohn63]

David Prescott _all forms of war are unexceptable._ To *you*. Lots of others (for example, those who didn't want Abdul Rahman to finish conquering Gaul and then move into Britania and Germania) think that war is (occasionally) a Very Good Thing.

[@davidprescott6631]

RonJohn63​ My point is" resolving differences through the spilling of blood is a barbaric practice that needs to fall into" humanities history in order to live in a" state of grace.

[@RonJohn63]

David Prescott Humanity's? Anyway, to think that humans can change themselves, thereby attaining a state of grace shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "grace".

[@jaminova_1969]

Everyone should avoid post Fukishima CA wine, fish, meat, and vegitables.

[@markkrause4407]

Why , where is your source ?

[@lonniedobbins778]

You know this is one of the first radiation safety videos made by their own illiteracy of radiation. So much is wrong here. According to this video all you need to do is clean it up. *As if it could be cleaned.* The lies of plants not absorbing the radiation when we have evidence of it now. It don't matter when it was made when it's useless.

[@grevensher594]

They didn't say it wouldn't hurt you. They said it would cause problems in the future such as cancer. If the option is eating mildly irradiated food for 20 years or starving to death, what do you choose?

[@lonniedobbins778]

@@grevensher594 Do you think you'll have much choice? *TOO LATE!* We're all irradiated already. And I think they know things are very bad. The problem is refusing to change how things are done.

[@grevensher594]

@@lonniedobbins778 I know. I get bombarded with radiation every six months at the dentist. Though, I'm not exposed to 10,000 PSI of atmospheric pressure and 436 calories per cm^2 of thermal energy.

[@lonniedobbins778]

@@grevensher594 I had nose bleed, bouts of vomiting, white sores in my mouth, all teeth destroyed, Going to the dentist. *You're also not a good comedian!* Somehow denial of the dangers, Eliminates it?

[@lonniedobbins778]

@@grevensher594 You know there's many items produced with radioactive particles. Many still among the public. All that could be confiscated, was. Since it's so safe to be among people all these years? Why consider them dangerous? They're not in your home!

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Overly optimistic Boomers.

[@user-nu7pp8vd9u]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@skatpak2967]

so funny and so not true...lolol

[@ronalddaub9740]

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