Ladybug Ladybug: Elementary School Atomic Drill

[@SamhainBe]

I'm 61 and as part of a required first aid class my freshman year of high school, we were taught how to treat radiation sickness. Looking back, I still think the world was safer then than now.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I'm 63. I remember similar classes, in artificial respiration, first aid, treatment of radiation sickeness, and emergency childbirth, with films in the "Medical Self-Help" series.

[@benhaney9629]

Wrong. By any and all available metrics, life expectancy, infant mortality, war, murder, rape, etc etc. The world is safer right now than it has ever been in human history. The NEWS gets worse and worse is all.

[@SamhainBe]

@@benhaney9629 Murder, rape, carjackings, violent crimes in general - all up, terrorism, gang activity, proliferation of bio and nuclear weapons, unstable regimes, unstable economies and weak leadership - say what you want but I still believe the world was safer then.

[@The_Real_Lilly_Slenderman]

@@SamhainBe I agree we’re not safe now

[@frankpabon8329]

i remember growing up in a tiny town that wasn't even in a map in Illinois...playing with neighbor kids all day and parents leaving their doors and windows open all day - and neighbor get togethers with parents - bbqing and having a great time with one another....that is LONG GONE!

[@wickedmuffin76]

"Hey! Teachers! Take those children home!" (to the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall")

[@almareginainfante5233]

the funny thing is that william daniels's personality and acting comes off as so cultured and educated that its so hard not to see him playing the role of an educator or as a teacher or mentor to others..which reminds me.... FEEEENEEEHH!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@zsatho66]

the female actor playing one of the teachers (Mrs. Andrews) about 9 minutes into the film is Nancy Marchand, she had the role of Livia Soprano (Tony's mother) on The Sopranos.

[@tomservo56954]

Not mention Mrs. Pynchon on LOU GRANT...she won four Emmys for the role.

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@dwightstewart7181]

@Kevin McDougall .. Lol. Since we don't need the actor's biographies (long-winded given the number of actors in this film), it's a realistic attitude.

[@dwightstewart7181]

@Willie Gordon .. No thank you. Is that something you do to yourself?

[@dwightstewart7181]

@Willie Gordon .. Again, no thanks. You are definitely not my type in any way.

[@tucopacifico]

The lunch lady had to put away the ice cream so it wouldn’t melt in the atomic attack.

[@jdollinter]

She played Queen Victoria on Bewitched.

[@trend-o-rama_studios]

Fried Ice Cream is a reality.

[@allen480]

@@trend-o-rama_studios Baked Alaska?

[@missbleach8767]

@@trend-o-rama_studios 🎥🎥

[@danielmorse4213]

There are some legendary actors here. This movie is a gem.

[@57WillysCJ]

The secretary is Kathryn Hays She was in a lot of TV shows including Soap Operas. She was Gem in Star Trek The Empath.

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@leDespicable]

@@dwightstewart7181 Not you, apparently.

[@beverlycrusher9713]

William Daniels is ridiculously young here, wow, i have never seen him THIS young.

[@missbleach8767]

Wesley

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

It took me a moment, then I saw Mr. Feeny. That and I know him in 1776.

[@beverlycrusher9713]

@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 OMG, I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THOSE TWO!!, i just remembered him from st.elsewhere and as the voice of k.i.t.t. in knightrider. 👍👍

[@HowardCanaway]

I remember those days so well, I was 12 during the Cuban missal crisis. We didn't have a go home drills since we were a farming community, home could be many miles away. Our school was rather new. Cinder block walled hallways, the teachers and staff would have us line up along the inner walls in a knee, butt high head against the wall position. We (us kids) would snicker to our neighbor (as kids do) "with all of us lined up along the walls, It would be easier for the 'Them' to find the bodies."

[@cybersee9966]

We didn’t have any drills at my grade school... maybe because the school was Catholic, the nuns thought if there was a nuclear war all of the children would end up in heaven. The topic was never discussed during class.

[@alexandermullin3465]

This film was shot at Edgemont School located in Gradyville, PA. This was my elementary school in the 50s. There was one of each grade and you knew who your teacher would be the next year. I visited the school during the shooting of this film. An overlooked gem of a movie.

[@neohistoryfan1014]

is this school still around? I believe it's now local township offices.

[@siriuslybloo]

An alert sounds that means "nuclear attack in one hour" and these boneheads are farting around for 45 minutes. Geesh. Complaining about the noise of the alarm -- imagine how they'd whine about the sound of the explosion.

[@JenN-ti8iy]

siriuslybloo I noticed that...

[@bluedragon4]

Doesn't matter. They are all dead anyway.

[@robinrichards72]

They'd never hear the explosion it'd happen so fast.

[@tylerdurden6611]

@@robinrichards72 that's not true. In terminator two you can see Sarah hanging onto the fence completely aware of her surroundings until her skin is peeled off her bones

[@robinrichards72]

Tyler Durden go look up the shadows of Hiroshima and get back to us. Instant. Vaporization.

[@MegaLivingIt]

This is one of my favorite all time films which documents the widespread fear of nuclear war at the time when we were in grade school ,(1950). This was exactly the way it was. Everyone was so ignorant but afraid and we had to practice hiding under our desks at school.

[@danielmorse4213]

We saw the movie as kids one rainy day.

[@TralfazConstruction]

The classroom architecture is familiar. Feels like going back in time fifty-eight years.

[@sergebillault730]

I am very young (compared to you) I'm only 47. The thing is: when I was a college boy and stupid, I despised classical old schools (thought now I love them). But here's a strange thing I noticed: the closer classrooms were from a perceived modern working environment, the more at ease to study I felt. It must be a sensitive bias since clever persons are able to abstract their suroundings in an amazing fashion. However these old schools now feel like the symbol of a lost dignity in regard to recent evolutions of the educational system.

[@ardalla535]

We had many fire drills in the 50s, but no Atomic Drills. I think we were told in the event of an air raid we were to hide under our desks, but we never actually did that.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

So, somebody at your school realized that hiding under the desk was rather pointless. Fire drills make sense to know. No tornado drills? How about UFO alien 👽 landing drills, ha ha? Just kidding about that last one

[@MarcusCollins69]

​@@Starry_Night_Sky7455well growing up I didn't do tornado drills because my part of the world doesn't really get them

[@AbrasiousProductions]

this was such a nerve wracking film to watch the entire time i felt this looming sense of dread and the final few moments left me speechless

[@missbleach8767]

📹📹

[@chrisholloway5460]

All I can think of here (at the beginning at least ) is Jim Carey saying "Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?"

[@whereswaldo5740]

And showing up as Fire Marshal Bill/ Civil Defense leader. That would have been epic SNL

[@jdollinter]

That little kid was an adolescent in Bless The Beasts And The Children (1971, it's funny I was 13 when I saw it and I was 6 when this movie was made(1963) so we have that in common. God, I miss those innocent days of cutting jack o 'lanterns out of orange construction paper with our safety scissors and nap time after lunch. My teacher was an elderly woman and I remember being impressed she could sit on the floor during story time. Now I'm becoming that elderly person..Where did it all go?

[@frankpabon8329]

bless the beast and the children - yep - saw that one as a kid and its still stuck to my mind like this movie and the day after tomorrow

[@calvinjackson8110]

I don't know. I wish somebody can tell me where my youth went. I WANT IT BACK.

[@razvandobos9759]

AT&T’s “bell and lights” system on the fritz

[@awizardalso]

Back then I was in school in Brookpark, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland. We were shown about the duck and cover from a film. Cleveland's industrial area would have been a target for an atomic bomb. We were about 20 miles away from the target area.

[@adventureboy7855]

Dang I’m glad your okay as well cause I’m pretty sure if your twenty always from a nuke blast you can have very bad sun burn I’m glad you weren’t ten miles way cause if you were you could Get BAD third degrees burn I’m pretty sure if you were fifteen miles away from a nuke blast you got bad blisters so I’m glad you didn’t get sun burns

[@warreneckels4945]

It was considered a statement of fact, by those living in the Calumet Region, that the steel mills and refineries would make us the #2 target, after Washington, DC. We even had the anti-missile silos in Munster and Gary. It's an odd civic boast, but not completely untrue.

[@StevenErnest]

A wonderful, deceptively powerful little film. The young actors are very talented.

[@whereswaldo5740]

Powerful? It’s a terrorist piece. On par with Twilight Zone.

[@ThePyramidone]

I think that the pregnant teacher was on an episode of the original Star Trek - she played an alien empath that was capable of healing the injured.

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@wellreadredneck4486]

"HELLO? HELLO!? SPEAK UP! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE BOMBING!"

[@LosSantosUriels]

Thats gotta be a quote from hogans heroes xD

[@venangoproductions]

@@LosSantosUriels I know nothing

[@tricorvus2673]

That's William Daniels! The voice of K I T T, and Mr Feeney from Boy meets World. Damn he's dishy

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@elaineglenden826]

John Adams in 1776

[@themagus5906]

He looked better as a car!

[@m.oriley7700]

Also St Elsewhere. He is indeed dishy.

[@jdollinter]

He was Dustin Hoffman's Dad in The Graduate.

[@danielmorse6597]

I watched this in middle school. We discussed it. We all felt we would all just die. That was around 1982.

[@Ronbo710]

And then in 1983 there was Operation Able Archer and we came closer to nuclear war than we ever had before. Even the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't compare.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

@@Ronbo710 1983 was the same year War Games was released.

[@michaelpope2886]

We would have had a lot less warning in 1982, ICBMs were much faster than the bombers that were in use when the film was made, and sub-launched missiles would take only minutes. These kids in the movie were in a rural area, though, and would not likely have been a direct target of a bomb.

[@maralisil]

That's William Daniels! (of 1776, Nightrider and St. Elsewhere fame)

[@thomascollins4325]

William Daniels who voiced KITT on Knight Rider. Imagine KITT teaching you physics. 😊

[@aryanson]

He was also Dr. Craig on St. Elsewhere

[@jamiedianne6778]

Just realized that’s Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World.

[@c-028]

1:43 and go call the vault-tec and send all the student to basement-vault 75!

[@garreth629]

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[@mdumas43073]

That's a young William Daniels (Dr. Craig on "St. Elsewhere", Mr. Feeney on "Boy Meets World", etc.) as the male teacher.

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@GrnArrow092]

Also the voice of the Knight 2000 (KITT) on Knight Rider.

[@bruceabrahamsen221]

We had these drills. Scared the crap out of us. I was around seven during the Cuban middle crisis.

[@michaelpope2886]

I had a college professor who was from Argentina who told his school, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that he had to go home because the Russians had launched bombs and his dad was in Miami at the time. He took the day off to play hooky, but he found himself in big trouble when he got home!

[@SpaceGirlLovesTacos]

The Principal is Mr.Feeny from Boy Meets World.

[@alanwilder2624]

man he was young

[@danjf1]

I knew the voice and face looked familiar. I think one of the middle-aged teachers looks familiar too

[@dwightstewart7181]

Who cares.

[@dwightstewart7181]

@Super Blubberpuss .. No, it's irritation, not care. There's like ten comments saying the same thing, when it has nothing to do with this video.

[@SpaceGirlLovesTacos]

@@dwightstewart7181 there were no comments saying this when I made my comment. Besides, it's a comment section. All of the comments aren't going to directly related to the plot, it WAS rated to the video though

[@twist7799]

Watched it on decades this morning too. Cringed when I saw the girl out of desperation hide in an abandoned latch type refrigerator.

[@1940limited]

+twist7799 Yuhp. I remember those refrigerators and the ads you saw asking you to take the door off them before dumping one in the junkyard. I have one of those old style refrigerators in the basement. It still works great.

[@1940limited]

@asteinmann I have one in my basement that's been working perfectly for at least 40- years. I have lost track of how old it is. It runs whisper quiet and never breaks down.

[@tomservo56954]

@@1940limited We still remove them these days, when refrigerators and freezers don't have latches--even a child can push them open from inside.

[@zudemaster]

Everyone should watch the entire movie, It is on youtube. It has that Twilight Zone feel to it!

[@lindaeasley4336]

What good is an alarm if no one at school is going to believe in them when they go off ?

[@frankpabon8329]

that was a terrible plan - if yellow/nuke - um - lets just walk the kids home and abandon them in a horrible end without help or assist. i think ALL schools and communities should have bomb/tornado shelters .....i was watching that by law all homes must have a bomb shelter in germany i think it was...might be wrong about the country but this guy was showing his bomb shelter and saying that it was a mandate/law to have a bomb shelter for any home that was being bought or rented

[@warreneckels4945]

That happened on February 20, 1971 when the Emergency Broadcast System was mistakenly activated because somebody at Cheyenne Mountain put out the wrong message. Most stations ignored it because the alarm came around the time of the scheduled Saturday test. WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana did not ignore the message and the people of Fort Wayne got a big scare.

[@whereswaldo5740]

@@warreneckels4945 Hawaii too.

[@kgrfirdjy]

alarm fatigue is a real problem and can also show up in places that have multiple safety alarm systems such as hospitals, risking overlooking of a new, potentially life threatening medical problem.

[@calvinjackson8110]

Because of previous false alarms. When so many have occurred you began to believe that's what the next one will be. Also human systems break down. Things happen to set it off. All it takes is one person spreading misinformation or a false rumor and it can spread. People get all worked up, leave their jobs, panic over finding their kids, moving to a shelter only to find later "false alarm." Then people decide then and there"I'm not going through this again". A precedent has formed in people's minds. And it could prove deadly when the next alarm and crisis comes and THIS TIME it is REAL!

[@trend-o-rama_studios]

The male actor is William Daniels, voice of KITT in original Knight Rider series.

[@mikeholmes5824]

I happened to see this full movie a couple years ago. One of those retro-stations on TV. I could have been one of those kids. I'm that age and remember the absurdity of all the useless precautions to nuclear disaster. It would be great to see it again if any of you (Kiyoko504) could manage an upload.

[@1940limited]

+Mike Holmes the full movie was on You tube last year. I watched it. I don't remember how I came across it. I think I as looking at some other old TV shows and there was a link to it. I wanted to see it again, went looking for it today, and it's gone.

[@judiclarke8959]

how can I watch this movie

[@mikeholmes5824]

@@judiclarke8959 It's back on KZbin. Enter Ladybug Ladybug in the search box. ddfer paffy uploaded it.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

@@mikeholmes5824 Thanks for suggesting this. An entire movie. Alright!

[@leeclark4495]

Nobody thinks of turning on a radio or a TV?

[@JenN-ti8iy]

I watched half of it on TMC today...didnt get to see the end!

[@jdollinter]

All my 54 y/o peers would of been in the 1st grade class. it' feels like a million years since Kennedy implemented the Civil Defense program and we went toe to toe with the Ruskies in a nuclear showdown that almost started WW3. All I remember is the drill where we crouched low in the school hallways facing the direction of the potential blasts. We may of survived living 30 miles away from a major target, but then what ?

[@benhaney9629]

Well obviously in a full on nuclear apocalypse, the “then what” would be, well, the apocalypse. In such a situation you’d be better off dying quickly. However, this duck and cover shit isn’t as stupid as most people think. There are all sorts of situations involving nukes where it would be practical. Not every hypothetical nuclear exchange is is firing every middle and then firing every middle. Say we accidentally shot one, told Russia it was an accident and they said to retaliate and not look weak they would shot just one at us. Or we shoot a few, they shoot a few and somehow our leaders got together and talked it out, decided mutual destruction was the only place this road led and stepped back from full on nuclear war. Or one rogue general shoots a few. Or a few tactical targets on each side were destroyed. All reasonable and relatively likely possibilities. In such cases, yeah, duck and cover, look away from the blast, get into a fall out shelter, you can actually out walk radiation fallout under certain circumstances. You don’t want to be blind and all cut to shit by glass in such a case. Anyway, yeah, duck and cover and drills and shit weren’t stupid and even if they were, what else are you gonna do? Might as well try to prepare...

[@benhaney9629]

Every middle * every missle

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

At 9:30 that is a for real real real high swing set. Where did these awesome swings go? They're not at parks. Lawyers took them away.

[@tateainsworth1301]

Crazy to look at William Daniels he has the same walk and the same voice and looks so young but also the same

[@snakes3425]

Apparently this was baised on something that really happened Look Magazine did a story on a school during the height of the Missile Crisis, where a false alarm was recieved and the school thought the war had begun, and pretty much what happened in the movie is what happened to the students

[@calvinjackson8110]

Where can i see the rest of the film? Why didnt they show all of it??

[@LuMaxQFPV]

It's a nuclear attack alert! Quick! Get all the children outside!

[@jeffreyleonard1555]

The one teacher complaining about long drills while wearing heels is Olivia soprano. Tony’s mother

[@AVOLITE]

This movie was on the Decades channel this morning without any info on what the movie was called and what year released .... have spent the last three hours scouring the internet for information on what this was. Looking Nancy Marchand up on IMDB is what lead me here. Now ... I know.

[@communist1831]

0:18 that moment when you YEEEEEE BOIIIIII to hard that it goes on forever

[@jonfeltman2314]

I watched this while home sick from school as an 8 year old in 1981... pretty sure I didn't sleep for a couple days.

[@1940limited]

+Jon Feltman I can understand that. When I saw it last year it really took me back to the days of air raid shelters and fear of the bomb. I remember that as a kid in the 50s and early 60s. Maybe we should still be afraid?

[@jonfeltman2314]

be very afraid, the powers that be are preparing for global calamity.

[@1940limited]

I hope you're wrong, but probably not.

[@jonfeltman2314]

g bridgman the next two weeks should tell the tale. Don't ask me how I know this, it doesn't matter, just watch gold/silver and news from Japan... you're welcome.

[@1940limited]

OK. We shall see...

[@artiehess7110]

Move slowly. Finish your coffee. Get a fourth opinion on the color of the blinking light. Them Rooskie bombers aint got no giddyup.

[@missheather3313]

HEADS UP!!! Turner Classic Movies will be showing Ladybug Ladybug on Sunday July 9th. 2017 @ 8:00 PM (ET)

[@calvinjackson8110]

Great idea. Get all the kids out of the building and out in the open! That's what we did when we had fire drills. Yes get out of a building if there is a fire in the building. Doesn't make sense if an atom bomb is blasting outside.

[@thecoolkids7589]

It was a good movie

[@michaelgatien4277]

that's a whiny "A" Major tone :D

[@miriambucholtz9315]

And pitched just slightly below the A440 that's the standard A.

[@bronxbearbud272]

And like a bel canto opera, the world should end with an E flat shooting to the last row in the third balcony

[@gordonwiessner6327]

Top Doc from St. Elsewhere.

[@sabianwoods]

Yellow flashing light alarm mean a atomic bomb test

[@stevestruthers6180]

This film is a good example of the massive confusion that would likely follow a real alert. The high quality of the acting makes the scenario totally believable and realistic. If I had been the principal of this school, I wouldn't have wasted so much time verifying whether the alarm was real or not, I would have sent the kids home and then dealt with any reprimands for my decision later. Better that the kids be sent home during a false alarm than leave the decision to release them until it was too late. At least they had an hour to get the kids to relative safety before the bombs started landing on their targets.

[@youtubechannelunderconstru2786]

Steve Struthers i would have them take shelter straight at the school. I wouldn't care if I didn't know if there was gonna be an attack or not. But on the other hand yes i would take them home... But i don't want to take any chances.

[@rah62]

No! Release kids in the middle of mass confusion? Absolutely not.

[@ThisEpicLife]

@@rah62 Yeah, that's a very odd protocol. First of all, how long would it take one teacher to drive her group home, one-by-one? At least an hour. Secondly, some of those kids would arrive home to find themselves locked out of their homes, and their parents gone. Then what?

[@kellyvaters1689]

@@ThisEpicLife Sorry I'm late. While larger cities might have had an evacuation plan or a shelter-in-place plan (given the number of public shelters designated ad stocked by the feds) many smaller towns and rural areas would not have had the infrastructure in place nor the money to create it. Most if not all children in these areas would have had at least one parent at home, so sending them home, to where the family (it was hoped) had prepared some kind of shelter from fallout (probably the most likely issue to occur. The schools' alarm system did not exist in a vacuum; alarms all over the county would have sounded and CONELRAD or an EBS alert would have gone across the radio airwaves. A radio in the office might have prevented all of the pearl-clutching.

[@ritaryack9416]

Turn on the damn conelrad station!

[@kellyvaters1689]

The alarm served in that capacity: it was intended to be heeded as soon as it sounded, as it was tied in to the local Civil Defense agency. Conelrad was discontinued in 1962 or 1963 when it became clear that ICBMs would be the primary delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons, and was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System. What we see here is what happens when the threat of nuclear attack rammed head-on with what would be a typical school response - rule out every other possible cause for the alarm sounding, to avoid as far as possible the need to close the school and send the kids home.

[@75RWM]

Interesting to find out Livia Soprano was a grade school teacher, and actor William Daniels was a grade school principle.

[@StoneyRerootkit]

Oh, Look! 👀It's Mrs. Pynchon From the LA Tribune, and Starring Lou Grant😊🎉🦅😎🕵👁💪🗣💎

[@jasminewilson762]

This movie was so sad.

[@plaistowbill]

Wasn't the boy in "Leave it to Beaver"? @ 3:50 how about turning on the radio. I remember in the office in my elementary school.

[@tomservo56954]

No...the actors in this film were all from the New York scene--theater, and TV shows like NAKED CITY which filmed there. The lunch lady was Jane Connell, who played Agnes Gooch in both the stage and screen version of the musical MAME. Also, one of the mothers was portrayed by a pre-BONNIE & CLYDE Estelle Parsons.

[@kobiashby6842]

If I was a teacher and a alarm went off with no information it will happen I will expected it not a drill

[@frankpabon8329]

exactly!!! time moves quick and an hour is JUST an hour - now a day - a missile can hit us under 30-minutes

[@StevenErnest]

This recently aired on MeTV, which is 5.3 in the Los Angeles area. Hopefully they'll air it again.

[@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016]

If I was in this time of year like a teenager in 1950 I would just duck & cover alright This video scared me when I was 12 years old

[@kennyfordham6208]

Michael...Devon's calling.

[@1401princeton]

Is this william daniels

[@cynthiabennett6841]

This is not how things were handled when I was in school in the 60s, we were taught the duck and cover, which of course we now know would have done absolutely no good. They never would have aloud children to leave the building, we were to stay inside, and hide under our desks, while covering our heads with our arms.

[@karenwomble2640]

Cynthia Bennett our school was told to do the same thing in Philadelphia.I’m 67 yrs old .

[@cynthiabennett6841]

@@karenwomble2640 59 years here

[@Walkercolt1]

Actually dear, from the results at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "duck and cover" is 99% effective if you aren't in the relatively tiny "lethal" zone. At Hiroshima, a man only 400 meters from "ground zero" survived and lived to be 97 years old! An infant, 5 weeks old was 600 meters from ground zero, completely exposed to the blast, covered in fallout, was named "Pika" after the intense flash and became one of Japan's greatest professional tennis stars, and a mother of three. A little knowledge hath made thee mad. Just like a tornado, it's flying debris that kill you, not the blast or "radiation" oooohh...., or the fire afterwards, at least according to the people on the ground. Read a book, not Life magazine, which is where you got your information.

[@michaelpope2886]

Unless you were right underneath a bomb, duck and cover would help protect you from the shockwave that would have shattered windows and thrown debris everywhere. Most people in the country would not have been directly in the blast zone of the bomb. As for having the kids leave the building, the school in the movie was in a rural area, so it would have taken a couple of hours for fallout to reach them after the explosions. So the plan would have been to get the kids home right away so their parents could take care of them before they had to worry about exposure.

[@nigelhorsley7395]

​@@Walkercolt1OK dear! Patronising arse.

[@RobertWPaine]

Another film that can rattle your cage is Countdown to Looking Glass. Spooky even in daylight, which is when I saw it.

[@irvan36mm]

If ya wanna stay awake for weeks, look up the BBC flick “The War Game”

[@EdWindblackSASS]

I watched this movie many years ago. Could not believe I remembered the name

[@9284vr]

Wish this great movie was easier to find for free full movie viewing...it is perfect given what happened in Hawaii on Saturday with the false warnings that were issued of a missile attack.

[@littlecasino60]

I thought the same thing. Exactly what happened in Hawaii. I saw this movie a few years back and never forgot it.

[@kevinmoore2929]

9284vr look for Norman Restrepo.... He has the entire movie here on KZbin.

[@9284vr]

When I tried Restrepo's version it was also chipmunk voices but then I found a good version-see link below-but you might have to wait for a bit and/or try it a couple of times for it to start playing. vidzi.tv/leptddusjxgk.html

[@frankpabon8329]

1st thing i thought - what state was this and why did they NOT have a basement or bomb shelter for the school - when it was obvious that some familys had bomb sherters or at least a basement.? i remember watching this a LONG time ago but could only remember a child going into a fridge - and i didnt realize it was the girl. so sad......

[@kellyvaters1689]

Not all school districts had the money or the time to retrofit schools, some just newly built like this one had been, with the needed protection capacity. Those districts may have also calculated that their children's homes would be equipped at least with a storm cellar that would provide some protection. Hence, the go-home protocol. Most mothers would have still been at home to receive their kids.

[@canadianfloormasters]

I'm thinking, teachers take you kids home! Teacher my home only has two beds.

[@proud2bpagan]

I'm a huge history nerd, and if i can find someone who lived through an event, nd hear what it I was like first hand, I'm*really* excited.One of the nurses who worked for my old GP went through this time in person, as did my American History teacher/P.E. instructor. I asked the nurse how people could stay sane knowing that they might die at any moment. She said that, minus the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was way less scary than the threat of terrorism we face today...at least the Soviets had a bit of a conscience and could be reasoned with. She said that,like people today, if it's not in your area, you don't really give it much thought. My AH teacher said the only time he truly felt afraid was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, espeically since they sent every school child home during that tense time.

[@imablank6236]

my grandma in 1950 had started taking these she said it was dredful

[@Splenda257]

Since when did teachers take their students home? They should be moving everyone to the basement to duck and cover.

[@michaelpope2886]

That would depend on where they are located. If they are in a suburb miles away from the city center, it might indeed be safer to take the kids home - they wouldn't have to worry about a direct impact so much as the fallout that would start a few hours after the explosion, so better to get everyone home right away than wait until it is too late to go outside. Also, back then they had a lot more warning, since the enemy had to use bombers and not ICBMs, so they had a lot more time to get the kids home than we would today.

[@torcherchamber7626]

its sunny nucular attack outside ? this is crazy they let their kids go outsise dor recess that bull

[@saltofratnat5523]

If I was the princeable I would of been alright every buddy in the basement

[@KL2010]

If you were the principal, you'd know how to spell principal ;-)

[@saltofratnat5523]

@@KL2010 good thing I’m not a principal and not 7 years old anymore ;)

[@gemoftheocean]

No chance of you ever being a "princeable."

[@saltofratnat5523]

@@gemoftheocean bruh I was 9 excuse my poor spelling

[@rangers199487]

After seeing Kathryn Hays in this role, i'd wish she had been my teacher as well. Lol!!!

[@tomryan914]

Gives me a chub!

[@mikemhoon]

I remember these drills! We had them all the time when I was in Germany! Duck and cover!😂😂 Like that will save you!😜😜

[@dwightstewart7181]

This was a segment from a movie, not a "duck & cover" film. The "duck & cover" films/drills never talked about taking the kids outside and walking/driving them home.

[@michaelpope2886]

Unless you were right at ground zero of the explosion, duck and cover could very well save you. If you were 20 miles away from the bomb, you'd have to worry about the shockwave would would shred the glass. Being under a desk would give you some cover from the debris. If you were at ground zero, of course, nothing would save you, but most people in the country would not have been in the direct blast zone of an atomic bomb.

[@valerium3596]

Alert goes off: OMG TURN IT OFF ITS HURTING MY EARDRUM atomic bomb drops and explodes: OMG MY SKIN IS COMING OFF

[@Godzillaman]

Why didn't anyone think to turn on a radio to see if CONELRAD was on?

[@fernandolomas6635]

Exactly

[@KL2010]

Brian at 5:51 knew what was going on.

[@Hilaire_Balrog]

A school principal that teaches a class?

[@gemoftheocean]

Yes, that sometimes happened. My 12th grade history teacher was also principal. 1200 students in the school. We were the only class he taught though.

[@eddiekulp1241]

Im 63 dont recall these drills in schools

[@evelynshore9489]

I’m 67 and I remember these drills. Duck and Cover

[@Kiyoko504]

Can anyone find the full film and upload it, surly by now its within Public Domain

[@1940limited]

+Kiyoko504 It was on here in full last year. I don't know why it's gone now.

[@obeyxana34]

Well I'm glad that this won't happen anytime soon, even though we are at defcon 4

[@MrJgohde]

Putin thinks differently. So does Crooked Hillary.

[@obeyxana34]

Well crud we are at defcon 3

[@1940limited]

What happened to the full movie? It used to be on You Tube. It was a good movie and pretty scary as it depicted what it was like back in the days when we lived in fear of "the bomb."

[@tricorvus2673]

It's still on here

[@beenaplumber8379]

Try this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enzSkHp6gbRgn5I

[@rivkabornstein]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2SsoGqFlLtjbqc

[@gerardosalazar161]

First response to any alarm is to silence the noise in order to think clearly.

[@PUNKMYVIDEO]

It's Kit

[@DB-er-Handle2019]

Williams Daniels. And I think the teacher on the playground is Nancy Marchand. Fun!

[@soupafi]

The principal is a young Mr. Fenny

[@jdollinter]

He's also Dustin Hoffman's Dad in The Graduate

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

My generation knows him as the voice of KITT on Knight Rider and Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere.

[@rickcarter7449]

Does anyone know the name of the song the children sang as they were walking down the road? Something about a "Rabbit" ?

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

William Daniels, the principal, was the voice of KITT on "Knight Rider".

[@matrox]

Its a real attack fool!! Hit the deck!!

[@justachannel9379]

It wasn't a drill; it was an actual alarm--a false one.

[@eclipsesky7073]

What do you mean a false one?!? Teach me! I wanna learn more!

[@justachannel9379]

Purity The Pistol wolf A drill is when you know it's practice. Here the system malfunctioned, and they thought it might be real. It's like when something sets the fire alarm off where I work but there's no fire.It isn't a drill for us or the FD; it's a false alarm.

[@eclipsesky7073]

justachannel cool

[@chrishenniker5944]

I thought schools, colleges and universities would be ordered to close in the days leading up to the attack. All peacetime services would be suspended if an attack was likely in a week.

[@jessebourgelas8811]

I just watched the whole movie here on KZbin. Holy fuck is it scary, especially the end when it actually does happen and wasn't a false alarm.

[@michaelpope2886]

I think that was supposed to just be a commercial airplane at the end, not necessarily a bomber. But the kid wouldn't have been able to know the difference.

[@henryhamann5212]

was 6 when this was made, knew enough then , bay if pigs , the cuban missile crises, that we all would have been dead

[@mrlodwick]

My dad was taken away when we thought the UK was going to get nuked - 1978-9 if I recall, he was a dietitian in the UK forces - I shit my pants - my Mum and the family cried - my Dad carried out his duty without fuss. He had his faults but was a Soldier. I miss him

[@mrs.schmenkman]

Hey that RALPH from green acres...she's too young and pretty here!