CIVIL DEFENSE IN SCHOOLS 1952 NUCLEAR WAR FILM 29192

[@aryanson]

I remember when I was in grade school (mid 1960's), we would have air raid drills abot 2 or 3 times a year. The horn alarm would go off, the school evacuated, we would be herded onto the school busses, and taken to our designated shelter, which was the basement of the local post office.We loved these drills, not only did we get out of class for a while, and the guy running the post office, would always open a box of one of the shelter's emergency rations, a high energy, vitamin and nutrient fortified hard candy. It was very good, (think a cross between cherry and grape life savers for the taste), and came in a 20 pound, wax coated cardboard box. Us kids would eat our fill, then fill our pockets with the stuff, and then we were herded back on the busses and taken back to school. I don't know what the candy was fortified with, but by the time we got back to school, we were bouncing off the walls, schoolwork was out of the question, so the teachers usually just tuned everyone loose on the school's playground for the rest of the day

[@somedude5422]

I want some of those candies.. God damn those sound amazing.

[@pacather]

Bet those candies were part of the CIA's MK-Ultra operation.

[@tjlovesrachel]

I have 2 20lb tins of those candies … and the same amount of the cracker/biscuit things

[@Nexalian_Gamer]

I'm pretty sure those candies had more than just sugar in them.

[@jeanmank6342]

Wow, your school district was a lot better prepared!

[@proud2bpagan]

This was before my time, but our American History teacher was of that generation...he said he'd never seen his teachers show fear, until the Cuban Missile Crisis. You knew in the back of your mind that it could happen, but being told it was at your doorstep was a whole different beast.

[@kubbayioka1858]

Teachers being scared of the missile crisis makes me think of being in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. Seeing teachers mortified made it real in a way that nothing else had. I remember my teacher saying grimly, "this is going to start something big."

[@smokeynewton]

I was born in 1952 and remember those drills very well. I also still have one of those signal horns that I salvaged from the building I worked at for 30 years. It was used in conjunction with the time clock. It looks identical to the one in the video.

[@paulrichards2365]

Might be fun to let it of late at night.

[@kubbayioka1858]

My dad's family grew up in the height of the cold war. Not one of them have anything to say about it because they didn't pay attention.

[@tjlovesrachel]

“Salvaged”….. yes

[@tjlovesrachel]

@@kubbayioka1858 kinda like covid now

[@smokeynewton]

@@tjlovesrachel The building was being demolished. I didn't steal it.

[@Bill23799]

I attended Catholic Elementary school starting in 1963 in New Rochelle, NY. I do not remember ever conducting Civil defense drills. I believe during that time the Archdiocese in NYC protested against the drills because they considered it psychologically preparing people to accept war as inevitable. Also some believed there was no defense against nuclear attack. Personally I believe that some precautions that people were taking back then would have saved lives. I remember many big buildings downtown had those signs saying " Fallout Shelter ". I remember there was one night everyone in the city conducted a Black Out Drill. We were told American bombers would be flying over our city on practice bombing runs.

[@TransWalk]

Im 57 and we had this in schools up to 1975

[@MrScottie68]

I remember that signal at 0:39 in school very well. It was used in the NYC public schools well into the 1970's. We used to quickly move to the hallway and kneel down facing the wall with eyes shut and hands behind our necks. It was very scary.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Today we have lockdown drills, only there’s a greater chance of having a shooter in the building than the Soviets dumping a bomb on us, or it SEEMS that way.

[@mariekatherine5238]

MrScottie68 I remember this well. I went to PS 166, on W.89 St.

[@rapman5363]

@@mariekatherine5238 I think you are correct,sadly.

[@sabrina4405]

I understand but now instead of kneeling for nukes we are face down for tornados.

[@AntonioGomez-lk6jm]

I remember it the exact same way, go into the hallway, down on our knees with our hands over our necks with eyes shut tightly, only difference was we were in the Los Angeles unified school district.

[@SAnn-rf3oz]

5:22 Mr Bowtie looks especially dapper!! Golly Gee!!

[@aryanson]

That's how they expected kids to dress for school, No jeans, for anyone, girls had to wear a dress, or a skirt, (below the knee), no slacks,and in High school, boys had to wear a tie.

[@Ronbo710]

The harp sounds were a nice touch. And somehow telling ...

[@tonyelliott7734]

Like how harps are associated with...Heaven?...lol

[@ZakWolf]

My dad's elementary school had the fire alarm horn seen at 0:41. The school was built in 1963.

[@jasonwalding9402]

Thank you Mr. Douglas, our children will be irradiated and most will not survive, but we appreciate that you and the civil defence coordinator have seen to having children hide under their desk. Thank you sir, cesium 137 is no enemy with a good movie like this!

[@smurftums]

1:37 has a brief image of a Chevrolet Corvair... That was a late 1959 release... Possibly a post production add in.

[@TransWalk]

We need to bring Citizenship class. That taught the responsibility as a citizen and not treat kids like they are babies. School is supposed to be how we educate /prepare our youth to be mature Adults.

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

no

[@ChicagoMel23]

Yes

[@tjlovesrachel]

@@user-jt5vm3mi1w why not

[@booklover6753]

Some of that maturity would have saved many lives over the past 2 years.

[@TestECull]

@@tjlovesrachel Seems to me to be a very very easy way to brainwash the kids even more effectively than the school system already does.

[@paulrichards2365]

I'm 75 and as a child in the 50s, in Australia, we didn't have anything at all like this. All I remember is hand painted signs on walls "No More Nukes". Interestingly, in the late 40s and 50s, they exploded 12 above ground Nukes in the Australian desert.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lolll

[@scottjoseph9578]

They, meaning the UK government.

[@neohistoryfan1014]

My grandparents, my dad and his two brothers did air raid drills in the 50s & 60s- going into the 80s. Akron, Ohio was a target for Soviet bombers/ICBMs, due to the major rubber companies and railroads. I don’t think Akron had outdoor sirens during the Cold War; there was a WW2 Chrysler air raid siren on the city hall building!! I believe Akron’s old schools had the bell-and-light system and definitely fallout shelters!!

[@venangoproductions]

My mom learned this, she went to school in the late 60s

[@zachdonaldson4848]

I saw a few cars , one a 1960 Ford, a 1959 Ford and a 1960 Pontiac. This is either late 1959 or early 1960.

[@jrmcferren]

This is most certainly not 1952. I could tell by looking at the radios and batteries. I saw at least one transistor set and some transistor radio batteries. I'm also familiar with how small tube portables can be as I have one I want to restore that looks like a transistor set from the outside.

[@chrishenniker5944]

Zach Donaldson I'd say 1962, I saw a Corvair.

[@Noid]

You have quite an eye for cars :)

[@manhoot]

I feel like getting my own defense program up and going

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

I went to an ancient elementary school. Every room had a cloke closet. We would go in there and sit down all in a row in front of where we hung out coats on hooks.

[@michaelpetersonjr]

The title of this video says it is from 1952 but produced in 1958? Misleading title, maybe? Anyways at 8:43 is the Federal Sign & Signal Thunderbolt siren. But the siren that went off in this video (in alert and attack) is the SD-10, which is the siren that was famous for the 10:00 AM tests in San Diego and Los Angeles, CA, in the 1950's and 1960's (I saw a few comments on here these sirens would be tested well into the 1970's). I would know about the SD-10 because I grew up hearing it go off at my grandparents' house because they weren't too far from the local fire department, and it is STILL there.

[@williamcrovo6452]

you can also see cars from the early 1960's

[@michaelpetersonjr]

@@williamcrovo6452 Thank you. Still the title of the video is misleading.

[@birdehh4503]

I noticed this too I was like yeah tbolt! Ahh wtf that’s not what it sounds like! I feel ripped off 😂

[@NaughtyAelf]

Hey, that's the same alert my primary school had for a tornado!

[@kennethjohnson6319]

When i was going to school in the early sixties we had air raid drills we had to hide under our desks and put our hands over our head and we had to go to the basementof our school

[@johnshields6852]

In 1966 in 1st grade we would pledge allegiance to the USA flag, then have nuclear bomb drills, getting under our wooden desks, I remember thinking how this little desk is going to save me, no wonder I grew up sarcastic.😉

[@hasaheadachenow]

I grew up with all this! As a kid I knew this was potentially bad but I had no real concept of bombs. I bet any kid who knows about bombs now know what it really means! We hear about are every day now and see it happening on the news. My dadchose not to build a shelter, but many kids I know had one. I wonder about that now, are there any shelters left?

[@somedude5422]

@@finnmccool1 My elementary school has one, too. I have no clue if the supplies are in there, so I'd have to find a way in.

[@booklover6753]

Alot of old houses have them.

[@CreatingAlong]

No shelters are no longer built as home built ones were made obsolete after the H bomb. Basically past 1955 they were useless.

[@arricammarques1955]

Many homes in Florida had them built during this era.

[@Alpha.210]

Im 13 and into this stuff

[@charlotteshenkenberger345]

Considering half the crap's been going on lately, maybe we oughta consider bringing some of these lessons and drills back. Might make for a fun extra lesson, like the fire safety demonsrations my old school and local fire fighting department would do each year for the elementary school kids.

[@chrishenniker5944]

I thought schools, colleges and universities would be closed if they suspected an air attack would be likely in a few days.

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

This was for a surprise attack. It probably wouldn't have saved us, but that was when people still had hope.

[@arricammarques1955]

@@bunnyfoofoo9695 3-5 minutes at best before oblivion.

[@Xerdar36]

Anyone from 2020?

[@charlotteshenkenberger345]

Yep. A little surprised this wasn't even mentioned in history class back in college at least.

[@revjaybird2]

2024

[@garreth629]

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[@briankistner4331]

Many think the ending was cut off. It wasn't. It was designed for each of us to interput what happened. It's suggested it turned out to be a false alarm, or was it? That's what the individual has to decide based on the ending. A terrified boy looking up at the sky with a plane, perhaps a Russian bomber at the ready to drop a A-bomb. A terrified girl taking shelter in a fridge. If it's a false alarm, the boy is OK. What about the girl? She's inside a fridge she might not be able to get out of from the inside. She's toast if someone doesn't find her, perhaps her friend the boy.

[@paulrichards2365]

Do you think someone should check the fridge?

[@gregwhite2881]

This film was shot in 1960 or 1962 I think.

[@laytontmontgomery]

The civil defence logo kinda looks like the deathly hallows lol

[@arricammarques1955]

Not to far from the truth, mate.

[@melissasweeney1487]

I think this was made after 1952. The cars are several years later than ‘52 models.

[@relevanteaglealarms109]

Simplex 4040-2 and code 4-4-4-4

[@gelatinous6915]

The instruction to cover your face with your hand was to allow for identification of dead bodies.

[@fredsas12]

Assuming that anyone was left to identify your bodies that is.

[@christopherconard2831]

People joke about getting under their desk, but it served a similar morbid purpose. Most classes had assigned seating. If the school was in the zone that took enough blast pressure or heat to kill most of the students, but not turn them to dust they could identify the bodies. Not that this aspect was ever discussed publicly.

[@arricammarques1955]

@@christopherconard2831 Your spot on. Duck & cover made the body counts easier.

[@karimoon5323]

They knew people that didnt hv fallout shelters in their homes were sitting ducks. Ivwas born in 68 so my school years and young adult life was in the 80s..I lived the scarey cold war and ALL THIS would kill us today!

[@destisinawe1221]

0:39 that’s code 4-4-4-4

[@KbB-kz9qp]

I graduated high school 1980, and in my youth I recall my folks took No civil defense precautions for atomic bombs. They simply figured an A-bomb probably would not arrive, and if it did, few would survive. Dad would joke that he would probably just have a martini! 😂

[@malcolmt7883]

I hope Civil Defense will someday protect our children from the dropping of the N-Bomb.

[@BeefZupreme]

There is no CD in USA you are SOFL and JWF

[@Radar120155]

Maybe stock in some but hurt ointment !

[@merules2247]

We had websites and computers when this OLD VIDEO WAS MADE IN?

[@tjlovesrachel]

What?

[@arricammarques1955]

@@tjlovesrachel The military & IBM had access to computers & a form of internet.

[@tjlovesrachel]

@@arricammarques1955 the question was worded very poorly

[@claudermiller]

Besides the profits made available by the weapons themselves there appeared to be a bustling industry in the survival business of nuclear war.

[@razvandobos9759]

0:41 horns are Simplex?

[@merules2247]

Probably not because simplex fire alarms don't sound like that

[@pacather]

Looks like kids in Hawaii need to see this at school.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lmaoooo

[@natashahaase499]

Cheff school nurse? What's that

[@somedude5422]

school nurse boss, both literally and y'know, jokingly

[@bryanjohnson8796]

Just think, the kids in this film are now grandparents!

[@phillippierce5974]

1952? Why all the 57 chevys at the start of the film?

[@christopherconard2831]

It's listed as 1958 in the description.

[@alphonsocarioti512]

First, they had to survive the blast. These were fallout shelters not bomb shelters.

[@almostfm]

Yes, but the idea was that if you were far enough from the blast, fallout was the thing you had to survive, because you weren't going to be hurt from the blast itself.

[@anthonybelyea1964]

Narrator sounds like the same narrator on Fallout 4

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

Wish the public seen what the Soviet Union was doing to protect the citizens compared to what was done in the United States. I can think of at least one country it is in building code that each home has a shelter.

[@Radar120155]

Have you an english speaking link to the USSR videos ?

[@mbabist01]

14:33 - "Quit wiping your snot-filled finger on my door!"

[@michaelreyes8182]

Atomic bomb? No problem kiddos...just hide under your desk.🤪🤪

[@knb75]

I Was Born In 2013

[@pacather]

You'll be telling your grandkids stories about the Covid pandemic and how stupid it made all the adults in your life.

[@katylake212]

This isn't 1952. It's more like 10 years later.

[@stanburdick9708]

Thats all meetings are talk talk talk talk talk talk and endless bull$hit. Nothing ever gets solved......

[@Sunny25611]

I wonder what children are being told and how it’s being discussed right now on March 15 2022 after Putins nuclear threat last week?

[@mariekatherine5238]

I count four non-Caucasian students, all girls. All of them, kids and adults, will go out looking well-dressed and groomed, nothing like today!

[@mariekatherine5238]

@cody austin You are right about that. The NYC school system was already brainwashing kids in 1952, but it was not yet so overt. My parents first noticed some things “off” in about 1957/58. I finished high school but my younger siblings were pulled out and placed in Catholic school.

[@kellyvaters1689]

Depending on the year and location, the US would have been _just_ starting to integrate African-American children into previously white-only schools. Brown vs Board of Education was only decided by SCOTUS in 1954.

[@arricammarques1955]

The age of civility is dearly missed.

[@stanburdick9708]

Ha, l didn't see one fat or obese kid in thier! Also those cigaretts are more of hazard than any stinkin bomb.........too funny

[@mbabist01]

16:18 - "Get back to work and quit looking up my dress, you little creep!"

[@AntonioGomez-lk6jm]

What red blooded boy wouldn't try to take advantage of the situation to peek up any girls dress 🤤😋😁

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

@@AntonioGomez-lk6jm They tried looking up the teacher's skirt in my 1st grade.😂 At least one boy did.

[@lusr2923]

9:42 8:49

[@amandahuggandkiss2998]

No POC’s in this movie. I am shocked snd outraged.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

Like the POC's outraged you white libs don't help unless cop?

[@christopherconard2831]

Save the white children! They are our nation's future. The film was made in the 1950's.

[@lauracomp100]

0:39

[@RoyBurnell-o6n]

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[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

Waste of time and money but fun to watch

[@robertbolding4182]

We all learn to Burn drills

[@Radar120155]

Yes I would eat the Blueberry pie (18:20 ) even though its not hot !

[@frankgallardo]

☢️

[@ginajhjsimarduuy829]

Tisha you want me there was an amazing day with the girls are the best thing ever and ever and ever and ever since the beginning and end up in the middle and high school and the kids and the other side of my life is so cute in the middle and high on the train station in a few weeks ago I was just wondering what happened to you too baby and I have no idea how much I love you so much for the day before I get home and get a

[@harlow743]

We created this HORRIBLE curse and it quickly turned on us.

[@thedailycomplaining4861]

We had too

[@ChicagoMel23]

*had to

[@harlow743]

@@ChicagoMel23 Not according to Eisenhower , Nimitz or McArthur....but

[@TrapperAaron]

Who knew the biggest threat to a students life is not nukes, but instead mental health care.

[@aryanson]

12:06 One fine piece of chocolate tail...

[@kryptofly]

We used to have films like this and even I couldn’t believe that ducking under a table or covering myself with a newspaper would save me. What kid has a newspaper with them? Most kids wouldn’t know where to get one nowadays. Just a scam to keep the population from panicking. You’re all going to die people!…

[@malcolmt7883]

In the 80's, I had a teacher who made the kids kneel down while holding a book against the back of our necks. That was supposed to save us from tornadoes, and I was never killed by tornado, so it I guess it worked..

[@luisreyes1963]

More Cold War hysteria for your viewing pleasure. ☢️

[@Scottish_Transport_Explorer]

Yea and it’s called nuclear Covid war

[@ginajhjsimarduuy829]

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[@Eldrss]

total paranoïa... exactly from those who DID drop the bomb.... #HiroshimaNagasaki ^^.