1951 ATOMIC ATTACK CIVIL DEFENSE FILM "PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL" 31574

[@redwingfan9393]

That first guy yelling and waving around a cigarette is what I'm here for.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

13:32 Hey, hey! A nuclear attack is no excuse for lousy parking! The awesome Chet Huntley (RIP) doing the narration.

[@christopherconard2831]

So remember, when you see jazz hands, do a Bela Lugosi.

[@rapman5363]

That scene where everyone is running around trying to find shelter is reminiscent of the movie “The Day After” from 1983. There is a scene just like that one where people are panicked and running around in circles but going nowhere. Just a complete cluster. The more things change....the more they stay the same.

[@Devthemenace414]

I think you mean from the atomic cafe movie

[@sirtrently77]

There’s also a scene like that in the 1984 movie “Threads” that is like a British, more grotesque version of The Day After.

[@bboucharde]

CORRECTION (AT 5:30): The shock wave is not first. The thermal flash is first.

[@MarioMastar]

Given everything else this informational says, the last thing I care about is how the explosion happens when I'm a foggy human shaped antimatter before we even realize the bomb was dropped....

[@bboucharde]

@@MarioMastar Mario, Thanks for your comment.

[@TheDrcyko]

The kid in the wheelchair probably won't survive.

[@mrlodwick]

No he will look like a tyre - melted and ill

[@MarioMastar]

Well fortunately for him, I don't recall any nuclear explosions on american cities in the past several decades. But sadly, that'd have been mercy compared to some of the ways Americans actually died en mass.... and none of them were even caused by actual enemy nations.... unless we count ourselves.

[@jaggerbushOG]

💀💀💀

[@robinj.9329]

I "Think" that I can remember seeing this while I was in school! I grew up and was in school, late 50's and through the 60's. Yup, I was one of those "Duck and Cover" kids! And we saw a lot of films like this while in Public School.

[@MarioMastar]

It's quite tragic how now a days, even we kids laugh at the thought and cynically say "Yeah if a nuke drops on us, we're all dead. best to just accept our fates." and the teacher trying not to cry at how f8cked we are. XD

[@JChang0114]

The days before an ICBM.

[@SwedeProof]

HONK if you survived this bomb! 💣

[@SuV33358]

Love the way the guy is casually smoking.......causes cancer just like nuclear energy

[@mariekatherine5238]

But you’re going to be nuked, why not enjoy a cigarette?

[@kurtbjorn]

Wow, a VERY EARLY CD film... totally ignores the fallout danger. They simply say "Follow the instructions of those in authority." Good luck with that.

[@christopherconard2831]

KurtB Until the Castle Bravo test we didn't really understand fallout. The few that did, didn't publicize their theories. Also, the government wanted to promote the idea of atomic weapons as just big bombs. After the results of the Castle tests became public, they had to admit that a bomb, detonated miles away, could still do extreme damage. Though some of the advice given in early civil defense films is laughably, almost suicidally, wrong.

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

@@christopherconard2831 Honestly the advice in this film is still... 90% useful for short-term preparations. Of all the Civil Defense films on preparedness this honestly seems to be one of the best I've seen, if only because it offers useful advice and doesn't depict people driving to the market to buy supplies after the bombs drop. Yes. I've seen one like that.

@@christopherconard2831 nuclear use doctrine at the time advocated for air busts in order to maximise blast damage instead of close to ground bursts, the fallout effect hadn't been fully understood yet.

[@jasonm949]

@@christopherconard2831 You're 100% wrong.

[@booklover6753]

@@jasonm949 Christopher is pretty much correct Jason. Large fusion devices like Castle Bravo make smaller yield fission bombs look like fire crackers and they spread fallout over a much larger area that is far longer lived. Islands over 200 miles away were made uninhabitable. Check your facts.

[@Xerdar36]

Cigarettes in these old days Were more healthier... lol

[@heywoodjablome8409]

and because you covered you're eyes you'll be able to see your'e skin melting off

[@joebehrdenver]

Why is Eddie Munster in a wheelchair?

[@wpankey57]

"Remember to cover your eyes. It it this that might save your life." Sure it will.

[@MarioMastar]

"it's the one thing Japan failed to do and that's clearly why they got evaporated... they didn't duck and cover and they looked at the explosions...." I still can't believe they said that in another video with a straight face.... How we didn't accidently blow ourselves up with nukes I'll never know....

[@wardenphil]

I wouldn't want people to abandon their cars in the MIDDLE of the road - that would hinder Emergency Services Personnel (I am making the optimistic assumption that they would be there.).

[@nathanjustus6659]

They would.

[@booklover6753]

@@nathanjustus6659 Brave people but they wouldn't survive either.

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

"PUFF,PUFF, that cigarette, will filter alpha/Beta, radiation.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Most cigs back then weren’t filtered….. and there’s nothing wrong with smoking

[@joebehrdenver]

"What you have seen is the worst that can happen" Um, no.

[@thomaswhitten2537]

People back then really had no clue.

[@MarioMastar]

"Cause he, MAN, had the Puh- and with that reason he overcame fear..." Most of us wouldn't exist without women...

[@allandavis8201]

Really...........I don’t think so, by the time the flash happens you are either blind or vaporised, I love how every CD film says don’t look at the flash, to late.

[@jeffreywoods4040]

Those instructions are for people miles from ground zero. If you’re far enough away, you’ll see the flash and have time to duck and cover to avoid being injured by the shock or heat wave. We came up with this stuff after touring Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@whiskeysixindigo7371]

The fact that we are willing to do something like this to our fellow humans proves that we are sinful creatures at heart.

[@booklover6753]

Not all of us are necessarily willing, but we must be able to do so. It's called deterrence.

[@calvinjackson8110]

​​@@booklover6753hat does not deterrent the other nation. They just arm themselves like you with even more even deadlier weapons. Now it's a vicious cycle with everyone arming themselves. Now the whole world is a powder keg, ready to ignite at the least provocation.

[@rmx4087]

Why, because our mothers raise us with the advice of "getting back at" every perceived wrong. It all starts there. Studies into serial gRapists and murderers have demonstrated this.

[@johntilson2535]

I'm afraid of the atomic bomb. I'm afraid I'll be OUTSIDE of 'ground zero' and SURVIVE the blast, only to either suffer slow death from radiation poisoning, starvation or Mad-Max dystopian barbarism!

[@stargo2931]

Stock up on Dinky Dog canned food for long term survival.

[@calvinjackson8110]

Yeah, makes you almost want to be one of those who are vaporized instantly. It's over and done and you are gone and can't suffer for years awaiting a slow miserable death.

[@lomgshorts3]

I was born in practically the "center of worry" about the bomb. Now, seventy years after, we have to worry about "total conversion" in which a few grams of anti-protons can equal a 50 megaton bomb if exposed to regular matter. How has man progressed in its power to destroy.

[@rmx4087]

Bidenflation would trip seven times and fall off his bicycle twice running away from the bomb. Gerald Ford would be miles ahead of him by the time POTATO figured out his record player was left on.

[@artemisworshiper2010]

I really can't believe tha family on the last minute were happily eating fresh food, on an unscratched home. In real life, there would be MASSIVE MIGRATIONs, like the ones we see in S-I*R/I/A

[@rmx4087]

You mean the mass migration of guests from Venezuela.

[@josephkelley8641]

"The MOMENT you become AWARE of the *Characteristic Water Column* run for the daylights, man. Boy to self after UBER EXPLOSION: "Oh, I recognize the Characteristic-Water-Column!!!" (CFW to us pro's) "I'd better Run-For-My-Life like the-Beatle's-song."

[@commonsense31]

There are no defense!

[@kingfish4575]

And yet he touch types lol