Protect and Survive (Complete Nuclear Survival British Public Information Film) (REMASTERED)

[@the_boi_4203]

"In the event that if the attack siren is to sound, be sure you are to turn off the oven; if you do not, the cake will be burned."

[@dragonspirit1639]

First get the washing in.

[@mowilderness8505]

Come back here you stupid B and get in the shelter!!

[@dreamystone]

@@dragonspirit1639 You had better. 14 days worth of clothing doesn't grow on trees. Or, well, at least not on radioactive trees...

[@gingernutpreacher]

Will there be a drumming sound track?

[@koiyune]

"the cake will be burnt!"

[@gavinreid8937]

As he was reading this, It suddenly dawned on Patrick Allen that the last voice some people would ever hear was his.

[@pompeymonkey3271]

ZTT

[@MaggieKeizai]

At least they won't be alarmed

[@johannesaylott]

It takes a lot of talent to make a 5-second jingle sound this ominous and terrifying... Good thing it's not meant to calm or reassure the people watching it or anything.

[@stevetaylor8698]

That was the point. It wasn't meant to reassure, it was to galvanise the population to protect themselves. It was fully understood that millions would die, but also that millions would survive.

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

The 5 Second jingle that you hear in these videos was written by a very talented musician He is still alive...He is a guy called Roger Limb

[@AudieHolland]

Bring out your dead!

[@DJDTHTRP]

@MK Not just that, I wonder if at this point the separate sirens for the Gray Warning were taken down and that's why they weren't covered. That's an advance warning for 1 hour before the fallout arrives in areas further away, and in the absence of that siren, it was either the use of church bells or officers going around to communicate said warning.

[@Thecoolmeister2005]

HI I'M COMPOST

[@miniroll32]

Really appreciate knowing that fallout dust sounds like a Moog synthesizer

[@eddievhfan1984]

This being the BBC/Home Office, more than likely it's a EMS VCS3 or Synthi 100.

[@xeromoth9771]

Well at least we know what it sounds like when it approaches 😂

[@Ashleyrae11]

Yeah I kept hearing the beginning of Bowie’s Magic Dance💀

[@Airborne-Screaming-Eagles]

31.23 " After a Nuclear attack you may not be able to use the Lavatory " An absolute masterclass in British understatement.

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

If I heard there was a nuclear attack I’d probably go to the lavatory automatically 😂

[@billyb4790]

I love how they explain that the fire dept may not be able to reach us, so be sure to turn off our gasline before the attack.

[@Justahuman-vv1]

@@billyb4790 not gasoline, gas, as in natural gas.

[@Trainlover1995]

This video is in an Analog Horror playlist. This isn’t analog horror. It’s real.

[@Lawg202]

nobody ever said the two had to be mutually exclusive

[@S_ecuritate]

That makes it even scarier

[@NoDream424]

Then it's analogue terror

[@ItzBIULD]

Analog horror can be real, or fake. Usually fake.

[@AlexFlockhart]

This is from an analog format, and just because it isn't fiction doesn't mean it isn't horror. It is genuine analog horror, and fictional analog horror series absolutely take direct inspiration from media like this.

[@hotelmario510]

Always love how unbelievably dystopian these are.

[@edd027]

When you say “these”, could you point me to other similar videos?

[@SovereignStatesman]

Dystopian? Are you serious? They just say "go inside your house and wait for everything to be over." Fucking DELUSIONAL is more like it. "Threads" showed the truth: i.e. windows and roof blasted open, fallout gets in.

[@joshuabruce9599]

@@edd027 they're all different public safety ads that OP has just knitted together. Every time you see the protect ans survive logo it's the end of an ad and the beginning of the next one

[@zararity]

@@edd027Yep, the reason they say 'these' is because this is 20 episodes all pulled together into a single video. Also worth watching is the feature length 'Threads' which was shown to us in school when we were very young. Other British public safety videos are equally bleak and hard hitting, there's lots of them on KZbin, many of which I remember seeing in TV when I was a child.

[@mrexists5400]

@@SovereignStatesman you do of course realize that there is a range where that happens? and that these tips are meant to help people beyond that range? and that they can't really predict who will be beyond that range? they can't just say "if you live [insert location here], you're gonna die, tough shit"

[@billyb4790]

Fun fact: that horrifically terrifying jingle at the end of every clip was composed by the same man who wrote music for the original 1970s Doctor Who series. If you pay attention you can hear the similarities.

[@georgesears2916]

I like to think that the only place safe from a nuclear attack is behind a good solid sofa.

[@moedge63]

Ron Grainer

[@samuelhouse7287]

That's because Ron Grainers music was everywhere on TV in the 60s and 70s.

[@jeffhamidi9423]

I'm pretty sure the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" people pretty much lifted that jingle, made it less ominous, and used it on their show for years.

[@billyb4790]

@@jeffhamidi9423 their theme song sounds like an epic Final Fantasy battle haha

[@edlawn5481]

These spots are what I remembered the most from "Threads".

[@billyb4790]

It was the first time I'd heard it. I thought it was made up until I searched for it and found it here. I couldn't believe that jingle was real. It was terrifying.

[@KingThrillgore]

"If you are caught in the open, lie down." This might be the most honest advice yet.

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

I you're not lying down, you soon will be. All the advice in this film is simply lies.

[@judet5426]

@StarTube sort of...keep watching!

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

@@andrewwigglesworth3030 In what way is it lies? Obviously it wouldn't protect you from a nuke, but for the millions of people who live outside the target cities a good amount of this information would be very helpful. If nothing else, "yeah if someone dies, don't keep the body in the house for over 5 days" is probably good advice. So is "stay away from fall-out". So is "probably stay where you live, people elsewhere won't help you". Even the refuge thing is sound advice; if nuclear fallout is coming on the wind and gets into your house, it's best that you don't directly inhale it, so make it harder for irradiated dust to get near your mouth even if it ends up a few feet away from you by giving it a surface to land on. Is it *perfect* advice? No of course not. But a lot of it is far better than the alternative of not giving people any advice.

[@glassofmilk3474]

Lie down, it saves you falling as it happens...

[@JQ3B941]

​@@glassofmilk3474 and it also stops your lungs from collapsing from the shockwave

[@ivan00001983]

To wake up in post-nuclear-exchange world would be more of an ordeal than dying right away and getting spared from further trauma.

[@AlexFlockhart]

That is something you might want to consider at the beginning. For any who prefer to go on their own terms in this situation, please offer what you can to those who choose to survive to make their well-being as preferable as possible first.

[@nickatnights]

The "all clear" will sound 2100 years after the attack. When you hear the "all clear" it is now safe to go outside.

[@GordonHudson]

... and empty your toilet waste.

[@mbsSTAYFOCUSED]

No It won’t

[@KitKatKat87]

​@@nineballofwow7917radios will, there is only one problem. The goverment says to stay for 2 weeks. But I think the safe amount of time staying at shelter is in fast a month or two.

[@Lou-yf1jo]

It Will@@mbsSTAYFOCUSED

[@daled4191]

​@@mbsSTAYFOCUSEDdepends when the bombs drop

[@DaRyteJuan]

"When you hear the air attack warning, you and your family must head for cover at once. If any member of your family succumbs to radiation, you must put the body outside. But remember to tag the body first - for identification purposes."

[@ArmyJames]

And taxation purposes. Because you will still be taxed even after the apocalypse and your subsequent death.

[@baseddoggie]

Yes, this is what the voice said in the video. Well done for repeating it for 0 reason.

[@Jixxor]

Despite never really having been a reasonable threat to my generation, the sound of these sirens strike absolute fear into my heart.

[@judet5426]

Generation X-er here. The 80's were great fun in many ways-but having this hanging over us was a terrifying part of life!

[@placeholdername0000]

Sure of that?

[@judet5426]

@@placeholdername0000 Yep. I was a teenager, watched the news, was well aware of things like the riots, and what led to them, the miner's strike and how it was "policed",the vast numbers of unemployed. Fairly regular terrorist bombings were always on our minds as well.We lived in London (one of the more fortunate areas of the country) but what we had wasn't handed to our family on a plate. As for the nuclear threat, yes I was terrified (far more so after seeing "Threads"!) But in the end, I had to convince myself that it was very, very unlikely-and get on with enjoying the cheesy tunes and dreadful fashions of the day like a teenager should!

[@StrawberrySunday212]

I grew up in the 80's and trust me, our generation had this hanging over us that a nuclear attack could happen at any time, and it was awful.

[@stevetaylor8698]

@@StrawberrySunday212 I'm afraid the threat is now rather more likely than it was in the eighties.

[@carolynharriman5834]

If anyone is confused when they say"the bangs will be sounded by Maroons" They're talking about fireworks Maroon are types of fireworks that can make a very loud bang and I'm pretty sure that they don't have a colored explosion

[@willf.4590]

I think we call those salutes in the US. Thanks for the info!

[@glassofmilk3474]

When these start playing on the TV you know stuff is going to happen.

[@alfyryan6949]

there is nothing more disconcerting than seeing lower-case Helvetica from the 1970s

[@kellyvaters1689]

Letraset Helvetica to boot.

[@KingThrillgore]

Hey Letraset was cheap and easy to put on glass

[@artemiszeus9735]

That blue background is also the stuff of nightmares. Bits of Cumbernauld town centre were painted that colour at the time.

[@hazelisaacs2201]

@@artemiszeus9735that colour *was* 1970s britain. Heinz Baked bean can / British Rail train - petrol blue and cheddar cheese.

[@mohabexpert123]

1:18 instant chills from Fallout London

[@mohabexpert123]

@John-PaulHunt-q3z what?

[@rexcorvorum2209]

I love how they expected you to have over 100 kilos of sand packed into luggage bags stowed away for such an occasion. Crazy shit

[@King_Steffon_II]

I thought it was common to have suitcases full of rocks and sand in the closet in case of nuclear attack 😅

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

I'm not sure that's actually particularly weird for the time period. Even today when you look at video of places where flooding happens annually, pretty much as soon as the flooding happens there are thousands of sandbags lining the bottoms of doors and stuff, which implies several families in these places do indeed just keep a bunch of sand in bags "just in case". And that's before considering that people were WAY more likely to do DIY or have a bunch of weird stuff in their yard back then. Stuff that would be covered with a tarpaulin. A tarpaulin that needed to be held down and often was with rocks or sandbags. And also, because of the time period about one half of the adult male population had *some* form of military training, since WW2 soldiers were still around and becaue national service ended only in 1960. They would all be familiar with sandbagging, what kind of sand/dirt to use, the variety of uses of a sandbag. The point is, for people then, it wouldn't be *that* weird to just have a bunch of bags of sand somewhere. Hell it explains several large piles of filled sandbags that I've seen in my own life. Of course, most people didn't bother doing it anyway, for the same reason they didn't all select and strengthen a fallout room (and for the same reason that most people today have no plan for what to do in the event of a fire in their own house). People are just lazy. Government probably expected almost nobody to have a bunch of sandbags, they just gave the information so nobody could accuse them of not doing enough.

[@amykathleen2]

@@charliecharliewhiskey9403 From what I’ve read, the UK government never even intended to release these films unless the political situation deteriorated to the point where they believed an attack was likely to be imminent. It’s noticeable in this compilation how the tone goes from informational to commanding. The films were ultimately released informally after pressure from citizens when they found out about them, but if they had ever been formally released in response to imminent danger, at that point I think the expectation was that the situation was dire enough that people should go get tons of sand or dig up their entire yards to get the dirt. After all, there’s a separate film for “how to construct an inner refuge” and “the time to build your inner refuge is NOW.”

[@billyb4790]

@@amykathleen2 it's basically to send people on fool's errands until they die.

[@SpinTheWords]

@@billyb4790Thank You!!! My thoughts exactly

[@dod4004]

Americans: take shelter in your reinforced bunker. British: have you got stairs and some bin bags? You'll be fine. Don't forget to bring reading material.

[@stevetaylor8698]

I think you'll find that very few Americans had access to a reinforced bunker.

[@dod4004]

@@stevetaylor8698 they must have stairs and bin bags then.

[@moonmothh]

@@dod4004 most americans don't have stairs bc we're broke. idk what a "bin bag" is so probably not that either.

[@user-vr8zs3ei7n]

As an American that has visited the UK alot, US houses are nothing but plywood and sheetrock. More UK houses are sturdy and thicker built with brick and plaster walls.

[@Cobber.]

@@moonmothhgarbage bag ?

[@mceleneyy]

This is absolutely terrifying

[@byronkingsley7187]

TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:00 - Nuclear Explosions Explained 1:30 - The Warnings 4:25 - What to Do When the Warnings Sound 6:56 - Stay at Home 8:38 - Choosing a Fall-Out Room 10:49 - Refuges 14:45 - Materials to Use for Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge 16:40 - Make Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge Now 21:19 - What to Put in Your Fall-Out Room 24:26 - Action After Warnings 28:35 - Water and Food 31:11 - Preparatory Steps 32:48 - Fire Precautions 34:52 - The Importance of Your Radio 36:09 - Life Under Fall-Out Conditions 39:03 - What to Do After an Attack 41:34 - Sanitation Care 44:09 - Water Consumption 45:38 - Food Consumption 47:21 - Casualties

[@chrisbayes2972]

"Wear rubber gloves for dirty work" - Superb line!

[@zararity]

🤣 Advice for life!

[@AB-80X]

Any proctologist will concur...

[@malcolmgalton581]

Bloody hell this fallout room is going to be the whole house by the time we put all these items in our fallout room.

[@stop-the-greed]

I remember this being on the telly in the background of the family scenes in threads . Also its playing if you ever get the chance to visit kelvdon hatch nuclear bunker in chipping ongar .

[@jonathanmantle2364]

For those of you that are interested, the jingle and info video is used in Fallout London.

[@tylerhauck1361]

Thank you I was trying to figure out where I had heard that intro speech before!!

[@josephclaro4173]

Very cool!

[@incredibleflameboy]

That's awesome. I don't play PC and I wish it would get a console release because it looks so good.

[@glassofmilk3474]

Looking forward to seeing my country after the bombs.

[@billyb4790]

The composer is the same guy who wrote music for Doctor Who. See if you can notice the similarities 😅

[@dalekinthewater4708]

Watching this because Christopher Nolan said that when Oppenheimer premieres, people can feel the detonation, so I'm preparing because I don't want to be caught lacking in the cinema

[@woebegone_jabroni]

Something to be said for the British national character that they won't sugar coat it, just tell you to bag, tag & bury your loved ones in the yard

[@RhysoTV]

Well, this is absolutely terrifying.

[@phlegmony]

it would be fun tho

[@bdr200]

It's a good job fallout drops in glistening white lumps and that it makes that rather sinister synthesized sound.

[@bluetintedice7908]

Fun fact, these were never released as the UK government never thought that these were necessary! It was just in case

[@T3t4nu5]

I am fully prepped for this event. It's one 12 gauge 00 buckshot shell.

[@BobBob-io2hi]

💀

[@theburningkitten4019]

I share the same sentiment.

[@ajc94]

Mine's a bottle of disaronno, a plastic bag and a fuck ton of xanax

[@stevetaylor8698]

Hope you have something to fire it with or it might get very messy.

[@ArmyJames]

Hard core man.

[@andyrookah]

I lived through this....it was terrifying as a 10-year-old

[@stevetaylor8698]

They were never shown

[@Karibanu]

@@stevetaylor8698 I suspect he means this period of the cold war - I lived through it as a kid too, thankfully too young to be terrified until I watched "Threads" - that was properly terrifying.

[@jeannetteellis4926]

i was a kid at this time too and whenever ive moved house i still check the safest room to build my shelter :)

[@jeannetteellis4926]

@@Karibanu threads was our favorite end of term movie at the high school i went to ....

[@tomwalsh993]

steve taylor They were shown on Panorama in the early 80s. I remember seeing them. I think they were leaked or released following a leak revealing their existence.

[@Gone4zero4]

I remember these videos from the 80’s and the sound effects and the tune still creep me out now. Late one night someone accidentally triggered our local warning siren that was located on top of a nearby office block…… 💩💩💩!!

[@alandavis6072]

Should make an updated version, with what’s going on now!

[@stevetaylor8698]

The Swedish just have and it isn't that different.

[@tenzintate5895]

​@@stevetaylor8698link?

[@anthonyglee1710]

Having recently visited the Brentwood Essex underground nuclear bunker (now museum) you can see the UK Government were deadly serious about this in the cold war. The place is like an underground town, all completely hidden under anonymous farmland entered via a quant looking woodland cottage.

[@AnnLiOz]

Klevedon Hatch. They play these vids on a loop in the bunker/museum

[@glassofmilk3474]

Sounds like Vault Tec is in the UK.

[@paperface.]

​@@AnnLiOz yesss I went to kelveton hatch it was super cool

[@DrLoverLover]

deadly serious on making profits

[@Myndir]

@@DrLoverLover Deep, man...

[@sicks6six]

We sat and watched this at someone's house. Five of us in silence. Some food for thought.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

It was at that moment, in 1980, that you decided the radiation symbol would be your avatar for, errr, life? XD

[@StrawberrySunday212]

We got it in modern studies at high school and it terrified me. I grew up in the 80's and the threat was very real for us.

[@nuclear_candy]

​@@PrinceWesterburg Yeah, the radiation symbol is sooo overrated.

[@ivan00001983]

@@StrawberrySunday212 Awful. I was luckily too young, only one month old in September of 1983 when Stanislav Petrov decided not to forward false attack-report and so avoided potentially cataclysmic chain of events.

[@davecook3840]

Never shown thank goodness but growing up through this was pretty scary. I even knew where the sirens where ! Then Threads came on the telly and we proper scared. !

[@kevvywevvywoo]

Animation by Richard Taylor, who also did the 'charlie says' public information films. Narration by Patrick Allen

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

AND the creepy "Jingle" by Roger Limb (Who also done the sound effects for the Tom Baker era Dr who)

[@hexane360]

Hearing these instructions, I can't help but imagine how many people probably would've died before the fallout even got them. Crushed by a makeshift lean-to, house fire or CO poisoning from portable stoves, killed in fights over shelter or supplies...

[@glassofmilk3474]

I always thought the best chance was just to end it all before the radiation did, the chances of surviving it especially with this advice would have been minimal at best. At least it's quick and painless (compared to radiation of course).

[@stan1296]

@@glassofmilk3474the lucky people die from the explosion…

[@stoufer2000]

Used to test air raid warning sirens for the MOD a few years after this was out. Great to give them a flick test, but the temptation to keep on and off with the switch was almost overwhelming..

[@helljumper5601]

Glad you didn’t let the intrusive thoughts win!

[@Donbros]

There is actually a triptych or trilogy that can be “made”: These videos (what is recommended during the event) Animation: when the wind blows (literally following all the aforementioned steps during the event) and “final installment in trilogy”: threads. (What actually happens during the events) If you watch all them three it really gives the full picture

[@dudeelame]

7:24 "Oh yeah, director, let's put the creepiest fucking horror screeching noises in the backround while we tell the public that no where is safe. That'll calm them down!"

[@glenith50]

The joys of living in the nuclear era with a cold war becoming warmer, I grew up thinking radioactive fallout actually made that noise. "If the bomb drops" a BBC Panorama program is on KZbin and worth a view as it demonstrates these times in the UK. Thanks for sharing these, bought back some childhood memories.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Yeah me too - Not the memories I wanted and why am I watching this at 1:27am?!? LOL!

[@Xezlec]

Which noise? The siren, the three bangs, or the musical jingle?

[@acoasting8200]

@@Xezlec the jingle ain’t that creepy tho I’m legit watching this at 3:07 AM (03:07)

[@bangerbangerbro]

I remember seeing a program once called "When the wind blows" too.

[@mattbeavis9105]

Aaaaand were back

[@bens1972]

There’s seemingly some ‘false memories’. here. The film was never broadcast as Public Information Film, although excerpts were shown on various documentaries. The Government had this ready in case Nuclear War was expected in 72 hours. But the media caught on and there was a lot of talk about it at the time. There was also a pamphlet produced…another ‘imagined memory’ of a lot of people who remember receiving it, even though it was not actually sent out to the public, very few were actually produced, these were only sent to a very limited number of Police Departments, Health centres and local Authorities…. Whilst people did talk about it in the early 80’s, there’s more paranoia today with social media, etc, than there was then.

It may be true that some of the people have seen it as child, as part of it was broadcast during a BBC special of "Panorama" in 1980 along with "If The Bomb Drops". That may have confused the kids watching. The booklet was also being sold during the early 1980s for 50p.

[@DeclanWilson44]

@ I have a copy. I bought it at a CND stall at university. Thought it worth keeping....

[@kingduckford]

Most nuclear war films on KZbin are filled full of fear porn apocalyptic types who just sit around typing "nobody would make it anyway" doom and gloom, and then you have the types who lie about seeing the films presented when they were never presented. One of the worst comment sections on KZbin.

[@neodonkey]

@@DeclanWilson44 I picked up a copy of that in a rare book store my friend was so gutted he hadn't spotted it first I let him buy it since he wanted it so much!

[@dallassukerkin6878]

It's odd as I would swear I have seen at least some of them. I recall being shown a selection at school, for example - that might just be because our town was one of those on the targeting list (due to a communication monitoring station)?

[@earthsteward70]

I'm impressed with how clean the footage is! How did you accomplish that?

[@zararity]

Thanks for the comment, I spent a good few days cleaning up the footage in video editing software I use. To be fair, in a few years time AI video software will be able to restore this sort of video material even better that I could!

[@gingernutpreacher]

​@@zararitydid you do anything with the audio?

[@bentosmile]

​@@zararity thank you for restoring these. I got curious about them after watching When The Wind Blows (of course) and finding out they were made by the same company which made the 'Charlie says' PSAs which haunted my childhood. So... thanks! Now this gets to haunt my adulthood XD

[@Donbros]

I like how medidative this is, it really thinks about how everyone would be panicking and miss half of the stuff that was said two times already, it has to overcome the adrenaline

[@paulanderson79]

That jingle is very very dark indeed.

[@GordonHudson]

Two points: Patrick Allen - great actor; The sirens won't go off as they have all been removed. In Edinburgh they were on top of the old police boxes.

[@razvandobos9759]

Watching Threads and this film back to back just changes my perception of civil defense films made in the 60's and 70's. Many of the 1960's American civil defense films had some kind of optimistic undertone at the end, the hope that we can rebuild society after an attack. Threads had no happy ending at all, and I feel the end of Protect and Survive was also a bit unnerving with dealing with casualties as the last lesson, and the fact that this would be the last thing British citizens would ever see broadcasted before a nuclear attack. And that famous jingle tone composed by Roger Lamb. I just realized something. One of the biggest reasons why Threads was so disturbing was the fact that Britain was bombed twice in both world wars, so the citizens knew what it was like to have everything they took for granted taken away, while the US was never bombed or invaded, so our civil defense films and The Day After had a more hopeful ending.

[@samolson1610]

If only fallout actually made noise like that, then you'd know it's there.

[@ganderson3461]

It's fine, I didn't need to sleep anyway.

[@SovereignStatesman]

Try watching it DURING THE ARMS RACE. It was so over-the-top that we just laughed at it, during "Threads;" we had NO IDEA that it was an actual PSA, it was so fucking ridiculous. Like saying you can Duck and Cover at Ground Zero.

[@ganderson3461]

@@SovereignStatesman I found Threads utterly harrowing, but I was born just before the Wall came down, so wouldn't have been old enough to remember.

[@SovereignStatesman]

@@ganderson3461 That's the point; after the Cold War ends, it's not really a threat anymore, other than what could have been.

[@afitz34]

These commercials were more unnerving to me watching Threads than the nuclear explosions. The everyday person being utterly helpless to stop the coming apocalypse as they had these public information films playing in the background. 'Threads' as a whole scared me more than 'The Day After' ever could.

[@springyslinky2190]

Okay how those bangs for fallout warning gonna happen? They gonna have a guy with a drum stand on a tower to take one for the team?

[@kalebjohnson6090]

They were essentially firework salute shells wired to be shot from an underground control center. As for the gongs and whistles however...

[@MusicalArmageddon]

it's the sound of the bombs going off :^)

[@jhonbus]

He said; maroons. You know, those coconut things.

[@bendy6626]

RADIO. You've heard of it.

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

@@jhonbusthat’s macaroons

[@barryrichards2320]

Threads is the film to watch.

[@syntire9068]

just watched it last night with 2 other mates on a call. most horrifying film I've ever watched, mainly because of how personal it all felt

[@fried_bandit]

@@syntire9068 Really? The biggest problem I have with Threads is that it's an extremely *impersonal* film -- intentionally cold and clinical. The actors are basically lab animals that we get to watch perform whatever the narration states at the beginning of each scene. They are as emotionally relatable as the victims in an eighties slasher film. The speculative scenes about the years following the war were also increasingly ridiculous. Despite its flaws, The Day After is a more focused and effective film. It conveyed the shock and sense of loss of the walking dead in the first few weeks after the war, and left the grim future to the viewer's imagination.

[@waba320sc]

​@@fried_banditDon't watch Threads bro, if you have a problem, don't watch it, anyway there's no problem and error or anything like a failure in Threads

[@JHF_Gaming]

Great job by Putin making this relevant again. Thanks for that! When I said I missed the 80's this isn't what I meant.

[@tomamberg5361]

"When I said I missed the 80's this isn't what I meant." 😅🤣😂

[@nuclear_candy]

The USA and NATO are walking hand in hand down the path to nuclear war with Putin. We need to demonize nuclear use, and demand all countries join non-proliferation pacts, and start to destroy (SAFELY) the weapons left.

[@billyb4790]

That’s odd. None of that happened when Trump was in office. Guess you were worried about the wrong guy.

[@DrLoverLover]

@@billyb4790 Who?

[@fried_bandit]

(shrug) You can only flick the bear's ear for so long.

[@perman17]

Who else is here getting ready in 2022?

[@GordonHudson]

Just working out how I will find two weeks food supplies in the supermarket when the sirens go off. At the beginning of Covid I couldn't get toilet paper anywhere.

[@laalki80]

Duck and cover! 😁

[@paulcresswell6268]

If anything we are less prepared now than we were then. The siren alert system has been dismantled for many years.

[@bendy6626]

@@GordonHudson Get stuff now and store in your shelter. Simple!

[@alexjamed1141]

God damn, I hope I get fucking owned in the thermal blast so I don't have to deal with anything beyond that.

[@gp-1542]

Thankful and crazy to think this might’ve been the last voice people would’ve heard before the end

[@bloodvessel]

"... the air attack warning sounds like. This is the sound." ~Patrick Allen "Ow ow ow... Ohhhhh... Lets go!" ~Frankie Goes To Hollywood

[@iambatman6120]

Saw this in “Threads”.

[@LMMusic947]

Coupla tables, few suitcases and a mattress. ... Sorted !! That creepy synth line is so unsettling. I've never got it out of my head.

[@TheSDRS]

Thanks for posting this. 🎉

[@SuperBartles]

Finally found where the voice in Two tribes comes from

[@djtall3090]

Yes! I thought it came from Threads but I think this is the original. Banger tune by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

[@katz-o5k]

looks like we will finally have to use this now

[@petertattum2338]

I think HMG must have been expecting us all to build a TARDIS in our living rooms?🤣

[@xijin_pooh5158]

Who’s here after the Iceberg?

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

Me.. I wanted to watch this masterpiece 😂

[@FrankBoothDeLarge]

I came here after watching an iceberg video too. It’s also cool to see the inspiration for “When the Wind Blows”

[@idiotproofsystem]

Same here!

[@coolhowtodos1898]

Yeah

[@Bardocke]

lol me 2

[@PastaAivo]

1:17 Chills from that... I think we were shown some of these in school mostly as historical curiosities.

[@LumiKaten]

This the best analog horror I’ve ever seen

[@Lilman071]

It’s not. It’s real.

[@IainShepherd1]

If this was only to be broadcast in the weeks before war: How the f*ck was every single Briton going to find this vast stock of supplies at the same time?

[@almostfm]

In theory, at least, you have things like food and an emergency kit stockpiled ahead of time. It's the same thing we're supposed to do here in California for earthquakes. However, most people can't be bothered.

[@meilinchan7314]

My thought exactly.

[@thatonecommie8351]

Actually they planned to show this within 72 HOURS of an attack. 3 days to do all this

[@petereplica]

Pure nostalgia!

[@matthewkaras7722]

Hello, good evening and remain indoors!

[@alexroselle]

The part about not leaving home and not being able to receive help elsewhere sounds really grim and heartless, but I suppose it made sense to prevent a massive crush of people fleeing cities before a nuclear attack who would then also be more exposed to bomb effects and fallout than if they had sheltered at home?

[@TheChadTI]

We get those attack sirens on the first of every month here in Honolulu. Gets me every time😳

[@inky4763]

If you're outside lie down and stick your coat over your head. It might have been s**t in the rain but you'll be surprised how it sheds a thermonuclear attack.

[@Popperhilton]

Remember seeing this in the film Threads. This and Threads are absolutely terrifying.

[@OnlyCitrus]

every major country will have something like this ready right. damn.

[@ryanunderwood1798]

That's actually quite interesting. Time to begin building my fallout shelter as advised.

[@glassofmilk3474]

Thing is half of these precautions likely wouldn't work, A nuclear attack would probably render radio stations inoperable and most of the Emergency services would have fallen into chaos. It may work for a minor nuclear attack but a large scale? No chance. Not to mention Nukes are alot bigger now.

[@billyb4790]

All you need to do is take your front door off and hid underneath it with a few mattresses on top. 👍🏻

[@TheBlitzgundam]

I just discovered this now. This is basically the basis of Fallout London.

[@razork1976]

Basically just stand outside and get vaporised in the first 3 seconds

[@zararity]

Best option in my opinion. It's either that or bury your loved ones and wait for the all clear in 10,000 years time...

[@XelrisMZ]

Narrator: "This is the air attack sound." *sound plays* Me: "Scariest sound ever made, that's all you had to say. Scariest sound ever made."

[@luzernerschutze7564]

I remember when, in the army, we were taught what to do in case of a nuclear blast. The last line in the manual simply said "continue with your mission."

[@jackdawmamma7482]

My Dad was a Nuclear & Biological warfare instructor in the Army & Mam absolutely forbade him from telling me & my brother stuff about what happens during Nuclear war after I woke up screaming my head off several nights in a row with nightmares about it & being physically sick all over my bed because I was having horrendous dreams of people in the streets with their eyes & mouths bleeding & losing their hair & with horrendous burns etc. It was horrible

[@NoProbableExplanations]

@@jackdawmamma7482 Based and Dad-pilled

[@jackdawmamma7482]

@@NoProbableExplanations I don't know what that means? 🤔

[@NoProbableExplanations]

@@jackdawmamma7482 Joke

[@jackdawmamma7482]

@@NoProbableExplanations oh right 😅

[@artlover2246]

30:20 MY BROTHER IN CHRIST I DON'T CARE ABOUT GETTING BORED OF THE SAME FOOD I WANT TO LIVE

[@zararity]

To be fair, in the midst of a nuclear holocaust, I don't think anyone will be getting bored of their food nor wanting to live. But you know, here's a tin of canned peaches.

[@Donbros]

I really love this 60-70 vibe

[@philrob1978]

Bwoooooowp! That awful synth sting at the end of each segment is ridiculously sinister and alarming. On top of that the depiction of the little model house looks like something out of Trumpton, or Camberwick Green, just adding to the horror factor. I was half expecting a radiation sickness riddled Tufty to fall out of the door, vomiting. Might as well be called "How To Terrify the Population". God, what were the COI thinking (assuming it was them)? And on top of all THAT, the absolutely useless advice. (If you're not from the UK and of a certain age, none of the above will make sense to you, but the whole video speaks for itself...)

[@mr.appalachia9787]

They told the truth tho I do feel the synth at the end is unnecessary

[@paulanderson79]

That jungle is absolutely spine chilling.

[@thecinematicmind]

What's so odd, it's sinister then turns soft it's bizarre.

[@ayebraine]

It is useful advice, although it focuses on straight instruction instead of explaining why you do things. You can go a long way towards protecting yourself from alpha- and beta-emitters by meticulously covering your airways and skin, staying in a closed room, not eating or drinking anything contaminated etc. If you do this even for a few days, your prospects are immensely better, since the most intense emitters will decay greatly in that time.

[@Mizmoon2020]

The fallout bangs - the three tones - will now live in my nightmares.

[@HoleraPoram]

the sinister part of the alarm is : after the big blast, there's a chance that the fallout-all clear chimes/wistle alarm would never be heard by survivor. it'll be a dead silent, an eerie dead silent, as the survivor probably suffering in pain or prepare of the more worst case (another nuclear attack).

[@Ralsei_we]

Radios

[@davidcaceres9184]

Fun fact: *the cake will be burnt...*

[@davidanderson3586]

I remember this in the 1980s, I felt comforted and realised we would all survive because of this wonderful info film 😉

[@stevetaylor8698]

No you didn't. They were never broadcast.

[@owenmcgheeandbdawg]

When this happens I'm going outside to watch. I don't like fireworks but this will be EPIC.

[@MarshaKlein8425]

I always remember receiving the brochure at the time. I was only in my teens and it really didn't worry me. I'd be in a blind panic these days. That's the thing about being a teenager in the early '80s, we'd go out, have wild parties, get drunk and get inefficiently snogged by some random, after all, there was no certainty we'd not all get blown to kingdom come before we were 20. I might have only been 15 but I remember reading the booklet and thinking, "Yeah, THAT'S going to work."

[@bettyottman1718]

Protect families and your pets during The Nuclear War.

[@MarshaKlein8425]

@@bettyottman1718 I watched "Threads" last week. It was made in the late 80s, I think it was on the BBC. It's currently available on KZbin but it gets taken down quite quickly. Dear lord have mercy, it's good but terrifying and depressing. It's still worth a watch. At one point a father is seen making a shelter as per Protect and Survive but he's not quick enough, his son and daughter are evaporated and his wife swiftly dies of radiation sickness. It eventually goes ten years into the future after the attack. It's the best excuse for wanting a quick death. It's written by the excellent Barry Hines and I do recommend it. I've watched it a few times and every time I think, "why am I putting myself through this again" but if you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch. I believe it's currently on Absolute Drama.

[@Myndir]

Interesting, the leaflet wasn't sent out, so your memory is starting to fail. Sad.

[@AlexByth]

@@Myndir You could buy it, though. It was only 50p. A small price to pay for a lifetime of post traumatic stress.

[@lemonlime2054]

Don't leave your internal shelter of dirt suitcase tables, but store your toilet bucket outside the fallout room. Got it.

[@billyb4790]

Bwowwwwwwww……

[@winsomehax]

They made something so grim and horrific that it burned itself into the mind for 50 years. Not sure if I should admire them or hate them for it.

[@slavkingonyoutubesavetf2130]

Fallout London, anyone?

[@chainsaw8507]

Hell yeah

[@rapidragekade6901]

Went deep diving for these after I accidentally skipped the one that covered what to do with bodies, I was so sad I skipped it I had to find it's source

[@resistantlucario6910]

Yes!

[@chriselyr2484]

NGL, when I saw this in the starting credits my respect for the team went up considerably

[@jamesdate537]

No threads

[@misspurrr-fect3684]

The up-cycled Toilet chair hack is an absolute must for any home ... Nuclear Attack ... Or not ! 🚽. 31:58

[@judet5426]

Upcycled toilet chair 👍love it 🤣🤣🤣

[@Dmitry_Gorban]

Эти записи наганяют такой жути… Представьте что кто-то через много лет после окончания такой войны находит их и осознает какой ужас произошел тысячи лет назад

[@shadytube84]

So all that shit they listed to make my fall out room as comfortable and entertaining as possible for the next two weeks is gonna be stored in the little den I’ve built under the stairs using mud, sand, suitcases and doors whilst also housing me and my 4 other family members…..?!?!?

[@EricAsselin]

Sadly, we are steadily returning to this nowadays.

[@MoeFaalavaau-jd8ti]

First time i watch full video at the BNB later that night. And then i the video all day at school while during lunch.

[@AudieHolland]

Here in Holland we only saw these 'public service announcements' in the BBC movie "Threads." At the time I thought they must have been made especially for that movie because who would be able to watch these self contained pieces of horror (non-fictional if war had broken out). Over here, our Burger Bescherming (Civilians Protection) only issued leaflets advising to shelter under the stairs. Most of the information on these British videos were probably considered too demoralizing and pretty useless anyway. "If you are under the age of 18 and over the age of 45, please don't bother. Even if you survive the first attacks, you will die of disease and starvation in the weeks and months following the attack. Only healthy adults will be given food rations to work. If you are not a healthy adult or under 18 or over 45, do yourself and others a service.................. Lighten the load for the survivors who do have a fighting chance.."

[@AudieHolland]

​@Lazys The Dank Engineer I can't believe that in America, a John can go to the John. And if you're a woman and your last name is Hooker, be prepared for extensive bullying for the rest of your life. And Vietnam vets never themselves need the vet but they make take their pets there.

[@AudieHolland]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer Blame the Germans! Dutch is pretty much German without the German grammar logic.

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer This joke (the Fries one) is 2 layers deep like a Big Mac and I love it.

[@marccoulson8997]

I have Asperger's and this was aired in th decade I was born (a green decade according to my colour to number memory, not green as in environmentally green, number green). I'm obsessed with this and I even have the protect and survive tune or melody as my ring tone. I like to watch Threads alot.

[@zararity]

As someone who is, as one of my neurodivergent friends refers to it, 'neurospicy', I'm glad you checked out this upload on my channel which I uploaded because it always stuck with me from seeing it as a child along with 'Threads' which was shown to us in school.

[@marccoulson8997]

@@zararity I remember watching VHS tapes in school and these were on sometimes before the program started, the teacher used to cue through them but I was fascinated by them.

[@billyb4790]

Ong that’s exactly what I wanted to do. How do you set the ringtone?

[@ornithaevum]

*hi i'm compost*