SURVIVING A BOMB - BAD 1950s EDUCATIONAL FILMS | Double Toasted Bites

[@CLDJ227]

Even The Iron Giant made fun of these commercials and that was my introduction to them 🤣 🤣.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Weird AL did a song about this Which is funny.😂

[@DanJackson1977]

Not commercials. "Educational films" shown on film reels on classrooms.

[@williehampton3855]

That was my introduction to those PSA videos.

[@jamesbritton635]

I remember seeing that when I was a kid

[@aleaanderson6600]

Mine too. I couldn't believe those PSAs were a real thing; unless someone wanted to see if there was some truth to cartoon physics, man they were so stupid for believing such obvious BS.

[@a_Cynthia_Main]

Fun Fact: after filming this, Bert the turtle grew up to be Gamera - friend to all children.

[@mixedhairless]

😂😂👏👏

[@jamesbritton635]

This film taught us that the atomic bomb is slightly worse than a sunburn.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Fallout?

[@Jason5818UI]

And the second Wolverine movie taught us Atomic bombs are slightly worse lol

[@lancemagmer9701]

It is, just have to be just the right distance away

[@dougdeveloper8850]

"Duck and Cover" will forever be ingrained in me from the South Park volcano episode lol...I remember the scene where three men duck and cover from the lava and they immediately become skeletons 🤣

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Even Chef called it out that it was bs🤣🤣🤣

[@artarealmblazer]

Vox already covered this. Basically “Duck and Cover” was advice for the atomic bombs age in the 1940s when they were still small enough that a percentage of people survived with enough distance and buildings between them and the blast. Ridiculous advice, but still based in some reality. But the ads in the 1950s and 1960’s give the same old advice while depicting explosions from hydrogen bombs, which are magnitudes more powerful, and thus now making “Duck and Cover” immediately more laughable. Also, Korey Coleman assfucked Shae Young against her will until her eyes crossed and she fell unconscious from blood loss.

[@nomdeguerre247]

​@@artarealmblazerwtf

[@opinionman8253]

"That Monkey Works For Russia" Line Is Hilarious 😂😅

[@michaelstrong5383]

So that was the inspiration to the "Duck and Cover" short Hogarth saw with his class in The Iron Giant.

[@CLDJ227]

I was thinking the same thing 🤣 🤣.

[@nicholaswilks580]

good movie but I think south park's version of mocking "duck and cover" is what comes to my mind first before anything else

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

Yes.

[@jussieb7244]

1:01 "The monkey was a suicide bomber" 😂

[@ladyhotep5189]

I swear I almost fell outta my chair screaming like Billy 😂😂😂😂

[@natedoggcata]

I would love to see this become a new series on DT where they just review and laugh at 50's educational films.

[@Oonagh72]

By the time I came along in the early 80’s they were like “Yeah, this is what happens when a nuclear bomb drop [proceed to horrify third graders]…radiation poisoning is a slow painful death. So it’s probably best to just be killed outright than die from radiation poisoning because it’s not like there will be any hospitals.” And this is why GenX is both traumatized and DGAF.

[@yuukisama2001]

You're right. Gen X had to endure all the BS about the bomb being dropped. We had to get that movie 'The Day After'. During the Reagan era. Thankfully it never happened. But that was the Boomer generation who believed it was coming. From the time they were kids to adults. Until they had children.

[@Falcovsleon21]

Japan was notorious for that with war movies like Barefoot Gen showing in detail exactly what happens to people caught inside an atomic explosion.

[@niteycat]

What in the Oppenheimer we have here? Those who perished near ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was “shadows” of the people on the walls of buildings. Those who wore patterned clothing had the patterns burned directly on the skin. Why did we put this stupid sh!t reels out in the 50s and early 60s is beyond me.

[@chaddfrancis2179]

Delusional peace of mind?They won't know this doesn't work.😂

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Because it was the Cold War and there was a high chance of nuclear war breaking out between the two greatest superpowers on the planet? Learn your history kid. Also, it was determined that had the US tries invading Japan by land it would have resulted in much hire casualties for both American soldiers and Japanese civilians. This was do to the fact the civilians were shown to practice the same thing as soldiers in that they never got captured, instead they either fought to the death with whatever they had or commited seppuku (suicide)

[@dgdfgfnh968]

those where people close to the explosions anything past the bombs blast the flash will insta burn people from miles away even permanently blind those looking at the flash from miles from the epicenter.

[@PipeGuy64Bit]

@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou That's not what he meant at all.... He was referring to how these dumb PSAs made it seem like surving a nuclear bomb is pretty simple. Also he not once implied his stance on what the US "should've done" in World War II

[@mattfleurant9295]

Threads and The Day After will always be the best nuclear war movies ever in my opinion.

[@sarahzaporta125]

For me, Barefoot Gen is also on that list. That scene right after the bomb drops is nightmare fuel. And that’s just the beginning of the movie!

[@mattfleurant9295]

I'll have to check it out

[@Zandersaurus]

I remembered the cartoon “Surviving Bomb” orientation shown in the movie The Iron Giant

[@comixproviderftw_02]

This is some cartoon logic 😂

[@hamhockbeans]

Toon Force

[@G.S.Productions]

In the words of Homer Simpson from “The Simpsons Movie”: That is the most stupidest thing I have ever heard!

[@Skeezer66]

To be fair, most people knew better than to believe this, at all levels. The government wanted to prevent widespread panic; in the meantime, most people who could afford them started building bomb shelters, stocking up on supplies, and creating the whole survivalist culture we have now. There are also a few great Twilight Zone episodes about how people would really react.

[@DisneyMaster2]

RationalWiki made some solid points in their article about the film. "The rationale behind the film's civil defense advice is solid to a certain degree: bomb shelters, walls and even flimsy protection like picnic blankets offer good protection against the pressure wave, the weaker forms of ionizing radiation, and the outer extent of the thermal pulse when you are far from the explosion's hypocenter. The film's advice seems mostly aimed at preventing flash blindness, standing people being hurled into the air by the blast wave, and facial injuries from flying debris such as glass from blown-out windows in the outer areas of the weapon's effect: this would mean fewer survivors rendered unable to evacuate themselves by blindness or broken bones. Of course, there is a zone of near-total destruction in the immediate vicinity of the hypocenter (which also grew larger with the development of hydrogen bombs), and following the film's advice also offers no protection against radiation and fallout. Therefore, perhaps the biggest problem in the film isn't the factual accuracy, but the fact that when a lot of important caveats were omitted, the end result is nonsensical - a lesson for everyone in the field of science communication and popular science writing. There is also an element of security theater to the film, in that it is clearly aimed at making people feel like they would not be completely helpless in the event of a nuclear strike." "Surviving an actual nuclear attack takes a lot more than simply duck and covering. According to Ready.gov (a real emergency management website run by qualified personnel), you should do the following: get into a sturdy building with few windows, go into the basement of said building away from outer walls, wear a mask to help prevent inhaling radioactive particles (some did not learn from a specific event), have a battery powered/hand crank radio with extra batteries, seal cracks in your shelter to prevent exposure to radiation, do not go outside until help arrives or until an all clear is given by proper authorities and have an emergency kit." rationalwiki.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

As a huge history buff, I haven't clicked on a video so fast in my life!!! Thanks DT! 🤠

[@aliasfakename3159]

When the bombs dropped in Hiroshima & Nagasaki, a few survivors mentioned that they had objects between them & the blast (a wall, a desk, counter, etc). US scientists ran with the knowledge

[@andrewhoward1878]

I remember the scene in The Iron Giant when Hogarth and his classmates were forced to watch one of those " Duck and Cover" cartoons in school.

[@erikbyrge2024]

0:27 😂😂😂 1:02 Backfired on the monkey!🤣🤣🤣 7:30 Duck and Cover on the Tracker!

[@SoulCore413]

“Time to duck and cover, the bombs are coming!”🎵 - That one bit from The Iron Giant.

[@doughnuthead8757]

Remember, duck and cover. And you'll be okay. If a volcano erupts, the lava will flow over you as long as you duck and cover.

[@ASSARAPTUS]

South Park lmao

[@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617]

This ain't too far from what South Park taught us to do in the event of Lava chasing u

[@jkseraphim4]

🎶 Duck and cover! 🎶 The movie is called Atomic Cafe when I saw it middle school in history class.😊

[@Postmanton]

Who the fuck was this advert for? The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

[@lenindominguez1986]

Yup it was advertised For The Ninja Turtles

[@Voodooray007]

Chef: "THAT'S THE MOST DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD"!!

[@KalinTheZola]

The sad thing about this kind of useless information was that our governments and people in power to know understood how useless this kind of information really was to protect you from bombs and radiation. They advised things like this just to keep down mass panic.

[@MT-or7lv]

When I was a kid we used to have Nuke drills at school and had to duck and cover under our desks. Even as a kid I thought it was stupid.

[@aliasfakename3159]

Barefoot Gen horrified me with its portrayal of a nuclear bombing

[@tampaflbeastforlife]

I'm shocked you can still find this stuff from that time lol

[@natedoggcata]

You can find a ton of these old propaganda films on KZbin as they are all public domain now

[@SafwanMajid]

This reminds me of that gun safety video they recently released

[@noheroespublishing1907]

Double Toasted should review "When The Wind Blows"

[@LoveFactorySweatShop]

Don't laugh. I was Chemical in the Army. This stuff might save you with a low-yield tactical nuke.

[@PunisherActual]

The UK’s Protect and Survive videos are much more darker than this.

[@bodiealsip180]

If Indiana Jones taught us anything, you just get in the fridge 😂

[@kingDrAgOnZoRdS]

To be fair this is better then nothing 😂

[@hamhockbeans]

Makes it easier to identify human remains. They will be small piles of dust in the corner.😅

[@mixedhairless]

We did this in the 70’s 80’s during the Cold War also.

[@hamhockbeans]

I think the government did that to prevent panic from a possible Nuclear war at the time. The people would have called a government official constantly say what do we do, what do we do. They did not want that bother.😅

[@cinematicsterling6897]

i loved when iron giant parodied duck and cover

[@williambeckett6336]

Watch Sarah Connor's nightmare from T2 if you wanna see how effective your coat is gonna be. And Oppenheimer sure knew it was bullsh!t.

[@lunarmoontea4247]

Duck and cover always reminds me of the Iron Giant.

[@adamwatkins9208]

1950s logic Me: *Hides behind wall* The radiation: Dang it! Now we'll never get him!

[@D.Terrell]

Double Toasted need to do a bad movie review /roast of nuclear war TV movie The Day After from the 80s. I remember watching it in real time and I was scared.

[@OsamuWuVT]

Didn't Iron giant poke at that duck and cover bit?

[@Dee-lp7lo]

I love the Fallout parodies of these types of cartoons lol 😂😂😂

[@toddknaperek8225]

If you ever go up to the National Minuteman Missile Site up in South Dakota you can get posters, shirts, magnets and even plushies of Bert the turtle and that whole campaign.

[@kennethspears22]

Just as brilliant as Say No To Drugs. 😂

[@wilshady775]

It's a atom bomb, not an earthquake. 😂😅😂

[@bobbynick5358]

Look up "Protect & Survive - 1970's UK Public infommercials On Nuclear War Preparation" it's more blunt serious take what to do. and kinda more grim the funny

[@DanJackson1977]

Joe Dante's MATINEE (93) shreds these duck and cover films.

[@rommix0]

"Where's the giant, Mansley?"

[@GuwapoAP]

So when you see a flash, e.g. a camera flash, "DUCK AND COVER" lol

[@yuukisama2001]

He almost knocked her into the wall man! Then you find out that if you're behind a solid wall or a cast iron tub, you're good. But man I never saw these.

[@MikeisVS]

To be fair there were people in Japan that survived the atomic bombs, 260,000. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a Japanese man that survived both.

[@Littlestar201285]

to be fair... a turtle can survive a atomic bomb blast... but then it comes back an destroy japan with his atomic breath.

[@williehampton3855]

A cockroach has a better chance of surviving a nuclear explosion than a turtle.

[@warhammerguy]

*Where's the giant Mansley!?*

[@sammywilliam8156]

I actually asked my teacher what would happen if I was in a nuclear blast he goes to greet you go down to your local liquor store you buy your Jack Daniel's you go down restaurant of choice and you eat the best food they have there then you drink the entire bottle of the Jack Daniel's because by the time you get dial of your meal it'll be your last😊

[@aleaanderson6600]

The Joe Dante film Matinee has a school practice duck and cover, and some protesting it as BS.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

They should do more of these.😂 There's more than just atomic bomb One's. There's hygiene etc.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

With Bert the Turtle being in the public domain, anyone can make a proper continuation in which the truth is revealed and Bert is the only survivor in a war-torn apocalyptic wasteland.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

And this inspired the critically acclaimed game fallout.

[@uchidaoginome]

Thank you, Korey for saying nuclear. Ever since W, I've been telling grown adults that there's no such word as new-cyul-er. Who our leaders are matters. Korey for President!

[@yuukisama2001]

You guys are crazy! I didn't get that lesson in school. Just tornadoes. But hey, almost the same thing. I guess with the Cold War not happening we could use it for tornadoes.

[@Keychaine]

Julien needs to quit acting like WE didn't have a lion teaching us about drugs as kids!

[@JJ_Animation86]

The voice clips from this educational video were used in a Cartoon Network Groovies about Atom Ant.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

They should react to private snafu Cartoons.😂

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

😮😮

[@ladyhotep5189]

Yo i remember in first grade we had drills in case Russia decided to bomb us. We would have to duck under our desks. As if that would save us. Such bullshit. Media been telling us Americans bullshit for decades😂😂😂

[@cjjones258]

I remember seeing this propaganda being used in the Atomic Cafe documentary

[@eckoalbino1623]

This is some Fallout-level shit

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Anybody remember the weird AL Song about this?😂

[@bludhuuntr4946]

I love Iron Giant

[@johannabailey1035]

Oh lord😂

[@arttashfilms9816]

This might be worse than Trump telling us to put Lysol in our veins to prevent covid

[@artoniostovall4330]

Watch South Park lava safety👍

[@JR-gh8lp]

Worse than a sunburn…. More like liquified skin

[@sesfilmsllc]

There was one from the 80’s where they said “Fuck that duck and cover shit! WE GONNA DIE!!” And they showed a fucking kid blow up.

[@rommix0]

Might as well party like it's 1999 in a fallout shelter. The cold war era had some interesting media in regards to living in a nuclear wasteland.

[@larrylove5237]

Yall need to stop monkeying around and take this serious 😂😂😂

[@thefirstbourne149]

😂😂😂😂

[@zeathosthomas4847]

I'm pretty confident sheltering in a lead refrigerator would protect you from an atomic blast.

[@dgdfgfnh968]

lol mfw the film is suppose to teach to duck and cover from the bombs flash which will insta blind and insta 2nd degree burn people at a radius outside of the blast zone. mfw nice to see the bias shape their view.

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Too be fair it was the 50's and the bomb had just been invented and they didn't yet fully understand it's effects from a ground level perspective, seeing as most of those Japanese people were dead

[@rapalbumdepot7648]

NEVER FORGET Monkey (1951-1955)