The House In The Middle (1954)

[@redking36]

That “untidy house” looks tidier than any place I’ve ever lived.

[@sandracheeks1811]

redking36 I thought the same thing.

[@davidbutler1857]

That’s because you live in a SLUM

[@SuV33358]

I know.....looks kinda lived in to me. What a bunch of slobs though, leaving a newspaper on a table 😆

[@margaretbaker1858]

😂😂

[@whereswaldo5740]

So live a terrible neurotic life suffer from OCD die anyway Now your neighbor Harry. He lived.

[@rags417]

"The house that is neglected is the house that may be DOOMED in the atomic age !" Probably the best film that I have ever seen produced by the the National Clean Up - Paint Up - Fix Up Bureau !

[@cbot375]

I mean, i'd still paint it up. Your house wont burn down if you live the initial blast. You'll be deaf beacuse of the shock wave probably, and knock out cold, so if your house doesn't burn down you may still wake up alive.

[@AR-zq9hq]

In the 50's they would detonate atomic bombs to show you that you need to keep your house painted and clean...pretty interesting decade.

[@lajoswinkler]

No, the tests were weapons test, and the civil defense used them to get data like this. Many experiments were done. But you probably think they detonated several bombs for each of these, don't you? LOL

[@CosmosZeroX]

This video is really unbelievable..

[@defcon1africa676]

Lolz

[@blimlimlimm]

I get the feeling they were just looking for excuses to blow things up after a certain point.

[@philipcrawford7415]

They sold a lot of paint.

[@gammondog]

It's amazing what a little lead based paint can do.

[@blooddiamond5396]

titanium white has better reflectivity at all spectrums of light. that's why it always feels brighter than the ambient light. it may preform better. it also doesn't burn as easily even with a few moments under a MAPP gas torch and that's 3,730 degrees Fahrenheit. thermal coefficients are somewhat comparable at higher temps so depending on distance (thermal declination per cubic meter) vs total heat released (100,000,000°C) over time say 1 mile out and for a couple few seconds might be equal to 30~45 seconds under a MAPP gas torch and its a smokey bubbly yellow mess but it isn't on fire yet and the wood underneath is hot to the touch but not fiery. I think it would be fascinating see a small scale test compare the two under lab conditions.

[@SP_33333]

🎯👍

[@livingtorture5745]

Yeah the new stuff just doesn't have the high. 😄

[@tholmes2169]

That’s why so many atomic bombers were painted anti flash white in the late 1950s and early 60s. All the British V Bombers were painted almost all white and B52 underbelly’s were white.

[@DrFrankensteam]

The first little piggy didn’t paint his house. He was vaporized instantly, and died so quickly. He felt no pain. The second little piggy, just kinda painted his house. He died much slower and painfully than the first little piggy, his charred flesh dripped off his bones as he screamed in agony. The third little piggy was neat and clean. He painted his house. He died very slowly. His hair fell out and he constantly threw up from radiation sickness. The end.

[@lajoswinkler]

If you bothered to watch the film, you'd see that nothing vaporized. It depends on how close to the hypocenter the house is. Due to geometrical neccessity, a lot greater surface is subjected to survivable disaster.

[@Petrol-kc3jo]

But... How about the wolf? Did the wolf actually...actually just used WMD on the pigs? Gosh...thts a really dark story

[@denisepleines1513]

Ill pick piggy #1!!!!!

[@JamesJohnson-mw6kd]

Lol

[@nukiepoo]

@@lajoswinkler easy up buddy, it was just a funny joke

[@damienvalentine5043]

If anybody's interested, it turns out the "National Clean Up Etc. Bureau" is just the PR branch of the "National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association" (which is listed as the producer if you click the "Show More" button above.) So bear that in mind...

[@sisyphian54]

Proof that nothing has changed.

[@kollusion1]

Well spotted

[@spikespa5208]

Now days it would be sponsored by your friendly neighborhood HOA.

[@HardCandy5000]

Sensed that 3 seconds in and I'm not even psychic 😜

[@1812over2]

"Dad The're about to drop a nuke!!" "Don't worry son. Our house freshly painted!!"

[@ThecarelesslycarrotE]

But dad will the paint help

[@redpat8832]

😂🤣😂

[@jamesroman9081]

Quick everyone duck and cover... And don't forget to brush your teeth!

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

🤔😃 Ok I think we'll be alright 👍......... 💣💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥☠.

[@rosejane8077]

Lol 🤣

[@aldayalnite]

“My home and family were destroyed in a nuclear attack” “Did you have newspapers on your side table? You were asking for it!”

[@wassgood3721]

😂😂😂😂 wtf

[@brockr4537]

This video makes about as much sense as one about making sure your car is washed before you drive it off a cliff.

[@brockr4537]

Andrew Jighunter lol, yeah thats it.

[@itisjambo]

Legit tho, that's a fantastic analogy.

[@funnypicturescomics]

This comment made me laugh out loud....so true.

[@squatch570]

It's like throwing a deck chair off the Titanic.

[@stephenverchinski409]

Thelma and Louise would not approve of going off the cliff with a dirty car.

[@Rascal77s]

"The lack of safe house keeping has doomed this house to destruction." Ummm no, an atomic bomb has doomed this house to destruction.

[@zxtmasmith9883]

Rascal77s Yeah, if a nuke exploded then all humans in the vicinity would die, in a nice house or not.

[@dustnrust3491]

Rascal77s back then they thought that more stuff was safe depending on how it was treated until tsar bomba came along

[@randy109]

Rascal77s If you want to survive Nuclear Armageddon call Merry Maids! You and your family do not want to die in a 5,000 degree thermal 500 mph wind so call now! And remember, we clean the corners and vacuum the drapes.

[@juliepousson5061]

Randy, you win the internet.

[@thebattleforsoulsison5300]

Credence Clementine. Good Point!

[@davesteadman1226]

Man, I watched this and I immediately got rid of all the empty beer cans and pizza boxes. Holy shit, just think, all that trash laying around may have killed me in a nuclear attack! Thank you so much civil defense department!

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Dave, those beer cans and pizza boxes could have been used to build a fallout shelter! That's what I'm doing with my empty cat food cans and plastic milk cartons, no radiation death for me in my tinderbox, er, house.

[@davesteadman1226]

Yeah, that'll save you at ground zero in a high yield nuclear detonation. Than's for the tip though.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Dave Steadman ;)

[@davesteadman1226]

I think these civil defense videos were produced to camouflage the fact that humanity had gotten to the point that we can annihilate ourselves virtually overnight. Big Brother wanted to create the illusion that this shit is survivable so General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, Sandia Labs, et al., could stay in business. What a scam.

[@mootpj]

I need to get my car sprayed in that paint...

[@kelraith]

My home survived a nuclear blast, I'm dead now but so proud that my clean and tidy house survived what I couldn't

[@deborahcaplan3565]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bobbyknightmare]

Damn, that one house is ALWAYS getting blown up by nuclear weapons. It happens to it in EVERY civil defense film. You'd think they'd have moved by now!

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Right?! LOL

[@nukedenclaveoilrig-remnant1136]

You are not wrong! Hahaha!

[@redking36]

Andrew Jighunter Take a joke, bub.

[@chap666ish]

It's good to know that Atom bombs will remove the poorest poeple who cannot afford ot repaint their houses every year.

[@sisyphian54]

Reminds of a song by The Dead Kennedy's about the absurdity of the Neutron Bomb called "Kill the Poor".

[@edwindude9893]

chap666ish made me chuckle....brilliant.

[@robertcarmosino6563]

@@edwindude9893 I don't care for dirty or poor neighbors...

[@edwindude9893]

Robert Carmosino me neither. Therefore I pay a premium to keep away from the scum.

[@fredblonder7850]

Sounds like an effective form of Urban-Renewal.

[@tcfabian6278]

It's funny how the narrator tells you that a clean house will not burn as fast in thermonuclear blast but he didn't say the temperatures reaches millions of degrees at center.

[@warpey5632]

He also didn't mention that no one is going to want to go near any of those houses for years after radiation settles in.

[@lajoswinkler]

@@warpey5632 You mean like how Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cleaned up in mere months? Use your brain.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

because these houses arent at the center, and thats irrelevant to what hes talking about anyways

[@michaelfranklin4276]

@@lajoswinkler Even after their surrender, the Japanese refused to foot the bill and clean up these cities. It fell to the arrogant Americans to send their soldiers in and do it. Many of those soldiers became ill and died from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath. Birth mutations were common among the Japanese who stayed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the war ended.

[@livewireOrourke]

My understanding, those weren't ground surface blasts, so there wasn't as much fallout as with the ones in this video.

[@peachtrees27]

'The house in the middle... has been painted with ordinary, good quality (LEAD-BASED) house paint..."

[@YooTuba]

+Pete Kuhns Look on the bright side - after all that radiation hits you, a little bit of lead poisoning ain't nuthin

[@nikolaimakarov8081]

1# atomic bomb 2# lead fucking poisening

[@specter86fl]

+Pete Kuhns makes sense they would put lead in paint back then with a fear of nuclear war, think about it, what kind of vests do the nurses wear when you go to get an x-ray? lead vests.

+Pete Kuhns i just mowed my lawn and painted my house bring it, putin, you bitch! if this was for real, all the blacks and mexicans would be gone

[@RobertSzasz]

+ronin Lead was used because it made a high quality, lasting, white paint. It has almost perfect qualities other than being poisonous to people.

[@metocvideo]

Those amazing voice over actors with beautiful rich baritone voices.

[@prjndigo]

The house I grew up in had been covered with 5/32nds asbestos shingles since it had been build in 1904... Damned near nuke immune.

[@stefanschleps8758]

We spent all that money on a bombshelter. When all we really needed was a can of paint. Thanks CDA!!

[@Enkidu1701]

I watched this with my kids. Then I said: "Now go and clean up your room!" They couldn´t stop crying but I´m so happy now - they did what I said. produced by the "NATIONAL CLEAN UP - PAINT UP - FIX UP BUREAU"?! Unbelievable, I didn´t know such a bureau existed. great job they did back then. "Clean up or BURN!" (BTW - I was kidding, didn´t watch that with my kids of course;-)

[@furrydinner3636]

I'm cleaning & painting my house now, & starting a clean-up campaign! My community needs this help.

[@paulcoddington664]

I hope modern nukes have better orchestral accompaniment than the ones in these old documentaries.

[@FrennisDaemon]

probably Wagner.

[@MrForestExplorer]

They use death-metal for the videos now...

[@hibco3000]

😂 😂 😂

[@aldayalnite]

Dubstep

[@LennyFarmer108]

Morricone Music for the modern Nukes

[@PeytonDeuermeyer]

I had to watch this video for my college class, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who is questioning the paint. Titanium White paint, which was created in 1920, was most likely used on the houses, so I decided to do a little research on the ingredients in the paint and if it would even be safe to live in the home again by the paint alone. All according to nj.gov, all three components of the paint are non-flammable, however, all of them release poisonous gasses when in fire(which we can assume can also be released at fire inducing heats). I couldn't find anywhere that states how long the poisonous gas stays in the air, but I'd assume that, especially with the radiation from the atomic bomb, it would be dangerous to live in the house with the gas in the air

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

🤔😃 "Ok I think we'll be alright since the house is all cleaned up"👍......... 💣💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥☠.

[@urigolds]

"Now the house on the right burns as fiercely as if it had deliberately been fired with kindling." Dude, you just deliberately fired it with kindling.

[@mono-u1h]

really, i think both houses had fire in them because the other one had burn marks, but the other one burned faster because it had more paper

[@Osteoja]

The articulation in this film is splendid!

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Nevada is so pretty. All these infinite atomic tests was sheer madness.

[@strathruncie]

Most elaborate paint commercial in history. 😉

[@deadkemper]

I told my wife about this and to get busy.Looks like I'm sleeping in the car again. :/

[@suricatakat6476]

+deadkemper Well it's been three months. Did she get the car and the house in the settlement? ;)

[@deadkemper]

i'm homeless and wandering the earth with no purpose

[@Zerububble]

+deadkemper Much like would happen in a nuclear war! Who knew they would be so good at phophesy

[@deadkemper]

hahaha ! indeed...stay safe

[@adjuster57]

Make sure you keep that car clean, that way the nuclear bomb won’t affect you.

[@jamielacourse7578]

"Shit! There's a kleenex on the lawn"......"go get it dear".....FLASH!

[@PWN3GE]

The LIGHT FLASH and the HEAT WAVE! Then, the BLAST WAVE! Let's see it again, in _stop motion._

[@tomsvircev1716]

LOL! If you're in the middle house, after an atomic attack you can just re-paint your house, replace a few shingles and life is back to normal!

[@harry2928]

by 1:50 into the clip, you instantly Know this is one skit they missed out on doing on the Old saturday night live TV gig (1976). "protect the house from an Atom bomb, mrs. Lupner ......."

[@TheRatesMusic]

I don't think I'd buy a house in that neighborhood, too much atomc heat

[@joeiken3357]

Nukes goin' off left and right. All around, not a very nice neighborhood.

[@dr.wahnsinn9913]

@@joeiken3357 But it´s bombastic xD

[@joeiken3357]

@@dr.wahnsinn9913 The sight of it just warms my heart.

[@cowerdnerddespacito9518]

And I lived in Las Vegas 65 miles away from the Nevada test site

[@soakersonion]

This was my childhood neighborhood. So sad to see it go up in flames like that.

[@Chaoddity]

Planting flowers.... will... help protect you from nuclear fallout? Well, I doubt that but at least they might protect you from the zombies that come later!...

[@hellacoorinna9995]

Remember yer Inner-core-or-refuge!

[@NaughtyAelf]

Sunflowers and pea shooters will save you every time!

[@mannyg35]

I wonder lead based paint helped in preservation of the house?

[@proud2bpagan]

Somehow I doubt something that can mimic part of the heat of the sun will give a shit that you didn't rake your yard.

[@DisabilityAustralia]

Go on, make fun if you want, but after you untidy, messy, don't-care-niks die in the blast, I'll be sitting in my scorched armchair, laughing so hard my hair & teeth will fall out! Til I die, burned & in agony, a few hours later in a pool of my shat out insides of course. Now who's laughing? Yeah, that's what I thought....

[@aberdeenmeadows]

I am writing up a battle plan. In case there is doom coming my way, I am throwing all my garbage in my neighbor's yard!

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

The 1st little piggy had a bomb shelter, the 2nd little piggy had paint, and the 3rd little piggy was a dirty hoarding hobo The 1st little piggy starved in the nuclear winter The 2nd little piggy died slowly of radiation poisoning The 3rd little piggy burned so fast he didn’t register pain

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

This is why underground lead lined gardens are important

[@sharid76]

Yeah, they completely ignore the fact that radiation is going to convert everything that close into radioactive waste, and be totally unlivable. And that flesh happens to have a fairly low burn point, as well as human beings being unusually susceptible to fatal radiation sickness from that range. BUT! The house will look wonderful, even though nobody will be around to look at it, because they won't be able to get within miles of it for years. It'll look pretty glowing in the dark, though! I wonder how long the people seen in this film, who were seen actually running around handling it all after the blasts, lasted before they kicked off from leukemia, bone marrow cancers, or other radiation induced fatal diseases took hold? And did anyone else happen to notice that the "ground" where this all took place happens to strongly resemble a skating rink, because all that sand has been turned to glass?

[@alt8791]

Well, that’s why you start by ducking and covering as Bert the Turtle taught us, and the of you followed Walt’s instructions for a nice fallout shelter, you should be safe from the worst of the fallout.

[@lajoswinkler]

1) It will do that only in areas near the hypocenter where nothing survives anyway. 2) This is not a range where you'd get fatal radiation sickness. 3) Inspection was done after couple of weeks and it was not dangerous because fallout decays fast through exponential function. 4) The ground did not turn to glass. This is Nevada desert. If the ground turns to glass, the houses would not survive at all. Literally everything you wrote is bullshit.

[@dancooper6002]

False, you are talking out your ass and clearly have no clue how the science of a nuclear blast works. That is NOT how radiation works, look at Hiroshima or Nagasaki, both have been re-inhabited. The thermal radius of a bomb is much greater than the radiation radius of a bomb. Stop spreading lies and misinformation.

[@gummig3ck0]

Wow! Is this an advert from the HOA?

[@sl4983]

Holy Moly! Is this incentive to clean or what? I have never heard the term fire-safe housekeeping but it makes so much sense.

[@nathanunger7413]

I saw this on TCM during a carnival cruise and I came here to say: ATOMIC GASLIGHTING

[@thomaskositzki9424]

So when I keep my room tidy, I can witness my slow, agonizing end by radiation sickness, horrible wounds and starvation instead of dying instantly? Splendid!

[@nightspade5]

I don't think you understand how radiation works. Which is okay it's not simple

[@thomaskositzki9424]

@@nightspade5 What makes you think I am uninformed?

[@dancooper6002]

@@thomaskositzki9424 Because you are talking out your ass. The thermal effect of the bomb reaches out far further than the radiation effects, but you obviously don't understand that. Quit spreading lies and misinformation.

[@danno1ize]

Well,I guess I will be painting my house this weekend! This video brought to you by Glidden paints!

[@L4sz10]

„Now the house on the right burns as fiercely as if it had been deliberately fired with kindling.” No, it had not been deliberately fired with kindling. It had been fired with a freaking thermonuclear explosion. Deliberately.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Literally produced by a group of paint suppliers!

[@FailNinja123]

OH NO! a bottle on the floor made my house get destroyed!!! oh wait... it was THE NUKE

[@inkey2]

I always suspected that If I kept my house painted and lawn manicured that I would survive an atomic attack

[@sueneilson896]

They forgot to tell everyone to go to church regularly and pray .

[@Wallakazulum]

Crazy Sherwin Williams infomercial.

[@JohnMichaelson]

I don't think the three megaton MIRV hitting 5 miles away will care if you mowed the lawn last weekend or if your paint is minty fresh.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Yeah, but you don't want that Russian bombardier in a Bear looking through his bombsight and seeing crabgrass. Embarrassing.

[@Karthagus]

with a 10 kiloton atomic bomb being blasted 5 km away yes, your white-painted house would surely stay safe. But nowadays, if there is a nuclear war between both superpowers Russia and USA throwing 10 Megaton thermonuclear bombs to each other, no matter if you paint your house in rainbow colors, it will just disintegrate.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

***** Only for that house protecting tech to be stolen underneath your feet by one or more goverments, then Atomic development passing what little research you did complete.

[@expression3639]

I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE GAY AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE.

[@birchtree2274]

That's not true. Most nukes in usable condition these days are about 500 kilotons. Russia has a bunker buster a bit over 1 M, but no one stocks 10 M or anything even close to it. The nuclear stocks have been much reduced, as a result of multiple treaty agreements, since the 1960s.

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

Birchtree22 not sure of the Russians, but the US ICBMs use 300 to 400 kt warheads, but the air force still has in service the B83, which has a yield of a little over 1 mt

[@proud2bpagan]

well,at least when it happens, it'll be easy on the eyes nobody in th neighborhood still has

[@anddyyxx]

Does anyone know how the footage at around 4:24 was captured? Were the cameras on extremely strong rigs? How did the cameras go unaffected from radiation and not get blown away with the rest of the debris? Thanks.

[@Vaitamanu]

They hired a very solid cameraman. Very firm on his feet.

[@idot3331]

Thanks, Vault-Tec.

[@ylwpyro9549]

Are these houses painted with lead paint? It already looks like it's flaking off. As an aside, the idea that painting your house will guarantee it immunity from the searing temperatures of a nuclear explosion is ridiculous at best. This would be perfect for MST3K.

[@DEP717]

YLW Pyro Some US and UK strategic aircraft were painted with white anti-flash paint in the 1960s. The theory was that white reflects, but black absorbs like asphalt and solar heat, so every little bit would help. People forget how tense things were. Of course, there are still lots of nukes around, but many people don't think much of them. A generational thing, I suppose. I agree 100 percent on MST3K - This is totally up their alley and would fit.

[@moomdog2298]

+YLW Pyro This was MADE for MST3K.

[@lajoswinkler]

It's called risk mitigation and minimizing damage from the firestorm that starts after the explosion. That is what destroyed most of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It doesn't have to be lead paint. In fact, better paint would be limewash because it's a refractory material. The idea is not ridiculous and *the test fucking proves it.* You literally saw a test being filmed and you don't believe it. Of course it won't help if you're too close to the explosion, but most of the area affected isn't. Because it's in the shape of a circle.

[@foreverofthestars4718]

Oh honey we should really paint our house tommorow, never know when the next nuclear bomb is gonna explode in the neighborhood.

[@man_i_tell_ya_hwut]

So many millions of dollars spent to prove that wood can catch fire

[@Ccyawn123]

I’m pretty sure the plastic cover on that chair really helped protect it from a nuclear blast

[@elinebrock5660]

Was thinking the same, especially if you were sitting on it!

[@harryandruschak2843]

As a bachelor, I'm doomed. I was brought up on the idea that a neat house was the sign of a sick mind. Still, although he said the outer houses were SLOWER to ignite, the still ignited.

[@jc.1191]

Paint everything inside and out. Apparently it's nuke proof. Lol

[@mc25a]

Comments on this one are crazy. No one is suggesting you will survive at ground zero, but no matter how big the bomb, there will be a perimeter where survival is possible, then one where survival is likely, etc. The bigger the bomb the bigger those perimeters will be. Fire is one of the primary killers so why not prepare for it? With terrorist states closer than ever to building/acquiring these weapons, I suspect that we are in a time now where we are closer than ever to experiencing this terrible circumstance.

[@hanshandkante5055]

Producer: National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association This makes so much more sense now.

[@pleasestopscreaming]

I can guarantee if yours is the only house on the block that doesn't burn down after a nuke, the neighbors are going to have some questions (source "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" The Twilight Zone, 1960).

[@shananagans5]

@MercuryClock You do realize they are talking about houses on outlying areas? The areas that you might survive. If there is less material that will catch fire easily there will be fewer fires. Is this a big deal in the overall picture of a bomb going off in a city? Probably not but every little bit helps.

[@ScarabD]

@MrQuackism It depends on how close you are to the epicentre, which I think is known as "ground zero". These houses were clearly set far enough outside of ground zero that, while you'd probably end up horribly burned, you wouldn't be totally disintergrated. If you were close enough, you probably wouldn't even see it coming before you were just... gone, nothing left but a blast shadow. Though to be honest, anybody who was that close got the easy way out...

[@donise8406]

Yes the house in the middle survived but it will be decades be the owners could mmove back in, the two house that were destroyed were paid off by the insurance companies and the owners lived happily ever after in a place that did not glow in the dark.

[@garymoore1567]

It's interesting that at the Nevada Test Site the speed of sound in air is equal to the speed of light, in that there was no delay between the flash from the blast and the sound from the blast.

[@viciousmeow]

"The house on the right burns as fiercely AS IF it had been DELIBERATELY fired with kindling..." I feel like the narrator turned away from the mic at that point and went "heeheeheehee".

[@curtistezzmer236]

5:30 "The lack of fire safe house keeping has doomed this house to destruction." (Not the atomic bomb?)

[@annabraun3509]

Remember! Paint back then had lead in it.

[@moomdog2298]

The white house probably had 3" of lead paint on it.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

no need, it's made of white stone. But there's probably plenty of asbestos in the insulation. possibly in the ventilation duct material too unless those are metal.

[@warpey5632]

And the 2 other houses were coated in some sort of flammable substance.

[@ENGOOSH]

one inch lead will do the job

[@doncomputer5931]

1950's logic be like: Normal house: *Explodes and then burns to the ground* House with a little air-dried liquid on it: *Withstands the force of an atomic bomb with minor damage, even the fence made from wooden planks is perfectly fine.*

[@neil73]

Reminds me of the opening sketch of Monty Python's 'And now for something completely different'.lol! " ...And this is where he lives. BOOM. And this is the street he lives in. BOOM. and this is the village. BOOM. (maniacal laughter) And this is the town. BOOM (more laughter - raised to hysterical pitch)And this is the city. BOOM....And now for something completely different.

[@shananagans5]

@DepressionKillz And yea, the main motivation for this film was probably to get people to clean up around their homes & towns but it does have a legit point. A minor point no doubt but less trash that could catch fire would be better.

[@MichaelEMaus]

Yeah, turn the local fields into lawns, and the woods into clean, grassy deer parks. This is your jungle, and if it burns up it's your fault, you lazy sloppy bum. Houses with kids burn up first.

[@NoBucks777]

And don’t forget the 10,000,000 spf sunscreen!

[@kasyapa]

casts an intriguing light on 1950s cleanliness/prosperity/conformity. "Duty, cleanliness, healthy, safety are the four basic doctrines ..."

[@Vistico93]

Now I really want to know if there was ever an atomic bomb test done for giggles using houses made of straw, sticks, and bricks respectively...

[@stejoel]

Lol

[@billyethornton]

Well we know two things from this . The guy handling the baby buggy and everything else after the explosion died from radiation exposure and they had enough lead in that paint to either kill everyone in the house or mutate their off spring .

[@darthhulka-burger3187]

These were actually training films for young wives - Treat you husband well & keep a tidy home to prevent not only wife-beating, but also fires from Atomic blasts. If you're homeless after an Atomic blast, it's your fault for being a bad wife

[@MrMezgomable]

So you get a really radioactive house if you are organized after the blast but you obviously would not enjoy it long because of the radiation poisoning....

[@ThomasKrul]

I'd love to see the released information on how these tests and this movie were put together... "Hey, Mac, let's get housewives to keep our houses cleaner" "But how, Butch?" "I know, let's harness the power of nuclear explosives!" it's almost surreal. Also, note that the "tidier" house on the left that didn't burn down had sandbags placed against the wall where the explosion took place. I think there's been some repurposing done here to give people a false sense of civic and house pride?

[@dancooper6002]

False, no repurposing, just good science.

[@nitac.9444]

You couldn't get any kids or people to help keep the neighborhood clean or to help their neighbors now days.

[@oldgoldtopgoldtop6039]

Lots of little towns with unpainted shacks were known to be primary targets during that period.

[@roquefortfiles]

Does all of this still apply to a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb?. I don't think you're going to be worrying about the mess around your house.

[@OspreyKnight]

Yes, it does. Anything with a value shift has a dynamic range. A black block doesn't, but a black and white block does. The question is how well your capturing device can differentiate between one shade and another. Film, the silver crystals each take up whatever photons hit them. Digital the sensor grid does the same thing.

[@numberstation]

Up next, how double glazing can render your home impervious to napalm and fuel/air munitions.

[@drysori]

This is just wrong on so many levels, I think my head exploded

[@richardfeynman5560]

If you had cleaned up your head and painted it white, it wouldn't have exploded...

[@BaneTrogdor]

@@richardfeynman5560 LOL :D

[@tonygarratt5832]

@@richardfeynman5560 I'm laughing so hard my head's going to explode.

[@reinisrudzitis4802]

Sickest advert of a white wood paint in the history of mankind.

[@SuperPandapear]

I wonder if the national clean up - fix up - paint up beuro still exists

[@_KarlS]

no wonder my mom always made me make my bed! mowing your lawn and sweeping the floor could save YOU in an atomic blast. does anyone else suspect the dupont company to be behind a committee like clean up paint up fix up? who else would try to tell you paint will keep your house from burning? dont forget this is 60 years ago when dupont patented every synthetic fabric, polymer or what have you and developed military grade textiles and compounds. people then were smart but nukes were still new so it was hard not to be scared by stuff like this

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

Karl Stenbeck Nukes were so new nobody - not even the politicians or defense scientists - knew as much about them as a smart Grade 10 student knows today. They didn’t know about EMP, they didn’t know all the effects of ionizing radiation; they didn’t even know how long fallout was radioactive.

[@othergames3373]

*invents terrifying doomsday device. "you know what we could use this for? bullying stay at home moms into cleaning up more" hahaha

[@CRSolarice]

...we've all seen it in every town; a person who always has to be sticking their nose in their neighbors business. People who just can't seem to attend to their own business and always want to force their view points onto everyone else... YES, its the nosey neighbor! ...as if anyone in those houses would survive the aftermath of an atomic blast, especially without a roof on their one room shack.

[@mkleck]

Your house might be standing but inside you are instantly evaporated...great

[@azmatthews]

Having been born at a time when everyone was still scared to death of the bomb, but no one mentioned it anymore. I am fascinated by these old films. Do you have one that shows how radioactive material bounces off of your skin, instead of being absorbed? I forgot the name of it.

[@Nikolaii2571]

Good housekeeping and yard cleaning = a better chance at surviving thermal heat, a painful lesson we had to learn the hard way during the Oakland Hills Fire some two decades ago.

[@TrashcanMan8]

Lesson learned: Keep your damn house clean...

[@haldorasgirson9463]

One house was too close. And one house was too far. But the house in the middle... Love the narrator. Reminds me of the old Perry Mason show.

[@kevinweinberger8446]

This was a very good video and typical of the 1950’s research! Glad they can’t do research like that anymore!

[@martinswiney2192]

You should see their films about how homosexuals are really all pedophiles. Yep. It exist. TCM actually plays old films like this between classic movies.

[@dansorci]

You don’t want to survive a nuclear bomb

[@OldiesMomma]

I can just hear all the fallout 4 comments all ready. 😂

[@CarolinaPatriot007]

That is about as ridiculous a recommendation as could be made. The government would tell anyone to do something and not care about the consequences.