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Feb 24, 2015 · Duck and Cover - 1952 Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
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May 26, 2014 · In 1949 the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear explosive. After it, the duck-and-cover exercises quickly became a part of Civil Defense drills that every American citizen, from children...
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In 1951, the FCDA hired Archer Productions, a New York City ad agency, to create a film that could be shown in schools to educate children about how to protect themselves in the case of atomic attack. The resulting film, Duck and Cover, was filmed at a school in Astoria, Queens, and alternated animation with images of students and adults practicing...
Today’s viewers may well react negatively to Duck and Coverand its jarringly pleasant, light tone. But in the early ‘50s, most Americans knew little about what actually happened when an atomic bomb exploded, and the idea was to warn, but not frighten, the school children taking part in the drills. Historian JoAnne Brownwrites of how teachers in Det...
By the early 1960s, the U.S.-Soviet arms race had heated up to the point that duck and cover came to look like an even more inadequate response to the nuclear threat. In 1961, the Soviets exploded a 58-megaton bombdubbed “Czar Bomba,” which had a force equivalent to more than 50 million tons of TNT—more than all the explosives used in World War II....
Another key criticism of duck and cover focused on the intent behind it: what many people saw as the government’s way of sanitizing nuclear weapons and making people complacent and accepting of the new status quo. In fact, as historian Dee Garrison has argued, students’ responses to civil defense drills in schools would later fuel antiwar and antin...
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Jan 26, 2012 · This Civil Defense short film "Duck and Cover" was produced in New York in 1951, and shown in the public school system throughout the 1950s when the schools started installing big black and...
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Dec 31, 2014 · Duck and Cover. Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
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Dec 31, 2014 · Duck and Cover was a social guidance film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing.
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Sep 2, 2013 · If A Is For Atom was produced to reassure us of the atom's essential goodness, Duck and Cover was made to frighten us. Produced for showing to schoolchildren, it presents the atomic bomb as a mysterious, frightening, and capricious force.
