![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Radiological Defense - U.S. Office of Civil Defense
Nuclear fallout menaces Americans.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War
Downloads: 10,159
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Science in Action: Radar Defense Screen (Part I) - California Academy of Sciences
Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. In this episode, host Earl Herald interviews Brigadeer General James W. Andrew of the U.S. Air Force, about the uses and technology of radar as an air defense tool.
Keywords: Science; Television programs; Atomic-nuclear: Civil Defense; Radar
Downloads: 2,128
Average rating:  (0 review) |  |
| Science in Action: Radar Defense Screen (Part II) - California Academy of Sciences
Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. In this episode, host Earl Herald interviews Brigadeer General James W. Andrew of the U.S. Air Force, about the uses and technology of radar as an air defense tool.
Keywords: Science; Television programs; Atomic-nuclear: Civil Defense; Radar
Downloads: 1,535
Average rating: (0 review) |  |
| Emergency First Aid: A Study in Motion Pictures to Aid Civil Defense Volunteers
Downloads: 567
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| About Fallout (1963) - U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense
Optimistic vision of fallout and civil defense countermeasures.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense
Downloads: 17,792
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| News Magazine of the Screen: Atomic Energy - Warner Pathé News
Compilation of 1950s newsreel stories on atomic weapons testing, civil defense and nuclear energy.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: General; Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Atomic-nuclear: Weapons
Downloads: 9,683
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Atomic Alert (Elementary version) - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Frightening civil defense procedure film aimed at Cold War-era elementary school students.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense
Downloads: 28,568
Average rating:  (14 reviews) |  |
| Our Cities Must Fight - Archer Productions, Inc.
Civil defense film admonishing U.S. city dwellers to stay and fight in case of enemy invasion, rather than evacuate. Filmed in New York and other cities.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War; Infrastructure
Downloads: 9,944
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Duck and Cover - Archer Productions, Inc.
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.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Animation
Downloads: 461,339
Average rating:  (70 reviews) |  |
| House in the Middle, The - National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association
Atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds (later the Nevada Test Site) show effects on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash and combustibles, and homes painted with reflective white paint. Asserts that cleanliness is an essential part of civil defense preparedness and that it increased survivability. Selected for the 2002 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant" films.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War; Waste disposal
Downloads: 42,772
Average rating: (36 reviews) |  |
| Operation Cue (1964 revision) - U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense
Study of a nuclear test in 1955 at Nevada Test Site.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense
Downloads: 13,759
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Survival Under Atomic Attack - U.S. Office of Civil Defense
"Explains" the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War
Downloads: 60,065
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| What to Do in a Gas Attack - Filmedia Corp.
Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties.
Keywords: World War II: Gas; Chemical warfare; Civil defense
Downloads: 8,604
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| News Magazine of the Screen
Downloads: 1,853
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| About Fallout (1955) - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Attempt to dispel many common myths and fallacies about radioactive fallout.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War
Downloads: 22,747
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Your Chance to Live: Earthwatch - Screenscope
Presents the story of a teenage couple caught in the tragic path of a Tsunami as a means of explaining the nature of earthquakes and the consequences of their power.
Keywords: Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Civil defense
Downloads: 5,974
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| Charlies Atlas
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 2,802
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Operation Cue (1955) - U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Eerie nuclear tests on houses and dummies at the Nevada Test Site.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons
Downloads: 29,607
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| What You Should Know About Biological Warfare - Ray (Reid H.) Film Industries
How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins? Cold War America gears up to fend off threats from unconventional bioweapons.
Keywords: Cold War; Biological warfare
Downloads: 19,355
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| [News Magazine of the Screen, April] - Warner Pathe News
Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation.
Keywords: Newsreels
Downloads: 2,323
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 5, Issue 10; Summer Review 1955) - Warner Pathé News
Newsreel stories reformatted for classroom use.
Keywords: Newsreels; Regional: Vietnam War; Atomic-nuclear: Weapons
Downloads: 4,267
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Truth About Taxes, The - Unknown
Republican party campaign film on behalf of Wendell Willkie for U.S. president in the 1940 elections.
Keywords: Political campaigns and elections; Economics; Willkie, Wendell A
Downloads: 4,788
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Day Called X, A (Part I) - CBS Television Network
Dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War; Oregon
Downloads: 16,238
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Self Preservation In An Atomic Attack
Soldiers prepare themselves, just in case the big one hits.
Downloads: 24,340
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Child Went Forth, A - Ferno (John) and Losey (Joseph)
Poetic exposition of a child's day at a modern (progressive education-minded) summer camp. Produced by John Ferno and Joseph Losey.
Keywords: Children; Society: Education; Recreation
Downloads: 11,913
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Day Called X, A (Part II) - CBS Television Network
Dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Cold War; Oregon
Downloads: 11,332
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation - Cascade Pictures of California
Attempt to argue away the dangers of nuclear radiation, with some excellent animation.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Cold War
Downloads: 17,353
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Progress Parade - Unknown
News release reflecting innovations and happenings from the petroleum industry. Includes a sequence on "fishing" for a lost drill bit, soothing an infant with baby oil, how LP gas serves us in the home and on the job, how a "Citadel" service station operator serves his community, and a research program at Louisiana State University that investigates (and finds no) effects on oysters from nearby oil drilling.
Keywords: Oil industry; Occupations: Petroleum workers; Environment
Downloads: 3,125
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Speech: Stage Fright and What to Do About It - Centron Productions
Expressionistic film on dealing with fear of public speaking, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas.
Keywords: Communication: Speech; Psychology
Downloads: 4,359
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Hear and Now - Unknown
How radio brings news and information to Americans. With footage of many news events covered by radio and images everyday life in the late 1950s. Explains how radio serves in the Cold War and during natural disasters.
Keywords: Media: Radio; Communication: Radio; Journalism
Downloads: 12,768
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| A is for Atom - Sutherland (John) Productions
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Energy; Physics; Animation
Downloads: 96,017
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| Atom Bomb [Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month] - Bonica (Joe)
Early atomic weapons testing.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Weapons; Cold War
Downloads: 116,526
Average rating: (26 reviews) |  |
| In the Suburbs - On Film, Inc.
Thoughtfully made advertising sales promo film extolling 1950s suburbanites as citizens and consumers.
Keywords: Suburbia; Cold War; Consumerism
Downloads: 41,003
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
