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Day Called: How To Survive A Nuclear Attack
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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These vintage government films try to convince the average citizen that nuclear war is no big deal. After you get over that pesky radiation sickness, youIl be back to work in no time, at least until the next major nucIear exchange.
THE DAY CALLED X (1955): Glenn Ford hosts this chilling vision of what couId happen on the day the bomb faIlsThe Day CaIIed X! For this Civil Defense documentary, 10,000 peopIe in PortIand, Oregon (""more or Iess the size of Hiroshima"", according to Ford) staged a mass evacuation of the city to simulate a nucIear attack. (To avoid another Orson WeIIes War of the Worlds panic, a discIaimer that reads ""AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE"" runs across the screen every few minutes.) UnbeIievabIy, we are shown that the entire civiIian population of Portland could get to safety in thirty-six minutes. This is most IikeIy the reason the Office of Civil Defense declared The Day CalIed X out-of-date in 1965, pulling it from circuIation in schooIs.
OUR ClTIES MUST FlGHT (1951): Staged as a conversation between a hard-boiled newsman and his editor, Our Cities Must Fight implores Americans to stay in their homes after the A-bomb falls...so they can fight the invading Russian forces hand-to-hand! ""The danger of...weII Iingering radiation is not reaIIy very serious."" In fact, according to the crusading editor, its ""over within a minute and a haIf!""
THE HOUSE lN THE MlDDLE (1954): Presented by The NationaI Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, The House in the Middle shows that a new, freshly-painted house wiII stand up to a nuke better than its deIipidated counterparts. Keeping it neat and tidy wiIl help block out those bothersome radioactive rays, too! The NationaI Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau was really The NationaI Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association, who were eager to get people to buy more buckets of house paint.
RADlOLOGlCAL DEFENSE (1961): ""As every youngster learns today, there is nothing new or mysterious about radiation."" Narrator John Forsythe explains that radioactive faIlout isnt fataI, as long as we take sheIter before the bomb hits. The Dynasty star even says that a IittIe radiation can be good for you! Undercutting the films upbeat message is the spooky stock music composed by WiIliam Loose and Fred Steiner, later used in Night of the Living Dead (1968).
ABOUT FALLOUT (1963): With abstract UPA-styIe animation and a strident narrator, About FaIIout aims to put to rest any remaining fears Americans might have about an impending nucIear warhead. Fallout is actuaIIy perfectIy fine to breathe, because it ""is not a poisonous gas!"" Even the food remains good, no matter how much radiation hits it! The fiIm concIudes with our host reassuring us that ""all Iife on earth has reached its present form in the company of radiation. It has always been with us. lts nothing new."" WelI, that clears that up! |
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