ATOMIC HYGIENE: Cold War Shorts

RURAL CIVIL DEFENSE TV SPOTS

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:10:07 GMT

RURAL CIVIL DEFENSE TV SPOTS from 1965 presents 10 marionette--yes, marionette (!)--"acted" PSAs advising farmers on how to protect their livestock and their families in the event of a "natural or nuclear"...

OPERATION SCAT

Tue, 30 May 2006 01:17:20 GMT

OPERATION SCAT is subtitled �The First �Drive Out� Evacuation Attempted in the United States� and judging from what is depicted in the film, the exercise was quite successful. The test evacuated some 30,000 people from an approximately 480 block radius in Mobile, Alabama. Of course, the planners of this evacuation had a trusting and obedient citizenry that made such an ambitious plan run like a finely tuned Packard. When CONELRAD asked William C. Sturgeon--who was the Civil Defense...

CRISIS

Mon, 01 May 2006 01:55:27 GMT

Not reviewed yet: Please contact CONELRAD if you have access to a copy or have other details about this film. The following description is from the 1959 Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization film catalog: Bob Considine, columnist and newscaster, narrates his experiences in covering the disastrous Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, flood that followed in the wake of Hurricane Diane. He tells us how quick thinking,...

COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

Mon, 01 May 2006 01:45:51 GMT

Not reviewed yet: Please contact CONELRAD if you have access to a copy or have other details about this film. According to the National Archives notes, this film shows communist propaganda techniques, including decadence of the U.S. military, the use of youth congresses, and radio propaganda.

FIGHTING WORDS

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:05:37 GMT

Describes the purposes and techniques of psychological warfare, hostile and friendly. An exposé of enemy propaganda based on lies, distortion, and false promises designed to destroy morale on home and fighting fronts as "truth warfare."

—1952 Armed Forces Information & Education Film Service Catalog entry for FIGHTING WORDS

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OPERATION ABOLITION

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:44:19 GMT

This infamous red scare film was put together from television newsreel footage of the May 1960 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in San Francisco, its attendant student protests, and the riotous police action (fire hoses used on City Hall protesters) that followed. Operation Abolition was widely screened (one source put the total viewership at 8 million) and helped put Berkely and its activist culture on the map, eventually becoming a cult movie for its...

ARCHITECTURE AND THE ATOM

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:10:39 GMT

Not reviewed yet: Please contact CONELRAD if you have access to a copy or have other details about this film. No doubt this film addresses "design slanting" and how to include fallout protection within new buildings such as school and other public projects.

TARGET YOU!

Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:00:08 GMT

This collection, produced as part of the ATOMIC PLATTERS: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security box set was also released as a separate DVD (NTSC Region 0).

PRELINGER COLLECTION

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:36:04 GMT

Rick Prelinger's justly celebrated collection of "ephemeral films" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur short subjects) is available for viewing and downloading at the Internet Archive (some 1,969 titles and growing). The Prelinger Collection was

PATRIOTISM

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:13:46 GMT

Shortly after his successful World War II comedy "Hogan's Heroes" went off the air, but sometime before he got his head bashed in with a tripod in an Arizona motel room, Bob Crane found time to talk patriotism with the kids.

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