The companion film to the twenty-million-copy civil defence booklet of the same name: what a householder was told to do, and what to keep.
The note
Where Duck and Cover sang, this one recites. It is the sound of official calm applied to an uncontainable subject, and the gap between tone and content is the document. Federal work, no copyright.
Survival Under Atomic Attack, 1951. US Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Security Resources Board. Directed by Anthony Rizzo. This is the film’s soundtrack: narration, score and location sound, streamed from the Internet Archive’s master. No picture — the audio is the work. A work of the United States government, and therefore free of copyright anywhere it is used.
1 January
1951
US Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Security Resources Board
8 min
Survival Under Atomic Attack (1951). US Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Security Resources Board. Held by the Internet Archive;