Fallout: When And How To Protect Yourself (1959)

★★★ · I'd Like a Plate of Fallout, Please · Dodsworth the Cat · 2023-11-30

You know you're in for a treat when a short opens with Spencer Moore's L-1216 Eerie Heavy Echo. Usually, it's a space film or science fiction. This time, it's Science Fact. Mr. Serious Narrator warns us Commies could A-bomb us at any time. The solution? Grab some silverware and hide in your fallout shelter. Have a container because you don't have a toilet down there. Make sure you put out a plate and then pick it up with your bare hands to see if it has fall-out. The script is simple and matter-of-fact. Still drawings (some on cels that are slid into view) are employed effectively. After the…

★★★ · Phase 2 - Followed "Duck & Cover" · JayKay49 · 2017-07-22

I remember this fallout stuff. Became a buzzword in the late 50's. I recall the business about putting a plate out after dark to see if there was dust falling. Quite scary. Around 1960, they came out with the "Horizon Home" model in Nankin Township. It had real narrow windows and a built in bomb shelter in the basement. After we got home from seeing that I remember my parents stocking some stuff in the fruit cellar under the steps. It was a very real thing back in those days - especially if you lived near a big industrial city that was a war machine during WW 2. This film uses the…