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One Hour to Live

Ephemeral film · 15 min

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Running time
15 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Our house is now a smoldering place to live, thanks to lathe and plaster! · Spuzz · 2023-04-19

Much much earlier in the archive history, I viewed a great film, called "The House In The Middle" (I love that I didn't have to look up the title!) which demonstrated how a house with no clutter and a proper paint job could actually survive a nuclear bomb blast, This film you could say, is almost the Wish version of that film. In this film, which the soundtrack is missing, officials test 3 small buildings, one made from (I guess) lsthe snd plaster (who's makers are the sponsors of this film, one made of wood it looks like, and another, unknown material. All filled with kindlind, all burned…