CIVIL DEFENSE FILM PUBLIC FALLOUT SHELTER ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 29082

Created in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, this Civil Defense training film uses a dramatic premise to show how emergency staff should manage and organize a large public fallout shelter during a crisis. A Shelter Manager is shown immediately taking control of the situation in the shelter, speaking calmly to those who have made it into the facility, closing the door promptly once the shelter is full, and sticking to the "shelter plan" as the situation unfolds. Some of the areas discussed in this nuclear war drama are the safety plan, regular inspections, supervised public entry into shelters, ventilation, first aid, sanitation, fire prevention, decontamination of personnel, and more. "Shelter living is different," the Manager states, "But we have a trained staff that will make your stay in this shelter livable for us all."
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  • @Slatch36
    @Slatch365 жыл бұрын

    Coffee and poop facilities, most important.

  • @loganmacgyver2625

    @loganmacgyver2625

    4 жыл бұрын

    Should also include smoking facilities

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines5 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Bernard appears as "Mr. Bernard" at 13:19. Ironically, in the 1961 "TWILIGHT ZONE" episode "The Shelter", he appeared as "Marty Weiss", a neighbor who gets locked out of "Dr. Bill Stockton's" basement shelter {"I feel sorry for you, Bill. You probably will survive. But you'll have BLOOD on your hands!!! [he starts pounding on the shelter door] YOU'RE A DOCTOR!!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP PEOPLE!!!!!!!"}.

  • @redwingfan9393
    @redwingfan93933 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy the fact that there is a black guy on the leadership committee. That would have been extremely unusual during the time frame of this film.

  • @scowler92

    @scowler92

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or so they'd have you believe. Feds weren't big on Jim Crow, which was and still is a Democrat charade. The only thing that's changed in American politics in the last 50 years is language and geography. North is now racist, South is now rational. Both are much less direct in their language.

  • @grayeaglej

    @grayeaglej

    2 жыл бұрын

    That depends entirely upon where in the US you were talking about. Racism has almost always been confined to Democrat controlled areas for the entirety of US history. In rural and conservative areas Racism has been virtually unknown. Its the way different Political Idiologies control populations, and thus affect the personalities of the local populations over time. :/

  • @booklover6753

    @booklover6753

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scowler92 Bull. "It is better to be silent and thought ignorant, than to have spoken and removed all doubt".

  • @JDAbelRN

    @JDAbelRN

    2 жыл бұрын

    No Mexican guys around?

  • @markkrause4407
    @markkrause44073 жыл бұрын

    That rain at the beginning was one of the best things that could happen . Cleans up a lot of the radioactive fallout !

  • @lukestrawwalker

    @lukestrawwalker

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah and dumps it right down on the ground in highly concentrated "hot spots" which can be particularly lethal due to high radiation levels. Being caught out in it is one of the worst things that can happen to you, because it washes fallout particles out of the air and deposits them directly on you, and wet clothing and hair causes them to cling on and saturate clothing and makes it harder to get off you. Dry a thorough dusting is enough to get big particles off; wet it's like wet ashes the more you try to rub them off the more you just smear them around and drive them in to whatever you're trying to get them off of. Later! OL J R :)

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218

    @insideoutsideupsidedown2218

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lukestrawwalker better to be wet. Inhalation of the airborne particles is the biggest problem with fallout

  • @Penumbra505
    @Penumbra5054 жыл бұрын

    "op! bombs goin off. better put on the suit and tie."

  • @AR15.666

    @AR15.666

    Жыл бұрын

    The right way. Dress well when the commies come.

  • @lostcause2137
    @lostcause21375 жыл бұрын

    I don't think all the staff members are here. well then call off the war until they arrive.

  • @CraigBaughan-mg3hf
    @CraigBaughan-mg3hf Жыл бұрын

    At the time- 1963- it was assumed that the most preventable deaths would be from fallout from distant strikes delivered primarily by long range heavy aircraft with weapons of more than 3 megatons and of a construction which maximized fallout production.

  • @SAnn-rf3oz
    @SAnn-rf3oz4 жыл бұрын

    Bureaucrats in the shelter. Did your families get in? Lock the doors!

  • @ultimatecorgi3392
    @ultimatecorgi33923 жыл бұрын

    They never seem to answer the question: "What if you have to turn people away?" Something tells me that there'd be people pounding on the door for hours, perhaps days. And perhaps people on the inside trying to vouch for people on the outside. What if they try to force their way in?

  • @bluefaery1865

    @bluefaery1865

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then..........fallout!

  • @grayeaglej

    @grayeaglej

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gun. If that doesn't work, use More Gun. O.o

  • @JDAbelRN

    @JDAbelRN

    2 жыл бұрын

    I predict mayhem, especially if firearms are involved, which I'm sure some .22 calibers were snuck in. Plenty of Geiger counters, no body scanners.

  • @razvandobos9759
    @razvandobos97592 жыл бұрын

    0:56 there should've been a security camera to the right or above the shelter door, a fallout detector with a yellow light next to the shelter sign, and a fallout deflector fan on the wall next and above the shelter sign.

  • @JDAbelRN

    @JDAbelRN

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seriously, at every single fallout shelter in the USA in 1962?

  • @razvandobos9759

    @razvandobos9759

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JDAbelRN sure why not? Make them more livable.

  • @bighairyfeet
    @bighairyfeet3 жыл бұрын

    No plan ever survives first contact. Semper Gumby

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman19883 жыл бұрын

    Who remembered to bring the MST3K tapes?

  • @andrewb.6877
    @andrewb.68772 жыл бұрын

    Original shelter staff decided to risk the heat blast rather than follow Kafka nuclear nightmare

  • @8800081
    @88000815 жыл бұрын

    I am your shelter manager! When you are here I will be your mommy and your daddy! You will not talk, you will not ask questions, you will not have feelings, you will not think for yourself. Bedtime is at 2200 hours and you will wake up at 0 600 hours! You will eat what we give you, drink what we give you and shit what we tell you to shit. Democracy has been suspended and you will do what you are told or you will be sent outside to suck up Fallout. I've been flipping burgers all my life and this is my chance to be DA MAN! All girls between the ages of 18 and 50, form a single-file line to my office. Frank? Has the token black guy arrived yet?

  • @mr.appalachia9787

    @mr.appalachia9787

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love this

  • @bluefaery1865

    @bluefaery1865

    2 жыл бұрын

    LoL😂

  • @butchkaminsky9470
    @butchkaminsky94705 жыл бұрын

    What does the manager doing, when this old staff starts pounding on the door!

  • @maxkronader5225

    @maxkronader5225

    2 жыл бұрын

    He makes the tough decision and says "the life boat is full".

  • @butchkaminsky9470

    @butchkaminsky9470

    2 жыл бұрын

    What steps dose the manager take when the old staff kicks in the door and takes there place with extreme action. A used popped can not much of a defense weapon kid-o. Even in the 1960's. I been there.

  • @oliverfasola19
    @oliverfasola193 жыл бұрын

    Vault tech employees

  • @JRPennyPacker

    @JRPennyPacker

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the same thing.

  • @razvandobos9759
    @razvandobos97595 жыл бұрын

    Wish there was a flat-screen TV on the wall next to the shelter door, a computer and laptop on the table for the shelter manager and staff so they can monitor fallout readings and weather conditions, a bathtub and shower, R2-D2 and C-3PO and Roomba and WALL-E, and a drone outside the shelter to monitor radiation levels.

  • @razvandobos9759

    @razvandobos9759

    3 жыл бұрын

    @grozbeek mose somebody with pine sol or Clorox

  • @stoicprepper7171
    @stoicprepper7171 Жыл бұрын

    A safety team maintains order…….

  • @razvandobos9759
    @razvandobos97595 жыл бұрын

    Raining before nuclear fallout?

  • @lindaeasley4336
    @lindaeasley43365 жыл бұрын

    Hurry up ! Come on in ! Men first , women and children last . Later : Dinner is being served . Spam and canned beets

  • @logan5824
    @logan58245 жыл бұрын

    Just how Katrina went

  • @BatteryH1862

    @BatteryH1862

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess ending the Civil Defense programs wasn't very smart.

  • @scowler92

    @scowler92

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@BatteryH1862 Maybe we should bring it back as a nonprofit...

  • @redwingfan9393

    @redwingfan9393

    3 жыл бұрын

    Apples to oranges comparison.

  • @rapman5791

    @rapman5791

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your doing a helluva job Brownie 😂😂

  • @davynhainstock7503
    @davynhainstock75033 жыл бұрын

    Thank God the safety guy didnt make it .those guys and there clip boards are always a buzzkill

  • @John_on_the_mountain

    @John_on_the_mountain

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just what we need some damn OSHA inspector

  • @allandavis8201
    @allandavis82012 жыл бұрын

    What I don’t understand from watching this series of films is that the shelter depicted is a public shelter, with what seems to be a very modest capacity, so when it is full and the bomb is about to drop how would they ‘persuade’ any overcapacity people to go to another shelter?, especially if the 3 minute warning had been sounded, would they point their clipboards at them and in a stern voice tell them to “move along”, in reality the shelter staff would not be able to stop anyone or a group of people from crashing in, or would it be more realistic that they would have armed personnel, police military or shelter staff, to stop overcapacity people or groups from endangering everyone else in the shelter, using up valuable resources, space, medical supplies and probably most important the water and air supplies, who knows, but I do know that it certainly wouldn’t bare any resemblance to this depiction, all ordered and civil, people would be terrified, and that would just lead to tension, self preservation and ultimately chaos. How wonderfully naïve the folks back then were, a shelter of 300-500 people would need as much as 4 times the shelter area just to store the basic supplies needed to survive for 2 weeks, let alone the extended amount of time that we know would be required today. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

  • @betterose9975
    @betterose99753 жыл бұрын

    Why do we not have shelters now?

  • @maxkronader5225

    @maxkronader5225

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because we spend money that could be used for civil defense, or infrastructure on corrupt vote buying schemes.

  • @bluefaery1865

    @bluefaery1865

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@maxkronader5225 True that!!

  • @jaminova_1969

    @jaminova_1969

    2 жыл бұрын

    Joe Biden has a shelter! That's what really matters!

  • @booklover6753

    @booklover6753

    2 жыл бұрын

    They won't help with modern weapons.

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218

    @insideoutsideupsidedown2218

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@booklover6753 why?