Duck and Cover (1952)
Bert the Turtle says duck and cover.
An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- Date of release
- 1952-01-07
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (41)
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Animation, Family
- Director
- Anthony Rizzo
Casting
- Robert Middleton — Narrator
Interesting facts
Duck and Cover is a 1952 American civil defense animated and live action social guidance film that is often characterized as propaganda. It has similar themes to the more adult-oriented civil defense training films. It was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s, and teaches students what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion.
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