Duck and Cover (film)

Duck and Cover is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterized as propaganda. With similar themes to the more adult oriented civil defense training films, the film was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It instructionally teaches students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion.

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"It's a bomb! Duck and cover!"

- Duck and Cover (film)

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"Now we must be ready for a new danger: the atomic bomb."

- Duck and Cover (film)

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"There might not be any grown-ups around when the Bomb explodes. Then... you're on your own."

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"This is an official Civil Defense Film produced in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration and in consultation with the Safety Commission of the National Education Association."

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"Robert Middleton as Narrator. (uncredited)"

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"Carl Ritchie as Bert. (uncredited)"

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"Leo M. Langlois III as Boy on Bike. (uncredited)"

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"Ray J. Mauer as Civil Defense Worker. (uncredited)"

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