{"product_id":"stay-safe-stay-strong-the-facts-about-nuclear-weapons","title":"Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons","description":"These vintage government films try to convince the average citizen that nuclear war is no big deal. After you get over that pesky radiation sickness, you'll be back to work in no time, at least until the next major nuclear exchange.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWARNING RED (1956):\u003c\/b\u003e An ordinary drive home from work becomes a nightmare for Joseph Cunningham when an atomic bomb is dropped in the middle of his commute. Now he must reach home on foot while warning survivors to stock up on \"beans, beef stew, and peas!\" Includes a grotesque scene where Cunningham encounters a shell-shocked young woman trying to \"give away\" her baby to everyone walking by. Director Nicholas Webster also made the notoriously bad Christmas movie \u003ci\u003eSanta Claus Conquers The Martians\u003c\/i\u003e (1964). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTOWN OF THE TIMES (1963):\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Meeker and Larry Gates play opposing school board members arguing over how best to prepare \"Main Street, USA\" for the forthcoming nuclear annihilation. It ends with a town hall meeting in which the benefits of shelter living are endlessly debated. \"What if I'm in one shelter and my husband's in another?\" asks a beehived, bullet bra-wearing housewife. Meanwhile, teenagers do the twist to a song with the lyrics \"I'm gonna live, live, live in my fallout shelter.\" Coincidentally, Larry Gates had starred in an episode of \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e called \"The Shelter\" two years earlier. Ralph Meeker is best known for playing Mike Hammer in \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Deadly\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), which also dramatically demonstrated the dangers of radiation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePUBLIC SHELTER LIVING: THE STORY OF SHELTER 104 (1964):\u003c\/b\u003e This claustrophobic Civil Defense film, meant to be viewed only \"under the guidance of a trained shelter management instructor\", tries to show us what day-to-day life in a fallout shelter while nuclear war rages outside would be like. Things become even more tense when beatnik folk singer Pete McCann (who looks remarkably like Lenny Bruce) barges in. \"You know, the fact is, you've made a stinking mess out of everything,\" says our socialist insurgent, \"and now we're all going to die down here, in this black little hole!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTAY SAFE, STAY STRONG: THE FACTS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS (1960):\u003c\/b\u003e Meant \"to be shown to Authorized Personnel ONLY\", \u003ci\u003eStay Safe, Stay Strong\u003c\/i\u003e tries to dispel the \"myth\" that atomic weapons could be a danger during peacetime. A stilted, crewcutted host insists that even if a nuclear bomb were to accidentally drop out of a plane, it wouldn't explode. (Why such a thing would happen in the first place is never explained.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTARGET YOU (1953):\u003c\/b\u003e \"Our President has told us that an aggressor in possession of atomic bombs...could cause \u003ci\u003ehorrendous\u003c\/i\u003e damage.\" \u003ci\u003eTarget You\u003c\/i\u003e uses crude animation to teach families what to do in the event of nuclear war. \"The aged and infirm will be as helpless as children,\" intones the heartless narrator. Like many Civil Defense films from the early 50s that dealt with the nuclear threat, \u003ci\u003eTarget You\u003c\/i\u003e was eventually pulled from circulation for falsely depicting fallout as essentially harmless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR RADIATION (1950):\u003c\/b\u003e This unintentionally hilarious Armed Forces film did a horrendous job of calming the fears of nervous GIs in a post-Hiroshima world. \"The general public...is determined to regard radioactivity as potent and irresistible as the evil spirits of the Indians(!!!)\" The advice given is usually of the 'common sense' variety, such as when the narrator tells us that if an atomic bomb is dropped, \"try to be somewhere else when it happens.\" Even more preposterously, radiation sickness sufferers are told to just buy a toupee when their hair falls out! And don't worry about becoming impotent as a result of nuclear radiation...you'll be dead long before that can happen! \"Sterility by radiation is a matter a dead man wouldn't worry about!\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alpha Video","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":45802325606550,"sku":"089218815194","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/9621\/5446\/files\/089218815194.jpg?v=1762193768","url":"https:\/\/moviezyng.com\/products\/stay-safe-stay-strong-the-facts-about-nuclear-weapons","provider":"Movie Zyng","version":"1.0","type":"link"}