Such an excellent film! While today, without the Cold War hanging over our heads, it is a bit less biting, this film does a great job of illustrating how ludicrous our leaders were in preparing us to win The Big One.
Throughout the 1980's, as the Reagan administration returned to this type of "civil defense", the movie was particularly hilarious. Today, it gives you a chance to see film footage that you won't see in many other places, and it still brings a chuckle.
While others remember "Bert the Turtle", my favorite line was from the training film explaining how to stock your Bomb shelter with tranquilizers: "Be sure to include tranquilizers to ease the strain and monotony of life in a fallout shelter. A bottle of 100 should be sufficient for a family of four. Tranquilizers are not a narcotic, and are not habit-forming". This advise was interspersed with an announcement that Vice President Richard Nixon was ringing in National Mental Health Week...you get the idea!
Throughout the 1980's, as the Reagan administration returned to this type of "civil defense", the movie was particularly hilarious. Today, it gives you a chance to see film footage that you won't see in many other places, and it still brings a chuckle.
While others remember "Bert the Turtle", my favorite line was from the training film explaining how to stock your Bomb shelter with tranquilizers: "Be sure to include tranquilizers to ease the strain and monotony of life in a fallout shelter. A bottle of 100 should be sufficient for a family of four. Tranquilizers are not a narcotic, and are not habit-forming". This advise was interspersed with an announcement that Vice President Richard Nixon was ringing in National Mental Health Week...you get the idea!