Duck and Cover (film)



"Now I'm seeing an old Duck and Cover film on TV, now remastered by the United Nations to ensure that we're all well-prepared to see the end of the world as we know it as an event of excitement, courage, bravery and thrills... and all that stuff too. Man, I can't wait for the world to end."

--Su Ji-Hoon, What Does This Button Do?

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.

The film was funded by the US Federal Civil Defense Administration and released in January 1952. At the time, the Soviet Union was engaged in nuclear testing and the US was in the midst of the Korean War.

The film was written by Raymond J. Mauer, directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions, narrated by actor Robert Middleton, and made with the help of schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York.

The film is now in the public domain, and is widely available through Internet sources such as YouTube,[6] as well as on DVD. It was selected by the National Film Registry for preservation in 2004.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it would be happened in during World War III and post-Last Day.