Radiological Defense

by

U.S. Office of Civil Defense

Shotlist

Film on nuclear fallout and its potential for damage in the event of an attack on the United States.

Freakishly dramatic music. Picture of people going about their daily activity is occasionally colored red to illustrate contamination of radioactive fallout.




Stock Shots:
teletypes in a row; suburbia, houses and lawns; atomic bomb explosions; animation of fallout, explosions, maps of U.S.A.; highways; traffic; crowd scenes; newspaper headlines; debris; corn fields; death

Bizarre shot: cows entering fallout shelter built expressly for them.

classroom instruction in radiation sickness; excellent hospital shot;

excellent actual footage of nuclear explosion;

excellent animation; livestock at pasture; driving through the desert; mountains; anemometer;

serious faces of men at conference table

family in shelter; fallout shelter models; fireman and park ranger uses Geiger counters; evacuation onto school buses; shelter signs;

Danger Lurks Safety
Voiceover:
"As serious as fallout is, we can cope with it through an active radiological defense program"<BR>