Duck and Cover | movie | 1952 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage  | dG1fc0Z4dnVwU1hmMzA

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00:00The year is 1955, and a young man by the name of Del Reeves dreams of ditching the monotony of his rural life for a career in Tinseltown,

00:09making the pictures he loves instead of merely projecting them at his local drive-in.

00:13This is a decade of intense turmoil, both at home and abroad,

00:18and Del must face not only the violence of a country divided,

00:21but the ever-present fear of what the Cold War and its threat of countless nuclear weapons could unleash upon the world at any moment.

00:28But what happens after the blast?

00:33When a devastating nuclear exchange obliterates the U.S.,

00:37only the children who took cover beneath their desks are spared a certain death,

00:41and now find themselves the lone survivors in the hellish landscape of this strange and wild new 1950s America.

00:48I'm a child from a church, such a heavenly town,

00:54U.S. in America that's becoming more deadly by the minute.

01:10Duck and Cover

01:11A post-apocalyptic adventure series with a historical twist.

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