Duck and Cover

Name: Duck and Cover
Genre: Animation, Family
Released: 1952-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6

About Duck and Cover

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.

Anthony Rizzo's Duck and Cover is a 1952 animation film. Robert Middleton plays Narrator.

It runs 9 minutes and was released in January 1952. Written by Raymond J. Mauer.

Members will find cold war, kids, nuclear war, and cartoon turtle in it. It streams on History Vault and TCM in the United States.

Flow, The Good Shepherd, and Fail Safe make useful companions to Duck and Cover, all filed under survival.