Duck and Cover

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Duck and Cover

"Bert the Turtle says duck and cover."

1952

0h 9m

6.0(36 votes)

Animation

Family

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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.

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Robert Middleton

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