Балаларға арналған ядролық қорғаныш туралы фильм (1951)

Children's nuclear defence film by Anthony Rizzo (1951)

Duck and Cover is a 1952 American civil defense animated and live action social guidance film that is often mischaracterized as propaganda. It has similar themes to the more adult oriented civil defense training films. It was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s, and teaches students 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. It was written by Raymond J. Mauer, directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions, narrated by actor Robert Middleton, and made with help from schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York. The film is in the public domain and widely available through Internet sources such as YouTube, as well as on DVD. It was screened on Turner Classic Movies' Saturday night–Sunday morning film showcase series, TCM Underground. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Many historians and the nuclear disarmament public at large have generally sought to mock and dismiss civil defense advice as mere propaganda, including Amy Cottrell, who argues the film was made primarily as an American red scare political tool, to remind children of the dangers posed by the Soviet Union and communism. which has made a resurgence in recent years with new scientific evidence to support it. Staying indoors can offer protection from the initial blast and the following radioactive fallout and leave roads clear for emergency vehicles to access the area. This is known as the shelter in place protocol, and along with emergency evacuation, are recommended as the two countermeasures to take when the direct effects of nuclear explosions are no longer life threatening and protection is needed from coming in contact with nuclear weapon debris/fallout.

The United States' monopoly on nuclear weapons was broken by the Soviet Union in 1949 when it tested its first nuclear explosive (Joe 1), causing many in the US government and public to realize that the nation was more vulnerable than before. Duck and cover exercises quickly became a part of Civil Defense drills that every American citizen, from children to the elderly, practiced to be ready in the event of nuclear war. In 1950, during the first big Civil Defense push of the Cold War and coinciding with the Alert America! initiative to educate Americans on nuclear preparedness, the adult orientated Survival Under Atomic Attack was published, containing "duck and cover" advice in its Six Survival Secrets For Atomic Attacks section. 1. Try To Get Shielded 2. Drop Flat On Ground Or Floor 3. Bury Your Face In Your Arms ("crook of your elbow"). The child orientated film Duck and Cover was produced a year later, in 1951, by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Education efforts on the effects of nuclear weapons proceeded with stops and starts in the US due to competing alternatives. In a once classified war game that examined varying levels of war escalation, warning, and pre emptive attacks in the late 1950s to early 1960s, it was estimated that approximately 27 million US citizens would have been saved with civil defense education. However, at the time the cost of a full scale civil defense program was regarded as less effective and less cost efficient than a ballistic missile defense (Nike Zeus) system. As the Soviets were believed to be rapidly increasing their nuclear stockpile, the efficacy of both would begin to enter a diminishing returns trend. uses footage from Duck and Cover. Both films were eventually inducted into the National Film Registry. The video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1986 song "Christmas at Ground Zero" features footage from the film, mostly during an instrumental break. Bert the Turtle is shown in time with the lyric 'I'll duck and cover/ with my Yuletide lover'. The video for Peter Gabriel's 1980 song "Games Without Frontiers" features footage from the film at the end of the song. The 2015 film Bridge of Spies features a prominent scene in which grade school children watch Duck and Cover in their classroom. In the 1997 South Park episode "Volcano", South Park's residents are urged to "duck and cover" by a volcano safety film which loosely parodies Duck and Cover. This proves ineffective, as the people who follow this advice are subsequently disintegrated by the lava from the volcanic eruption. The 1999 film The Iron Giant, which is set in 1957, features a social guidance film titled Atomic Holocaust, the style and tone of which parodies the film. Near the end of the film, Kent Mansley suggests they duck and cover into a fallout shelter after the USS Nautilus mistakenly launches an offshore nuclear SLBM Polaris missile at their position. However, the other male adults claim this would be inefficient, convincing bystanders and Hogarth to not evacuate to shelter. RiffTrax also spoofed this film in 2015. The Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies episode "You Can't Just Walk Out of a Drive In" shows a group of teenagers being shown the film. The Quantum Leap episode "Nuclear Family" shows two children watching the film on television.