CIVIL DEFENSE FILM "FOOD SUPPLY AFTER THE BOMB" 28142
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Created in the 1950s, "Food Supply After the Bomb" examines the aftermath of an atomic attack, and posits what the response might be from civilians and government officials. The devastation to America's food production areas, and the food and drinking water shortages that would follow as a result of contamination, is dramatized. Rationing would be a necessity, and each American home should (according to the narrator) keep at least a ten day supply of food on hand in an "Emergency Food Box" filled with canned goods.
While somewhat ridiculous in the light of history, the issues presented by this film remain relevant today.
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The woman with the car packed full of groceries reminds me of when everyone was hitting the stores for toilet paper during the first wave of coronavirus. The more things change...
I love watching these old civil defense films.
Seems they use the same guy to narrate nearly every video from that era. Everything from civil defense, car and kids toy commercials. Lol
It's almost as good as them apricot preserves I heard tell about on this here talking picture.
same
Most people forget, you can drain the hot water heater and drink that water.
I loved the dramatic organ music & product placement.
Where did this bomb blast happen? 100 miles away?!
Better plan is a stock rotation system with replacing as you use. Then nothing gets too old.
A propane camp stove and a couple of 20 lb tanks is a good idea for anyone to have. Essentially the camp kitchen a scoutmaster would use while the scouts try to light their fires...
Gas type cooking methods are not approved by testing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They discovered that the blast from a bomb renders gas compressed cylinders dangerous to occupants of different types of shelters. It is recommended to use an alternative source, like candles, or a bucket stove, to prepare foods. Preference is given to foods that do not require cooking. This is especially true if a shelter has limited ventilation.
Considering how long ago this was produced it still holds up well today, logic and common sense is timeless!
+watershed44 You are so right about your comment! After my experience with hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Jean, in many parts of this CD film has shown to be true during those hurricanes and a couple of weeks after. In my area we were without power for three weeks even though we are part of the city of Orlando. During that time, for just a couple of days, if service stations had power for the gas pumps, they were actually rationed gas to 5 gallons per vehicle and no gas cans allowed. Also for several days ice was actually rationed to just one bag per adult. The other surrounding counties were in the same situation. I was smart enough to buy extra non perishable groceries, a generator (at the last minute) and topped off the gas tanks in the vehicles and the gas cans. That generator wound up supplying barely enough of the power to three houses for just a refrig, two fans, and two lights for each house which included mine.
+lassit lassit1 I happened to be on vacation at Universal Studios when Charlie hit. Ended up outrunning it to SC . Ha
We were miserable. I am a Floridian and used to muggy hot weather. However, the ice cold showers really sucked. I bought 100' of black garden hoses and threw on the roof for solar water heating. Then snaked the hose through a open bathroom window. The problem was the water was too hot coming directly out of the hose during the day. So we wound up having the shower supply the cold water with the garden hose supply the hot water. The hose was zipped tied to the shower head. We could only take basically a "spit" bath. If we were smart, we should have gone up to S.C. for a couple of weeks then come back down....
Exactly, "common sense rules, panic and chaos fail".
Some of it would apply to hurricane preparedness. But recovery after a nuclear bomb blast after a mere 10 days? I don't know whether to laugh or be outraged. And there's no way I'm cooking in a dress, high heels, and pearls.
food security, what we call civilization is only 6 meals away from utter collapse, learn how to Grow your own and lay in at least three months of food and water, cause ya can't eat bullets more than once!
you don't need to spend a fortune for your supplys just a few extra's each week and soon you will have what you need.
--Rick
I thought it was 9 meals
well you taught a former Boy Scout!
Excellent video that more people should watch. Unfortunately if there is a nuclear attack today, most people will have no clue what to do...
These food selection and stocking tips are useful for hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters....
Dave Brunero if a nuclear attack actually happened in my time I wouldn’t want to survive. If I survived the initial explosion the aftermath would be Hell on earth.
You are as clueless as this video. If you lie within 30 miles of a big city or base you will be vaporized in the first minute anyway. If this happens over 99% of the people in this country will die within 90 days of cold and starvation. This video is crap made by people who didn't understand nuclear weapons, their size and climatic effects.
@@alexkalish8288 you really have no clue about nuclear weapons effects or explosives. Please never provide any input to anyone regarding these topics.
@@psychedelicpython an important thing to remember is the quality of life you live and you chances of survival are greatly dependant on your view.
Sorry for the delay of response. There was a Derech that hit part of the Midwest on Monday, and I live in one harder hit parts of the disaster. Almost no one has power, the trees are all shredded, most of the roads are unblocked at this point, plenty of houses have been damaged (I have seen a few beyond repair, and know many families that have had to move out)... But people have been working together to get things cleaned up. I've been working 10-12 hour days...
A single nuclear weapon might not be much worse (excluding initial loss of life). Simply look at either of two cities that have been hit with nuclear weapons.
But even with a full fledged attack, people would still rebuild and want to live. I suspect within a decade or less, civilization would return.
One of the greatest evils of our world has been giving people the view that nuclear war could only be "Hell on Earth".
She just contaminated her entire kitchen by touching the rotten steak and not washing her hands.
And then she throws it into a bucket under the sink.😂🤣
Sooooo contaminated
The fbi wants you to have lots of supplies handy for fereral rape gangs confiscating and free roaming through areas ruled federa) gang territory .
When I was growing up we didn’t have much in the way of luxury items and dad and grandad grew a lot of the vegetables and fruit that ended up on our plates, meat came direct from the farm and milk from the dairy, until about the early 70’s then it was the boom of the supermarket and everything changed, I doubt many people today would cope without the convince foods and supermarkets, lack of everything really, personally I hope to meet the end quickly. Thanks for a fascinating look back to that “simpler time “. 👍🇬🇧🏴
Interesting how they ignored dried foods like rice, pasta, noodles, etc. I'm guessing they assumed no power or fuel for cooking, but just about everybody has a camp stove these days. And yes, not NEARLY enough water.
KurtB thanks for the idea. My husband and I live in the city and between the 2 of us, before and after being married for 31 years, neither one of us have never lived in the country so thing’s like a camp stove are something we’ve never thought about. I’m going to look into getting one along with what goes with them. There are all kinds of disasters that could happen.
If the emergency is one where you need to shelter inside or better underground , burning of fuel / using up oxygen / creating carbon monoxide in a confined shelter would be something you'd want to avoid.
Alcohol stoves don’t present the issues you described.
@@stevenmerlock9971 really now
Fifties folksiness and fallout,cool.6:00,the proto Karen.
Wow, the film showed Spam, Prem, AND Treet, all in the same shot! One is Hormel, one is Swift's Premium, and one is Armour Star I believe, all competitors! Such interesting product placement/juxtaposition...
"Do you want me to starve to death?!"
Long pause...
LOL
She has noticed she has no lights,TV, radio etc
Fake news can be broadcast over loudspeakers on trucks
Keeping several week's worth of food around is a good idea no matter what era you live in- or how badly you act ;)
Loving these videos!!
“Well how am I gonna eat now?” *goes to car that’s full of canned goods and other food items* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The first housewife was unprepared, but at least she had cigarettes. 😂
Gotta have smokes
Food for thought...
Wow they expected life after a nuclear war to be just a minor inconvenience of food shortages
Strange how NOTHING changes.....film says most families only have THREE days worth of food in the house. And it's the same way today. Notice the lady was NOT packing away bottles of store bought water, but straight from her tap and into a mason jar? Thanks for the video.A few weeks ago, water was going to be shut off for several blocks while water main was being worked on for 8 hours. Brother got into a semi-panic: what are we going to do, what are we going to do? How do we flush the toilets? Said I wasn't worried because I've got about 100 gallons stored in either empty 2 liter soda bottles and 4 cases of bottled water. Him: oh, you mean your Trump water. Me: besides, I've already filled my bathtub up and this is when he realizes maybe I'm not so paranoid after all and rushes off to fill his bathtub so he can flush his toilet when needed.
You forget...in that day and age, bottled water was NOT a thing. At all. I'm not even sure you could buy distilled water for your iron.
Apparently bosses have not changed either. Worker: There was a nuclear blast!
Boss: and? You're not scheduled off today - you still need to come in. (Dude in his business suit in the video)
i LOVE the organ music.
Buy alot of freeze dried foods vaccume sealed. Up to 50 years if in proper storage can be eaten dry as well,
EVERYTHING IS USED BUT THE SQUEEL... LOL !
My dad said he used to work at a processing plant where each announcement over the p.a. began with a pig squeal...their motto was "We use everything, including the squeal!"
This is some good advice for preparing for a hurricane.
She could have used 10 gallons of water per person. Two quarts won't wet the whistle. It helps to store more if you have food that needs water for preparation. This includes freeze-dried foods which have a longer shelf life than canned foods.
she could have used the water in the toilet tank there is at least 5 gallons of good potable water not to mention draining the 30 gallons from the hot water tank! but back in the 50's no one thought of that.
--Rick
The store scene is laughably improbable. First of all ,it's incredibly empty for such a dire cir circumstance. And people will not act so sedated .There would be crowds from surrounding areas packing the store and the scene would be complete bedlam
When I was a child in NYC in the late 50s and early 60s I distinctly remember milk coming in either glass bottles (most common right into the 70s) and waxed paper cartons with an attached stopper, not the "gable top" design that's common today. The waxed paper carton stoppers were actually stapled on with small wire staples. They were great for use as fire starters when empty and many a campfire was started with one of those. I'm trying to remember exactly when we switched over to the gable top design that was coated paper, not waxed. I remember it being a pretty big deal when it happened and not everyone liked them because they had a reputation for leaking. Probably why bottles continued on for so long. We were still living in Manhattan at the time, so that would make it prior to 1966. I'm going to say it was probably 1964 or '65 then.
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And the milkman delivered early in the morning to a milkbox by the door and empty bottles were returned . My dad drove a breadtruck .
@@gregorydahl A bread truck? Was bread delivered to individual homes the same way milk was delivered?
@@daradoe9415lots of pastries and birthday cake but mostly stores and restauraunts . Delivery route driver . Only until he was 24 .
4:20 well that went bad quickly.
Jenny Kennedy I was thinking it was a old nice somewhat educational film and thinking the title was wrong until 4:20 came along. LOL!
Those paper cartons of milk were always leaking. They had those kind of cartons all through my childhood.
Ahh gee...the nuclear blast ruined dinner... No electricity? Water? Ahh gee....this might go on for a week! What are we going to do? A week later...all back to normal...uh huh...the gov't spokesman said so. As soon as the mushroom cloud clears...we can all go outside and enjoy the sunshine.. Golly..we're going to be just fine. (( I was a boy in the early 60's...and actually watched these suicidal videos. ))
Until the deployment of practical hydrogen bombs atomic weapons were seen more as conventional weapons with a bonus. If you look at the duck and cover films, the biggest fear seemed to be blast, glass shards, and fire. Downrange fallout and long term radiation effects weren't fully understood.
And yeah, many of these, especially the early films, were almost suicidally wrong.
Suicidal? How?
Cripes. Don’t be such a drama queen. This film contains plenty of good information that is just as valid today.
@@ArmpitStudios The information left people with a terrible idea that a few supplies for a few weeks...and then they'd be OK. Thank God it never happened...but people were given no idea how terrible a nuke attack would be
@@MrGchiasson And the film was right. The entire country wouldn't be bombed. In a common nuclear attack scenario, there would still be plenty of food and supply chain structures left in place in the majority of the country. It doesn't take more than a few days or even weeks to redirect supply based on demand when face with that sort of thing.
They say after 10 days normal food resupply should begin again. Well, I think they are a little optimistic here. Maybe after 10 years? Maybe 100 years? Radiated fields, EMP destroying power grid, EMP destroying computers hooked up to it, looting, rioting, starvation, and more? 10 days is a bit optimistic unless the enemy only drops 1 bomb. If they drop lets say 100 of them with 7 used at high altitude for EMP effect, 43 used as surface blast to destroy military assets and the remaining 50 used to destroy population and economic centers, then we add in Fallout and nuclear winter for just 1-3 years, I doubt 10 days to restore food supply is realistic? I love these old films and most of the information is as valid today as it was then, they just did not know about todays electronics and the full effect of atmospheric clouds of dust suspended for several years.
EMP doesn't have much to do with food resupply. Most of the radiation will decay in just a few weeks. If nuclear winter even does happen, it would end very quickly. If multiple bombs dropped, I dont think grocery stores would be restored in just 10 days, but it certainly wouldn't be 10 years.
Really diggin' on that music.
That organ music is trippy, kind of like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer or Uriah Heap.
In the not too distant future, 90 seconds to Midnight AD. There lived a kid named Vault Boy, not too different from you or me.
Having no running water sucks! We had a water main break near us and I had the presence of mind to fill as many 5 gallon buckets as possible before water stopped. I had to add chlorine bleach to kill germs and boil a the water before we used it for cooking.
We didn't bathe for 3 days but I biggie...
We had to use some of that water too for the toilets!
In all I processed about 30 gallons of water and it took HOURS to do it all.
I feel that housewife's pain.
>> Ha! They horded back then too! Not just during COVID-19 days! 7:02
Just the bad narasistic people
You'll be lucky to score a bag of dog food to eat while you live in the sewers for three months.
Who are you taking to or about ? Do you live near a primary target or something like that ?
Ah, those halcyon days gone by. Housewives who could not only cook, but would.
From the makers of, 'Cannibalism and You', and, A Young Lady's Guide to Courting Insane Warlords.'
Notice the comment where the shelters should be stocked with canned goods with a long shelf life? Same thing preppers have been doing for years. But how was the food to be cooked? Looks like they were using an electric stove, but what happens when there's no power?
you use a candle stove or buddy burner, made from a tuna can set with a tightly coiled rolled strips of cardboard cut even with the can and filled with paraffin wax, there are lots of ways to heat food in a shelter.
--Rick
Roller rink background music?
07:07....that is not a proper American size shopping cart...
This film was underwritten by the Metal Can Manufactures Association of America.
Food supply after the bomb drops? Anything that you can steal or isn't nailed down/crawling away. *If* you survive.
*jnJosiaspirinaiakarolinaibalao*
In the city maybe , until you get wacked .
@@markkrause4407 not in the city and 40k rounds and lots of rations here
Well with covid we now know that toilet paper is where the real shortage will be.😆
Only the fbi had toiket paper back then .
5:58. Is that Karen? LMAO
Bizarre organ music LOL
This reminds me of my Gramma and Grampap's farm when I was a girl.
Everyone's got a plan untill the dark reality of an apocalypse hits
Those (basically) vertical white streaks are from rockets that have various instruments and recording devices in them.....
Just like in 2020 lockdown supply shortage. They forgot to mention the toilet paper - real important.
4:22 is classic editing.
Some early-gen Karen action in this video 😅
Worrying about eating safe Spam after a nuclear holocaust will be last on my list of priorities
First Song Lyrics
Come away with me, Lucille,
In my merry Oldsmobile.
Down the road of life we fly,
Automo-bubbling, you and I.
To the church we'll swiftly steal,
Then our wedding bells will peal,
You can go as far as you like with me
In my merry Oldsmobile.
Come away with me, Lucille,
In my merry Oldsmobile.
Down the road of life we fly,
Automo-bubbling, you and I.
To the church we'll swiftly steal,
Then our wedding bells will peal,
You can go as far as you like with me
In my merry Oldsmobile.
Come away with me, Lucille,
In my merry Oldsmobile.
Down the road of life we fly,
Automo-bub-bub-bubbling, you and I.
To the church we'll swiftly steal,
Then our wedding bells are gonna peal,
You can go as far as you like with me
In my merry Oldsmobile. Sh!
don't forget the lead Solder they used in making the cans back then, eating canned foods back then can cause lead poisoning.+++don't forget the raw meat can be dried,smoked or packed in salt to preserve it, you would need a LOT of salt, iodized salt to be specific
Duck....... and cover!
6:13 Obviously a Karen, but the whole food shortage thing is that after the event of nuclear devastation,
Food Sources are scarce due to radioactive contamination of livestock and plant supply, hence Rationing being a term for having enough food to feed a family, not buying everything at once.
Wow....even if you build a time machine you can't escape the karens.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio 🤣😂🤣
10 days? That’s optimistic.
No that is realistic , it is called the 7 / 10 effect ; for every 7 fold in time the radiation decreases 10 fold. Basic radiation Physics .
@Tilly Divine So you don't like to deal with facts ; must be a lefty Communist infiltrator .
After the bomb... if its not factory sealed before the bomb went off... its probably contaminated. If it is sealed, it might be contaminated when you open it.
You wash it before hand…
The" radioactive " dust covers everything . Turn cans upside down for storage .
Tins, cats and dogs, rats, insects, humans.
I watched the BBC's "Threads" enough times to know this is overly-optimistic BS...
Human flesh is on the table!!! Mmmmm
10 days until resupply. 🤣
And Now It's A Nuclear END One Way Or The Other. Any Time Now
The Enclave
I had an uncle who lived in a suburb of Dallas. This was a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and the talk turned to Tornado Preparedness. I made a suggestion of looking up the bomb shelter designs they had in Popular Mechanics & Popular Science as well as numerous other magazines, they looked at me wondering why I, a 11 year old boy was speaking during an adult conversation....
I pointed out that if it could ride out a H-Bomb 5 or so miles away, then it should ride out a tornado! I did mention that they wouldn't need the fancy air filters which would save money. They stopped and I could tell they were thinking about it, my mom suggested that I go and find where S. (male cousin a few hours older than me) was.
Next day (my uncle was on vacation so he could be with us while we visited him and other relatives in Texas) went to the public library and got the plans copied.
He later let my mother (his sister) and father know that one of the neighbors was mocking him a lot for the hole in the ground, and the building of the shelter. A Lot!!
However, next spring when a big tornado hit the area, he called us as soon as he could and let us know that he and his family were alright. Also the Mocker and his family beat him to the shelter and was waiting for him to unlock it!!!
The original Karen?
You know, this portrays a family being able to sit together again around a dinning room and eating normally with full plate servings. While normalcy maintains mental stability, in reality, that food supply is going to have to be rationed and stretched beyond the serving suggestions of most of those goods are labeled for.
While today’s store bought meal kits are years ahead in nutritional and shelf life, rationing is what will help that family survive in the long run beyond the projected figures presented here.
I see young Timmy can’t use a knife to tease the ketchup bottle, what a failure of a human that can’t use tools to make things easier for himself. Or maybe he knows Father has been feeling inadequate after the bomb dropped, and will hand it to him to indulge his father to slap the bottom of the ketchup bottle to sauce Timmy’s food.
So in the end there was not a nuclear war was there?
as Floridians know from personal experience, natural disasters can take their toll. so you should have at least 3 weeks worth of food and water s well as methods of purification on hand, though 3 months would be a wiser course.just remember to rotate your stocks every three months or so. eat what you store, and store what you eat.
--Rick
It sent message to Soviets as Americans we were prepared to survive and retaliate if they were foolish to launch first strike.
The music is terrible.
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine...
Still better than fallout 76
low bar
that tape seal sure will stop that pesky radiation
Do you mean on the case of canned food ? Radiation will not contaminate unopened canned food , it may kill any germs inside from processing plant .
It's to stop fallout from getting on the cans, which would then need to be cleaned.
They actually explained that in the video.
Flex seal
Fallout is likea dust .
These actors are terrible.
Hide from the cival defense patrols confiscating civilian arms and supplies .
mad cow from feed lots! most households only keep a weeks worth of food.
10:22 _"Ho Ho Ho. Green Giant!"_
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love.
Eat the baby. It's a useless drain on important resources. :)
Gee Honey, the world has gone to heck since the commies dropped the bomb. Just yesterday someone kidnapped the Thompson's baby. But we'll be okay. I can't believe you found some veal.
I want my baby-back baby-back baby-back baby-back baby-back baby-back riiibs!
I can’t believe that they got people to swallow their BS about nuclear war survivability.
yeah every post nuclear war women should wear skirts and high heel;s
Oh, no! Poor, helpless, defenseless housewives! How will we survive!