The scariest things about these films is not just the content and the stark tone. But also the fact that this was going to be the last program ever to be broadcast on British television.
yeah, the horrible noises and shit that play are awful too. like the siren noise they always play, and the creepy sounds when the "protect and survive" shows up at the end of each segment. all of it is fucking scary.
thefrecklepuny If it makes you feel any better, if the end of the world comes, the last program that is supposed to air on American television (CNN) is a bunch of dorks in a brass band playing “nearer by god to thee.” Of course HBO will have Martin Sheen talking about how peanut butter and people getting hit in the nuts was the height of man as a species. Much better.
There's a point in this where they casually refer to the idea that only people 30 years old and over should go outside. That doesn't match to age of physical fitness, or resistance to radiation, or anything to do with the persons wellbeing. It maps to fertility. It's instructions designed to rebuild population in whatever it is that's left.
I'm honestly not sure. I think it might be an even more terrifying sort of "devil's arithmetic". Once fallout levels are low enough to present a low risk of ARS (Acute Radiation Sickness), the problem becomes an increased lifetime risk of disease, particularly cancer. The less time a person has left to live, the less likely they are to develop those illnesses and the less time that they'll lose if they do. 30 feels like an early cut-off for that, but it seems like a matter of practicality more than anything, since a higher cut-off would mean a smaller population of able-bodied adults to do the work.
I got this recommended to me because of Local 58. Not sure I should be thankful for finding something interesting, or confused in finding something like this. I agree though, what makes this even scarier is how real it is.
Fun fact: This was made during the cold war by the british in case of a nuclear attack, it was top secret until the BBC had recieve a leaked version of it.
person on the autism spectrum here with a special interest for radiation poisoning and the effects of it on the human body, you are 100% luckier if you die immediately. The stages after that are terrifying. First of all is the first stage where you shall feel exactly how you would expect from how the media portrays it. The radiation will attack your skin cells to the point where they mutate and die. The mutation means they cannot regenerate and thus, your skin will flake off and fall apart. Diarrhea or vomiting to extreme points to where you can die of malnutrition or starvation is also another thing to worry about. Your bone marrow cells will also mutate and attack your white blood cells, making you prone to infection to the point where a common cold can kill you in hours. After around (I think) 10-30 days, you’ll have a ‘safe’ time where the effects will be much less painful and you may even feel completely better. This lasts (I think) a week or two. Dying by this point is highly likely and survival after this point is very rare (and painful). If you survive past the safe zone god bless you. The last stage is where everything gets ten times worse. It’s like the first stage but only worse with your skin turning black and terrible cancer. If you survive, you are told to not have children as passing on cancers like leukemia to them is highly likely. You will, forever, be more radioactive than most people on earth and it never completely goes away. Most die of cancer. I know one survivor of a nuclear disaster had to have his leg removed but lived until 2007 (I think) Please feel free to correct me, any of this may be wrong!
honestly Duck and cover will give you a slightly better chance of surviving debris, but other won’t protect you from radiation or firestorms or the actual heat from the blast
i mean it’s Better than running around just to get hit by a shock wave and immediately get thrown into the air like a piece of trash until you fall to your death
I love how they add dishes and cups in things you will need in your shelter. Yeah, you might be in the middle of a nuclear nightmare, but you can’t eat with your hands and drink from the bottle like an animal, stay civilized.
It says in the video that due to not having access to a flushing toilet or water to wash yourself, they recommend to not touch at all the food with bare hands just to stop disease spreading and to keep hygine...... If you've payed attention you would'nt have written that comment.
make sure you save the fine fucking china we ware the brittish bloody empire and generations after us must be reminded of that as we all get to play fallout 3 irl edition also by the way if you experience the blast in any significant way all that china is gonna mother fucking kill you but glad you have it to hand
Well, I think it's more along the lines of that strangers in a strange area are certainly most likely not going to help someone who is not family or a friend. It can be a dangerous predicament to find yourself in a strange place with strange people you don't know in a situation like this. You don't know their intentions, and you don't have their loyalty, love or trust. At best, they'll just shoot after you to get you off of their turf. At the very worst, they may just rape/sodomize/torture you, and/or your family, and then kill you, and/or your family, screw your corpses as one more go for the road. Then keep your youngest kid around in horrendous conditions, abuse, and untreated infections as a a sex/baby making slave for their new future, inbred "tribe". Then when the day of "fun" is over, and everything's settled, they'll cook and eat you and the remaining family with the taco sauce and ketchup packets they stole from that other family they did the same thing to days ago. You just don't know with some folks. Forget just selfish survival, some "people" are just straight up, remorselessly feral, and this situation will just make them even worse.
@@VaderWhoop But it didn't. In fact there is no real way of measuring it. In terms of the UK, there are far more people detained under the Mental Health Act now than there has ever been since it was enacted in 1959.
@@stevetaylor8698 Groan...😣 did you not get the joke? ( guess not ) Read the OP's post again. Plus, you don't need to be detained under the mental health act for paranoia or mental illness unless you pose a danger to yourself or others. Neither of which would apply in this case. Lighten up, sheeeeeze
I'll say it again -- I find it incredible that the very last spoken words in this series are "... and mark the spot of the burial." It's an epitaph for humanity, were it to happen. An epitaph no one would be around to read, sure, but... just sublime.
Fuking hell, it's like the people that made this thought ' hang on, this isn't scary enough, why don't we put this utterly terrifying electronic tone at the end?'
I always interpreted it as a subliminal message. The first deep electronic sound is the bomb. The tiny sounds when the circle surrounds the family is fallout. Then a pleasent sound to signal everything will be ok.
@@AngloSoviet Look up the WGBH 2 Boston logo from the 80s. We had some scary logos here in the states back then too. The WGBH one gave me a recurring nightmare in which I'd be sucked into the TV.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:13 - Nuclear Explosions Explained 1:50 - The Warnings 4:58 - What to Do When the Warnings Sound 7:42 - Stay at Home 9:29 - Choosing a Fall-Out Room 11:42 - Refuges 15:42 - Materials to Use for Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge 17:45 - Make Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge Now 22:33 - What to Put in Your Fall-Out Room 25:43 - Action After Warnings 30:03 - Water and Food 32:50 - Preparatory Steps 34:30 - Fire Precautions 36:39 - The Importance of Your Radio 38:06 - Life Under Fall-Out Conditions 41:03 - What to Do After an Attack 43:40 - Sanitation Care 46:26 - Water Consumption 47:59 - Food Consumption 49:45 - Casualties
+SSofIreland of course these videos are meant to keep calm to the masses, I'm not doubting that. But they should be more realistic when educating the public. They're just telling people how to build their own graves
+Just look at him morale doesn't mean shit when you can't eat anything because it's all been contaminated. I don't think these videos will keep everyone's morale up if a nuclear bomb devastated the UK.
pfefferfilm If you’ve had a corpse in your shelter more than five days? Who was that demented serial killer who had like eight corpses in his grandmother’s basement for five years?
I grew up within a few miles of two large RAF bases, and we would probably have been amongst the first to be attacked. I remember the Protect and Survive booklet coming through the letterbox. This was in the early 80s (I was around 9 or 10 yrs old at the time) and I had nightmares about being nuked; in fact, I still do! My friend's mother was a CND activist and had piles of scary literature and photographs of Hiroshima, it was terrifying....and watching Threads on the portable TV in the bedroom was the icing on the cake!
I felt the same. As a kid I grew up a few minutes drive away from RAE Farnborough, with Morville Army Barracks up the rod from me. The next town along was Aldershot. As a young child I didn’t nearly know what a nuclear bomb did, but was damned terrified my town would be targeted.
I hate how younger generations forget that the nuclear threat is still real (my generation). But God though I watched Threads only a few months ago and that is way more scarier then my countries equivalent the Day After.
I grew up in Newark-on-Trent Slap "bang" ( LITERALLY) in the middle of the RAF airbases Syerton SCAMPTON WADDINGTON CONINGSBY BRIZES NORTON NEWTON "Molesworth" we knew we were Flash = Glass an Ash
Well, that was a useful 50 minutes of my life. At least now if I hear 3 gunshots, 3 whistles or a bloke hitting a frying pan with a wooden spoon I'll know what to do!
There's a scene like that in 'Threads'. One of the main characters and his wife are trying to improvise a lean-to for their inner refuge as seen in these PSAs. They were starting to build it the morning of the attack but got caught unaware before it could be finished.
This is one of the scariest things I have seen. Can't believe we were so close to destroying ourselves we actually were preparing for it. The fall-out signal is particularly creepy, everything is gone and all is left is someone to blow a whistle three times in a row.
we are still really close. Super powers are still in a cold war of sorts using these bombs. Its being fought in the economic ring, but all it would take is one bad provocation or an accident like systems detecting a bomb that wasn't there. Its happened before, the only reason we're not all dead is because someone had a "gut feeling" it was a false alarm, and it was.
This really hits home: There are no winners in a nuclear war. Only survivors who slowly die a degrading death. Why do we put ourselves in such a situation.
@@planemod8399 if you survive a fallout, nuclear radiation ends up slowly immobilising you into a destitute state. or death. thats what he means by degrading death
To be honest, I'd rather die from the nuke itself than live trapped in my house trying fruitlessly to survive radiation poisoning and dying a slow, painful death.
Good thing is that if your hit directly by the nuke, your body instantly turns to dust. No bones, no skin, no organs. You are Instantly dust and microscopic particles in a fraction of a second. Not feel a thing. So yeah, dying by a nuclear explosion is the most peaceful, and 0 pain death in the world.
@@Mike-fu3xd kind of scary in a way- how easily we can disappear from the surface of this earth (well not really since we become dust but anyway you got my point)
I think anyone born after the Cold War should be thankful that this terrifying possibility of a future is more than not gone. Everyday after 1991 is a gift.
James Beil yeah I know what you mean a huge earth shattering shockwave and a second sun is gonna see you laying down and just go oh he’s lying down nothing we can do to hurt him let’s move on
KCTV Programme 'Recording yeaaaah........No still got the searing heat the fallout the vacuum that suck stronger than my wife this video can be shrunk to 10 minutes of advice and tuts is take the time to say goodbye and love you to all your loved ones you ain’t surviving modern day nuke back in Hiroshima night of done not today
I'm usually a nut for public information films and PSAs. I love people scaring me through advertising. But now, I'm obsessed with what could've happened if the inevitable happened. I'm also obsessed with parallel events.
Man this is terrifying. Imagine if America and Russia really had set off the bombs. It was the 70s, they didn't have half the stuff that could save you back then.
@@shadow_shine3578 Honestly I just hope it keeps being that way in the future... I already lived to see a pandemic, not looking forward to seeing a nuclear war.
No. If there were to be a nuclear attack in that universe the first thing Vernon would do is order Harry out of the cupboard then he would squeeze himself, Dudley and Petunia in there and leave Harry to die
i’m 54, and remember when these came out. i was only young. i can still remember the advice of stacking a table and doors against a wall. many people don’t realise, but during the time that all of this kicked off, this was terrifying. the chime at the end of these videos still give me chills today.
Well that’s just bullshit for internet clout isn’t it? This never aired and no we didn’t take the threat seriously so no one was worried. I lived through it too
What worries me a lot more is the fact that they are greatly downplaying how much damage the blast can do. Pictures: *the top of your house will fall in* Reality: no more house That and there is no genuine way to save yourself from this blast, your either dead from the initial blast or youll die from the radiation. These were made mainly to keep people from panicking.
That is not true. It depends where you are in relation to the blast. If you're right at the centre, you're going to die (although someone did survive 300m from the centre of the Hiroshima explosion). If you're 30 miles away, you might survive and I'd rather take some action to have a 20% chance of survival than do nothing and have a 5% chance.
It all depended on how close your house was from the blast site... No country on Earth has sufficient nuclear warheads to blast every acre of the enemy's territory! That's why the fallout is more dangerous...
Believe it or not, it was meant to be reassuring. Going from fear (the scary opening note, we're all going to die) to the more harmonious final chord (it's OK, you can protect and survive).
I remember watching this or similar film when in school in the 60s, not the 70s. Was about 13. Was absolutely traumatised! Here I am 71 years old and I still remember the useless information they gave out. What were they thinking?!!
a) They weren't made until to late 70s. b) They were never shown as public information films although snippets were seen on tv in the 1980s. So I'm not sure what traumatised you but it wasn't these films.
@@stevetaylor8698 I left school in 1966. I saw one of these films before I left school. I remember a man from the Civil Defense came and showed us a film about what to do in the event of nuclear fallout. So with respect, these films, or similar PI films were made in the 60s.
What were they thinking? How to minimize panic. Even if none of the tips work, what are the people gonna do after a nuke? Go protest? File a complaint?
@@stevetaylor8698 Panarama- IF THE BOMB DROPS In the event of an international crisis that looked set to trigger a war, it was intended that the UK’s TV stations would go off air and be replaced by the BBC’s Wartime Broadcasting Service- on which these short films, of which there are 20, would be played on a continual loop.
Patrick Allen recorded the voice over at StageSound(London)Ltd. in Covent Garden. I was the assistant sound engineer under Dick Warman. Patrick recorded the whole lot - plus other stuff that I have never heard again - in just two short days. Most of it in one or two takes. He was appearing in a West End play at the time so had to fit the work in around his other commitments. The special sounds came from the BBC (probably the Radiophonic Workshop) with which StageSound had close ties.
Most families where nuclear families back then its was the social norm (not to say there wasnt single parents thats stupid to say that there wherent any other type)
@Dio Brando a nuclear family doesnt automatically mean healthy/ fulfilling the needs of the household, after all how many nuclear families face divorce, abuse by a spouse or parent, financial debt, etc... its the stereotypical family for the western world cause that's the idea that has been built up due to political and religious means
i live near weapons testing areas, and sometimes i can hear small bombs going off whilst at school, even if they’re a good hour by car away. absolutely terrifying, i cant imagine what the cold war would’ve been like.
The panic we felt as little kids when they did warning tests. We heard them in the playground and this has brought it all back to me. Wish I hadn't watched threads again either. It was nightmare fuel. Ps this infomercial is taking the literal piss in reality. Even the writer of the snowman managed to freak the hell out of us. 😑
Threads was absolutely horrible! Same bloke who wrote A Kestrel for A Knave wrote it too! Stuff like those grisly executions where he takes the clothes off the guy, in that dank dungeon so they can be repurposed, the squalor and filth...ugggh...shivers down my spine!
i can't imagine how it felt to hear that as a small child :( even as someone who is older, it's disturbing and creepy, for children it must be a bit more confusing
I watched it when I was about 12 years old. Gave me nightmares. I would lay awake at night thinking the Russians were going to send missiles any moment.
@@adamv4951 Strange that you mention that, because at the time 'Threads' was made, the Soviet Union was under the leadership of Yuri Andropov, a very anti-western leader who believed in Communist world domination. Ronald Reagan was President and Margaret Thatcher was PM of Great Britain, and both had vowed not to allow that to happen. And Mikhail Gorbachev was still over a year away from becoming General Secretary of the Soviet Union. So we were pretty close to the scenario of 'Threads' and 'The Day After' playing out in real life.
Nice to see some people still remember threads, I've seen that film like more than 20 times and it's pretty good, I feel like it is much better than the day after, that's just my opinion and i'm not even 16
As someone who grew up during the Cold War and convinced I'd never see 30, one thing I never understood was why the UK didn't make fallout shelters or at least basements mandatory for new builds as Switzerland did
"Take down any curtains since they can catch fire easily .... In the moments after you hear the attack warning, make sure to draw the curtains" They couldn't even keep their instructions consistent in one series of videos, just imagine how confused someone would've been when they're faced with a nuclear attack and five different pamphlets all advising subtly different actions
There was a graphic novel and an animated film called "When The Wind Blows" which basically outlined and satirized exactly this. The instructions given were so obscure that ordinary people would have no idea what to do in a real nuclear crisis.
the sound after the family image is displayed is so fucking creepy 💀 the part where they say that if someone dies, put them in another room is probably the most scariest part of the video
@@mariekatherine5238 'They were leaving in a apartment and build the shelter in front of a window . And they left their son outside on the roof. The window got blown away and the mattress cauth fire.
BGSlopy Given my choice, I’d prefer to be the son. Of course, if we get nuked, most of us without high political connections can expect to die instantly or miserably.
I adore that. Reminds me of my gran and grandad and now mum and dad! It is worse because it's shows people try to keep calm and carry on.... Sad get your tissues out! (And this is from the same guy who wrote xmas films like the snowman!)
@@neyoid No didn't unfortunately. But it was a brilliant film and clever too. I'm going to head up to faslane in Glasgow making sure I'm not going to survive.
After working with broadcaster ITV in the past, I can confirm that these particular pifs were never broadcast (aside from being featured in documentaries and the BBC's 'Threads') and are listed as such. They were part of the emergency broadcast system and would only be activated should the threat of nuclear attack deemed imminent (within about 72 hours). Due to the nature of the EBS, even their accidental broadcast would have been impossible. They were originally deemed classified, but public outcry at the time forced the government to admit to their existence. Anyone claiming to have seen them broadcast must've been living in a very grim, alternate timeline. They have of course now been declassified for quite some time and are available on DVD. Thankfully, they never saw actual TX for the purpose they were designed..... Especially as the info in them is completely useless and about as much use as sticking a paper bag on your ahead. Placebo I'm afraid.
Unstable Shark I remember seeing at least three parts of this documentary as a child: the fallout cartoon and sound as well as the Protect and Survive logo and the cartoon of the nuclear blast. What I don’t recall is whether I was shown this at school or if I saw it on tv.
Beware of fallout! If you have survived the initial blast, you will be warned of fallout by a local official who will be walking around blowing a whistle, banging a drum or playing a gong 😂
realistically, would anyone even hear the whistle if they're hidden under 3 mattresses in the middle of their house? 🤔 i wonder if parents planned to make their least favourite child stand outside their little shelter
@@JimPickensCultist "If the maroons are not working, the local marching band will be dispatched to march through your neighborhood and play the fall out song, which sounds like this..."
@@TwistedChad and as a person from 3rd world country, I don't think my country had this PSA back then. I mean, this is important for what it was like back then.
Stay home...stay safe...stay depressed....hide under the stairs and consume pointless shite on Amazon! Fill the pockets of the already insanely rich megalomaniacs so you can fund their insane projects to the stars! Get youahh azz to Maarzzzz
"And if you've built your inner refuge properly in the centre of your home, it will make a handy tomb once your house has collapsed in on top of you & the survivors wont have to worry about you burying you"
***** There really would be no point, no house I know can stand up to blistering heat & a wind that would make the worst cyclones & tornadoes look like a mild afternoon at the beach. If it ever really kicked off, the best you can hope for is to get killed in the first seconds of an attack & know nothing about it.
***** Not me, there would be nothing to live for, trying to survive starvation, being treated like a slave for food, dying of various ingested radionuclides, shortened lifespans & a whole host of cancers, high birth defects, nuclear winters, the entire structure of civilisation wiped out, living in caves, unable to treat disease, etc. The survivors will envy the dead.
@@babyinuyasha Does it matter? He made it clear he wouldn't want to live in the world after the nuclear Armageddon, so fallout, blast or suicide, I'm sure it would be all good.
Not 3 days - In the event of an international crisis that looked set to trigger a war, it was intended that the UK’s TV stations would go off air and be replaced by the BBC’s Wartime Broadcasting Service- on which these short films, of which there are 20, would be played on a continual loop.
I've still got the Protect And Survive booklet from the 70's when this was a real threat. These mini-advice films were to be played during the intervals between normal television programs like Coronation Street etc...IF the threat became imminent....scary times.
24:27 I love how they mention medical supplies here as an optional thing to have in a fallout bunker, as if you wouldn’t obviously need that during a nuclear apocalypse.
The more terrifying thing than the films themselves is that the advice they give doesn't actually work. But hey, you'd rather have official advice than wonder what the hell you're supposed to do. I'd recommend to have a look at Threads (1984), a British film about what Britain would end up as if the bomb really drops... Truly harrowing, but devastatingly accurate. It's not a horror film, but a docu-drama, but believe me, I know people that have been truly scarred by this film.
Why do you think you're so special that you'll be in the hypocenter? You know that an explosion is a local event, right? There are places around it where it's not that harmful and you can actually survive, depending on your distance.
You may laugh, but human instinct is to survive, you fall off a high building and you know your going to die, what do you do, fold your arms and relax? No, body goes into panic mode and you desperately flap your arms or try to grab something anything, there is always a chance.. same with nuclear war, the bomb goes off, everyone doesn't go running towards it to get killed as quickly as possible, they run and hide, chance of survival is small, but it's still a chance.
+TheBookWorm1718 "30 years ago" !! The bombs haven't gone away. They are still there waiting for someone to use them. The USSR might be dead but Russia (and lots of other countries) still has the bomb.
+steve taylor A lot of them have been decommissioned. The United States built 70 000 warheads (more than every other country combined), but as of 2015 only maintains an arsenal of 4670.
+Galaxy Tab No one would survive near the cities. Anyone who 'was protected' would have the worst last 2-3 days of their life, not rivaled by actual hell itself.
In the movie "Threads" they play these PSAs in the background leading up to the attack - makes the whole thing that much more terrifying. Ironically they also show the people in the movie follow all the steps in them, they all die horribly anyway.
exactly -- they were making the point that the whole idea of civil defense in a nuclear war was utterly worthless for MOST civilians in MOST targeted regions. The ideas might have worked for a few people in a few lucky places where initial blast and heat were farther away and caused less damage, and in those places you could get some fallout defense from just such an 'inner core or refuge' as this series suggested... but again, that would be a tiny fraction of a given populated area. For 98 percent of us... this was a load of crap. And worse than that, it was a 'dangerous' load of crap since it convinced a lot of people that nuclear war was easily survivable, and therefore winnable... and therefore thinkable.
Nunya Business, I would have gone with Christmas at ground zero. If it’s during the holidays and crawl out through the fallout for the rest of the year.
They are electro-mechanical sirens which are analog and not speakers as you are implying. They can only generate this one sound with interruptions to create the attack signal or no interruption for the all clear signal.
Man this is so creepy, especially that music they always play after each message, something about that sound just makes me think about impending doom, not to mention the part when it talked about sanitation, and making an improvised toilet. At the very least that sound makes me think "damn I'm gonna be stuck in some dark, stinky, basement for several weeks, and pooping in a bucket", I know it's not even funny, it's really depressing, especially when you realize that for people in the 70's that was a very real possibility
Jeremy Forczyk It is still a very real possibility now in 2015. The weapons haven't gone away. In many respects, the "possibility" is now greater; Rogue states are a threat, and there are now Islamic countries for whom "Mutually Assured Destruction" means nothing, other than they will become mass martyrs.
Me: Forgets everything for the test I was studying for in the morning. Also me, one week later: Yeah, you can pick up your copy of Protect and Survive at the post office.
The scariest things about these films is not just the content and the stark tone. But also the fact that this was going to be the last program ever to be broadcast on British television.
yeah but the content still scares the shit out of me and ive seen it 3 times...
yeah, the horrible noises and shit that play are awful too. like the siren noise they always play, and the creepy sounds when the "protect and survive" shows up at the end of each segment. all of it is fucking scary.
if you've watched threads, you can see at least one of the family's trying to put up the lean to.
thefrecklepuny If it makes you feel any better, if the end of the world comes, the last program that is supposed to air on American television (CNN) is a bunch of dorks in a brass band playing “nearer by god to thee.”
Of course HBO will have Martin Sheen talking about how peanut butter and people getting hit in the nuts was the height of man as a species. Much better.
Still better than Eastenders.
Damn Jack Stauber really went all out with this one.
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There's a point in this where they casually refer to the idea that only people 30 years old and over should go outside. That doesn't match to age of physical fitness, or resistance to radiation, or anything to do with the persons wellbeing. It maps to fertility. It's instructions designed to rebuild population in whatever it is that's left.
Nah, once you hit level 30 you get your first anti-radiation perk in your skill tree.
I'm honestly not sure. I think it might be an even more terrifying sort of "devil's arithmetic".
Once fallout levels are low enough to present a low risk of ARS (Acute Radiation Sickness), the problem becomes an increased lifetime risk of disease, particularly cancer. The less time a person has left to live, the less likely they are to develop those illnesses and the less time that they'll lose if they do. 30 feels like an early cut-off for that, but it seems like a matter of practicality more than anything, since a higher cut-off would mean a smaller population of able-bodied adults to do the work.
OMG THIS IS SO EVILLLLL soyboy screams while waving his arms
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@@kubbayioka1858 I got that fallout reference
This is the original analogue horror. No buildup or pacing like Local 58, but all the more effective, simply because it is real.
I got this recommended to me because of Local 58. Not sure I should be thankful for finding something interesting, or confused in finding something like this. I agree though, what makes this even scarier is how real it is.
no fr i think i was subconsciously waiting for something “supernatural” of sorts to happen even tho ik this isnt anything of the sort
i actively watch this because of all my analogue horror shit. i mainly watch harvester and electric fanatic
Fun fact: This was made during the cold war by the british in case of a nuclear attack, it was top secret until the BBC had recieve a leaked version of it.
Yep, when I first saw this, my first thought was that it's very similar to modern analog horror films.
"Keep the doors shut. Do not go outside the house."
Done and done, man this fallout shit is easy I've been prepared for years.
For the last year, this comment has been strangely accurate, for the wrong reasons!
@@locutus155 Nah bro, he's just a NEET
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you must be a master of the covid lockdowns, i cant be too far behind lol
@@prorrie yeah a Nuclear Extinction Escapee trainer
The terrifying part of this is that you're more lucky if you die immeadiately than if you survive only to slowly die from the radiation...
id want someone to snap my neck instantly tbh
well shit might as well go against literally everything theyre saying
person on the autism spectrum here with a special interest for radiation poisoning and the effects of it on the human body, you are 100% luckier if you die immediately. The stages after that are terrifying. First of all is the first stage where you shall feel exactly how you would expect from how the media portrays it. The radiation will attack your skin cells to the point where they mutate and die. The mutation means they cannot regenerate and thus, your skin will flake off and fall apart. Diarrhea or vomiting to extreme points to where you can die of malnutrition or starvation is also another thing to worry about. Your bone marrow cells will also mutate and attack your white blood cells, making you prone to infection to the point where a common cold can kill you in hours. After around (I think) 10-30 days, you’ll have a ‘safe’ time where the effects will be much less painful and you may even feel completely better. This lasts (I think) a week or two. Dying by this point is highly likely and survival after this point is very rare (and painful). If you survive past the safe zone god bless you. The last stage is where everything gets ten times worse. It’s like the first stage but only worse with your skin turning black and terrible cancer. If you survive, you are told to not have children as passing on cancers like leukemia to them is highly likely. You will, forever, be more radioactive than most people on earth and it never completely goes away. Most die of cancer. I know one survivor of a nuclear disaster had to have his leg removed but lived until 2007 (I think)
Please feel free to correct me, any of this may be wrong!
@@gayforthepillarmen7290 You like nuclear stuff A LOT
@@gayforthepillarmen7290 oh hey, we'd make a great team i'm adhd and one of my special interests is this stuff 😅
5:50 "if you are caught in the open, lie down." this has to be the most "i give up"-type defense i've ever seen... which is fair
Better than being thrown through the air like a ragdoll by the shockwave I guess
honestly Duck and cover will give you a slightly better chance of surviving debris, but other won’t protect you from radiation or firestorms or the actual heat from the blast
@@Steampunk_Ocelot what a way to go though. Beats slowly dying from radiation sickness any day.
i mean it’s Better than running around just to get hit by a shock wave and immediately get thrown into the air like a piece of trash until you fall to your death
Front lawn, face up, feet together?
I love how they add dishes and cups in things you will need in your shelter. Yeah, you might be in the middle of a nuclear nightmare, but you can’t eat with your hands and drink from the bottle like an animal, stay civilized.
It says in the video that due to not having access to a flushing toilet or water to wash yourself, they recommend to not touch at all the food with bare hands just to stop disease spreading and to keep hygine...... If you've payed attention you would'nt have written that comment.
make sure you save the fine fucking china we ware the brittish bloody empire and generations after us must be reminded of that as we all get to play fallout 3 irl edition also by the way if you experience the blast in any significant way all that china is gonna mother fucking kill you but glad you have it to hand
Well, a dish you have a point on, but a cup is useful enough.
@@londonf2009 if there's fallout getting in your house you're breathing it in so who cares ?
We can't go without our cups of tea
"You're better off staying at home...where you are known." Translation: "...where your body can be easily identified."
Well, I think it's more along the lines of that strangers in a strange area are certainly most likely not going to help someone who is not family or a friend. It can be a dangerous predicament to find yourself in a strange place with strange people you don't know in a situation like this. You don't know their intentions, and you don't have their loyalty, love or trust. At best, they'll just shoot after you to get you off of their turf. At the very worst, they may just rape/sodomize/torture you, and/or your family, and then kill you, and/or your family, screw your corpses as one more go for the road. Then keep your youngest kid around in horrendous conditions, abuse, and untreated infections as a a sex/baby making slave for their new future, inbred "tribe". Then when the day of "fun" is over, and everything's settled, they'll cook and eat you and the remaining family with the taco sauce and ketchup packets they stole from that other family they did the same thing to days ago. You just don't know with some folks. Forget just selfish survival, some "people" are just straight up, remorselessly feral, and this situation will just make them even worse.
Was it very wrong to laugh, because you’re so right!
That's if there is any body left! VAPORISED!
King James
🤣
@@ARedMagicMarker
You think there are going to be babies?
“Fallout can kill. But you cannot see it, taste it, or smell it.”
“If you see fallout on your clothes, wipe it off before going inside”
And they wonder why mental illness and paranoia peaked in the 80's
Ikr 🤣
Kyle J good advice.
@@VaderWhoop But it didn't. In fact there is no real way of measuring it. In terms of the UK, there are far more people detained under the Mental Health Act now than there has ever been since it was enacted in 1959.
@@stevetaylor8698
Groan...😣 did you not get the joke? ( guess not )
Read the OP's post again.
Plus, you don't need to be detained under the mental health act for paranoia or mental illness unless you pose a danger to yourself or others.
Neither of which would apply in this case.
Lighten up, sheeeeeze
the sound effects in the video that play make me so nervous and yt reccommened me this out of no where is making me even more nervous
hi cuptoast
hello there
fancy seeing you here
w ait huh its real
I'll say it again -- I find it incredible that the very last spoken words in this series are "... and mark the spot of the burial." It's an epitaph for humanity, were it to happen. An epitaph no one would be around to read, sure, but... just sublime.
I think the point of marking burial is not to establish some kind of memorial, but to make the body easy to discover and identify.
@@joshuawaring4180 I think his point is, there wouldn’t be any survivors and they knew.
At various times, they suggested you carry all important documents with you - it was to identify you if you died.
@@asdf9890
Google-
* Struggle for survival written by Steve Fox*
"Sorry"
Fuking hell, it's like the people that made this thought ' hang on, this isn't scary enough, why don't we put this utterly terrifying electronic tone at the end?'
AngloSoviet the spinning globe?
I always interpreted it as a subliminal message. The first deep electronic sound is the bomb. The tiny sounds when the circle surrounds the family is fallout. Then a pleasent sound to signal everything will be ok.
Bawbag 222 IKR
@@AngloSoviet Look up the WGBH 2 Boston logo from the 80s. We had some scary logos here in the states back then too. The WGBH one gave me a recurring nightmare in which I'd be sucked into the TV.
The point of it is to scare people into. Listening
The sound of the protect and serve circling the family is terrifying.
On the first one, I was down in the comments and I heard the sound. I thought it was the all-clear noise O_o
Aye, that little ditty was common in public service announcements up until the end of the cold war.
Composed by Roger Limb !
Yep, it looks like they are becoming one with the nuke.
Praise be to Atom. The coming of the Great Divide is upon us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:13 - Nuclear Explosions Explained
1:50 - The Warnings
4:58 - What to Do When the Warnings Sound
7:42 - Stay at Home
9:29 - Choosing a Fall-Out Room
11:42 - Refuges
15:42 - Materials to Use for Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge
17:45 - Make Your Fall-Out Room and Refuge Now
22:33 - What to Put in Your Fall-Out Room
25:43 - Action After Warnings
30:03 - Water and Food
32:50 - Preparatory Steps
34:30 - Fire Precautions
36:39 - The Importance of Your Radio
38:06 - Life Under Fall-Out Conditions
41:03 - What to Do After an Attack
43:40 - Sanitation Care
46:26 - Water Consumption
47:59 - Food Consumption
49:45 - Casualties
thank you very much
Thanks
Thx dude
Thank you
you legend
The very fact that this was ever needed to be produced is living proof of how horrendous human kind is.
Wait until your seen 1984's Threads, or read either Raymond Briggs' graphic novel 'When the wind blows' or Keiji Nakazawa 'Barefoot Gen.
A skid mark on this earth.
@@misterjei when the wind blows traumatized me, it's both so horrible and interesting at the same time
They act like if a nuclear bomb was dropped we could all go to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for this all to blow over
Well honestly, what would the alternative be?
"This country is about to be attacked by nuclear weapons. PANIC! PANIC! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
+SSofIreland of course these videos are meant to keep calm to the masses, I'm not doubting that. But they should be more realistic when educating the public. They're just telling people how to build their own graves
Ever heard of morale?
+Just look at him morale doesn't mean shit when you can't eat anything because it's all been contaminated. I don't think these videos will keep everyone's morale up if a nuclear bomb devastated the UK.
+AbbieIs AKilljoy there's no point of survival if you can't eat, or drink water. Where's the morale in that?
"If however, you've had the body in your house for more than five days"
best line from a government funded video ever.
pfefferfilm If you’ve had a corpse in your shelter more than five days? Who was that demented serial killer who had like eight corpses in his grandmother’s basement for five years?
🔔🔔 bring out your dead!!
@@mariekatherine5238 Quite a few. Harrison Graham killed 7 women over the course of a year and stacked the bodies in a room of his apartment.
@Ylva Hermansson *hits him* Now he is
@@ElleCee62978 how did nobody smell that?
"If you have a 2 story house, go to the ground floor or basement"
"If you have a 1 story house, you're fucked lol"
I love the logic that a person on the ground floor of a two story house would survive, but a person in a single level (ground level) house would die.
@@hazelgrunts Florida people would just die then
@@mrdigbears5675 no they mad and made out of nuclear weapons
@@loco4loco houses in Florida don’t have second story/bunker
The Leon pfp 😍
I grew up within a few miles of two large RAF bases, and we would probably have been amongst the first to be attacked. I remember the Protect and Survive booklet coming through the letterbox. This was in the early 80s (I was around 9 or 10 yrs old at the time) and I had nightmares about being nuked; in fact, I still do! My friend's mother was a CND activist and had piles of scary literature and photographs of Hiroshima, it was terrifying....and watching Threads on the portable TV in the bedroom was the icing on the cake!
I felt the same. As a kid I grew up a few minutes drive away from RAE Farnborough, with Morville Army Barracks up the rod from me. The next town along was Aldershot. As a young child I didn’t nearly know what a nuclear bomb did, but was damned terrified my town would be targeted.
Мне сняться такие кошмары
Jesus Christ 😲
I hate how younger generations forget that the nuclear threat is still real (my generation). But God though I watched Threads only a few months ago and that is way more scarier then my countries equivalent the Day After.
I grew up in Newark-on-Trent
Slap "bang" ( LITERALLY) in the middle of the
RAF airbases
Syerton
SCAMPTON
WADDINGTON
CONINGSBY
BRIZES NORTON
NEWTON
"Molesworth"
we knew we were
Flash =
Glass an Ash
"The fire brigade may not be able to reach you."
Understatement of the century.
What it should of said, was the fire brigade will not respond. It’s unlikely they will be available for the next couple of years! 😂
hahahahahahahaaha typical British understatment. Basically means you have no chance! The fire station will probably be rubble lol
It's just to keep people calm, you can't think properly when your experiencencing intense emotions such as fear
yes
what actually it said: fire brigades don’t exist anymore
Well, that was a useful 50 minutes of my life. At least now if I hear 3 gunshots, 3 whistles or a bloke hitting a frying pan with a wooden spoon I'll know what to do!
Hahahahahaha!!!!
Same! I already have the fallout room ready! I even have knife just in case someone tries to raid my house!
Yes, I also learned to store your pee in a trashcan
Imagine hearing the siren then spending the last 3 minutes of your life trying to unscrew your doors.
@Number 9 so you just spend the entirety of the 70s and 80s with all your doors out of their frames and piled against a wall at all times?
@Number 9 and when did people get their booklet in the post that told them to do the same?
I know I'm late but this never actually aired, it would air when the risk of attack was high, giving people time to prepare their refuge.
There's a scene like that in 'Threads'. One of the main characters and his wife are trying to improvise a lean-to for their inner refuge as seen in these PSAs. They were starting to build it the morning of the attack but got caught unaware before it could be finished.
I love how in the first one the house only looks barely damaged when in fact it probably would’ve been decimated
It depends how far away you are from the blast
This is one of the scariest things I have seen. Can't believe we were so close to destroying ourselves we actually were preparing for it.
The fall-out signal is particularly creepy, everything is gone and all is left is someone to blow a whistle three times in a row.
we are still really close. Super powers are still in a cold war of sorts using these bombs. Its being fought in the economic ring, but all it would take is one bad provocation or an accident like systems detecting a bomb that wasn't there. Its happened before, the only reason we're not all dead is because someone had a "gut feeling" it was a false alarm, and it was.
@@nickmagrick7702 like, 59 times during the cold war
yeh who is the poor git who has to stand outside in the fallout blowing a whistle?
Hey guys
Putin called
This really hits home: There are no winners in a nuclear war. Only survivors who slowly die a degrading death. Why do we put ourselves in such a situation.
Greedy old rich men in power
@@joot9184 ong. corrupt old bitches
while who cause this are in Mars
Degrading death? How is it degrading death. Probably instant death
@@planemod8399 if you survive a fallout, nuclear radiation ends up slowly immobilising you into a destitute state. or death. thats what he means by degrading death
Just going to say this, thank you Stanislov Petrov.
To be honest, I'd rather die from the nuke itself than live trapped in my house trying fruitlessly to survive radiation poisoning and dying a slow, painful death.
I'd rather survive the blast and kill myself later
Good thing is that if your hit directly by the nuke, your body instantly turns to dust. No bones, no skin, no organs. You are Instantly dust and microscopic particles in a fraction of a second. Not feel a thing. So yeah, dying by a nuclear explosion is the most peaceful, and 0 pain death in the world.
@@Mike-fu3xd kind of scary in a way- how easily we can disappear from the surface of this earth (well not really since we become dust but anyway you got my point)
I agree
"after a nuclear war, the living will envy the dead" - Nikita Khrushchev (maybe)
Watching this, I'm starting to think the only reason we never had a nuclear war was no-one could be bothered to do all these chores.
Yeah, even the Russians said, "That is too much, comrades. Let's just all be friends and drink vodka."
Oh my god, parenting 101
Pretty sure it is because everybody dying no win situation
@@Eric-lx8hp but what about the people who did survive and had to clean up the mess?
MasterJediDude “It is Yakov’s turn to take out dead body, Ivan has done it twice today.”
“No, is Vladimir’s turn.”
As if after you've been deafened by a nuclear explosion you're going to hear a f**king whistle.
If you are so close as to be deafened, I shouldn't worry too much, you be pretty much ash.
@Octo Kid leave the country 🤣☢️
Lol
😂
I think anyone born after the Cold War should be thankful that this terrifying possibility of a future is more than not gone. Everyday after 1991 is a gift.
@@earwigplanet They have invaded, but I don’t think nukes will be used they are too destructive.
:') oh god this didn't age well.
@@Merugaf SMH 😐
Putin: Hold my beer.
"If you are caught outside, lie down."
That pretty much sums up the whole series of these!
+James Beil have a cuppa tea and wait for all this to blow over would sum this up best ;)
+Trigger Dawg I still think we should go to the Winchester
The bomb usually explodes slightly above the ground.
By lying down, you have a lesser chance to be hit by the blast wave
James Beil yeah I know what you mean a huge earth shattering shockwave and a second sun is gonna see you laying down and just go oh he’s lying down nothing we can do to hurt him let’s move on
KCTV Programme 'Recording yeaaaah........No still got the searing heat the fallout the vacuum that suck stronger than my wife this video can be shrunk to 10 minutes of advice and tuts is take the time to say goodbye and love you to all your loved ones you ain’t surviving modern day nuke back in Hiroshima night of done not today
Who else is on a binge of information films on nuclear bombs from the Cold War?
me
J George Mercado me
here!
I was thinking of building a underground shelter in my garden, whilst all my neighbours suffer the blast haha!
I'm usually a nut for public information films and PSAs. I love people scaring me through advertising. But now, I'm obsessed with what could've happened if the inevitable happened. I'm also obsessed with parallel events.
Thanks 2022, didn’t think I’d need a refresher on this…
Right? At least it's a better PSA no matter how ridiculous this may seem
16:53 He says: "WHEN you need them" instead of "IF you need it" it's a really subtle but scary choice of wording.
Man this is terrifying. Imagine if America and Russia really had set off the bombs.
It was the 70s, they didn't have half the stuff that could save you back then.
@@shadow_shine3578 Honestly I just hope it keeps being that way in the future...
I already lived to see a pandemic, not looking forward to seeing a nuclear war.
@@chickpea same. Merry Christmas. No nuclear winter yet!
13:44
Harry Potter's aunt and uncle weren't actually mean; they were just protecting him from fallout.
Lol where’s the one reply
'an that melord...??!!!!! is the 'wrong un's' defences case'
@@ghrndez that’s a British accent I think.
Lmao
No. If there were to be a nuclear attack in that universe the first thing Vernon would do is order Harry out of the cupboard then he would squeeze himself, Dudley and Petunia in there and leave Harry to die
i’m 54, and remember when these came out. i was only young. i can still remember the advice of stacking a table and doors against a wall. many people don’t realise, but during the time that all of this kicked off, this was terrifying.
the chime at the end of these videos still give me chills today.
These didn’t air… did you watch threads?
He may have seen them at a CND event. CND had managed to get the entire run.
DAD? YOU CAN WRITE ENGLISH PERFECTLY NOW! :0
Well that’s just bullshit for internet clout isn’t it? This never aired and no we didn’t take the threat seriously so no one was worried. I lived through it too
Clout chaser
What worries me a lot more is the fact that they are greatly downplaying how much damage the blast can do.
Pictures: *the top of your house will fall in*
Reality: no more house
That and there is no genuine way to save yourself from this blast, your either dead from the initial blast or youll die from the radiation. These were made mainly to keep people from panicking.
@Kankisurra you completely missed my point. But go off a guess
That is not true. It depends where you are in relation to the blast. If you're right at the centre, you're going to die (although someone did survive 300m from the centre of the Hiroshima explosion). If you're 30 miles away, you might survive and I'd rather take some action to have a 20% chance of survival than do nothing and have a 5% chance.
It all depended on how close your house was from the blast site... No country on Earth has sufficient nuclear warheads to blast every acre of the enemy's territory! That's why the fallout is more dangerous...
I think it is because this was made in 70s, so nuclear thing was less known than today
"BUSINESS AS USUAL"
is the term
Otherwise, yes, widespread
Pandemonium
Folks would literally go insane
35:55 i Love how he said "the fire brigade May not be able to reach you" as if thered be any fucking chance they are
I'm guessing the jingle was designed to sound terrifying in case you aren't taking the threat of nuclear war seriously
Believe it or not, it was meant to be reassuring. Going from fear (the scary opening note, we're all going to die) to the more harmonious final chord (it's OK, you can protect and survive).
@dunebasher1971
Ah yes so reassuring - this warm wet feeling running down my pants must mean I’m feeling confident lmfao
@@rabidrabbitshuggers I think that's how it works
dunebasher1971 still scared the shit out of me as a kid
Well. That little Circle... I think it symbolises the atom and how it could take you.... and your family... and your friends... and your life
Does the"sound" they put to the fallout makes someone else feel goosebumps or is it just me?
Edgar González Casasola frightens me!
Stephen Hamblen the music stings are supposed to be calming(!)
Stephen Hamblen these where never aired
So creepy!
I'd say that sound is somewhat freaky!
I think if this happened in america there would be mass causalitys bc people will say “I don’t live in fear, I’m not a sheep”. “Fallout isn’t real”
I remember watching this or similar film when in school in the 60s, not the 70s. Was about 13. Was absolutely traumatised! Here I am 71 years old and I still remember the useless information they gave out. What were they thinking?!!
a) They weren't made until to late 70s.
b) They were never shown as public information films although snippets were seen on tv in the 1980s.
So I'm not sure what traumatised you but it wasn't these films.
@@stevetaylor8698 I left school in 1966. I saw one of these films before I left school. I remember a man from the Civil Defense came and showed us a film about what to do in the event of nuclear fallout. So with respect, these films, or similar PI films were made in the 60s.
@@Louizalass probably similar films
What were they thinking? How to minimize panic. Even if none of the tips work, what are the people gonna do after a nuke? Go protest? File a complaint?
@@stevetaylor8698
Panarama-
IF THE BOMB DROPS
In the event of an international crisis that looked set to trigger a war, it was intended that the UK’s TV stations would go off air and be replaced by the BBC’s Wartime Broadcasting Service- on which these short films, of which there are 20, would be played on a continual loop.
Patrick Allen recorded the voice over at StageSound(London)Ltd. in Covent Garden. I was the assistant sound engineer under Dick Warman. Patrick recorded the whole lot - plus other stuff that I have never heard again - in just two short days. Most of it in one or two takes. He was appearing in a West End play at the time so had to fit the work in around his other commitments. The special sounds came from the BBC (probably the Radiophonic Workshop) with which StageSound had close ties.
you must have been wetting yourself listening to this bullshit! lol
So, not Matt Berry?
This is the last voice you will ever hear. Don't be alarmed.
Very fascinating, thank you for sharing. impressive that he did it in one or two takes, but unsurprising given his pedigree from the stage.
Was it Allen’s voice used on the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song ‘Two Tribes’? Serious question. Thanks.
I noticed the little circle with the family in it... is a representative of the so-called nuclear family. What irony.
Most families where nuclear families back then its was the social norm (not to say there wasnt single parents thats stupid to say that there wherent any other type)
But yeah it is ironic
I think it symbolises the atom and how it could take you.... and your family... and your friends... and your life
@Dio Brando a nuclear family doesnt automatically mean healthy/ fulfilling the needs of the household, after all how many nuclear families face divorce, abuse by a spouse or parent, financial debt, etc... its the stereotypical family for the western world cause that's the idea that has been built up due to political and religious means
Ahh, isn’t that 2.4 kids?
i live near weapons testing areas, and sometimes i can hear small bombs going off whilst at school, even if they’re a good hour by car away.
absolutely terrifying, i cant imagine what the cold war would’ve been like.
The way that death is talked about in such a monotone voice gives me the chills.
45:00 - Here are some tips on how to dispose of toilet waste
50:00 - Here are some tips on how to dispose of your loved ones
Hey you foretold what is currently happening in 2020.
Hey, you made the song "If Anyone Dies"! One of my favorites man. You deserve more recognition. Keep it up, man.
@@jerek9378 Thanks! Glad you liked it
Steven O'Brien did you base the song off of nuclear war? around the same time you commented is when the song come out right?
@@imacarguy4544 Yeah
The panic we felt as little kids when they did warning tests. We heard them in the playground and this has brought it all back to me. Wish I hadn't watched threads again either. It was nightmare fuel. Ps this infomercial is taking the literal piss in reality. Even the writer of the snowman managed to freak the hell out of us. 😑
Got any stories to share about this time?
Threads was absolutely horrible! Same bloke who wrote A Kestrel for A Knave wrote it too! Stuff like those grisly executions where he takes the clothes off the guy, in that dank dungeon so they can be repurposed, the squalor and filth...ugggh...shivers down my spine!
I remember those sirens being sounded when in primary school
i can't imagine how it felt to hear that as a small child :( even as someone who is older, it's disturbing and creepy, for children it must be a bit more confusing
Amber alerts still scare even now
can’t believe the protect and survive informercial Referenced the hit-game Fallout 😱😳
I do so hope your joking 😂😂
Lmfao
Thanks Mark Felton, I’m now adequately depressed.
It's that protect and survive jingle at the end that freak me out. Always in the background in Threads
It's an awful jingle scared the hell out of me when I watched threads!
Threads is terrifying even without the background protect and survive jingle
I watched it when I was about 12 years old. Gave me nightmares. I would lay awake at night thinking the Russians were going to send missiles any moment.
@@adamv4951 Strange that you mention that, because at the time 'Threads' was made, the Soviet Union was under the leadership of Yuri Andropov, a very anti-western leader who believed in Communist world domination. Ronald Reagan was President and Margaret Thatcher was PM of Great Britain, and both had vowed not to allow that to happen. And Mikhail Gorbachev was still over a year away from becoming General Secretary of the Soviet Union. So we were pretty close to the scenario of 'Threads' and 'The Day After' playing out in real life.
Nice to see some people still remember threads, I've seen that film like more than 20 times and it's pretty good, I feel like it is much better than the day after, that's just my opinion and i'm not even 16
As someone who grew up during the Cold War and convinced I'd never see 30, one thing I never understood was why the UK didn't make fallout shelters or at least basements mandatory for new builds as Switzerland did
Too expensive. The UK population was over 50 million during the Cold War compared to Switzerland's 6 million at the time.
@@warprecautions631 that makes sense
Irony that it would be mandated in a country that doesn’t get involved in wars
The bombs
Create creators
150meters deep
And 2 miles wide
And radiation turns you to butter
Shout-out to everyone looking here late February 2022! Let's hope we make it to 2023!
FUCK YEAH BABY
I’m watching January 31, 2024. Hope we make it to 2025 🙏
the way this is more unsettling than 75% of analog horror on YT
Probably because it's not meant to be horror at all and that it was a real situation.
I'll put my faith in Vault-Tec, thank you very much.
Nice one
Prepare for the future!
Vault tec isn't riyl
If you fancy being part of a twisted experiment, sure.
If you really look at it, I think the Fallout games are giving us ideas of getting prepared for the future.
The 'all clear' siren is scary, because who or what is going to be left to sound it or hear it?
+Noel Masson except the fallout I guess
+Noel Masson Wouldn't that depend on where you are? If you are far away and only small amounts of fallout land I imagine there would be a siren?
+Noel Masson The video says they would use 3 bangs/gongs. Is this not the case now? I have no idea, so just wanted to see if anybody else knew.
+Noel Masson Could you explain why?
+Noel Masson Battery .
Mark Felton sent me. He was right. This is depressing.
Sadly we might need this information!
"Don't smoke!"
Well damm, I can't even have one last cigarette before I'm completely obliterated by a nuclear bomb?!
Sounds like the perfect time for a smoke.
Yeah f*** cancer lets smoke :)
Katherine A. Blais sounds like the perfect time for some heroin. 😂
@@grime5652 oh definetly
@@mortenjensen3681 nuclear weapons will give you cancer anyway.
"Take down any curtains since they can catch fire easily .... In the moments after you hear the attack warning, make sure to draw the curtains"
They couldn't even keep their instructions consistent in one series of videos, just imagine how confused someone would've been when they're faced with a nuclear attack and five different pamphlets all advising subtly different actions
There was a graphic novel and an animated film called "When The Wind Blows" which basically outlined and satirized exactly this. The instructions given were so obscure that ordinary people would have no idea what to do in a real nuclear crisis.
Actually in the booklet, they say to remove thin curtains that might easily catch fire, but to leave heavy curtains so they can protect against glass.
You remove them after the blast and if they haven't caught fire you put em back on and draw em but yeah it's obscure
the sound after the family image is displayed is so fucking creepy 💀
the part where they say that if someone dies, put them in another room is probably the most scariest part of the video
I can agree with you.
This suddenly feels very relevant again😕
A Military grade fallout shelter 😒🤚
Doors leaning up against a wall with dense materials stacked on them😏👉
A lot cheaper too
In Threads, this was two doors with trash bags, couch pillows, and a mattress. I think the couple under it were both dead after two days.
@@mariekatherine5238 'They were leaving in a apartment and build the shelter in front of a window . And they left their son outside on the roof. The window got blown away and the mattress cauth fire.
BGSlopy Given my choice, I’d prefer to be the son. Of course, if we get nuked, most of us without high political connections can expect to die instantly or miserably.
It can work
'Make sure to keep all doors shut for safety, then take them all off and make a refuge.'
Great idea. 'When the Wind Blows' wasn't making this shit up.
I adore that. Reminds me of my gran and grandad and now mum and dad! It is worse because it's shows people try to keep calm and carry on....
Sad get your tissues out! (And this is from the same guy who wrote xmas films like the snowman!)
Poor James and Hilda. They didn't deserve all that.
@@neyoid No didn't unfortunately. But it was a brilliant film and clever too.
I'm going to head up to faslane in Glasgow making sure I'm not going to survive.
I've only seen bits of that film, but wow, was it sad.
Candy Wolff if you want to watch it, it’s on google if you search “ when the wind blows full movie”
THE CAKE WILL BE BURNT!
When the wind blows reference
Just to think that all of this could be avoided if humans worked together and resolved matters in a more peaceful way.
Nah, we are apes
After working with broadcaster ITV in the past, I can confirm that these particular pifs were never broadcast (aside from being featured in documentaries and the BBC's 'Threads') and are listed as such. They were part of the emergency broadcast system and would only be activated should the threat of nuclear attack deemed imminent (within about 72 hours). Due to the nature of the EBS, even their accidental broadcast would have been impossible. They were originally deemed classified, but public outcry at the time forced the government to admit to their existence. Anyone claiming to have seen them broadcast must've been living in a very grim, alternate timeline. They have of course now been declassified for quite some time and are available on DVD. Thankfully, they never saw actual TX for the purpose they were designed..... Especially as the info in them is completely useless and about as much use as sticking a paper bag on your ahead. Placebo I'm afraid.
Unstable Shark EBS was American, and warned of other emergencies like severe weather
Threads and a few documentaries. Yes. As a kid, that's how I saw them. Still haunted.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii...
@Jane Hibberd unstable shark EBS? What? Yes, the EBS was an American thing, and someone DID set off a false alarm in 1971.
Unstable Shark I remember seeing at least three parts of this documentary as a child: the fallout cartoon and sound as well as the Protect and Survive logo and the cartoon of the nuclear blast. What I don’t recall is whether I was shown this at school or if I saw it on tv.
Beware of fallout!
If you have survived the initial blast, you will be warned of fallout by a local official who will be walking around blowing a whistle, banging a drum or playing a gong 😂
realistically, would anyone even hear the whistle if they're hidden under 3 mattresses in the middle of their house? 🤔 i wonder if parents planned to make their least favourite child stand outside their little shelter
If a marching band walks through your neighbourhood, you know there will be fallout.
@@JimPickensCultist Lol
@@JimPickensCultist "If the maroons are not working, the local marching band will be dispatched to march through your neighborhood and play the fall out song, which sounds like this..."
Watching this with the new war in Europe is fun…..
Came here to say the same!
Watching this when the attacking country and the attacked country are your neighbours is even funnier.
I came here because the recommendation shows me this. And am still wondering why did CZcams recommend me this.
@@TwistedChad and as a person from 3rd world country, I don't think my country had this PSA back then. I mean, this is important for what it was like back then.
I didn't know radioactive fallout made such an eerie/creepy sound. ;-)
I've heard fallout that sounds like Freddie mercury.
@@ianmangham4570 wait what
Waiting for the Coronavirus sequel of Protect & Survive
barttool same that’s the only reason I’m here
YES! Somebody PLEASE do that!
Stay home...stay safe...stay depressed....hide under the stairs and consume pointless shite on Amazon! Fill the pockets of the already insanely rich megalomaniacs so you can fund their insane projects to the stars! Get youahh azz to Maarzzzz
@@Martin-lp4yg Wake up the 🐑 but you are more of a 🐑 believing wrestlers are taking over.
omit the fallout room and inner refuge and this is the CDCs advice in 2020
Did i watch this in history today? Yes.
Did the sirens scare me? Also yes.
Am i watching this right now at night for absolutely no reason at all? Yes.
I didnt know this was stock footage. I thought it was original material shot for Threads.
Google-
Two minutes to midnight/ view from the mirror
Then CZcams-
Panarama-
IF THE BOMB DROPS
"And if you've built your inner refuge properly in the centre of your home, it will make a handy tomb once your house has collapsed in on top of you & the survivors wont have to worry about you burying you"
***** There really would be no point, no house I know can stand up to blistering heat & a wind that would make the worst cyclones & tornadoes look like a mild afternoon at the beach. If it ever really kicked off, the best you can hope for is to get killed in the first seconds of an attack & know nothing about it.
***** Not me, there would be nothing to live for, trying to survive starvation, being treated like a slave for food, dying of various ingested radionuclides, shortened lifespans & a whole host of cancers, high birth defects, nuclear winters, the entire structure of civilisation wiped out, living in caves, unable to treat disease, etc. The survivors will envy the dead.
RobertDeville it's to protect you from fallout, not the blast
@@babyinuyasha Does it matter? He made it clear he wouldn't want to live in the world after the nuclear Armageddon, so fallout, blast or suicide, I'm sure it would be all good.
I love retro footage, anything from this era.
Always has this dark, sci-fi, synth music. Great.
The all clear has been sounded... Welcome to the Stone Age!
Absolutely insane that this was designed to be aired 3 days before an almost certain nuclear armageddon.
Not 3 days -
In the event of an international crisis that looked set to trigger a war, it was intended that the UK’s TV stations would go off air and be replaced by the BBC’s Wartime Broadcasting Service- on which these short films, of which there are 20, would be played on a continual loop.
Bob the builder is going to work overtime on this one
Lasagne in the microwave for Wendy tonight
He'll be doing it without power tools!
yes he can do it as his skin melts and is decayin due to radiation sickness lol
BOB THE PANIC-FROM-GOING-TO-F***ING-DIE BUILDER
I've still got the Protect And Survive booklet from the 70's when this was a real threat. These mini-advice films were to be played during the intervals between normal television programs like Coronation Street etc...IF the threat became imminent....scary times.
When governments actually cared about their citizens. Those days are long gone.
@The Hooded Claw wow, how witty and original
thats amazing, keep hold of it. thatll be worth good money one day mate
But they never aired to the public 🤔
@@transmasctsukasa yea, they said IF the threat became imminent, which it never did
24:27 I love how they mention medical supplies here as an optional thing to have in a fallout bunker, as if you wouldn’t obviously need that during a nuclear apocalypse.
Did anyone else get this on their recommendations?
That fucking jingle stills gives me nightmares
***** I hear that's a spambot.
Eve Semalina Attack of the Spambots!!
DarrenBonJovi what fallout? SAME
DarrenBonJovi I can listen to it over and over! I love it!
It is bloody horrible. Something to do with the downward trajectory of the notes and that strange horn bit that it starts with.
The more terrifying thing than the films themselves is that the advice they give doesn't actually work. But hey, you'd rather have official advice than wonder what the hell you're supposed to do. I'd recommend to have a look at Threads (1984), a British film about what Britain would end up as if the bomb really drops... Truly harrowing, but devastatingly accurate. It's not a horror film, but a docu-drama, but believe me, I know people that have been truly scarred by this film.
Seriously, you're not an expert from watching a bloody docu-drama
haha
You would have better luck shoving yourself into a lead lined fridge and survive than the shelters recommended in the film.
Arthur Fine Indiana Jones rode in a fridge in that bomb blast and he came out just fine lol
Daman Yocum Where do you think I got the reference?
This could still be used today, 40 years later. Thanks, UK government!
Or is it?
"shut windows and close curtains"
"SIKE no curtains, paint the windows"
5:49
"If you are caught out in the open..."
SAY YOUR PRAYERS. xP
You could count having your body burned to ashes or your organs burst/bones broken.... )x
MrStickman1997 Depends how close you were to the centre of the explosion of course.
Yup, pretty much a case of "if you're caught out in the open, you're royally screwed."
Why do you think you're so special that you'll be in the hypocenter? You know that an explosion is a local event, right? There are places around it where it's not that harmful and you can actually survive, depending on your distance.
Emily Rose bend over and kiss your arse goodbye.
Everybody's gangsta until this guy starts to talk about dead people and corpses.
Why did I get this on my recommend page💀
Me to
"If you're outdoors lie down"
Yes, so only my back will get vaporized.
"But Mom!... I took out the last dead body, it's not my turn!"
kf1000 *Mum
@@1985indeed he's American or Canadian so therefore Mom
@@NMeyer0 Indeed. Just correcting him on how this would be said in the UK context, as this is a UK media.
Jess Phillips, the MP, corrected her maiden speech to contain Mom, rather than Mum. A midlands thing too.
yell do what a fuckin' tell ya Robert (yorkshire accent)
You may laugh, but human instinct is to survive, you fall off a high building and you know your going to die, what do you do, fold your arms and relax?
No, body goes into panic mode and you desperately flap your arms or try to grab something anything, there is always a chance..
same with nuclear war, the bomb goes off, everyone doesn't go running towards it to get killed as quickly as possible, they run and hide, chance of survival is small, but it's still a chance.
+TheBookWorm1718 "30 years ago" !! The bombs haven't gone away. They are still there waiting for someone to use them. The USSR might be dead but Russia (and lots of other countries) still has the bomb.
+steve taylor A lot of them have been decommissioned. The United States built 70 000 warheads (more than every other country combined), but as of 2015 only maintains an arsenal of 4670.
Then there are those in Britain, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, ?North Korea. Still plenty enough to ruin someone's day.
Oh, absolutely, Steve. Easily enough to ruin everyone's day!
+Galaxy Tab
No one would survive near the cities. Anyone who 'was protected' would have the worst last 2-3 days of their life, not rivaled by actual hell itself.
In the movie "Threads" they play these PSAs in the background leading up to the attack - makes the whole thing that much more terrifying. Ironically they also show the people in the movie follow all the steps in them, they all die horribly anyway.
exactly -- they were making the point that the whole idea of civil defense in a nuclear war was utterly worthless for MOST civilians in MOST targeted regions. The ideas might have worked for a few people in a few lucky places where initial blast and heat were farther away and caused less damage, and in those places you could get some fallout defense from just such an 'inner core or refuge' as this series suggested... but again, that would be a tiny fraction of a given populated area. For 98 percent of us... this was a load of crap. And worse than that, it was a 'dangerous' load of crap since it convinced a lot of people that nuclear war was easily survivable, and therefore winnable... and therefore thinkable.
Queen: *laughs in immortality*
this aged like milk
the warning siren should be uptown girl by Billy Joel, a lot nicer sound to prepare for the end to
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) by R.E.M would be nice too.
Nunya Business, I would have gone with Christmas at ground zero. If it’s during the holidays and crawl out through the fallout for the rest of the year.
Same enrrgy as the end of kingsman
They are electro-mechanical sirens which are analog and not speakers as you are implying. They can only generate this one sound with interruptions to create the attack signal or no interruption for the all clear signal.
What’s wrong with the Yakety Sax?
Man this is so creepy, especially that music they always play after each message, something about that sound just makes me think about impending doom, not to mention the part when it talked about sanitation, and making an improvised toilet.
At the very least that sound makes me think "damn I'm gonna be stuck in some dark, stinky, basement for several weeks, and pooping in a bucket", I know it's not even funny, it's really depressing, especially when you realize that for people in the 70's that was a very real possibility
I like the noise despite it giving me nightmare s that russia is actually nuking us
***** That would be good music for sci-fi, or even something like the Twilight Zone
Jeremy Forczyk It is still a very real possibility now in 2015. The weapons haven't gone away. In many respects, the "possibility" is now greater; Rogue states are a threat, and there are now Islamic countries for whom "Mutually Assured Destruction" means nothing, other than they will become mass martyrs.
***** You think ISIS is working for the United States?
What utter drivel
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0:35 ah yes, the damage of a nuke to a house: *Just a little burned at the roof*
'Darling.. can you pass me the yellow pages.. 😂😂😂
Me: Forgets everything for the test I was studying for in the morning.
Also me, one week later: Yeah, you can pick up your copy of Protect and Survive at the post office.