Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterized as propaganda.
Plot
The film starts with an animated sequence, showing an anthropomorphic turtle walking down a road, while picking up a flower and smelling it. A chorus sings the Duck and Cover theme:
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| author | Raymond J. Mauer |
|---|---|
| award | National Film Registry |
| director | Anthony Rizzo |
| events | Cold War |
| genre | social |
| keywords | animated cartoon animated sequence anthropomorphic anthropomorphism atomic bomb attack choir chorus dynamite end exoskeleton film star firecracker flash library of congress live footage monkey nuclear explosion nuclear war shell turtle |
| publisher | Archer Productions |
| theme | animated social guidance war |