Duck and Cover

Jan 7, 1952

0h 9m

★ 6.0

Bert the Turtle says duck and cover.

Overview

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.

Genres

Animation

Family

Production Companies

Archer Productions (II)

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Cast

Narrator

Robert Middleton

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