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Showing posts with label The Arts | 1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Arts | 1950s. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nostalgia: Our doughty “duck and cover” turtle (1950)

"Duck and Cover" survival of a nuclear attack was the improbable goal of this sweet cinema and many others. It was shown in public school classrooms in the sweeter, kinder, gentler, stress-free 1950s when atomic annihilation was offered as a constant companion: