Some of the "good" old american instruction videos

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Some of the "good" old american instruction videos

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I found the coolest site, it contain some of the good old american introduction videos, http://www.archive.org


Ill link some of the gems:

Duck and Cover (1951)
http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951
The classic. Duck and Cover, whee, we wont get harmed by nuclear explosions :)

Escape (around 1940)
http://www.archive.org/details/Escape1940
How to excape if youre taken as prisoner of war. Unfortunately the plans depend on the enemy being dumb, not guarding anything, dead, or similar for the plans to work. Untill the prisoners get outside, then it require for the country theyre in to be pretty stupid for this to work.
Im sure certain heads of state used movies like this recently to take major war decitions :)

About Fallout (1955)
http://www.archive.org/details/AboutFal1955
Actually one of the better movies, explains about fallout.

Supervising Women Workers (1944)
http://www.archive.org/details/Supervis1944
Im not sure i dare decribe this, you simply have to see this to believe it.
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Re: Some of the "good" old american instruction vi

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Hesten wrote:
Escape (around 1940)
http://www.archive.org/details/Escape1940
How to excape if youre taken as prisoner of war. Unfortunately the plans depend on the enemy being dumb, not guarding anything, dead, or similar for the plans to work. Untill the prisoners get outside, then it require for the country theyre in to be pretty stupid for this to work.
So this would be useful if we were captured by Danes! :twisted:
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Possibly.
If the great tips from the video about talking to the other prisoners, they might have a key, and the tip about building a ladder to get over eventual walls work, you might have a chance, since the next tip is to steal some clothes from nearby houses and try to blend in with the local population.
That might actually work in denmark, but I think the only effect this idea had in Vietnam was to provide the vietcong with a good laugh before killing you.
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Hesten wrote:Duck and Cover (1951)
http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951
The classic. Duck and Cover, whee, we wont get harmed by nuclear explosions Smile
I always thought this was an extremely ridiculous thing to teach people! Do they still teach it in school? I remember doing it not to long ago.
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