Sleepcore: Absurdities of the Atomic Age!
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2022
- Sleepcore returns with Absurdities of the Atomic Age, a collection of Cold War era defence films about the dangers of nuclear war!
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We all feared atomic destruction so much. It's comforting to now know that all we needed was a good coat of fine quality paint.
Yes, and in a cheerful, bright color.
Quality LEAD based paint. 😂
Agreed - lead paint - 6” lead paint
I survived the blasts in 2027 by hiding under my desk. Who knew they were really onto something back then.
@@Ph0t0bug delicious, nutritious lead! Part of a balanced breakfast with new microplastics to give you the vim and vigor to face each day!
I grew up in the 50's and 60's. Never had mom yelling at me to clean things up in case of an atomic attack. She did however, chastise us about leaving food because kids were starving in China. Anyway, glad to know if the house was painted and cleaned up, it could survive for someone else to move into someday since anyone who survived would have likely died of radiation poisoning.
It was Africa starving used by parents in the 80s.
I suddenly feel motivated to clean my room, cut the grass and paint the fence.
Paint on, paint off.
Wax the fence, wax the fence.
Imagine an industry marketing group being allowed to use a nuclear weapons test to sell more paint.
I grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. Many many missile silos here. My Veteran grandfather and firefighter dad built some sweet fallout shelters. They are great for escaping tornadoes... I do hope they are never used for other reasons.
For real. Scary world we live in man
Kinda scary how history can repeat itself and how these fell dormant for so long. I wouldn’t mind having bomb shelter not for nuclear war but it’ll be nice for security.
Americans should always be afraid. First they should fear the Indian "barbarians", then the Nazis, then the communists, then the atomic bomb, then the Muslim "terrorists", then China, fear never ends for Americans. Because in America there are always vile devils who turn fear into money and manipulate the masses.
This is, literally, insane.
Well, in retrospect, it seems silly now it didn’t seem silly at the time. Also think of what people in 50 years are going to think about us as they look at our social views, and how we act and conduct ourselves in public. I’m sure they’ll think we’re insane too.
These folks were prophetic...they foresaw the tiny house movement.
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Well that the fanciest outhouse I've ever seen. Must be some rich hillbillies living there.
Duck and cover is good advice! I find myself wanting to do it every time I turn on the news.
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@@dukromeo 📔
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Oh duck and cover l thought he said duck and _clover_ DOH ... gone done a Biden.
Just paint your house and remove newspapers. You’ll be safe.
I love mid century and retro futurism so much and hardly no one talks about either so this channel is perfect!
Yes, absolutely no one talks about the Fallout series that is a major hit since 1997 till now.
@@lbrlrsfdj8895 that's what got me into retrofutureism! Also Futurama to some extent.
Anyone
I thought in the 1960's that by now there would be moon and Mars bases and voyages to other stars
I adore mid-century modern decor.
_Close examination reveals the skeletal remains of the test subjects but their house remained intact though!_
That's because they picked up the newspapers around their house
That’s like something out of a Ray Bradbury short story.
That lead paint was amazing!!
It's comforting to now know that all we need is a good coat of fine quality paint.
Funny how they show houses getting hit by a hundred mile an hour heat blast of several hundred degrees and they blame the newspapers and magazines for making the interior of the houses dangerous. They didn't seem to realize that heat intense enough to set paper on fire would have had a broiling effect on the humans in there.
I know, right?!? I made a similar comment. It's like they are completely ignoring the circumstances that would lead to such an event even occurring. If nuclear bombs are being dropped on your town your country is likely at war with another superpower nation and if things have progressed to the stage where nuclear weapons are being used then it doesn't bode well for anyone on the planet. They make it seem like your neighbors are gonna chastise you for having a dirty, unkempt home after being hit by an atom bomb. 😂
@@nektu5435 Believe it or not, the best thing to do before a nuclear explosion is close your drapes. In Hiroshima they found that even paper window coverings protected suburban house interiors from the initial blast.
@@scottlarson1548 that is pretty interesting. I was reflecting more on the title of the video but I can understand there's practicality to what it's suggesting.
The stupid part is that while there might be a very very slight advantage to a well.painted house, this assumes that the houses are at exactly the right distance from the blast. A little further away and the heat blast isn't enough to cause significant fires. A little closer, and both house and inhabitants are blown to shreds AND incinerated.
I can't stop laughing at the absurdity of the claims.
I'm sorry but if a nuclear weapon is ever dropped on or near your city the cleanliness and upkeep of your home and whether or not it's still standing after the blast is going to be the least of your concerns.
Yes, as the title of the video and logic implies.
There is a lot of validity to your comment but keep in mind, when these type videos were made, there were no weapons with the power that we have now.
@@Dadsezso good point
No every little bit helps.
....nor the color your house is painted with that very fine paint.
Atomic urban renewal, boom no more slums.
Thank you, picandportraits! Just what I needed after an awful day.
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(Sorry about that.)
It's ok, I eat wasabi a lot and my brain is mush too. Hehe
@@toupac3195 :)
Make sure to mow your lawn and pick up the trash in case there’s a nuclear war. That’s like when moms tell kids to make sure they are wearing clean underwear in case they get into a car accident.
MARGE: On no, it's the Apocalypse. Bart, are you wearing clean underwear?
BART: Not anymore.
Billy!
I told you to clean your room. Now look what happened !
The chokehold the fear of nuclear attack had on America in the 50s is almost ridiculous
I remember doing duck and cover drills for an atomic attack. Also, air raid siren drills once a month. The sound of that wailing siren always gave me goosebumps.
Duck and cover was a bit before my time, however blackout shades were still rolled up over the windows in the classrooms of my elementary school (70's/80's) They came in handy when we had a movie to watch in class or if there was a solar eclipse. I have to wonder if the painted, well maintained house survived because of the lead in the paint. It's obvious that even if your house survived, you could never go home again. Radiation would kill you.
Kiddies: Don't explode atomic bombs at home. They're only safe when the adults do it.
I love how the narration tells people that the “flash” is so bright and brighter than anything you have seen before, but if you were to see a detonation flash it would most probably be the last thing you ever see, you would either have burned your retinas away completely and you would be blind for the rest of your life, that could easily be a millisecond if the blast and/or heatwave hit you, or if you survived the initial blast then anything from a few days to a few weeks before you succumbed to the lethal dose of radiation you received, and that would not be a very nice way to go.
this was the real reason houses were painted bright colors, fences white, and dads adamant that the garbage be taken out in the 60s
The house on the left was doused in gas, the one on the right was soaked in diesel. The one in the middle was lined in Asbestos and painted with thick coats of LEAD based paint while also reinforced with concrete and steel to survive an atomic bomb shockwave. Which of these scenes is overkill?
Make sure your home is tidy before a Bomb goes off! 👍
The Missus forgot to tidy the house. Now look what happened! 😂
yeah, right? I see a bit of propaganda going on here,lol!
Mop! And cover!
Diving under a newspaper works every time. It's been tested, hasn't it?
Duck 🦆 under a covered dish!
Sounds yummy 😋
How comforting to know that a tidy house will remain enjoyable for my vaporized ghost!
When they warned people in NY about a nuclear war last week they didn’t mention any of this. They just said go inside of your house and stay there
Why is it that those sirens give me a sense of doom? I've never lived through a war, never actually heard one in real life, but hearing one even in a video makes me feel as if I am about to die.
sirens and alarms are specifically made to sound annoying or unsettling so people would get their adrenaline flowing faster so they can act fast
@@nikkovalidor4890 It must go farther than that. It is a total sense of doom. Far beyond annoying or unsettling.
I hear the sirens once a month when the city tests them. The weekday and time is always exactly the same so that everybody knows it's just a test. Sirens won't do much good if they don't work when needed, so you gotta keep doing this. Never in my life have I heard them being used for a real purpose, though.
Let me see if I can find the Siren Collector's webpage. Audio samples.
They crank up a Chrysler powered one!
The house in the middle is move in ready. Fantastic.
Not only are your videos calming, but I’m actually learning things I never knew. Love it!
didn't knew you found nuclear war calming
It's calming to know as long as your house is tidy, well painted, surviving nucleur blasts.
That explains why so many pictures have nice and clean houses in those days
I suddenly feel motivated to clean my fence, cut the room and paint the grass.
I just love Love love love the posts..... Please Keep them coming 💪
Musician: What's our gig today?
Director: We're making dramatic, atomic bomb destruction background music.
Let's be real. This is a beautification campaign.
A National Clean-Up Paint-Up Fix-Up Bureau... sounds like something my country the Philippines needs lol
People were asking simple questions like "What can the average person do to give their home and family the best chance of surviving. There would be a certain level of success with this strategy assuming the attack was not comprehensive, in other words, the blast radii didn't all overlap and that there were areas in which the thermal energy was low enough so that these measures would be the difference in the outcome.
The title is perfect, six minutes in and they left out thousands of degrees cooked and blind in less than a second but the house is tidy...
"Fire safe housekeeping", good to know for Armageddon. Civil defense was an agency to be trusted in my childhood. We did duck and cover too, in grammar school. Hard to believe.
Those were different times back then. It's over 30 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed. A lot of people today have no memory of the Cold War.
Watching film strips or reels with the projector :)
I prefer the cheerier topics! This one seems too close for comfort at the minute. Haha!
Yeah, I grew up with these. They sure are hilarious looking back at them I thank God, calmer heads prevailed.
I remember the classroom "duck and cover" drills of the 1950s. They never made any sense in our town as we had a big air force base only several miles away.
Remember to wear sun factor 100,000,000 to prevent that crispy burning flesh smell also
Brilliant!! Your house may disintegrate in an atomic blast but God help you if it was untidy!! LOL!!!
This is insanity..
Coming right up this month!
A fun visit
Very informative.
There use to be white and red lead paints. One of those were probably your best bet.
wow! the colors @ 26:55 are perfect.
nailed it 🎯
i like how they added the same colors to the explosion in the next scene.
seriously the amount of time they spent coloring the frames for what?
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Its amazing how many nukes were detonated over the years to test shit like this
The desert is still littered with radiation today
"Look honey, our house is slightly less f.cked than the other one. Oh, what's this, my skin is melting off."
when they find your charred remains in the house, they will say... Wow, they sure kept a tidy house.
Yes, the house in the middle survived the heat flash. If you review old test footage of these things, you can see how indeed it’s the case of simple steps can help your house survive - for a few seconds longer. If your house is that close to a blast, the shock wave will follow the heat flash in a few seconds, then it’s all toothpicks.
"Radiation can't hurt you!" (as they fry their skin under the sun).
Sunscreen bro, you'll be fine
Paint used to have lead in it…and lead repels radiation.
Yeah, but only if it’s two feet thick, lol
Also - remember to wear white robes as this could also deflect the heat and blast 😂
We must obey the civil defence worker scene made me cry
In my school in the 1960s we had duck and cover drills. Also got metal dog tags so our corpses could be identified after the atomic fireball. My worst teachers were uptight young republican women who couldn't handle the zeitgeist and changing cultural landscape.
Wow on the dog tags..
I better trim my shrubs i don't want my house to be susceptible to a nuclear strike
A few newspapers destroyed the house? My place is FULL of books- I'm doomed!
That first film is in itself proof that the devil exists. "Clean up and consume so you'll die of radiation in relative comfort." One wonders f it was sponsored by Monsanto.
Great. Now I'll never sleep again!
"Burns as if it was deliberately fired with kindling" when in fact it was fired with an atomic bomb! lol.
Really? You mean we coulda saved a couple bucks on defense just by cleaning up our backyards and giving our houses a new coat of paint? You learn something new every day!
Cleanliness, the best protection from radiation
I'll just get my interior decorator to save me from Fusion attacks
Attaboy, Tony!
“Your S.P.E.C.I.A.L., but don’t get greedy now!”
Oh yes, untidy houses will burst into flame, but duck and cover - that'll help! Sure!
Cleanliness can help human being from atomic blast. 😊👍
okie dokie! 😁
Mine's the house on the right xD. Burned like a torch, and now is radioactive. Imagine having the boy/girl scouts go around picking up trash, and planting trees. Those were the days!
Free child labor
Ok, you convinced me to take out my trash. :P
I've tidied all my tables tops, thrown away yesterdays paper , so fingers crossed when the blast wave rips the roof off and the thermal wave ignites paper, I'll be OK.
*Curb Appeal* never dies .....
I ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ the duck and cover Bert the turtle film!
See, we do need lead paint again ! Lead is our friend.
Walked straight through a atomic blast only using ... SUNSCREEN. The best way to save your skin. 😄
The bombs of that time are firecrackers compared to the multi-megaton warheads we have now...
_...and the inspector lived long enough to report but died shortly after with radiation poisoning..._
duck and cover, still sound advice today
I mean, getting children and adults not not litter and pick up trash due to an atomic concern seems a much more valid reason than save the wales or some nonsense
Moral of the story: keep your house tidy!
PSA or public shaming of the poor?
...Thunderbirds are go!
Would lead paint offer more protection ?
i wonder why the japanese did not duck and cover ??? hooo and a good coat of white paint too
The mentalities of that time are absurd for sure.
I haven’t eaten a mushroom since 1948…
God bless America.
I would buy a sleepcore t-shirt. Do it!😀 What are the print projects all about for your patrionies?
I’ve thought about merch before but wasn’t sure if there would be interest. It is definitely something I’d like to do one day.
The print projects are usually zines, around a book I’ve been working on, that I am hoping to have out next spring. They come out sporadically but I try to get something out every year.
The white part of the T Shirt is OK, but the black lettering would be burnt into your skin.
The sad truth that people forget is we are still in the Absurd Atomic Age. History does guarantee peace.
A serious question, did they really underestimate the half life of radioactivity? Yeah it'll be ok to into a nuked area a few hours afterwards seems utterly insane
So that’s the face of the voice of every video from the 50s ... hmm...
Duck and Burn !
Great ! .........now I have to go out and buy a gallon of paint .
Does it ever end ?
And pick up any newspapers laying around your house 😆
This made my parents feel better when they grew up with this despite the fact that it is entirely useless