No Place To Hide

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1982

Creator: Media Study Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: No Place to HideDirect Cinema, Ltd; P O Box 69799; Los Angeles; CA; 90069; Tel. (800)525-0000 (310)396-4774 FAX(310)396-3233DC: DIRECTMedia Study, Inc; 305 West 21st St; New York; NY; 10011PC: MEDSTD1982 Grade Level: H C A Distributed on media: 1 film reel (30 min.), optical sound, 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 30 MIN Library of Congress Registration 82-700161 Description: Contrasts actual civil defense films of the 1950s with film clips of the atomic devastation of Japan to show how naive the American of the 1950s were in believing the United States government's claims that protection against an atomic attack was as simple as hiding beneath a school desk. Presents actor Martin Sheen re-creating the feelings of a cold-war child and berates the government for minimizing the American people's awareness of the horrors of atomic warfare. Topics: Military-Art-and-Science-Weapons-And-Warfare; Safety-Home-And-Community; War-; Atomic-warfare; Civil-defense; United-States-Civil-defense