14 minutes of 1940s panic that'll make you grateful for modern healthcare.
Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. (archive.org)
Direction
Sherman Price's no-nonsense panic pacing.
Production
Propaganda aesthetic that aged like uranium.
Director
Sherman Price
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Civil defense films like this shaped American domestic life during WWII, turning kitchens into potential triage units.
Sherman Price directed dozens of these shorts; most are now lost, making this a rare surviving specimen of bureaucratic terror.
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