Duck and Cover (1952)
Directed by Anthony Rizzo · 9 min · Animation, Family
20.6 TOPICAL score · #4,459 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
Duck and Cover (1952, directed by Anthony Rizzo) has a TOPICAL score of 20.6 - ranked 4,459 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and audience, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 6.1/10 (40 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 22 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 6.1/10 (40 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 22 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read3,422 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Robert Middleton