World Wide Fallout from Nuclear Weapons opening sequence Disney

Walt Disney studios was contracted to provide the animation for this opening sequence to the DOE (Department of Energy) and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) film "World Wide Fallout from Nuclear Weapons." The narrator is Mark Tapscott, a Hollywood actor called upon by Lookout Mountain Laboratory to act and narrate the film.
The film was made in 1962 during the height of the Cold War.

[@P-G-77]

This was in fact a real, well done, documentary.

[@spongeboymebob771]

That was actually a pretty accurate display of radiation, if you look at a cloud chamber it looks and moves almost identical.

[@vernonbrechin4207]

Many years after this production was created a group of scientists and citizen scientists engaged in a project called the 'Baby Teeth Survey.' It involved parents from around the U.S. sending the shed baby teeth of their children to a group of scientists who measured them for radioactive content. Many thousands of teeth were measured. The results indicated that the radioactive content corresponded with the rate at which atmospheric nuclear explosive testing was occurring. The knowledge of that testing eventually helped to establish a formal ban on above-ground nuclear explosive testing. This research was not supported, or funded, by the U.S. institutions who were engaged in the nuclear weapons testing program.

[@AmandaBooBerry]

I was born in '66 and my baby teeth were sent in. In '86 I joined the army to go into health physics to understand that effect.

[@vernonbrechin4207]

@@AmandaBooBerry - I'm glad to hear that that experience led you into the field of Health Physics. I learned much from a friend that became a professional in that field and I was also trained as a radiation worker.
I was born in 1945. In early grade school I was required to engage in 'duck and cover' drills. That led me to learn as much as I could about nuclear weapons and why some key details of the testing were being hidden from the public.

[@AmandaBooBerry]

@@vernonbrechin4207 Yes, so much secrecy and many blatant lies.
I found out years later that my great uncle was at the Bikini Atoll test. He spent the rest of his fairly long life fighting cancer after cancer. His quality of life was really poor.

[@normkirk65]

I love this !!!!

[@bobdefalco]

"It is nothing new...but all that Iodine-131, cesium-137, and strongtium-90 - yeah, that's new."

[@Magpie1701]

Heh, indeed my friend.

[@Kurtonebay]

Can we get the entire film?

[@justhere4637]

I wonder, who did the music?

[@vernonbrechin4207]

I view this as gaslighting propaganda that takes advantage of most peoples ignorance of radioactivity to leave them with the impression that the production of this is made by those who are experts and only have the best of intentions for the general public.

[@deathsheadknight2137]

but its all true. who knows where they were leading with it though.

[@ttrestle]

Huh?

[@vernonbrechin4207]

@@deathsheadknight2137 - Many people are unaware that good propaganda can be filled with truths while exclude numerous other truths. Practitioners of such skilled deliveries are highly valued.

[@TH33QUALIZ3R]

​@vernonbrechin4207 Deep Throat in the X-Files said it best. "A lie is most convingly hidden between two truths, Agent Mulder."

[@vernonbrechin4207]

@@TH33QUALIZ3R Excellent citation. The best propaganda contains many truths that tend to obscure the untruths, or misrepresentations.