Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow

This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a network of volunteers, makeshift hospitals would be set up, auxiliary police officers would maintain order, and other elements of the civil defense program would be put in place.

• Larry O'ReillyDirector · Director of Photography
• Jerome BrondfieldWriter
• Jay BonafieldProducer
• Milton ShifmanEditor

Release date

November 7, 1956

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

16m

Genres

Documentary

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