1950's Duck and Cover Nuclear War Turtle Cartoon Remixed

 Just to have some fun colored some of the US government public domain film Duck and Cover classic public service film shown to school kids in the 1950's back when nuclear war was big on everybody's minds as well as the threat of communism and Russia from the Cold War. I added a couple of things for fun including my cartoon characters Coffee Cat and Ug Lug the Caveman. Originally, the video was meant to tell the viewer to duck and cover when a nuclear bomb is seen going off using a cartoon turtle named Bert the Turtle.




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