Duck and Cover

Bert the Turtle says duck and cover.

A Cold War-era instructional cartoon that uses cheerful animation and a friendly turtle mascot to teach children survival tactics for nuclear attack, balancing reassurance with underlying existential dread.

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.