- [first lines]
- Narrator: Five, four, three, two, one...
- [atomic explosion]
- Narrator: ... One American town looks like any other, when you see it from an airplane window. Trees line the quiet residential streets, and there's usually a highway running through to an industrial area where many-a town people work. But in every town, you'll find houses like this: run down, neglected. Trash and litter disfigure the house and yard. An eyesore, yes; and as you'll see, much more! A house that's neglected is the house that may be *doomed* in the atomic age.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: You've seen the tests, you know the story. Join up with your friends and neighbors for a better, safer community. It's also good civil defense, which is everyone's responsibility. The dingy house on the left, the dirty and littered house on the right, or the clean white house in the middle? It is your choice. The reward may be survival!
- Narrator: Yes. The white house in the middle survived an atomic heat flash. These Civil Defense tests have proved how important upkeep is to our houses and towns. Now its up to us the people to take decisive action. All right, you say, what can I do about it? What can my community do? All over America, towns and cities are organizing local clean up, paint up, fix up campaigns. Boy and Girl Scouts and school children of all ages are told how they can help by organizing teams to clean up alleys and backyards. See that you'll help.
- Narrator: Beauty, cleanliness, health and safety are the four basic doctrines that protect our homes, our cities.
- Narrator: The light flash! The heat wave - and clouds of dust.
- Narrator: A series of Civil Defense tests were made to discover the affects of atomic heat on American homes. I am going to show you how protective measures can help guard *your* home against the heat affects of an atomic explosion.
- Narrator: The moments tick away as we await the *bomb* and the fireball.
- Narrator: In a moment the blast wave and here it comes!
- Narrator: Two homes. One a firetrap, even under ordinary conditions. The other, cleaned up and fresh with better, safer, housekeeping. Both ready for the test bomb. The light flash and the heat wave! Then, the blast.
- Narrator: Let's watch the test now and see what happens under atomic heat.
- Narrator: The light flash! And the heat of thermal wave, and then, the blast wave!