Duck and Cover (1952)

Directors

Anthony Rizzo

The story

thumb|thumbtime=45|Full film from the Library of Congress The film starts with an animated sequence, showing Bert, an anthropomorphic turtle walking down a road while picking up a flower and smelling it. A chorus sings the Duck and Cover theme: thumb|A frame from the film, where Bert reacts to the threat of the firecrackerBert is shown being attacked by a monkey holding a lit firecracker or stick of dynamite on the end of a string. Bert ducks into his shell as the charge goes off; it destroys both the monkey and the tree in which he is sitting, but Bert is left unharmed.

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