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The House in the Middle (1954)

The House in the Middle poster
Genre
documentary film, propaganda film
Country
United States
Runtime
13 min
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short documentary shows three houses built outside in the open, one kept clean, the other two messy. A nuclear bomb explosion reveals that the tidy house survives better than the garbage-strewn example.

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What happens

The House in the Middle is the title of two American documentary film shorts (13 minutes), respectively from 1953 and 1954, which showed the effects of a nuclear bomb test on a set of three small houses. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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