Produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, “The House in the Middle” is a bizarre civil defense film that attempts to show that a clean, freshly painted house (the middle house) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts (the right and left houses). Yes, good housekeeping and clean yards are the best deterrents to fires ignited by an atomic bomb!
In 2001, the Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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