I found this, and I think this sounds way to technical and advanced compared to what I remember.
And I can’t remember if it was a film or a filmstrip. But I think most of the things we watched were film strips.
We learned “Duck and Cover” in the mid-70’s. But then we were only six miles from the “Ground Zero Bar” (Hot dog stand in the Pentagon Courtyard.)
Our health class actually encouraged the use of cold showers as a way of hardening the body against the weather. Hot showers were described as causing “lethargy”. Lethargy ws an enormous bugaboo and almost every topic was somehow brought back to the importance of preventing it. Too much sleep? Lethargy! Not enough sleep? Lethargy! Poor nutrition? Lethargy! All of which is true, but it didn’t take long for us to be crying with laughter every time the word came up again in a new context.
You also reminded me of a Health Class Film Strip which defined tampons as " . . . a hygenic device sometimes used by ladies AFTER marriage." With “after” in huge capital letters. This would have been around 1982ish. :rolleyes:
If you are very close to the explosion there is nothing you can do. But There is a very large area outside of the nothing can be done area where the primary issue is flying debris. Duck and cover is very good advice for much of the area that is damaged by nuclear weapons.
Okay, no thread about goofy, outdated sex-ed films would be complete without mentioning 1961’s Boys Beware!, a hilariously homophobic and dated, but almost Joe Friday-esquely serious short.
“Be careful, one never knows when the homosexual is about…” 
Wasn’t that film one of the “This is Bob’s Heart” films? I remember seeing it as well. He didn’t have a heart attack, but it talked about all the stress he put on his heart.
And yeah, I still have a very difficult time even changing from the hot tub to the swimming pool thirty years later.
That scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it. Especially the part where the guy looked in the mirror and saw himself as old.
About 10 years ago I got curious about it and found a site that sold it on VHS. All of those things we saw in school are available.
But I don’t think that bono was “caught with something.” He was always very strongly anti-drug.
Oh great, it didn’t smell enough before so let’s heat it up.
All I can remember viewing were the duck and cover films. It always bothered me that they were either getting under impossibly flimsy desks or about to become a silhouette against a brick wall.
I think I saw the lurking homesexual video here. Watch out Jimmy! Oooh, close one.
There is a book called Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945 - 1970 if you’re interested in this stuff. I would say it’s funny except I had to sit through some of this… stuff in grade school whenever a teacher wanted to kill some time in a class period.
Ours does that too and we have good water pressure.
And stupid question maybe but are film strips used anymore in classrooms?
I grew up in the seventies and worried about the bomb. I was a nervous kid though so I don’t know if my peers worried about the same thing.
We never did answer the original question about whether hot water followed by sudden cold water (and vice versa) in the shower will give someone a heart attack.
It well could be, I don’t have any memory of the name of it.
I couldn’t find an author email. Anybody have 20 bucks of Amazon credit and a burning desire to satiate curiosity? 
I own the book but won’t be home until late tonight. I’ll check for an author contact as soon as I can/ I remember.
(There are used copies going for 50c, if you notice…)
Mine gets seriously hot - the cold water gets diverted and the shower ends up with all hot water. Normally it isn’t that big a deal because we have 1 bathroom, so whoever pees doesn’t flush but it sucks if someone decides to turn on the dishwasher or laundry … we keep the antique boiler up at maximum temperature so it can get exceedingly hot very quickly. [I think it is at 150 F. We have no small kids so it is not as hazardous as it sounds. mrAru and I are in the habit of boat showers so the only time the water is running is when we are soaking down or rinsing off.]
No contact info listed. The book is nearly 15 years old now though. He might have a blog or something by now.No
There are a lot of old training films at the Prelinger internet Archive. I first saw that anti gay one there a couple years back.