In this program of educational hygiene and corporate promotional films selected from the Prelinger Archives, we examine the messages American citizens received in the postwar era extolling the virtues of a good clean life as an antidote to the perils of atomic destruction. Small children, teenagers, and adults were seen each to have a unique role to play in guarding the nation against these exterior forces and helping in the creation of one nation united against Communism, free to purchase new appliances. David Agee, star of one of the era’s films, The Sound of a Stone, will join us to discuss the background of the Centron corporation, one of the nation’s largest producers of educational films, and the tensions of the McCarthy-era climate in which many of these works were produced. Films include The Sound of a Stone, What You Should Know About Biological Warfare, Atomic Alert, The House in the Middle, In Our Hands: How to Lose What We Have, The Terrible Truth, American Look, and Design for Dreaming.