Lost Gene Hackman civil defense film unearthed
Ken Sitz of the online atomic kitsch history archive Conelrad says,
We just unearthed a relic from the 'Golden Age of Homeland Security' - Gene Hackman in the civil defense training film Community Shelter Planning. He appeared in this 22 minute Army Pictorial Center production just months before his role in Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
Link to more about the "lost" film, and here are two video clips featuring Gene Hackman as the CD Regional Officer Donald Ross making a pitch to Bucks County PA commissioners for the government's "Community Shelter Planning" program. He's very convincing in a pre-Katrina Michael Brown sort of way. Google Video Link 1 (3:40 min) Google Video Link 2 (2:00 min). YouTube Link for both clips.



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