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* YouAreInCommandNow: Part of the Portland Plan involved changing the city charter to allow a legally-established line of succession if the current city authorities are killed.
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* AdultFear: A baby is born on the eve of the nuclear attack.
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Compare what happens here with the ineffectual city council in ''Film/{{Threads}}''.
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* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Mayor Schrunk racing to the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center where he announces that Soviet aircraft might well be bombing Portland in less than three hours. We then flash back to dawn on that same day, where no-one's conscious of any danger except for some vague headlines in the newspaper.
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* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Mayor Schrunk racing to the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center where he announces that Soviet enemy aircraft might well be bombing Portland in less than three hours. We then flash back to dawn on that same day, where no-one's conscious of any danger except for some vague headlines in the newspaper.
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''The Day Called X'' is a 1957 CBS documentary film depicting the evacuation of the city of Portland, Oregon in response to news that Soviet enemy nuclear bombers are on the way.
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* CatUpATree: There's a series of scenes showing how it's just an average day in Portland. This includes police headquarters who are dealing with a cat up a tree report right before they get a phone call saying Soviet bombers are on their way.
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* CatUpATree: There's a series of scenes showing how it's just an average day in Portland. This includes police headquarters who are dealing with a cat up a tree report right before they get a phone call saying Soviet the bombers are on their way.
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* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The bombers are only referred to as "enemy" bombers [[ColdWar even though there's no mention of a declaration of war.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight:
** The narrator mentions the "missiles and man-made moons[[note]]artificial satellites[[/note]]" of the Space Race that would lead to the invention of the ICBM that would cut the time available for a city evacuation to 30 minutes or less.
** In the film the city officials make sure everything goes like clockwork. Five years later their response to a wind storm was less impressive; they set up in the city hall basement instead of the $670,000 civil defence shelter and lost communication when the radio tower was damaged. Two weeks later the Cuban Missile Crisis made mockery of the idea that there would be a three hour warning of nuclear attack, and in November 1962 the residents of Portland voted against further civil defence expenditure. The Kelly Butte Civil Defense Shelter was briefly used as an emergency call centre before being abandoned, vandalised, and eventually sealed up.
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** In the film the city officials make sure everything goes like clockwork. Five years later their response to a wind storm was less impressive; they set up in the city hall basement instead of the $670,000 civil defence shelter and lost communication when the radio tower was damaged. Two weeks later the Cuban Missile Crisis made mockery of the idea that there would be a three hour warning of nuclear attack, and in November 1962 the residents of Portland voted against further civil defence expenditure. The Kelly Butte Civil Defense Shelter was briefly used as an emergency call centre before being abandoned, vandalised, and eventually sealed up.
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* StiffUpperLip: An American version. Thanks to the evacuation drills, everyone knows what to do and evacuates calmly. If anyone takes the opportunity to start stealing escape vehicles or looting like in ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953'', we don't see it.
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* StiffUpperLip: An American version. Thanks to the evacuation drills, everyone knows what to do and evacuates calmly. If anyone takes the opportunity to start stealing escape vehicles or looting like in ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953'', RapePillageAndBurn, we don't see it.
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->''"Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard the reports that enemy planes are approaching. In less than three hours, an H-bomb might fall over Portland."''
-->-- '''Mayor Terry Schrunk'''
''The Day Called X'' is a 1957 CBS documentary film depicting the evacuation of the city of Portland, Oregon in response to news that a Soviet nuclear bombers are on the way.
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* AdultFear: A baby is born on the eve of the nuclear attack.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: The movie stresses how the city of Portland took proactive action to protect its citizens in the face of nuclear attack.
* ApatheticCitizens: A housewife is more worried about her children being late for school than the newspaper headlines warning of a world crisis, and she turns to the Women's pages instead. When the sirens sound, a mechanic goes on with his work thinking it's another drill. Averted with the majority of Portland citizens who, the film makes clear, voted in favour of being taxed to fund a million dollar civil defense plan.
* AsHimself: Apart from Creator/GlennFord as TheNarrator, everyone else in the film is a local Portland resident playing themselves.
* AtomicHate: It's noted that Portland is around the size of [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki Hiroshima]].
* TheBigBoard: So big you need a mobile stair ladder to point things out on the mapboard.
* CatUpATree: There's a series of scenes showing how it's just an average day in Portland. This includes police headquarters who are dealing with a cat up a tree report right before they get a phone call saying Soviet bombers are on their way.
* CitywideEvacuation: The city has three hours and fifteen minutes from the first warning to evacuate the city. Fortunately Portland has an evacuation plan in place, and a prior rehearsal managed to evacuate the heart of the city in 34 minutes.
-->'''The Narrator:''' The question is, at 10.45 on a day called X...will it work?
* EmpathyDollShot: When a school is evacuated, a girl leaves her Minnie Mouse doll behind and there's a shot of it abandoned on the floor.
* FalloutShelterFail: The film informs us that the city shelter can support 300 people with food, water, electricity, beds, and breathable air for...a week? Let's hope the radiation had died down by then.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The shelter has microfilm backups of three million city documents, including city council minutes going back to 1851. Ironically the film itself has proven of interest to local history buffs.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The narrator mentions the "missiles and man-made moons[[note]]artificial satellites[[/note]]" of the Space Race that would lead to the invention of the ICBM that would cut the time available for a city evacuation to 30 minutes or less.
** In the film the city officials make sure everything goes like clockwork. Five years later their response to a wind storm was less impressive; they set up in the city hall basement instead of the $670,000 civil defence shelter and lost communication when the radio tower was damaged. Two weeks later the Cuban Missile Crisis made mockery of the idea that there would be a three hour warning of nuclear attack, and in November 1962 the residents of Portland voted against further civil defence expenditure. The Kelly Butte Civil Defense Shelter was briefly used as an emergency call centre before being abandoned, vandalised, and eventually sealed up.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Mayor Schrunk racing to the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center where he announces that Soviet aircraft might well be bombing Portland in less than three hours. We then flash back to dawn on that same day, where no-one's conscious of any danger except for some vague headlines in the newspaper.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Civil defense director Jack Lowe states that if Portland is bombed "it may be hours or probably days" before they can get back into the city. He's referring to the blast zone of a ''hydrogen bomb!''
* MoreExpendableThanYou: 250 officials and their support staff go to the fallout shelter to enable continuity of government so society can continue AfterTheEnd. A CitywideEvacuation takes place that will hopefully spare the majority of Portland's citizens. Essential services like power must continue however, so those workers stay. TheNarrator says with BrutalHonesty, "These men are expendable." A team of firefighters also stay to fight a residential fire.
* NoEnding: The film ends with Jack Lowe announcing that enemy bombers are overhead, and everyone waits in silence for what happens next.
-->'''Glenn Ford:''' What happened after that moment, we leave you to contemplate.
* PostApocalypticTrafficJam: Averted; the traffic lights are set on green on the evacuation route. A police helicopter and motorcycle cops sort out bottlenecks, while roadblocks divert incoming traffic away from the city so all lanes can be used for outbound traffic. There's a few minor hitches but otherwise everything goes according to plan.
* RedAlert:
-->"Attention all stations. Emergency. This is an air raid warning and CONELRAD radio alert. Repeat. This is an air raid warning and CONELRAD radio alert. Enemy aircraft are over the Aleutians."
* ThisIsNotADrill: The message "AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE" appears on the screen any time anyone on screen was mentioning anything that audiences might misconstrue as an actual, legitimate warning. [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds Looks like CBS had taken the smack on the wrist they got in '38 to heart.]]
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic
* TitleDrop
-->TheNarrator: There are no actors in this story, but there are a lot of people; the people of the city of Portland, Oregon; and what happened to them...or 'could' happen to them...on a [[LetXBeTheUnknown day that we'll call X]].
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Sports commentator John Carpenter is used to relay official instructions and CONELRAD warnings because he's a familiar and trusted voice.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Part of the Portland Plan involved changing the city charter to allow a legally-established line of succession if the current city authorities are killed.
-->-- '''Mayor Terry Schrunk'''
''The Day Called X'' is a 1957 CBS documentary film depicting the evacuation of the city of Portland, Oregon in response to news that a Soviet nuclear bombers are on the way.
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* AdultFear: A baby is born on the eve of the nuclear attack.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: The movie stresses how the city of Portland took proactive action to protect its citizens in the face of nuclear attack.
* ApatheticCitizens: A housewife is more worried about her children being late for school than the newspaper headlines warning of a world crisis, and she turns to the Women's pages instead. When the sirens sound, a mechanic goes on with his work thinking it's another drill. Averted with the majority of Portland citizens who, the film makes clear, voted in favour of being taxed to fund a million dollar civil defense plan.
* AsHimself: Apart from Creator/GlennFord as TheNarrator, everyone else in the film is a local Portland resident playing themselves.
* AtomicHate: It's noted that Portland is around the size of [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki Hiroshima]].
* TheBigBoard: So big you need a mobile stair ladder to point things out on the mapboard.
* CatUpATree: There's a series of scenes showing how it's just an average day in Portland. This includes police headquarters who are dealing with a cat up a tree report right before they get a phone call saying Soviet bombers are on their way.
* CitywideEvacuation: The city has three hours and fifteen minutes from the first warning to evacuate the city. Fortunately Portland has an evacuation plan in place, and a prior rehearsal managed to evacuate the heart of the city in 34 minutes.
-->'''The Narrator:''' The question is, at 10.45 on a day called X...will it work?
* EmpathyDollShot: When a school is evacuated, a girl leaves her Minnie Mouse doll behind and there's a shot of it abandoned on the floor.
* FalloutShelterFail: The film informs us that the city shelter can support 300 people with food, water, electricity, beds, and breathable air for...a week? Let's hope the radiation had died down by then.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The shelter has microfilm backups of three million city documents, including city council minutes going back to 1851. Ironically the film itself has proven of interest to local history buffs.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The narrator mentions the "missiles and man-made moons[[note]]artificial satellites[[/note]]" of the Space Race that would lead to the invention of the ICBM that would cut the time available for a city evacuation to 30 minutes or less.
** In the film the city officials make sure everything goes like clockwork. Five years later their response to a wind storm was less impressive; they set up in the city hall basement instead of the $670,000 civil defence shelter and lost communication when the radio tower was damaged. Two weeks later the Cuban Missile Crisis made mockery of the idea that there would be a three hour warning of nuclear attack, and in November 1962 the residents of Portland voted against further civil defence expenditure. The Kelly Butte Civil Defense Shelter was briefly used as an emergency call centre before being abandoned, vandalised, and eventually sealed up.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Mayor Schrunk racing to the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center where he announces that Soviet aircraft might well be bombing Portland in less than three hours. We then flash back to dawn on that same day, where no-one's conscious of any danger except for some vague headlines in the newspaper.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Civil defense director Jack Lowe states that if Portland is bombed "it may be hours or probably days" before they can get back into the city. He's referring to the blast zone of a ''hydrogen bomb!''
* MoreExpendableThanYou: 250 officials and their support staff go to the fallout shelter to enable continuity of government so society can continue AfterTheEnd. A CitywideEvacuation takes place that will hopefully spare the majority of Portland's citizens. Essential services like power must continue however, so those workers stay. TheNarrator says with BrutalHonesty, "These men are expendable." A team of firefighters also stay to fight a residential fire.
* NoEnding: The film ends with Jack Lowe announcing that enemy bombers are overhead, and everyone waits in silence for what happens next.
-->'''Glenn Ford:''' What happened after that moment, we leave you to contemplate.
* PostApocalypticTrafficJam: Averted; the traffic lights are set on green on the evacuation route. A police helicopter and motorcycle cops sort out bottlenecks, while roadblocks divert incoming traffic away from the city so all lanes can be used for outbound traffic. There's a few minor hitches but otherwise everything goes according to plan.
* RedAlert:
-->"Attention all stations. Emergency. This is an air raid warning and CONELRAD radio alert. Repeat. This is an air raid warning and CONELRAD radio alert. Enemy aircraft are over the Aleutians."
* ThisIsNotADrill: The message "AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE" appears on the screen any time anyone on screen was mentioning anything that audiences might misconstrue as an actual, legitimate warning. [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds Looks like CBS had taken the smack on the wrist they got in '38 to heart.]]
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic
* TitleDrop
-->TheNarrator: There are no actors in this story, but there are a lot of people; the people of the city of Portland, Oregon; and what happened to them...or 'could' happen to them...on a [[LetXBeTheUnknown day that we'll call X]].
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Sports commentator John Carpenter is used to relay official instructions and CONELRAD warnings because he's a familiar and trusted voice.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Part of the Portland Plan involved changing the city charter to allow a legally-established line of succession if the current city authorities are killed.
