thinking abt The House in the Middle: a 1950s propaganda film that promoted the idea that you can substantially decrease the risk of your house being destroyed in an atomic bombing by keeping the lawn tidy and putting on a new coat of paint on it (sponsored by a coalition of paint companies pretending to be a community outreach org) wherein they attempt to demonstrate this by showing three mock-up houses in various states of disrepair and clutter being subjected to heat and blast from atomic testing.
the titular house in the middle is the tidiest and has fresh coat of paint and it's very obvious that it got just about as fucked up by the blast as the other two, so they resorted to overlaying a matte painting of the middle house looking intact over the blast footage and replaced the rubble left of the middle house with a new house that looks just fucked up enough to fool the audience, but was very clearly not subjected to the heat and blast from an atomic bomb.
it's so fucking funny how obvious the propaganda spin is and it is a great case study in learning how to be critical of filmed content that you see being presented as fact. anyway, here's the poster i made for the archived copy i have on my plex server:













