The film showing at the RKO cinema was ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961). A movie poster is displayed out the front of a theater with a overhanging marquee billboard listing the picture showing along with selected shorts.
Actor Larry Gates previously had starred as Dr. Bill Stockton in "The Shelter" episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' series.
The name of the song that the youth were dancing the twist to was ''Fallout Shelter'' (1961) and sung and performed by Peter Scott Peters.
According to the 'Atomic Theater' website, ''most American civil defense films were shot on tight budgets with an aim to achieve one of two goals, to inform and motivate viewers to volunteer or to teach technical procedures (such as radiological monitoring or rescue) to specialized audiences. A select few, however, were granted the financing and creative leeway to develop into entertainment productions as well, often with the understating that such films would later be broadcast on national television stations. Such was the intent of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) when it released 'Town of the Times' in 1963.''
Movie Star Ralph Meeker previously had starred in ''Kiss Me Deadly'' (1955) where his character survived an atomic explosion.