The House in the Middle is a
1954 short
documentary film produced by the
Federal Civil Defense Administration[?] and the
National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau[?], which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterpart.
In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.