ATOMIC SCARE FILMS Volume 4
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- America’s favorite bomb returns in this 4th Volume of Something Weird’s nerve-wracking Atomic Scare Films, which not only ratchets up the paranoia but makes it seem like Civil Defense will actually accomplish something in the wake of a nuclear attack….
ONE WORLD OR NONE (B&W) sets the stage with a grim primer on Atomic Power that could have also been called “Atom Bomb 101.” With its footage of the bombing of Hiroshima combined with a very pro-UN approach to politics, this is a very nervous little short….
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY (B&W) plays like a Fifties science-fiction film gone all too real as we witness a Civil Defense test that shows what might have happened if the bomb hit New York City in the middle of the night on November 14, 1951. Sirens, searchlights, a “Radiac team,” fires, and “victims” with fake burns are all on display this particular evening. (But where’s the giant radioactive dinosaur?)
ALERT TODAY - ALIVE TOMORROW (1956; B&W) is another one that shows how to prepare for The Bomb dropping on us - specifically on Redding, Pennsylvania, the “typical target city.” Since Civil Defense volunteers all “have a stake in survival,” we see average citizens learning First Aid, being shown how to put out fires, using Geiger counters to monitor fallout, keeping fallout shelters full of equipment and supplies, and firing guns in order to best control “a jittery populace.” Released theatrically by RKO Pictures.
TO LIVE TOMORROW (B&W) uses a train as a metaphor for America as a passenger thinks about panic. Especially the kind of “mass panic” that could envelop his fellow passengers in the event of an atomic attack and thereby “complicate” things. Seriously, pal, if atomic bombs were dropped on us, wouldn’t mass panic be a downright sensible reaction?
YOUR CIVIL DEFENSE (B&W) is blunt about targeting the Communists as The Enemy and how we watch those cunning bastards night and day. But, just to be on the safe side, we’d better have shelters against “the strange menace of fallout.” And we should be ready to stay in them for at least… well… two weeks.
NEW FAMILY IN TOWN (B&W) is narrated by ROBERT PRESTON (The Music Man) who warns us about Trouble - with a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for Bomb! Which is why every family should have its very own fallout shelter. Either in the basement or in the backyard! And fill it with food and books and games - and don’t forget the can opener! In between atomic attacks, use it as a playroom!
FIRE FIGHTING FOR HOUSEHOLDERS (b&w) details how to fight fires in the event of an atomic attack. Which is a little like trying to stay dry while swimming in the ocean.
ABOUT FALLOUT (color) reminds us that we need two items to survive an atomic attack: a fallout shelter and a “dosimeter.” Yes indeed, fallout could very well be the New Weather of tomorrow!
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"People are like Cats" that's all I needed to know lol
XD So glad these archives exist. We just have to look back and balk at how much people today seriously took life in the 50s for granted.
In the final "About Fallout", they consistently have fallout from nuked NYC blowing westward.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the prevailing winds over the US blew from west to east.
They have to make sure people in Ohio and Indiana are worried to the max about a nuke dropping in NY. I mean my whole thing is if we were able to fight a two front war across the atlantic and Pacific with surgical precision where the biggest chance of failure was our own guys getting gusty... who's going to manage to sneak a plane to the US? It's almost like the department of civil defense WANTED to drop a bomb on us so they would have an excuse to cut the population in half.
16:05. Frederic March as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" at the Savoy Theater. The Savoy closed in 1952.
Nice catch!
Thank you SWV!
Well this is cheery...
Atomic "REAL" films, SCARE is right.
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The firefighting at home disgrace utterly failed (or ignored) that interior fires like those shown will be generating so much smoke & poisonous gasses that will knock the homeowner unconscious before he could locate the flames. That's not counting the heat burning them or singing their lungs. This movie gave extremely irresponsible and dangerous instructions. Didn't anyone understand the nostrum "Get Out" ?
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Yeah that was the point, after the Govt and military failed it's people when people realized that the war efforts really were just an excuse to get the population sent to their deaths, they made these flims to force people to be scared of the atomic bomb and sprinkled in a lot of very facist propaganda to get people to remain absolutely under control and "earn the trust" again. A lot of these "scare films" talk like they're talking to children about the boogeyman, but as an intelligent adult, I'm here wondering "Okay...where's our airforce to stop the planes from reaching us with the bomb? Why is our govt still picking fights with countries to encourage them to drop the bomb on us in the first place? and given the ONLY country with nukes at the time was the US, surrounded by two massive oceans, is this atomic scare a warning, or a THREAT? Also...what do my genitals have to do with who has the common sense to know what to do during an attack? Listing off the names of the MEN who got us in these wars in the first place and keep putting our lives at risk doesn't give me confidence that MEN are gonna be the ones keeping me safe at night...."
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