The Atomic Café - 1982 Documentary
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covers Hiroshima & Nagasaki; Bikini Atoll; Korea and a variety of other issues Atomic. Incl. 50's Americana nuclear attack properganda.https://www.imdb.com/t...

Greetings Comrades. I am an old. At the end of AP history when I was in high school, my teacher showed us this film: Atomic Cafe. Made in 1986, it only uses media from midcentury America, news broadcasts, commercials, and propaganda/training films, to create a narrative of the cold war and an image of the mania and delusions that gripped this country. I know it has been posted here before, but it's been awhile, and maybe some one new can see and appreciate it.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    god damn, no wonder boomers are so fucked up

    i hate to think how I might have turned out growing up in that media complex

  • pooh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I first saw this as a kid and it left a pretty big impression on me. Not really a kids film obviously, but they randomly had this at the video rental section of the crappy super market near our house, so we rented it once to see what it was about. I watched it not too long ago as an adult and it's still just as interesting/terrifying as I remember.

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      3 years ago

      Do you know about When the Wind Blows? it's an animated film about an elderly British couple surviving a nuclear exchange in a country house. It's funny/depressing because they're of the generation who lived through WWII, so the dad's always authoritatively stating that the government will somehow appear to give them aid and instructions and his wife is totally accepting, every once and a while one asks the other why their son in the city hasn't called them yet.