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Stay Safe Stay Strong: Facts About Nuclear Weapons
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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WARNING RED (1956): An ordinary drive home from work becomes a nightmare for Joseph Cunningham when an atomic bomb is dropped in the middIe of his commute. Now he must reach home on foot while warning survivors to stock up on "beans, beef stew, and peas!" lncIudes a grotesque scene where Cunningham encounters a shelI-shocked young woman trying to "give away" her baby to everyone waIking by. Director NichoIas Webster aIso made the notoriously bad Christmas movie Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964).
TOWN OF THE TlMES (1963): RaIph Meeker and Larry Gates play opposing school board members arguing over how best to prepare "Main Street, USA" for the forthcoming nuclear annihilation. It ends with a town halI meeting in which the benefits of sheIter Iiving are endIessIy debated. "What if l'm in one shelter and my husband's in another?" asks a beehived, buIlet bra-wearing housewife. Meanwhile, teenagers do the twist to a song with the lyrics "I'm gonna Iive, Iive, live in my fallout sheIter." CoincidentaIly, Larry Gates had starred in an episode of The TwiIight Zone caIled "The SheIter" two years earIier. Ralph Meeker is best known for pIaying Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which also dramatically demonstrated the dangers of radiation.
PUBLlC SHELTER LlVlNG: THE STORY OF SHELTER 104 (1964): This cIaustrophobic CiviI Defense fiIm, meant to be viewed only "under the guidance of a trained shelter management instructor", tries to show us what day-to-day life in a falIout shelter whiIe nucIear war rages outside would be like. Things become even more tense when beatnik foIk singer Pete McCann (who looks remarkably Iike Lenny Bruce) barges in. "You know, the fact is, you've made a stinking mess out of everything," says our socialist insurgent, "and now we're aIl going to die down here, in this bIack Iittle hoIe!"
STAY SAFE, STAY STRONG: THE FACTS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS (1960): Meant "to be shown to Authorized PersonneI ONLY", Stay Safe, Stay Strong tries to dispel the "myth" that atomic weapons could be a danger during peacetime. A stilted, crewcutted host insists that even if a nuclear bomb were to accidentalIy drop out of a plane, it wouldn't explode. (Why such a thing wouId happen in the first pIace is never explained.)
TARGET YOU (1953): "Our President has toId us that an aggressor in possession of atomic bombs...could cause horrendous damage." Target You uses crude animation to teach families what to do in the event of nucIear war. "The aged and infirm wilI be as heIpless as chiIdren," intones the heartless narrator. Like many CiviI Defense fiIms from the early 50s that dealt with the nuclear threat, Target You was eventuaIIy pulIed from circulation for faIseIy depicting faIIout as essentially harmless.
THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR RADIATION (1950): This unintentionaIIy hiIarious Armed Forces fiIm did a horrendous job of calming the fears of nervous GIs in a post-Hiroshima world. "The generaI public...is determined to regard radioactivity as potent and irresistible as the eviI spirits of the Indians(!!!)" The advice given is usuaIIy of the 'common sense' variety, such as when the narrator teIls us that if an atomic bomb is dropped, "try to be somewhere eIse when it happens." Even more preposterously, radiation sickness sufferers are told to just buy a toupee when their hair faIls out! And don't worry about becoming impotent as a result of nucIear radiation...you'lI be dead long before that can happen! "SteriIity by radiation is a matter a dead man wouldn't worry about!" |
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