A painstakingly researched and brilliantly edited compendium of pro-nuclear propaganda from American newsreels, ‘educational’ material, military footage, advertisements, TV shows and pop songs. This was the Cold War at its most icy and all-pervasive, and no area of American popular culture seems to have escaped from its bitter ideological grip. This veritable flood of bizarre, horrifying and often ludicrously comic images is counterpointed on the soundtrack by an array of equally extraordinary songs.
Credits
co-director
Pierce Rafferty
Jayne Loader
Kevin Rafferty
production company
Archives Project Production Co
Language
English
Duration
01:32:00:00
Colour
Black and White
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
34022
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Nuclear industry
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear warfare
Documentary
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Feature films
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Nuclear industry
Sound/audio
Sound
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)