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Prelinger Archives. Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie-of-the-Month) (c. 1955)
Title
Prelinger Archives. Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie-of-the-Month) (c. 1955) [electronic resource (video)] / Prelinger Archives.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010], c1955.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (7 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 21, 2010.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Produced by Joe Bonica.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This Prelinger Archives film records the procedures and results of three different atomic bomb tests during the 1950s. The first takes place on Bikini Atoll, with Navy crews watching from the deck of a ship; remote control detonation; crews strapping on goggles; bomb exploding; and aerial shots of ships immediately adjacent to the mushroom cloud. The second and third take place in Mercury and Yucca Flat, Nevada. They show the results of a hydrogen bomb explosion on a dummy-filled "Survival Town" and the dutiful actions of of 9,000 servicemen who take their places in trenches, then dust each other off with brooms when the explosion is over. Frighteningly few precautions are taken with the lives of those present. The film purports to prove that survival of a nuclear attack is possible.
Variant and related titles
Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie-of-the-Month) (c. 1955)
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Prelinger Archives, 1955.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Credits
Produced by Joe Bonica.
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Contents
Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie-of-the-Month) (c. 1955) (7:00)
Videorecording number
41782 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Prelinger Archives.
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