The Atomic Café
The Atomic Café presents
a hilarious, chilling, and sarcastic look at Cold War atom bomb hysteria.
Painstakingly composed of bits and pieces of propa ganda films, newsreels,
popular songs, and civil defense and training films, it reveals a painfully
ignorant and fearful American public. Educational films instill paranoia
in children by enjoining them to "always remember what to do if an
atomic bomb should explode right now!" A home inventor shows off
his child's lead playsuit. A silken-voiced government narrator soothes
anxious citizens, "stay inside for at least an hour after the attack."
"Nothing to do now but clean up the broken glass, wait for orders
from the authorities, and relax." We should not deride our parents'
ignorance, but rather note that the means of propagating disinformation
are now far subtler.
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