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Surviving Atomic Attack (1949)
🕑 Added 2022-09-26 13:46:57 +0000 UTCThis 16mm film made by the US Army is one of the first to try to quell the American public's anxiety about the looming threat of the new Soviet Atomic Bomb. This reel from my own collection is a Cinecolor print - an unusual 2-color bipack process that puts two strips of film through the camera at the same time, one on top of the other. The top film stock is on a strip of celluloid dyed red with an orthochromatic emulsion that reacts to the blue-green part of the spectrum and that also acts as a filter for the polychromatic black and white strip behind, which is exposed by the remaining red part of the spectrum. This process was far cheaper than the 3-stripTechnicolor process but required twice the lighting and subsequent duplicate prints using the same process created very high contrast and rather blurry prints such as this one. An interesting film in many ways - and as always this was transferred using my own Telecine. Enjoy........... and Survive!
Comments
Fran Blanche
I think they were talking about city populations...
Fran Blanche
Oh, GoogleBot - you're a real card.
Matt Wietlispach
Huh... I guess the military films of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must have still been classified. All of the "aftermath" footage looked like a tornado may have passed through, but all these very agile "uninjured" people in the "bombed area" helping the injured to "casualty collecting stations" must be immune from all forms of radiation. Not sure where they came from. Did he say the US population was 250,000? I think that may be what would be left out of the 329 million population of today. Well, after the first wave of attacks, maybe... And delivery only by bomber aircraft? Oh, the future holds some really wonderful weapon delivery systems that actually SHOULD keep you up at night! Not to mention WHO their finger on "the button"! No mention of the "bombed area" being uninhabitable for 500 years, or the millions that will die later slowly of all kinds of cancer. I mean this is some ultra-grim stuff! You might want to show them the reality out of Japan. This is "disinformation" at best as we already knew what would really remain after a nuclear attack. It's as if the bomb blows up the city, then the sky clears and then people dig out in an orderly fashion. No mention of the shadows of humans left on the few remaining standing walls after they were literally vaporized. Fallout, nuclear winter, secondary damage to all industrial sites, etc. were not mentioned. I guess I just don't understand the mentality of the US population at that time. We invented the damn things! It's only fair to show the public what they REALLY do!
Joel Murphy
i'm loving what the tube is offering for me to watch after this vid! wait, is that a plastic gun video?? you can't make this stuff up...
