Our Price: $29.95Our Item Code: cafe Postage Code: book1
VHS Videotape
85 Minutes, VHS Video (U.S./Canada) |
| Our Review | Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
This assembly of newsreel and public service films of the 1940s and 50s is a dark classic. Schoolchildren are cheerfully told to "duck and cover" in the face of an atomic cataclysm. Artfully culled from public and private archives, The Atomic Cafe serves up a delicious taste of Cold War America at the height of it paranoia. The result is what has been called by critics "a nuclear Reefer Madness" and a "non-fiction Dr. Strangelove". Highpoints include scenes of soldiers wearing only sunglasses for protection when sent into areas devastated by nuclear detonation, happy suburban families practicing use of their bomb shelters and "Burt the Turtle" teaching children to duck under their desks as protection from nuclear fall-out. -- tm/gc
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| Information from the Publisher | Always supportive |
"A comic horror film... It does more to evoke the what-me-worry social madness of the Cold War than any documentary I've ever seen. Everyone should visit The Atomic Cafe." J. Hoberman, The Village Voice"Should be seen by everyone... it's an explosive movie." The Christian Science Monitor
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