The Atomic Cafe
by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
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Actor: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frank Gallop, Lloyd Bentsen, Owen Brewster, W.H.P. BlandyDirector: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Editor: Jayne Loader
Producer: Jayne Loader
Editor: Kevin Rafferty
Producer: Kevin Rafferty
Producer: Pierce Rafferty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Movie Reviews of The Atomic Cafe
Movie Review: Useful teaching tool
Summary: 3 Stars
As a teacher, I found the collection of historic video documents helpful. The clips found in this docudrama are obsolete and hard to come by. The writers of this "movie" inject a sense of humor as well as a good dose of irony.
Summary of The Atomic Cafe
On its 20-year anniversary, and not a moment too soon, THE ATOMIC CAFE is back to provide us with a much-needed release of comic energy. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in 1982. TheThe atomic bomb changed the world forever, and this wonderful film shows how Americans expressed wonder over atomic weapons and then suffered from the pervasive fear that America would be on the receiving end of a Soviet nuclear attack. Atomic Cafe is a brilliant compilation of archival film clips beginning with the first atomic bomb detonation in the New Mexico desert. The footage, much of it produced as government propaganda, follows the story of the bomb through the two atomic attacks on Japan that ended World War II to the bomb's central role in the cold war. Shown along with the famous "duck and cover" Civil Defense films are lesser-known clips, many of which possess a bizarre black humor when seen today, and it's easy to see why this film, which was produced in the early 1980s, became a cult classic sometimes referred to as the "nuclear Reefer Madness." Bellicose congressmen are shown advocating a freewheeling policy of nuclear strikes against China during the Korean War, suburban families are shown enjoying the comforts of their bomb shelters, and footage of a boy trying to bicycle to a bomb shelter in a "bomb survival suit" his father designed is priceless. Atomic Cafe is at once clever and poignant, a canny and offbeat look at a significant period in American history. --Robert J. McNamara
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