The Atomic Cafe

Atomic café is a documentary concerning nuclear weapons and making sure the American people felt safe and prepared. The use of propaganda by the government allowed them to only tell us what they thought we needed to hear. This documentary shows graphic images of civilians and the effects of atomic weapons. Atomic café discusses the hydrogen bomb in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The image that the documentary give of the American people is that we seemed okay after dropping the bombs on the cities of Nagasaki

The Atomic Cafe   The Atomic Cafe is a 1982 documentary film compiled of clips from government propaganda, training films, news stories, advertisements and other media from the 1940’s through the 1950’s.  Many films were prepared by the U.S. government either for the military or for its citizens to view.  The form of Atomic Cafe was unique for documentaries.  It was produced entirely of different film sources edited together, without narration. The film made its points solely through the selection

One recurring theme of The Atomic Café is the fear and paranoia present in the United States during the Atomic Age. The year 1947 was known as the year of division between the East and the West. Both the United States and Russia have different ideologies for their respective countries and they both wanted to shape the post war world. One good example of this is the conflict over post war Poland where both countries refused to give in to each other. This created tension and hence, wariness against

The Atomic Cafe is a documentary film produced in 1982 exhibiting many archival films looped together to produce a collage of film clips creating a depiction of the reality of the Cold War. These film clips include advertisements, military training videos, government speeches, and similar recordings revolving around the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb became a genuine threat to many American lives during the late 1940s throughout the 1960s and the Cold War. Not much was known about the damage the atomic

Assumption about documentaries being true, educational only, no imagination needed aren’t correct . There are several documentaries we watched in class that show that documentaries don’t all fall under the same assumptions. A common assumption about documentaries is that there is no imagination needed. “ In a time when the major media recycle the same stories on the same subjects over and over, when they risk little in formal innovation, when they remain beholden to powerful sponsors with their

The Atomic Café was an American documentary film covering the beginning of the Cold War, or the beginning of a time of nuclear war. The film mostly showed propaganda, news footage, military training clips, and advertisements from the United States of America. Questions being answered in this essay include; What was your impression of the movie? Was American propaganda stupid, or was there a direct threat from the Soviet Union, especially in Europe? Were the Americans correct in building so many

surveillance in the US but the environment also became rather hostile and surveillance was very high. When the Soviet’s obtained their own nuclear bombs, the threat of the nuclear bomb and the advancement of Communism itself became blur. In the film Atomic Café, archival footage of U.S. Senator Owen Brewster reveals him saying that the Russians obtained the atom bomb, “not through independent research, but from America, from traitors within our own ranks,” referring specifically to alleged Communists.

The documentary film “Atomic Café” is a combination of various archival material from different sources such as newsreel clips, United States (US)-government made films, television shows and radio programs. The film began with the development and testing of the atomic bomb, along with various other demonstration and information clips involving nuclear testing. The collection of short films shared a similar characteristic – that is the government’s efforts to rationalize the use of nuclear weapons

The atomic bomb signaled not only the commencement of the Cold War, but also a political divide between the communist ideologies of the Soviet Union and the democracy of the Western world. A fear of communism behind the Iron Curtain and nuclear annihilation spread throughout the US, while existential views regarding the meaning of life arose. Through their texts, composers subverted dominant Cold War paradigms to …….. ATQ……. Samuel Beckett’s modernist existential play ‘Waiting for Godot (Godot) (1953)’

the Soviet Union(Document A). To better aid the construction of the atomic bomb, the United States created a base in Los Alamos, New Mexico for the production and testing of this complicated device. The base was considered a paradise for scientists(The Race). Though the location was very secretive, the USSR still developed its own atomic bomb and even beat the United States in launching the first satellite “Sputnik”(Atomic Café). As a result, many Americans felt that their country was lagging in