Summary: Short animated film satirising the idea of nuclear proliferation in the cause of security leading to world destruction.
Description: A visually explosive animated film cut to the rhythm of a country and western refrain that chronicles the fate of the world in a nuclear age. Some of the lines are: "First the A-bomb and the H-bomb too, seemed to promise that war was through. How can any nation stand up to you, when you've got the A and H Bomb too". "So then we showed that we have the means, to launch our missiles from submarines, we send them far away under the sea, so we can be retaliatory". "But let it never be said, said that we, spare expense to keep you free, The important thing we did agree, was to keep you safe as safe could be, so it is said, we'll all be safe when we are dead".
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Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:MGH 543
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1971
Production Country: United States of America
Production Details: Columbia University Press (Production sponsor)
Columbia University Centre for Mass Communication (Production company)
Barnouw, Erik (Production individual)
Glimcher, Sumner (Production individual)
Osborn (Production individual)
Glazer, Tom (Production individual)
Glazer, Tom (Production individual)
Nemeth, Ted (Production individual)
Barnouw, Erik (Production individual)
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Keywords: Animation (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 317 ft; Running time: 9 mins
