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Presents in lay terms what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peace-time uses of atomic energy and the by-products of nuclear fission.
From The Field Guide to Sponsored Films:
RESOURCES: “Atom Educational Film Made Available by GE,” Wash
Post, Aug. 9, 1953, R11; “A Challenge to Free Enterprise,” Bus Scrn15, no. 5 (1954): 33; advertisement, Bus
Scrn18, no. 7 (1957): 5.
Science film positioning atomic energy as both a peaceful and a warlike force. Sponsored by
a corporation involved in the nascent nuclear industry, the film is an animated introduction
to atomic energy and designed to be, as a Business Screen reviewer reported, “entertaining
but scientifically accurate.” The periodic table, represented as “Element Town,” depicts each
element in a distinctive shape suggesting its use by humans. Radium, whose giant head resembles
an atomic nucleus, decays into an unstable state and begins to jitterbug to the sound of
an old Victrola. The short ends with a majestic atomic giant straddling the earth. Our future,
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives
- Licence or status
- The Internet Archive states none for this item.
- Credit
- Sutherland (John) Productions
- Subtitles
- Automatic captions
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed