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The Atomic Café is an acclaimed documentary film created from a broad range of archival of film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s - including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. government-produced films (including military training films), advertisements, television and radio programs. News footage reflected the prevailing understandings of the media and public. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x907, 48 KB) Uploaded image of movie poster to replace the DVD jacket that was being distorted by the movie template. ...
Jayne Loader is an American director and writer. ...
Kevin Rafferty is a first cousin of George W. Bush and a cinematographer who ironically taught the craft of filmmaking to Michael Moore for the 1989 film Roger & Me. ...
Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty (born 1952) grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City in 1982. ...
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A training film is a form of educational film – a short subject documentary movie, that provides an introduction to a topic. ...
The film was produced over a five-year period through the collaborative efforts of three directors: Jayne Loader, and brothers Kevin and Pierce Rafferty. Jayne Loader is an American director and writer. ...
Kevin Rafferty is a first cousin of George W. Bush and a cinematographer who ironically taught the craft of filmmaking to Michael Moore for the 1989 film Roger & Me. ...
Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty (born 1952) grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City in 1982. ...
The filmmakers opted to not use narration and instead they deploy carefully constructed sequences of film clips to make their points. The soundtrack utilizes atomic-themed songs from the Cold-War era to underscore the themes of the film.
Though the topic of atomic holocaust is a grave matter, the film uses black humor to convey its points. Much of the humor derives from the modern audience's reaction to the old training films, such as the Duck and Cover film shown in schools. The title screen from the film. ...
The film was released in April 1982. Its release coincided with a peak in the international disarmament movement, and the film received much wider distribution than was the norm for politically-oriented documentaries. It rapidy became a cult classic, and greatly influenced documentary filmmaking. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a small but devoted group of fans, having failed to achieve fame outside that group. ...
One of the filmmakers, Kevin Rafferty, was later befriended by a young Michael Moore who was seeking advice on how to make his first film Roger And Me. Rafferty ended up becoming the cinematographer on the film and acting as a filmmaking mentor to Moore - who has acknowledged the influence on his own filmmaking. Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an Academy Award winning American film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ...
Movie Poster for Michael Moores documentary Roger and Me Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed and reported by independent filmmaker/journalist Michael Moore. ...
The Atomic Cafe was acquired for UK distribution by British film producer Martin Lewis who arranged for a premiere screening in the British House Of Commons in October 1982 tying the film to then ongoing debate in the UK about the deployment of the cruise missile. The film was also screened at the London Film Festival and nominated for a BAFTA award. The film was released on home video in the UK in 1983 by Virgin Video (VVA 028). Martin Lewis is a Journalist, TV presenter and author who specialises in providing financial advice on money saving and consumer credit. ...
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ...
The Times bfi London Film Festival is the UKs largest public film event, screening 300 films from 60 countries. ...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
A CD-ROM companion to The Atomic Cafe with many of the clips and other materials from the film is available online.[1] An illustrated book based on the film was published by Ballantine Books shortly after the film's release, and a soundtrack album was issued by Rounder Records. Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. ...
Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ...
Rounder Records is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based independent record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students. ...
Trivia
- The Atomic Cafe was also the name of a diner in Los Angeles, CA catering to the punk rock crowd.
See Also Duck and Cover was a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear detonation which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the late 1940s into the 1980s. ...
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