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Atomic mom / a film by M.T. Silvia ; directed and produced by M.T. Silvia.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 029 545
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Silvia, Pauline H.
- Okada, Emiko.
- Women biologists--United States--Biography.
- Women biologists.
- Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--Biography.
- Atomic bomb victims.
- Nuclear weapons information.
- Atomic bomb.
- Testing.
- Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- United States.
- Nevada.
- Atomic bomb--Nevada--Testing.
- Atomic bomb--United States--History.
- History.
- Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons information--United States.
- Antinuclear movement--United States.
- Antinuclear movement.
- Antinuclear movement--Japan.
- Japan.
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)--History.
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.).
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- DVD 4 3/4 in.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English and Japanese; English version has English subtitles for the Japanese, Japanese version has Japanese subtitles for the English.
- Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- "A film about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. One is the filmmaker's mother, Pauline Silvia, who was a biologist in the Navy in the early 1950s and was sent to the Nevada Test Site where she participated in five detonations. At 23 years old, she was one of the few women scientists on an elite team of researchers. After decades of silence, Pauline is in a crisis of conscience about the work she did ... She reveals some of the grim and dark secrets of the U.S. atomic testing program. In an attempt to reconcile with her own mother's past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to resolve her own history in Japan. She was eight years old when the bomb was dropped and her twelve-year-old sister was never found. After many years of silence, Ms. Okada gives testimony of her atomic bomb experience and her commitment to education and disarmament. The film follows these survivors, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they "meet" through the filmmaking process, and as they ... attempt to understand the other."--Container.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Rick Butler; editor, Jennifer Chinlund; music, Marco D'Ambrosio, Klaudia Promessi; Hiroshima cinematographer, Kazushi Kuroda.
- Notes:
- Copyright has: Smartgirl Productions.
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2010.
- Special feature: music video "Truth be told."
- OCLC:
- 777866614
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