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Television event / producers, Jeff Daniels, Amanda Spain ; director, Jeff Daniels.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Day after (Motion picture).
- Apocalypse in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Influence--Case studies.
- Motion pictures.
- Science fiction films--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (59 minutes)) : sound, color
- 1 online resource (1 video file (91 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2024]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million, and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on how to collectively confront and resolve the most pressing issue of the time - nuclear proliferation.
- Participant:
- Nicholas Meyer, Ted Koppel, Stephanie Austin, Ellen Anthony, Stu Samuels.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on January 23, 2024).
- Originally produced in 2020.
- Description based on a videodisc record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.
- OCLC:
- 1416918330
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