On June 20th Friday films at Flor y Canto continues to think about the unthinkable with the 1982 non-fiction mind blower, "The Atomic Caf?". Put together from newsreel footage, government archives, military training films and fifties music, this film tells the story of the paranoia and insane business-as-usual attitude of the early atomic age. Somehow it all seems so current.
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