atom bomb is a 1964 indian malayalam film , directed and produced by p. subramaniam .

the film stars k. balaji , kaviyoor ponnamma , adoor bhasi and thikkurissi sukumaran nair in lead roles .

the film had musical score by br lakshmanan .

atom bomb ( film )

these illustrations by atom bomb survivors are a chilling reminder of the visceral power of visual storytelling .
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the decision to drop the atom bomb , the secrecy surrounding the mission , and the men who flew it .
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two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a nevada mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning .
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it began innocently enough . in 1938 , two german chemists accidentally discovered how to split the nucleus of the uranium atom : nuclear fission . einstein’s e = mc2 equation predicted that the amount of energy released from just one atom would be enormous .
after collecting dust in high - security vaults for more than 65 years , the united states has declassified hundreds of reels of film showing cold war nuclear bomb tests .
after 35 years in a bomb shelter , adam webber is finally going outside to play .
after collecting dust in high - security vaults for more than 65 years , hundreds of reels of film showing cold war nuclear bomb tests have been declassified by the united states .
the bomb , created by filmmaker smriti keshari and author eric schlosser , premieres saturday april 23 at the tribeca film festival in new york city . the film will be projected on floor - to - ceiling screens surrounding the audience in 360 degrees , while a live band plays the film ' s soundtrack live in the center of the space . the idea is to break away from traditional linear viewing to put the audience
inside
the film , creating a more impactful , visceral way to experience the story of the nuclear bomb .
we witness the united states navy relocating ' ' the friendly natives ' ' of bikini atoll in preparation for further bomb - testing , hear a congressman call for the use of the bomb during the korean war , and watch - again in a government training film - the members of a happy , middle - class american family repairing to their bomb shelter fitted with a periscope .
set against the backdrop of pre - atom - bomb hiroshima , the japanese animated film “in this corner of the world” proceeds under the dreadful weight of what is to come , as the calm of everyday life — carried out by ordinary civilians and rendered in bright colors — eventually gives way to air raid sirens . directed by sunao katabuchi , the film is deceptive , keeping its exact message obscure until its final minutes .
col . paul tibbetts piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima in world war 2 .
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the woodie station wagon driven by sam hurley has a desert water bag on the front bumper . the bag is missing in the exterior shot of the car just after larry fleming informs hurley about the atom bomb test . in the next shot the bag is back on the bumper .
the film was made of nitrate cellulose , an organic material that , when decomposing , smelled like vinegar .
the last bomb - u . s . army air force , b - 29 raids on japan , wwii 3357 2205
as terrifying as it is beautiful , crossroads represents the detonation of a nuclear weapon with a yield equivalent to around 23 , 000 tons of tnt ( the same as the atom bomb dropped on nagasaki ) ninety feet below the surface of the ocean , under a fleet of abandoned naval ships floating in disrepair—test subjects for the bomb’s destructive powers . almost in direct contrast to the rapid - fire blasts at the end of dr . strangelove , conner’s film presents the test in its original film speed and from various angles , so that the viewer can experience—fifteen times over the course of thirty - six minutes—an almost mesmerizing sense of doom .
bomb magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981 . bomb’s founders—new york city artists and writers—decided to publish dialogues that reflected the way practitioners spoke about their work among themselves . today , bomb is a nonprofit , multi - platform publishing house that creates , disseminates , and preserves artist - generated content from interviews to artists’ essays to new literature . bomb includes a quarterly print magazine , a daily online publication , and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward .
sam hurley ,
nation ' s no . 1 killer
with a cold contempt for
heroes ,
escapes prison with two companions and takes a mixed bag of hostages to nevada ghost town lost hope city . he knows they won ' t be found there because an atom - bomb test is planned for next morning ! relationships shift and tension builds as hurley keeps the others in suspense as to whether he will let them escape before bomb time .
there ' s no voiceover and next to no conversation , a testament to the power of visuals to tell a story . the film uses archival footage , animations , and brilliant aesthetics to tell the story , but what struck me were the drawings made by atom bomb survivors shown about halfway through the documentary . the music stops , everything goes black , and a minute later the illustrations appear on the screen backdropped by silence . it ' s chilling .
, who was having an affair with kelly and would later marry him . kelly ' s next film after this one was
form , montage and mesmerizing kinetics propel this experimental meditation on the destructive power of the nuclear bomb , featuring music by the acid .
the enola gay that dropped the bomb on hiroshima was a plane that was stripped of all armor and machine guns to lighten it so that it could carry the heavy payload of the first atomic bomb . in more than one scene the enola gay , on its final mission to drop the bomb shows a top turret with obvious machine guns mounted - in other scenes the plane is shown correctly as unarmed .
we hear from scientists , weapons designers , pilots who dropped nuclear bombs , former secretaries of defense and state who wrestled with the bomb’s impact on international diplomacy , witnesses to nuclear explosions , historians , and ordinary men and women who have lived and worked with the bomb .
janet cardiff and george bures miller , the paradise institute ( film still ) , 2001 , audio , video , mixed media .
with a tip of the old conelrad fedora , then , this page gratefully acknowledges a great film , soundtrack , and book .
seventy years after the cold war , the threat of the atomic age is greater than ever . nine countries have stockpiles of nuclear weapons thousands deep and more powerful than the atom bomb that hit hiroshima in 1945 . yet the horrors of nuclear warfare are no longer at the forefront of the public consciousness—a troubling amnesia that art has the power to change .
atom egoyan i often find it discouraging that no matter how radically a film may experiment with form , structure and visual texture , it’s ultimately presented to the viewer in an extremely formulaic way : on a projection screen or monitor . one of the things that excites me about your work is that you take your dramatic narratives off the screen and into streets and gardens . your characters occupy our physical space . the degree of interaction is profoundly respectful , yet extremely invasive . have we outgrown film and television screens ?
a wonderful tie - in book to the film featuring some of the remarkable images from this nation ' s atomic heritage . some great photographs include the original
atomic café
sign as well as an odd picture of a man getting into a box labeled
atomic bomb protective device .
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it is clear that kevin rafferty , jayne loader and pierce rafferty , who spent five years gathering material for this film , believe that even if the detonation of an a - bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man it may also be man ' s last sight of anything .
physicists all over the world immediately realized that fission might make a bomb of extraordinary power — and that nazi germany might be capable of creating one . the fear of adolph hitler getting a nuclear weapon led to a race to deter him by developing such a bomb first . thus began a chain of events that would lead inexorably to hiroshima , the nuclear arms race , the hydrogen bomb , the cuban missile crisis and some of the greatest fear and tension ever in world history .
the mind - bending climax of the episode intertwines images of the “got a light ? ” guy invading the radio station and crushing employees’ skulls with shots of a hideous frog - cockroach hybrid , seemingly hatched from an egg on the nuked salt flats of new mexico . both narratives of creeping violence have the feel of a curse being visited upon a society that tacitly condoned one of history’s greatest sins , nodding to a rich tradition of post–world war ii science - fiction cinema in which monsters birthed by atom bomb tests ( and other scientific or military experiments that were essentially stand - ins for atom bomb tests ) menaced teenagers and their adult guardians in norman rockwellian small towns and suburbs . the final section is also redolent of william butler yeats’s much - quoted poem “ the second coming , ” which ends with :
adam weber is the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife . following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years , adam weber must venture out into los angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family . he meets eve , who reluctantly agrees to help him out .
greg spriggs , a weapon physicist at llnl and head of the project said when they got their hands on the film they could smell it wasting away .
the film’s tension , in part , arises from the question of whether its characters are innocent or willfully ignorant . at times , suzu seems overly naive , as when she and harumi casually catalogue warships in the harbor . slowly , the mood of the film shifts , underscored by the percussion of distant bombs .
greg spriggs , a weapon physicist at llnl and head of the project , said when they got their hands on the film they could smell it wasting away .
over the past four decades , tony conrad’s legendary work in minimalist music , experimental film and video , has been seminal in the development of those art forms .
the atomic cafe , documentary , produced and directed by kevin rafferty , jayne loader and pierce rafferty ; edited by miss loader and kevin rafferty ; music coordinator , rick eaker ; distributed by the archives project inc . running time : 88 minutes . this film is not rated . at the film forum , 57 watts street .
bomb songs expressed people’s political hopes and fears , their religion , and even their sexual fantasies . people boogied with the bomb , and they prayed with the bomb . here is a cross - section of the best of that music , interspersed with short documentary news clips from the time . it is a reflection of an earlier , more innocent america trying to come to grips with the new atomic era . just as important , it is a collection of seldom - heard vintage music which remains exciting and dynamic today .
in 1974 , the japan broadcasting corporation ( nhk ) started collecting paintings and drawings from people who had lived through the atomic bombings and exhibited them the following year in hiroshima . a few of these haunting drawings are shown in a new experimental documentary film , the bomb , an immersive multimedia depiction of the story of nuclear weapons . the film aims to do what the survivor artwork exhibition did in 1974 : provide a new window through which to experience the horror of nuclear warfare , to make sure it ' s not forgotten .
what a wonderful film !
blast from the past
is charming , sweet , and hilarious . very funny . the premise is original and interesting , and i thought the film was engrossing and thoroughly entertaining - - i laughed out loud several times . brendan fraser is perfectly cast as the goofy , innocent adam . alicia silverstone is better than she ' s ever been , i ' m certainly no fan of her , but she did a more than okay job in this film . but the really ingenious casting decision was to give the roles of adam ' s parents to sissy spacek and the always brilliant christopher walken - - i dare say that the casting of spacek and walken in this film is the _ opposite _ of type casting , : - ) . i really , really liked this film because it is genuinely entertaining , and it is never boring . brilliant comedy in other words . ( 8 / 10 )
or , to paraphrase the philosophy expressed in song in a walt disney film , ' ' nothing is so awful that wishing won ' t make it seem not so bad . ' '
the pieces shown in the film are part of a larger collection of survivor artwork kept at the hiroshima peace memorial museum in japan , which gave motherboard permission to republish the selections below .
whispering room was an experience of installation art as a forum for dramatic storytelling . it made me feel inspired , and at the same time frustrated by the constrictions of traditional film practice .
the other huge attraction to using preexisting footage is that you don’t have to deal with the political structure of film production . the reason i find myself so interested in installation work these days is that it allows me to address the more formal aspects of my work without needing to explain to distributors why masses of people would want to see something . you mentioned an earlier film of mine ,
katabuchi does not shy away from horrific war imagery , ending the film with a heartbreaking coda . but by focusing on suzu’s ordinary life before the war , he gives her fate a universal resonance .
no less than the discovery of fire , the bomb marks a dividing line in human history between all that came before it , and everything that follows . for the first time , humans acquired the ability to destroy themselves , and we are still struggling to learn how to live with this awesome power . decades after it first appeared , the bomb has receded in the public consciousness — but it continues to shape our lives .
these are some of the components of ' ' the atomic cafe , ' ' a devastating collage - film that examines official and unofficial united states attitudes toward the atomic age in the years immediately after world war ii . the film , which opens today at the film forum and deserves national attention , begins with the first successful a - test at alamogordo , n . m . , and goes on to include president harry s truman ' s triumphant announcement of the atomic bombing of hiroshima , when he pledges that the weapon will be used ' ' in his ways and to his purposes . ' '
the screenplay title is incorrectly spelled . it reads : ' base ' on the book
red alert
by peter george . this is pointed out on the dvd supplement about the making of the film .
after two radio comedians make jokes about hiroshima - ' ' it looked like ebbetts field after a doubleheader with the giants ' ' - we see newsreels of hiroshima survivors . united states public figures are confident that god gave the bomb to americans because americans love democracy , until the soviet union detonates its own bomb . a southern california shopping - center owner sponsors a nuclear defense drill because ' ' shopping centers are an expression of the free world . ' '
two plump school girls proudly if self - consciously display the bomb - shelter provisions they made in their home - economics class : a dozen one - quart mason jars filled with dehydrated potatoes , deyhdrated milk , vegetables and dried fruit .
annually , bomb serves 1 . 5 million online readers––44 % of whom are under 30 years of age––through its free and searchable archive and bomb daily , a virtual hub where a diverse cohort of artists and writers explore the creative process within a community of their peers and mentors . the oral history project , which is an online series of comprehensive interviews with new york city’s african - american visual artists , offers readers a treasury of artistic , historical , and cultural critique .
the idea for this unique and innovative documentary began in a san francisco bookstore in 1976 when one of the film ' s co - producers ( pierce rafferty ) found a thick catalogue of u . s . government films . that same day rafferty envisioned a project that would utilize some of these titles to create a satirical documentary on the subject of american propaganda . the concept of crafting a visual montage out of long forgotten government training movies took six years and $ 300 , 000 to finally be realized on the screen in 1982 . along the way rafferty enlisted his brother , kevin , and shortly thereafter , new york film teacher jayne loader to join him in making the film .
the program recounts the bomb’s history , as well as the successes , failures and moral dilemmas of the personalities who created it . we learn how it was developed and how it quickly changed everything , from international relations to politics , culture , even sex .
' ' one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man ' ' is the way one enthusiastic united states army chaplain describes the detonation of an atomic bomb , an event about to be witnessed for the first time by his men in the nevada desert .
—atom egoyan is an acclaimed writer and director . his most recent films include exotica , the sweet hereafter , felicia’s journey , and a screen adaptation of samuel beckett’s krapp’s last tape . he has also written and directed the operatic works salome , elsewhereless , and dr . ox’s experiment . egoyan has received five genies , the grand prix and the international critics’ award at cannes and two academy award nominations . he lives in toronto .
the bomb
explores how what started as simple scientific curiosity ultimately resulted in a weapon capable of ending civilization . the invention , says historian richard rhodes , “was a millennial change in human history : for the first time , we were now capable of our own destruction , as a species . ”
dennis hopper credited bruce conner with inventing the music video , and bruce jenkins , the former director of the harvard film archive , once wrote , “what the cubists wreaked on painting . . . conner inflicted on cinema itself . ” for every iconoclastic film that the renegade west coast artist made before his death in 2008 , there are sculptures , collages , paintings , and drawings , too . simply put , if you’re not yet familiar with conner’s work , now’s the time for an introduction—well ahead of the retrospective that moma and sfmoma are rumored to be jointly planning for next year .
at the film ' s premiere , artwork inspired by the threat of nuclear weapons will also be on display by contemporary artists . the images and artists ' statements below also aim to spark a conversation and raise awareness about the reality of nuclear warfare today . the entire collection can be viewed at urltoken .
an artist whose sense of nihilism was as highly developed as his sense of beauty , conner never made work that was easy or decorative , which is one reason the west coast resident never achieved the commercial success of his pop contemporaries in new york . fortunately , the importance of his work has become more widely recognized of late . on saturday , conner’s longtime dealer , michael kohn , is opening an exhibition of his drawings and crossroads , which was recently restored by the ucla film & television archive . until then , you can preview the film in the exclusive clip below . i’d say , “enjoy , ” but that’s not really the point .
burt the turtle , a cheerful cartoon character in a training film for children , demonstrates how he ducks and safely covers himself inside his shell whenever a firecracker explodes nearby - in this way to train children to crawl under their desks and hide their eyes as soon as they see the bright light of an a - blast .
is ultimately a post - modern masterpiece that is different from any documentary that came before it or has been released since . one of the reasons the film is such an artistic success is because the filmmakers were daring enough to eschew narration and rely solely on their source footage . this footage - edited for maximum irony and backed by a phenomenal soundtrack - evolved into a completely fresh and original work . and with the reagan administration ' s re - energized arms race in full swing ( with complimentary plans for
continuity of government
) , the film achieved currency with its wicked satire of truman / eisenhower era designs for winning world war iii .
several times during the film , when the b52 is shown in flight from the side , even though the camera angle
pans
with the aircraft when banking ( turning ) , there is no change in the angle or geography of the scenery on the background plate footage - it still looks as if the plane were in straight level flight .
i’m going to concentrate on the meaning of the atomic bomb here , mainly because i’m so dazzled by it that i can’t mount a coherent response to the rest of the episode , a largely black - and - white trip into painterly horror that feels , even more so than in the show’s first few episodes , that lynch has come full circle to his roots as a primarily experimental filmmaker .
actually , as soon as george bures miller , my collaborator , and i started to build it we intended to have our friends over to the studio to watch our favorite movies in our “own” theater but then time ran out before it had to be shipped to venice . i hope some day we’ll have a house big enough to do that . we could show your film ,
we’re used to seeing big battle scenes in the show . what did you want to do to distinguish this one ? i started by trying to focus on whose point of view i wanted to prioritize , because there are a lot of points of view in it . you see tyrion’s point of view , you see daenerys , you see jaime , bronn . and i also decided with jaime and bronn to focus on what it was like to be the man on the ground in the middle of a dragon attack . we rooted for daenerys as she burned slavers in meereen from the sky . we’ve been with her in sort of heroic moments with the dragons . but we’ve never been in a battle between two people that we love and are rooting for , and i wanted to see what it was like for those men on the ground when war changed forever , when traditional fighting goes out the window because of a giant weapon like napalm or even an atom bomb is suddenly introduced and what that sort of horror is like on the ground .
( the film , the soundtrack and the tie - in book ) as it was a major inspiration to our drive to plumb the depths of atomic culture and start this site . therefore , if we ever do find
fallout shelter ,
a copy will be shipped to ms . loader immediately . [ update : in november of 2003 conelrad tracked down the elusive ( and amazing )
in another training film mr . average man goes to a doctor who diagnoses the patient ' s illness as ' ' nuclearosis , ' ' the symptoms of which are undue worry about nuclear war . after all , the doctor points out , using appropriate charts , it is absurd that 85 percent of the population should be so fearful when only 15 percent would be killed in an all - out nuclear war .
younger brother who died while vomiting blood ,
created by masato yamashita . atsumu yamashita was exposed to the bomb while doing building demolition work in dohashi . he returned to his home on august 20th . on around the 25th , he came down with a nosebleed , his hair fell out , and small red spots appeared all over his body . on the 31st , he died while vomiting blood . image courtesy of hiroshima peace memorial museum .
the film , remarkably well edited by miss loader and kevin rafferty , touches a lot of bases , including the cold war , washington ' s efforts to root communists out of government in the 50 ' s , the trial of julius and ethel rosenberg , as well as a brief clip in which the late bob considine describes mrs . rosenberg ' s electrocution in graphic detail , with his own patriotic sentiments added .
it’s difficult to express my excitement in this room . i had the sensation of being in the middle of a film that was still being formulated ; that was still in someone else’s mind . i was completely overwhelmed by the collision of technological artifacts—speakers , projectors , lights , wires—and narrative abstraction . i found myself drifting through the emotional residue of a personal trauma that was both immediate and distant , visceral yet disembodied .
one of the few public figures who seems to take the peril seriously in ' ' the atomic cafe ' ' is president dwight d . eisenhower , shown in a clip of a speech in which he stresses that science has ' ' outrun ' ' our social , political and intellectual institutions . it is the feeling of the film makers that ike , who is not often credited with foresight , is even more right today than he was then .
last night for the second time in a small theater here in berlin . it wasn’t as good as the first time ( which was in a better cinema ) because the sound system was deficient . it really showed me how much the film gets influenced by the soundtrack . one thing about presentations in the art world is that if you want to you can totally control how your piece will be viewed , which speakers you will use , et cetera . some artists don’t really care about the final presentation but it is super important to george and me . there is a lot of freedom in the art world and a lot of openness to alternative approaches to cinematic pieces , but i think for some artists , including myself , the attraction to the film world is about getting access to a larger audience and even more than that , the poetics of the space . cinemas , especially the larger ones , are just
the episode is filled with figures and creatures that seemed to have slithered out of primordial ooze even as their appearance is accompanied by electronic or electrical distortion noises ( notably , david lynch serves as his own sound designer on this series ) . the post - bomb sequences feel like a nightmare of eisenhower / kennedy–era american hypocrisy , with the proverbial chickens of the atomic age coming home to roost via a series of invasive and brutal acts , perpetrated against oblivious americans in small town or suburban settings . ( speaking of chickens : see eraserhead ’s chicken baby . ) they’re just going about their business , working in soda shops and enjoying innocent dates and broadcasting songs at a podunk radio station , while unbeknownst to them a hideous evil unleashed by the bomb is secretly creeping up on them , preparing to squeeze the blood and brains from their heads , crawl inside their sleeping mouths , or ( in the case of the coffee - shop waitress ) knock them unconscious with lynchian record - skip noises and incantations broadcast over the same airwaves that previously offered golden oldies .
your description of the theater—an openness to wonder and suspension—i love that . in several cyberpunk novels there are perfect devices that block out the world completely so that you jack into a virtual world , even your senses collaborating on this level . i think contemporary cinema is one stage of a long journey in which people have been attempting to create virtual worlds . i guess it started with cave drawings and continued through linear perspective in renaissance paintings , then into photography and film . i think my video walks and installation pieces are a continuation of this obsession .
i love you so
by francesco vullo . ' ' i love you so ' ' tells the story of a needed love between a man and a weapon . a love worth thousands of lives . the artwork is a remake of the iconic picture ( v - j day in times square , by alfred eisenstaedt 1945 ) showing the other face of war : indifference . taking a closer look at the depersonalization of the individuals in today ' s society . the piece ' s sense can be summarized by dr . strangelove ' s claim :
how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb .
we wanted the paradise institute to be about the whole experience of the cinema including the background noise in the balcony , audience comments , et cetera . it’s about undermining what people expect to see at a film and also undermining ourselves as filmmakers in a comedic way . for example , in the intimate scene with the nurse kissing the bound patient , when someone behind you ( on the soundtrack ) jokes “that’s excellent nursing , ” it pokes fun at the film but we’re also in on the joke . it comes back to what we were saying about format as well . people really don’t want the format disturbed . this is what john cage did , he frustrated people’s attachment to the established consensus of what music was . as a culture we are used to agreeing to be silent when listening to a film , agreeing as a whole audience that it’s not appropriate for other audience members to spontaneously start singing or making comments out loud ( unless it’s the rocky horror picture show ) . i’ve heard that this isn’t true in all cultures , that in some italian movie houses there is a lot of commenting and noise . in playhouse , which is a similar piece only with a single opera singer onstage and one viewer in the balcony , people get really annoyed because i have the audience laugh at the singer for no apparent reason . i also mix a filmic detective plot into an operatic setting . these things really make many people uncomfortable ; they feel bad for the singer being laughed at , they feel cheated when there is no suitcase under the chair when the character beside them has said there is . one viewer told me that when she found herself seated in an opera house in her street clothes she felt annoyed because she was underdressed . i think this all means that we take our play very seriously .
janet cardiff i don’t think so . you could compare it to the longevity of the painting format . it’s a perfect “window” to escape into . the framing becomes invisible so you can see the message or the film without being sidetracked by an experimental format . however i agree that we’re in a time of change—there are all these crossovers now from filmmakers like yourself and artists like myself . also , i think some of the audience is open to new stuff , because we’re a society accustomed to interacting much more than an audience of 30 years ago . for my work i do push the format ; there is more of an immersing experience for the audience . with the audio walks i want people to be inside the filmic experience and have the real physical world as the constantly changing visuals of the screen . every person will have a different experience of the piece depending on what happens around them or where and when they walk . i want the pieces to be disconcerting in several ways , so that the audience can’t just forget about their bodies for the duration of their involvement like we do in a film . but please don’t take away that flickering screen and those comfy seats , it’s nice to just relax and escape sometimes .
i think we are . it must be amusing to you as a filmmaker to see artists playing with films as if they were raw collage material . in the last decade artists and curators have had such a love affair with the cinema—not so much as producers , but as educated viewers creating a type of didactic intervention . it’s about stealing beauty under the guise of deconstruction . the filmic investigations that interest me have been ones such as steve mcqueen’s film that replicated the falling house from buster keaton . that’s about really paying homage to keaton but also about mcqueen having the guts to put himself in the precarious position of the filmmaker .
at the venice biennale , there was a huge line of people waiting to get inside . when you’re in the next group of 15 to get in , you’re put into a roped - off “vip” section , where you get to feel that you’ve finally made it . then , as you enter the installation , you’re led to the last row of the balcony , which is the worst seat in the house ! there’s a wonderful play between the contrast of privilege , marginalization and hierarchy that accompanies film events . did you completely plan the outside part of the pavilion experience ? could you anticipate that the work was going to be so popular ?
a very good place to begin would be with crossroads , the 36 - minute film conner made in 1976 out of archival footage of the first tests of nuclear weapons conducted at bikini atoll in the summer of 1946 . ( code name : operation crossroads . ) one of the most thoroughly documented events in history—one estimate puts roughly half the available celluloid on the planet in bikini atoll for the occasion—the extraordinary experiment has turned up in many pop cultural moments over the past seventy years , including the final scene of stanley kubrick’s dr . strangelove and michael jackson’s video for “man in the mirror . ” but no other compilation of the footage is as creatively conceived as crossroads .
the story of colonel paul tibbets , the pilot of the enola gay , the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima . although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon , he knows that it is capable of doing tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before , and that the death toll resulting from it will be enormous . he is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives , but if using it may bring an end to the war , then not doing so may result in even more lives being lost in continued ground assaults as the fighting goes on . at the same time , the intense secrecy surrounding this mission leaves him with no one he can express his thoughts and doubts to , not even his wife . as time goes on , the pressure upon him only increase .
yes and no . getting back to the idea of home theaters , the sound quality you can get in your basement with a decent surround system is amazing . i completely agree that sound is an essential element of film projection , and that a lot of repertory cinemas have inferior sound . but there’s nothing more annoying than being in a first - run theater and listening to the ambient sound of people eating popcorn , or whispering to themselves . you deal with this phenomenon in your work . it’s amazing how you allow discrepant noise to infiltrate your track . do you actually find yourself listening to other audience members when you’re watching a movie—allowing that to become part of your sonic experience in a john cage sort of way—or do you find extraneous noise as irritating as i do ?
george and i never thought of using pre - existing footage . we had to shoot our own not only because that’s what we’re interested in but because the piece was a 3 - d narrative experience . the film was just one element written into the script . part of the story was the audio that went on around the listener and the relationship of the wooden structure to the content of the video and audio . one of my favorite parts is when it appears that people are banging on the outside of the structure itself and it makes the audience physically paranoid , as well as affecting the interpretation of the image on screen . after producing it , i have to say our respect for filmmakers went way up . sometimes i think the real reason some artists use preexisting stuff is that it’s way easier than shooting it yourself .
people falling
by peter wieben . the first nuclear bomb was tested in 1945 . after witnessing the test , j . robert oppenheimer said he was reminded of the words from the bhagavad gita :
now i am become death , the destroyer of worlds .
in this scene , krishna is speaking to arjuna . he has just shown arjuna a vision of truth . all of the people of the world , past and future , are falling helplessly into krishna ' s mouth . the mouth is on fire , and as large as the sky . there are thousands of teeth , and everything the people know crashes into the teeth and is completely destroyed . i have drawn a small number of people out of what would have been billions . when arjuna sees this vision he falls on the ground and he tells krishna that while this vision was intended to teach him something , it has taken all of his courage , and all of his peace .
in much the same way , most commercial films are “didactic tours” through different genres and formulas . i used to feel that sitting in a cinema when the theater darkened and the screen lit up was to be in the presence of magic . psychological and environmental factors could combine to create an openness to wonder and suggestion , what amos vogel called an “unlocking of the unconscious . ” the cinema could be “a shrine at which modern rituals rooted in atavistic memories and subconscious desires are acted out in darkness and seclusion from the outer world . ” this seems a far cry from the experience most people have in modern multiplex screenings . the problem seems to be that it is almost impossible to forget where you are . there is a peripheral ambient light in most of these places , the overwhelming presence of commercial enterprise . the film experience should be physically total , isolating and hallucinatory . is this only possible in a contemporary gallery setting ?
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from 1945 to 1962 , the united states detonated more than 210 nuclear bombs , with multiple cameras capturing each explosion at around 2 , 400 frames per second .
for decades , about 10 , 000 of these films have been locked away , sitting idle , scattered across the us in high - security vaults . until now .
a team from the lawrence livermore national laboratory ( llnl ) has worked for the last five years on finding , declassifying and preserving the films ' content before it was lost forever .
it is made of nitrate cellulose , an organic material that , when decomposes , smells like vinegar .
you can smell vinegar when you open the cans ,
mr spriggs said in a youtube video .
they ' re made out of organic material , and organic material decomposes . so this is it . we got to this project just in time to save the data .
according to the llnl , the goal of the recovery was to provide better data to the post - testing - era scientists who use computer codes to help certify that the ageing us nuclear deterrent remains safe , secure and effective .
mr spriggs does not want nuclear weapons to be used and believes the key to ensuring that is to make sure the films act as an effective deterrent .
it ' s just unbelievable how much energy ' s released ,
he said .
we hope that we would never have to use a nuclear weapon ever again .
i think that if we capture the history of this and show what the force of these weapons are and how much devastation they can wreak , then maybe people will be reluctant to use them .
he estimates it will take another two years to scan the rest of the films , and longer to complete the analysis and declassification .
to date , the team has located around 6 , 500 of the estimated 10 , 000 films created during atmospheric testing .
around 4 , 200 films have been scanned , 400 to 500 have been reanalysed and around 750 have been declassified .
even more exciting , the public can now watch some of these declassified films on the llnl ' s youtube playlist .
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from 1945 to 1962 , the us detonated more than 210 nuclear bombs , with multiple cameras capturing each explosion at about 2400 frames per second .
for decades , about 10 , 000 of the films were locked away , sitting idle , scattered across the us in high - security vaults .
a team from the lawrence livermore national laboratory ( llnl ) has worked for the last five years on finding , declassifying and preserving the films ' content before it was lost .
according to the llnl , the goal was to provide better data to post - testing - era scientists .
mr spriggs did not want nuclear weapons to be used . he hoped the films would be a deterrent .
i think that if we capture the history of this . . . show what the force of these weapons are and how much devastation they can wreak , then maybe people will be reluctant to use them .
he estimated it would take another two years to scan the rest of the films . completing the analysis and declassification would take longer .
to date , the team has found around 6500 of the estimated 10 , 000 films created during atmospheric testing .
about 4200 films have been scanned , 400 to 500 have been reanalysed and about 750 have been declassified .
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three stars . rated pg - 13 . i18n two versions : japanese with subtitles and dubbed in english . 128 minutes .
as it opens , suzu is a young woman living in hiroshima with her family . time passes quickly — skipping an entire decade in what feels like minutes — until shusaku , a young man , offers suzu a marriage proposal . she accepts , moving with him to the nearby seaside town of kure . with her warm disposition , suzu develops a rapport with her niece , harumi . although everyone is aware of the escalating war , they rarely talk about it , until it can’t be avoided .
based on manga by the hiroshima - based artist fumiyo kouno , “corner” adopts kuono’s pastel palette and exaggerated facial expressions . yet it hews to realism — at least until the spreading horror is so extreme that hallucinatory imagery is the only way to make sense of it . “corner” is a deeply sympathetic tale , using the possibilities of animation not just to pique curiosity , but to devastate .


invasion of the saucer men ( a.k.a. invasion of the hell creatures , with the working title spacemen saturday night ) , is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction/horror comedy film , produced by james h. nicholson for release by his american international pictures .

the film was directed by edward l. cahn and stars steven terrell and gloria castillo .

the screenplay by robert j. gurney jr. and al martin was based on the 1955 short story " the cosmic frame " by paul w. fairman .

invasion of the saucer men was released on a double bill with i was a teenage werewolf .

invasion of the saucer men

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invasion of the saucer men ( 1957 ) . alien invasion . director - edward l . cahn . stars : steve terrell , frank gorshin . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
‘the invasion of kelly’ will reenact the night little green men were allegedly seen in the backyard of sutton’s home and stith will narrate the events .
there was another movie like invasion of the saucer men but had tall white aliens that exploded when you shined headlights on them , but dont know the name .
i ' m always ready for some saucer men and alien venom ! make mine a double .
this species appears unnamed in the 1957 satirical film invasion of the saucer men , and are referred throughout as
monsters
or
little green men
. the film was based on a 1955 short story called
the cosmic frame
, by paul w . fairman .
the lillingtons had a song entitled
invasion of the saucermen
on their death by television album .
i just wanted to let you know that the review you did of the run studio invasion of the saucer men dvd seems to be of the tv version of the film . surprisingly , this seems to be the version of the film used in virtually all of its digital representations . however , some time in
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television and the movies , as evidenced by examples like “plan 9 , ” “lost in space” and “invasion of the saucer men , ” in which an alien’s severed hand crawled around wreaking havoc on the big screen , did not fare quite as well .
a classic example is provided by invasion of the body snatchers . filmed in 1956 , it is the best of several movies – other efforts include invasion of the saucer men , the brain eaters and invaders from mars – in which aliens take over the minds and bodies of earthlings , reflecting a widespread american fear of communist subversion at the time . cold , ruthless , human - looking but utterly emotionless aliens perfectly encapsulated america’s paranoid vision of the threat of communism .
invasion of the saucer - men still holds up today as a fun film and a great representation of the alien invasion films of the 50’s . it must’ve been great to see this film at the drive - in playing alongside i was a teenage werewolf ( another film in desperate need of an official dvd release ) . until the day comes when this movie sees an official release , we will have to be satisfied with our videocassettes that have been watched so many times that they are starting to fall apart and show wear . it’s too bad that we , as movie fans , have to support bootleggers when it comes to great films such as… invasion of the saucer - men !
after reading some of the other comments , i must be one of the few who actually liked this movie . invasion of the saucer men can be either enjoyed as a serious movie or a comedy . i like the old style special effects where they have to make a model flying saucer instead of computer generated graphics . also , this movie may have been the first to depict air force coverup of ufos .
in the excitement of preparation for an imminent invasion from outer space yesterday the description of the little man was somewhat sketchily given and a detail or two of the affair were omitted .
gorn : there is a shockingly gory scene for the time this was made at one point when one of the saucer men has their eye gouged out by an enraged bull .
although the aliens in each film are radically different , the plot from saucer men was later remade in the infamous 1965 film attack of the the eye creatures . yes , it has two
the
s .
russ bender , who plays richard kingman here , also appears as dr . carmichael in 319 - war of the colossal beast ; and dodged bat thingies as general patrick in 311 - it conquered the world . you can see him in several turkeys including dragstrip girl ; the ghost of dragstrip hollow ; and invasion of the saucer men .
take a look at the creatures of the 1957 movie invasion of the saucer men . the bald , bulgy - brained , googly - eyed , no - nosed invaders match the stereotype of ufo aliens delineated by bullard to an uncanny extent . it prompts worries that abductees are not only plagiarists , but have bad taste as well . [ 16 ]
the night the two star - crossed lovers terrell and castillo stumbled upon the colossal flying saucer in the woods changed the movies forever . take a trip back in time to 1957 with this limited - edition bust of the big - headed alien from the cult - classic horror flick invasion of the saucer - men . standing 15 inches tall , the bust features realistic veins , over - sized ears , and bulbous eyes—just like paul blaisdell depicted the aliens in the film .
invasion of the saucer men director edward cahn and his collaborators deserve some credit for coming up with one of the more original ways for aliens to kill humans : by injecting already drunk people with excessive amounts of alcohol . it & apos ; s a method of execution that & apos ; s pointless yet chuckle - worthy , much like the film itself , a schizophrenic mess that can & apos ; t decide if it & apos ; s a horror - comedy or a teen comedy occasionally interrupted by aliens with papier - mâché heads . the only thing that invasion of the saucer men is for certain is unintentionally comedic , as well as an inadvertent commercial for booze .
little green men : whether it ' s played straight or for laughs is somewhat unclear .
actual saucer - man mask and hand props , showing the actual brown coloration .
arnold , who set off the flying saucer uproar five years ago when he reported the first flight of nine , will allow any saucer to land for free in his own private landing field on the outskirts of the city .
, which used a fine grain master of the version you reviewed spliced with a high quality vhs copy of the completely unedited invasion . this dvd only runs a little over three minutes longer than run studio ' s version , but those three minutes include some incredibly gruesome creature effects , including frank gorshin ( batman ' s riddler ) playing with the corpse of the saucer man he ran over , and a bloody battle between one of the saucer men and the cow on farmer larkin ' s land .
the 50’s saw such a variety of great science fiction films and the creation of so many memorable monsters . my favorite of all of them are the aliens from the 1957 film invasion of the saucer - men , created by none other than low - budget special effects genius paul blaisdell . the fact that this is a low - budget film doesn’t affect the final product in any way and though it comes off as cheesy at times , this will always remain a classic .
chicago - - the flying saucer , in the opinion of a growing body of scientists , is frequently a trick nature does with mirrors .
a flight of u . s . air force b - 36 bombers made two trips over pittsfield yesterday . on the second run , they stirred up the city ' s first flying saucer report of the current saucer season .
the observer says that she frequently lies in her backyard hammock and
scans the heavens
in the hope of seeing a saucer .
with many serious men talking about space ships and travel to the moon , this inclination to believe is strengthened .
“it’s not just about the thrill of boldly going , ” added the bfi’s rob winter , who helped to set up the festival . “these are films that play on our fears of invasion , extinction and annihilation . ”
the design of the character of morbo from futurama is based on that of the aliens from this film .
don ' t tell anybody but i never much liked saucer - men either . the monsters look silly , the movie can ' t seem to make up its mind what it wants to be , etc . not my cup of tea .
there may be no such thing as a flying saucer but there certainly are some genuine flying - saucer stories and the surveys show that the public wants to read about them . to bar flying - saucer stories , or any other kind , is to underestimate the intelligence and the ability of the newspaper reader to evaluate what he reads .
isn ' t this a strange conversation for men who . . . aren ' t . . . crazy ?
when i watch saucer men , i usually follow it with i was a teenage werewolf , as in the original double bill . somehow - - - for me anyway - - seeing them together makes the experience more enjoyable (
teen lovers johnny carter ( steven terrell ) and joan haydon ( gloria castillo ) , making plans to elope , find themselves in a precarious situation ; they must save the earth from the invasion of little green men who land their spaceship in the local woods near lover’s point , a favorite make - out place for the local teens . when the young couple leaves the point , driving without headlights so as not to bother old man larkin , who owns the property , they accidentally hit and kill one of the saucer - men . in a pretty gory scene for the time , the dead alien’s hand detaches itself from the body of the alien and pops the car’s tire using hypodermic - like needles that come out of the fingertips .
what , then , are we to make of the 1930 comic strip story tiger men of mars in the series buck rogers in the 25th century ? it adheres to bullard’s structure most excellently . wilma experiences :
the music class is substituted by the phantoms of the phantom of the opera , dewey largo , instead , is dressed as the phantom of the paradise .
in 1965 , director larry buchanan remade invasion of the saucer - men with the eye creatures . this is an almost scene - by - scene remake , only this time in color and with aliens , that do not even come close to blaisdell’s saucer - men design . everything about this movie falls flat , from the acting to the special effects . it is worth seeing just once though ; to see how bad remakes can be ( buchanan also remade it conquered the world with zontar , the thing from venus ) . i guess remakes are nothing new . an interesting note is that the eye creatures had its name changed at the last minute adding attack of the to the title . unfortunately the person doing this was not paying close attention so that in the final prints , the move title is attack of the the eye creatures .
paul blaisdell ( in saucer - man costume ) and friend bob burns , clowning around .
the sixth annual little green men days festival is unfolding this weekend in hopkinsville . the event marks the 61st anniversary of a well - known alleged alien encounter in rural kelly , kentucky .
this movie works as both a great science fiction film and a comedy . though the saucer - men may seem comical in appearance , there really is something terrifying about their design . paul blaisdell , who created the saucer - men , also created some of the most iconic monsters from the 1950’s . his work can be seen in such films as it conquered the world ! , it ! the terror from beyond space and the she - creature . his designs were always imaginative and you have to be impressed with what he created on such limited budgets .
drake said casting local actors is underway , elmer sutton jr . will play the role of his father . the film premieres at the “little green men days festival” in kelly on august 21st .
the flying saucer and robot gort from the 1951 movie the day the earth stood still , with gort shooting out a laser beam from his visor .
but he does not expect any little green men two feet high to scramble out of the saucers , if and when they land . he is convinced after devoting much time and $ 12 , 000 of his own money to private investigation , that the saucer is a living , thinking force from the stratosphere or beyond .
above : so - called
flying saucer
effects produced by physicist noel scott of the u . s . army corps of engineers in a vacuum bell jar . the pictures and the story received widespread publication , often with variations of a headline stating
army solves flying saucer mystery .
one such story below .
during the segment , we are shown two movie posters . one is the day the earth stood still ( 1951 ) . in this film ( which takes place just after world war ii ) , an alien named klaatu ( michael rennie ) and his robot , gort , land their spacecraft on earth . they bring an important message for the planet which klaatu wishes to share with representatives of all nations . the other poster featured is for invasion of the saucer men ( 1957 ) , which is a film starring steven terrell , gloria castillo and someone trekkies / ers may know ( or batman fans ) – frank gorshin . it’s a simple little b movie about little green men who come to earth via a flying saucer with nothing but bad intentions .
on a cover for an album from de wolfe music that deals with sci - fi music . on the cover the saucer man with the woman in the poster is shown in the cover of the album .
a campy sci - fi classic . by 1957 , flying saucers and big - headed little green men were sufficiently part of american culture that they could be used as secondary characters instead of
though they are called little green men in the film , and all color posters and lobby cards feature the saucer - men colorized green , the actual color of masks were brown , which in my opinion , make them look even more evil . for 1957 , this film featured two scenes of gore that you normally wouldn’t see . when the disembodied hand is moving around , there are strands of tendon and exposed bone clearly shown . during one scene where a saucer - man attacks larkin’s bull , its eye is gouged out by the bull’s horn , in oozing detail . this particular scene was actually cut from many television prints of this film .
the family also later recreates the final scene of the film during the couch gag .
if history records this flying saucer landing , it may also record the visit of another saucer in the red springs area last fall . that one is reported to have hovered six feet above the ground before taking off at a couple of thousand miles an hour . evidently these saucer pilots are from the same place , and the first one to visit robeson county liked what he saw , describing this is a good place to land .
it is doubtful that any large segment of the american press will go along with the suggestion of managing editor herbert hames of the ottawa , ill . , republican - times that newspapers place a ban on
flying saucer
stories .
the thought that is uppermost in the minds of americans today - -
the flying saucer ,
will be the sermon topic of the rev . reece brown ' s sermon topic tomorrow at 7 : 30 at the 22nd street first baptist mission .
at that time he said
they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across water .
with ray palmer , he is the author of one of the first books about the flying objects , a volume called
the coming of the saucers .
the first part with the zombies is a reference to the night of the living dead .
invasion of the saucer - men ( 1957 ) malibu productions : : american international / ep : james h . nicholson , samuel z . arkoff / p : robert j . gurney jr . / d : edward l . cahn / w : robert j . gurney jr . , al martin / c : fred west / e : charles gross jr . / m : ronald stein / s : steven terrell , gloria castillo , frank gorshin , raymond hatton , lyn osborn
director joseph drake : “what’s really unique and strange about everything is that this encounter happened august 21st of 1955 , so the eclipse is happening on the same day the kelly green men supposedly came 62 years ago . ”
yes , there really is a 1950s b science - fiction movie titled invasion of the saucer men . that said , it ' s not quite the cliche - ridden , narm - tacular , so bad it ' s good hoot you ' d both hope it was and which its poster on the right would suggest . whatsmore , with wikipedia and imdb listing it as a comedy , it doesn ' t quite seem to play itself for genuine seriousness either , when we all know that ' s what makes these sorts of movies good .
according to jones who reported the incident , the
saucer
was plainly visible near some cloud formations about 3 : 30 that afternoon .
in betty hill’s nightmare she must fight for consciousness and she finds herself surrounded by four short men . barney is unconscious and is being dragged by another group of men . they numbered eight to eleven when standing in the middle of the road . they are taken from the car to a glowing saucer - shaped craft . the behaviour of the aliens is very professional and businesslike and they are dressed in somewhat military style . they are not frightening per se . this is very much in keeping in tone with keyhoe’s speculations that aliens were making a scientific study of the planet out of “neutral curiosity’ or as a prelude to a mass landing . [ 25 ]
it ' s definitely not art , but it is fun . it ' s also prime drinking game material . drink every time the saucer men expose their alcohol infused nails , or drink every time the drunken bull appears on screen , or slug whiskey along with gorshin . cheers , garv
one additional bit of information : none of the neighbors saw the gadget , whatever it was .
however , if saucer landings here or elsewhere become a common occurrence , this would be a
first
of some significance . the outer banks of north carolina were the scene of the first airplane flight , and it would be appropriate enough for this state also to be the first place for a flying saucer to land . it would put a clincher on north carolina ' s claim to be
the birthplace of aviation .
but for those of a certain bent , 1952 will also be remembered for the second great ' flying saucer flap ' which climaxed with the reports of radar and visual sightings over the nation ' s capital in late july .
the investigation has also shown that the flying saucer crashed because of a defect in its radio piloting system . the saucer which carried no crew has a diameter of 47 meters . the steel used in the construction is an unknown alloy . it consists of an exterior disc provided at its peripheral with 46 automatic jets . this disc pivots around the central sphere which contains the measurement and remote control equipment . the measurement instructions have an inscription in russian .
kelly , kentucky is expanding its festival marking the legend of an encounter with visitors from outer space . the kelly community organization’s
little green men
festival will be two days this year . the celebration starts friday in the small town about 10 miles north of hopkinsville . local legend says a flying saucer and alien beings visited the tiny christian county community on august 21st , 1955 . community organization president frank brown says the festivities will include a screening of the 2005 documentary
monsters of the ufo : the incident at kelly .
sacramento movie monster fans , comic fans , and overall cinema creature fans come join us on january 12th for hollywood creatures and collectibles presentation of the double feature screening “men in suits” and “beast wishes” .
in the music room various versions of the phantom of the opera appear along with pictures of the grand pumpkin from
treehouse of horror xix
. along with the animal people from
treehouse of horror xiii
, half alien maggie
treehouse of horror ix
and homer as the tortured narrator
treehouse of horror
.
spur , aug . 7 ( special ) - - five spur residents today reported sighting an object monday which made flying saucer believers out of them .
you know , people did some pretty strange things in the name of comedy in the olden days . i mean , jerry lewis ? the fact that just about every movie of the time , no matter how serious - - no matter how grim , even - - somehow found itself saddled with characters that served no narrative purpose at all , but instead were included solely to bludgeon the audience with unfunny jokes ? what about all those beach party movies - - have you ever tried to watch one of those things ? i bring this up because if you took the comedic sensibility that produced pajama party and applied it to a monster movie , you’d come up with something very much like invasion of the saucer men .
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the aim , say organisers , is to celebrate a genre “that has been responsible for some of the most dramatic and indelible moments in the history of cinema” . these include a world poised between destruction and salvation at the end of the day the earth caught fire , a spaceship flying through space to the strains of the blue danube waltz in 2001 ; and the flickering images of the alien hunting down the last of the crew of the spaceship nostromo .
further , now that she has seen one , the observer declares that this saucer , at least , was something never touched by the hand of man but a
spiritual
thing .
the object , whatever it was , meteor , fireball or flying saucer , appeared to be southwest of her west side home , about in the area occupied by carbide , she said .
fuller , john g . , the interrupted journey : two lost hours aboard a flying saucer , dell , 1966 , pp . 45 . keyhoe , donald e . , the flying saucer conspiracy , fieldcrest , 1955 , pp . 63 - 64 , 204 - 5 .
coming out of the ground , a morlock from the 1960 movie the time machine .
pint - size aliens emerge from a saucer outside the town of hicksburg and start killing people using their hypodermic fingernails . the only witnesses are a group of teenagers hanging out at the nearby lovers lane but the authorities disbelieve the teens story . the only hope is for the teenagers to band together to defeat the menace themselves .
the illusion of water on a desert is due to bending of light rays in a way that a portion of the sky appears below the horizon , giving an impression of a blue lake .
when the warmer air is closest to the surface of the earth , the light rays are thrown upward . the greater the difference in density , the greater the bending .
the airport commission and the city council have approved a fee schedule for flying saucers wishing to use the boise airport . the landing fee has been fixed at $ 50 per saucer for non - scheduled flights and the fee must be paid in u . s . currency . interplanetary greenbacks will not be accepted . if the saucer radios in for a scheduled landing , all fees will be waived . if the saucer merely desires to hover over the field at an altitude of less than 100 feet , there will be a standard fee of $ 10 for the first three minutes of hovering and $ 10 for each additional minute .
another flying saucer has been reported here , this time by a west side hills woman who says she has been
scanning the heavens
nightly for weeks in the hope of seeing one .
horror film about sideshow performers . the chorus of
one of us , one of us
comes directly from that movie .
an illinois editor has banned
flying saucer
tales from his newspaper . may he not suffer the misfortune to be struck down by one .
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and that is the crucial attraction of days of fear and wonder , say its organisers . each decade uses science fiction to create a future that mirrors the particular fears and obsessions of the day . sci - fi films may claim to be visions of coming events , but are really a record of the past obsessions of society . hence the importance of the festival .
rump believes they might have been reflections on clouds from the midway ' s spotlights . midway officials said the lights were on about the time the rumps saw the objects in the sky . the play of the spotlights on clouds brought about 60
flying saucer
calls in des moines county , they added .
other sf illustrators also utilized the disc form long before 1947 . [ 5 ] but these are inevitable coincidences in a large body of artistic creativity . the saucer form was not the dominant shape of spaceships in the culture ; it was the rocket . in this larger sense jacobs is correct that one would expect an outbreak of ghost rockets over america if the images of sf were the determinant of what people should be imagining . they weren’t .
after the crime wave / the obsession of billy botski show wednesday at the grange you will have one last chance to see mr . lobo host on stage before he and his wife dixie move to the tinsel plated east coast for gleaming pastures . be at the crest saturday 7pm for a double bill of men in suits and beast wishes !
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today ' s myths become tomorrow ' s realities . newspapers don ' t cook up flying saucer yarns ; they merely report them .
she estimated the time at between 9 and 9 : 30 o ' clock . the saucer was moving much faster than any airplane she had ever seen , she concluded .
because the object was at great height , jones said he was unable to describe it except that it was saucer - shaped and silver colored , glistening in the sunshine .
maggie terrorizes milhouse behind the wheel of the evil 1971 lincoln continental mark iii from the car .
when they arrive at johnny’s car artie gets the proof he needs by seeing the disembodied alien hand that is now trapped in the car . when he tries to take a picture of it , the light of the flash causes the hand to disappear in a puff of smoke . the secret to defeat the aliens is now apparent : light kills them ! johnny rounds up all of his friends at lover’s point and they lure the aliens there . when they are in position everyone turns on their car headlights , shining them at the aliens , killing them instantly . the invasion is thwarted , through no help of anyone in authority .
the title of the third vignette ,
freaks no geeks
is a pun of the title of the tv series freaks and geeks . in addition , geek is the term for a sideshow performer of repulsive acts , such as biting the head off a live chicken .
part - ii of this report is the translation of an article appearing in the 9 july 1952 issue of the german newspaper
berlin volksblatt
. this article describes the discovery of a
saucer - like
object on spitsbergen island by the norwegian air force . the object , according to the newspaper report , was a circular disk 48 . 88 meters in diameter , remotely controlled , and had instruments with russian symbols .
with an airdate of october 6 , 2013 ,
treehouse of horror xxiv
is so far the treehouse of horror episode that has aired the earliest in the calendar year .
mrs . alva earl smith told the story for the group , relating that the five were in a cotton field about 12 p . m . when a plane flew overhead . the three women and two men looked up as the plane passed and sighted another shiny object far in the east .
in studying the 1893 editions of our four predecessors - - the mattoon journal , the mattoon gazette , the mattoon star , and the mattoon commercial - - we had a feeling of humbleness and pride . we saw the progress of both the community and the press and yet realized how little the individual really makes his mark in the annals of time .
scientists and military experts have been trying for five years to bring
flying saucer
rumors down to earth , but it took a little 30 - inch man to do it , right here in the yard of a home on the outskirts of lumberton .
pictures of the music class refer to ( from left to right ) : starships poopers from
treehouse of horror ix
, the island of dr . hibbert from
treehouse of horror xiii
, the raven from
treehouse of horror
and milhouse and the great pumpkin from
treehouse of horror xix
.
the man standing next to him is stephen king , author of the shining .
a
more prosaic explanation
probably will be forthcoming on the nature of saucers , he said in an article in the catholic standard , weekly newspaper of the archdiocese of washington .
this sounds like the first flying saucer report for anderson . . . and it involves a bright blue object flying through the nocturnal heavens . . . none of the yellow or red saucers that reportedly grace the skies of other parts of the country . . . the reporter is dolph stephenson , a watchman at the barber manufacturing company . . . and he maintains he saw the object tearing across the sky the other night at quite a clip . . .
the illinois editor , moreover , is much more sure than are we that there is no such thing as a flying saucer . we don ' t know .
an abductee in the 1954 movie killers from space has a strange scar and a missing memory of the alien encounter that caused it . the mysterious impregnation of women , including virgins , and the subsequent birth of intelligent hybrid children is the theme of the 1960 film village of the damned . brain implants are featured in the 1953 movie invaders from mars [ 15 ]
the growing list of those who have reported seeing flying saucers was augmented thursday night by the addition of four lima women .
part of the mystery is solved by a careful reading of the interrupted journey ” it is on record that betty hill had read donald keyhoe’s book the flying saucer conspiracy shortly before she be an having nightmares of abduction . keyhoe’s book cites nearly a dozen occupant cases . most of them are outright rejected by keyhoe . these include such farces as zebra - striped spacemen , an elephant - faced entity , 6 - armed , 13 - ft tall entities , space - man monster tales and contactee hoaxes . keyhoe practically endorses , however , a pearl harbor report of a flyer who frightfully proclaimed “i actually saw him” – the saucer pilot . note the pronoun is him , not it . no doubt this would have impressed betty as similar to barney’s experience of seeing the saucer’s occupants . [ 23 ]
he has become an informal clearing house for saucer news and magazine reports from the four corners of the globe . it is a big mistake to believe that flying saucers have been seen only over this continent , arnold said .
the stories span the decades from the 1950s to the present day and explore the many contradictions and quirks that define the city’s unique character . the cover of the book reflects these contradictions . it depicts the façade of the city’s once elegant astoria cinema which is currently the subject of controversial demolition plans . the derelict state of the building is offset by its glowing neon sign , a cheeky photobombing seagull and a bigger - than - life copy of banksy’s iconic kissing coppers .
this takes us up to the saucer , but it doesn’t give us much idea what should take place inside . neutral curiosity would probably lead to some sort of examination or questioning and this pretty much does happen . yet there is that terror of the needle in the navel and the business with the star map . nothing in keyhoe predisposes one to those sorts of things .
my favorite pic has to be the drinking buddies one with paul blaisdell ( in saucer - man costume ) and bob burns . love candid shots like that one 🙂
we of the atomic age can ' t imagine what mattoon will be like in another 60 years , but the thought creates a sense of excitement in us . we seem to be on the verge of great new explorations in every , field of knowledge , particularly in the sciences . we of 1952 take the advancement of electrical and mechanical achievements for granted . we have seen new forces of warfare come into existence in the last 10 years that would have been beyond the comprehension of the people of 1893 . we talk of rockets and space - ships as they must have thought of the possibilities of electricity . we worry about
flying saucers
from other planets as they too must have been concerned with unknown phenomena of their time .
keyhoe also expresses a measure of acceptance of a series of ufo stories from venezuela involving hairy dwarfs . one of these serves as a closer starting point of betty hill’s nightmares . two peasants first spot a bright light like a car on the nearby road . hovering a few feet from the ground is a round machine with a brilliant glow coming from the underside . “four little men” come out and try to drag jesus gomez toward the object . there is a struggle and the evidence of that struggle gives it a special credibility in keyhoe’s eyes . keyhoe next cites the experience of jesus paz who was found unconscious after being set upon by a hairy dwarf . he follows this with jose parra’s sighting of six small hairy creatures by a saucer and their transfixing him with a bright light . [ 24 ]
bonn . writing in the german magazine
der flieger
, dr . waldemar beck says that a flying saucer which recently fell at spitsbergen has been studied by eminent norwegian and german rocket experts . he writes that dr . norsal , a norwegian expert in rocket construction went to the place where the flying saucer had fallen a few hours after it had been discovered in the mountains of spitsbergen by norwegian jet planes .
the methods and customs of our predecessors have greatly changed , but not their ambitions . we inherited the ambitions , fulfilled part of them , and then hand what is left undone to other generations of the future . it is rather apt that a record of our achievements be preserved in the cornerstone of an institution dedicated to the task of educating those future generations .
a leading chicago psychiatrist believes it can be attributed to the temper of the times .
in his sermon rabbi michels will emphasize the religious significance of the current phenomenon with special reference to the hebraic concepts of man and his relation to the universe . . .
the dead raven landing on the tire fire is a reference to planet of vampires .
when the police arrive , johnny and joan are brought to the station under the suspicion of drinking and driving , since the air is full of the smell of alcohol thanks to the aliens . at the station , johnny and joan find out that joe had a roommate , artie . since the police will not believe their story of little green men they feel that reaching out to artie is their only chance . they escape the police station and meet with artie , who agrees to go with them out to johnny’s car so that they can prove their innocence .
whether the saucer landing here becomes a historic event depends on future developments . unless the saucer had an unlimited fuel supply , presumably it has had to return by now to its original take - off point and its 30 inch pilot has reported seeing a giant on the earth . this might discourage future visits to this planet and keep the saucers from being seen or heard of from now on . if so , the
flying saucer age
will be put off for awhile , at least until the
atomic energy age
develops a little more , and if no more landings are made on earth the historians may decide not to record this event , for lack of substantiating evidence .
, the film itself contains plenty of pleasures for both fans of cheesy , low - budget fare and soused cinema enthusiasts . of course , your enjoyment of the film may be improved by knocking a few back yourself .
might be remembered for many things , large and small . the election of dwight eisenhower as president of the united states . fifty thousand american families afflicted by polio . the british a - bomb . the first issue of
this paradox is especially bad news for abduction reports . by bullard’s tally 82 % of craft descriptions fit the flying saucer stereotype . [ 7 ] this is far in excess of the approximately one - third portion saucers and discs make up in a more general population of ufo reports . [ 8 ] if imagination and cultural expectations play a larger role in abductions than in more reality - constrained misinterpretations of mundane stimuli , then this fact makes sense . the flying saucer mythos perfectly predisposes us to include flying saucers in our fantasies and nightmares about extraterrestrials .
since they now have a flat tire , johnny and joan must go to larkin’s farmhouse to call the police . while they are doing this , joe gruen ( frank gorshin ) , who came to town that day with his drifter friend artie burns ( lyn osborn ) , who saw the saucer - men’s spaceship land , finds the dead alien body under the car and immediately realizes that if he were to put this body on display , he and artie could make a lot of money . while trying to figure out how to get the body back to the boarding house where he is staying at , he is attacked by more saucer - men who saw their companion get killed . using their needle fingers , they inject joe with alcohol , which when mixed with the alcohol he had already been drinking , kills him . the smart aliens then replace the alien’s body with joe’s , making it look like johnny and joan hit him with their car instead .
this is the first treehouse of horror episode since
treehouse of horror ix
to have a chalkboard gag .
i am indebted to al lawson for calling attention to the fact that the needle - in - the - navel motif owes its origin to imagery appearing during the martian operating room episode . shortly after the operation begins , the camera cuts to a high - angle view of the surgical theatre . at least , that is what it is supposed to be . the image has an ambiguous character in terms of scale and content . you are supposed to interpret it as a view of the architecture of the interior of the saucer with the dominant structure being a tubular metal beam or conduit connecting ceiling to floor . it bears a stylistic similarity to the neck implanter in having a clear plastic sheath surrounding the upper half of its length .
albert glasser , described by tom servo as
the man who holds you down and pummels you with music ,
was one of hollywood ' s most prolific movie score composers . of the some 200 movies he scored , 11 were msted : 201 - rocketship x - m ( arrangement only ) ; 309 - the amazing colossal man ; 313 - earth vs . the spider ; 315 - teenage caveman ; 317 - viking women and the sea serpent ; 319 - war of the colossal beast ; 409 - the indestructible man ; 414 - tormented ; 517 - beginning of the end ; 602 - invasion usa ; and 611 - last of the wild horses . some other cheesy movies which he scored are : gordon ' s the cyclops and attack of the puppet people ; and the giant from the unknown .
as he and starkey watched , the flat , saucer - shaped object hovered in one position for a considerable length of time . jones said the object
wobbled about for awhile , then took off at terrific speed in a northeasterly direction .
the cultural source of the ufo lies in a journalistic error . kenneth arnold’s report of mysterious supersonic objects flying near mount rainier was a sensation that made front - page news across the nation . the speed was far beyond that of the planes of the era and no one publicized the flight in advance . it was an exciting puzzle .
these fifties paranoia films were fantastic . if you can get over the fact the aliens are all large bug eyed rubber legged toys with men inside this is a film for you . i loved them as a kid and doubt that will ever change .
in the case of a crash landing , it would be hard to improve on the first question ever asked a saucer pilot and that is whether he got hurt . but if a saucer lands safely around here any time soon , and a little 30 - inch man steps out , it may be hoped that somebody will ask him who ' s going to win the november election , before he takes off in a whiff .
the monster which picks bart with its tentacles is cthulhu from at the mountains of madness .
the unnamed beings which landed a flying saucer near the american city of hicksburg in the 1950s are a species of small ( approximately four feet tall ) green humanoids with disproportionally large heads and bulging eyes . they also have extra eyes on the backs of their hands , and their fingers are armed with retractable needle - like hollow claws which are used to inject victims with a concentrated dose of pure alcohol , enough to kill humans and cattle .
the editors of the paper will not select or omit the news that they as editors want the readers to read or not to read .
the ambiguity of the image , however , admits an alternative interpretation . the tubular metal beam and plastic sheath becomes a hypodermic needle . lighting of the floor suggests the curvature of an abdomen . the place where the floor and tube intersects is surrounded by a round indentation . it’s the navel . in the brief snatch of time the image is seen , some people will miss the intended interpretation and see a huge hypodermic needle has been thrust into the woman’s navel .
amsterdam , august 7 , 1952 - - dutch papers this morning are full of flying - saucer reports . telephones at the editorial offices and at the meteorological institute of de bilt are constantly ringing with new reports or with requests for information . conversations on street - cars and buses deal with little else .
layers of air can be of unequal density . warm air is less dense than cool air .
the pants that the fat in the hat pulls down are the scary green pants from the story what was i scared of ? from the sneetches and other stories by dr . seuss .
review : this science - fiction picture is intentionally funny . terrell and castillo are newlyweds who accidentally run over a martian . the vengeful little green men plot to get back at the lovers by turning them into alcoholics . this is accomplished by injections fr… ( more )
examination , as the peril , is the downer part of the story and would ruin a happy ending if sequenced late . even in deviant cases the examination is never put near the end . pragmatically , putting theophany before examination might instill trust in the abductee and make testing go better . dramaturgically , however , such an order would be stupid since it ruins the intensity of the peril and spoils the joy of the ending and the sense of closure .
it has only been in the last 150 years that the phenomenon of mirages has been understood .
rod serling , author and host of the tv series the twilight zone , smoking a cigarette .
great review , like all the others so far , nightowl . i think
invasion of the saucer men
is a film you ' ve had to have grown up with , whether that means having seen it when it first debuted at the cinema , or on a black - and - white tv that only received seven channels ( not counting uhf ) . my own anecdotal evidence comes from a number of younger - generation acquaintances who i ' ve tried to show this flick to , but were quickly bored or distracted . however , guys in my generation ( mid - 40 ' s ) all seem to have the same fond memory of the bull ( and that other unfortunate guy ) who get literally needled with the alien ' s hypodermic - like fingernails . that ' s still awesome . by the way , my wife got the movie poster matted and framed in glass for me a few years ago , and it now hangs over our bed alongside robby the robot . the bug - eyed aliens are a great way to start every day !