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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Our Cities Must Fight
- Year
- 1951
- Abstract
- Civil defense film admonishing U.S. city dwellers to stay and fight in case of enemy invasion, rather than evacuate. Filmed in New York and other cities.
- Notes
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Produced: Archer Productions, Inc.
Sponsor: U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Run Time: 9:00
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense;Cold War;Infrastructure;Cold War;Infrastructure
- Theme
- Stay and fight!
- Review
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This short film alternately tries to persuade, intimidate, and shame those people who might try to flee their homes in American cities after attacks on the cities. To do so, our serious square-jawed narrators assure us, would be un-American and unlikely to succeed at any rate. And hey, according to these same folks, why flee when "the danger of lingering radiation is not really very serious. After an atomic airburst, the danger of radiation and falling debris is over within a minutes and a half." Riiiight.
Footage of London and Berlin from WWII is used extensively throughout the film.
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(Reviewer: Asparagirl) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F