Atomic Energy (1982)
Added 2021-11-03 21:09:59 +0000 UTCA rather blurry 16mm print, and a bit dark, but the color is still vivid. Pretty trippy for '82 with lots of impressive animation in this one - like an intermission film shown at a Laserium show - would be a perfect projected backdrop for a concert! Nuclear fission, atomic reactors, thermonuclear detonations, and particle accelerators are all explored. This reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter that projects a 24fps print at 30 frames per second for a flickerless NTSC transfer. A special diffusion plate eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the sound is pulled right from the optical track. Enjoy!
Comments
I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying your sharing of the film collection.
Jeffrey R. Broido
2021-11-04 22:34:25 +0000 UTCThe narrator mentioned that fission chain reactions do not occur in nature. There actual is a known natural fission chain reaction that was discovered. It is discussed in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
Blake Getson
2021-11-04 14:46:00 +0000 UTCHow is youtube not flagging these for DRM?
doug johnson
2021-11-04 06:47:18 +0000 UTCHow did they get the telephone lady "We're sorry, that number is no longer in service. Please hang up and dial again." to narrate this thing? Graphics were so blurry that they must have been subcontracted out to Industrial Light and Tragic. Always nice to see the instruments of armageddon in action in these school films. I suspect the teaser before this film was for "Duck and Cover" and the food in all of the Civil Defense fallout shelters was still edible. You did a great job of cleaning up the color, but I suspect the fuzziness is always going to be the equivalent of a video tape that was a 3rd generation dub. These films are great! Thanks for working so hard to get the best picture quality you can.
Matt Wietlispach
2021-11-04 03:55:00 +0000 UTCThis is an interesting idea. There must be a lot of public domain 16mm footage around I am thinking.
Bart de Boisblanc
2021-11-04 03:04:54 +0000 UTCThis was the year I resented not going to Greenham Common with my sis because I wasn't a gril. Thanks Fran, these are all super - and I don;t mean super eight. The label says this is film number 3726 - have you got them all? If you have I'll get a party going.
Ymir the Frost Giant
2021-11-03 23:04:41 +0000 UTCThe first time she said "fissionable" which word I've never heard before, I thought she was saying 'Fish 'n... and was waiting for the chips. From then on, all I could hear was "fishin'able' and "fishin' bomb". Maybe Dali can save me.
Ymir the Frost Giant
2021-11-03 23:02:38 +0000 UTCIt seems like 40 years ago fusion was the fuel of the future, now here we are and it's still 40 years away.
David Peaker
2021-11-03 22:48:30 +0000 UTCIs the techno percussion background part of the original soundtrack or is that an anti-copyright detection bot strategy?
lohphat
2021-11-03 22:47:03 +0000 UTCThis could be a new channel option for you to post old transferred content. At least you could off-load any take-down notices from your main channel to spread out risk.
lohphat
2021-11-03 21:55:01 +0000 UTCThank you for transcribing these films! They've been a real joy to watch.
David Fountain
2021-11-03 21:51:57 +0000 UTC
