Town Of The Times Pt 2 of 2
Groves reading newspaper as wife does needle-work. “Did you know chickens & eggs are highly resistant to radiation.” They talk about building a shelter; he says he’s against them. Wife says she would run to be w/ daughter if school had no shelter.
14:42:54 High school band playing to raise funds for uniforms. Mr Allen leading fundraiser; gives talk about fallout shelters, has chart showing how nuclear cloud sucks up particles which fall back at different rates etc. & why protection is good idea. Question from woman: “How far away do you have to be to live thru it?” He explains ducking from blast wave; more questions & standard answers of government policy.
14:47:35 Man jumps up, asks to speak. “I’ve been sitting here for fifteen minutes listening to you & I’m appalled that you would lull these people into a false sense of security! Etc. They get into argument; Groves stands up & asks to answer. “Your thoughts are familiar to me... I faced two possibilities: world peace & world destruction; I was notably reluctant to face the third, the possibility of a nuclear war in which some will survive. The most difficult...” Intercut w/ CUs of people listening.
14:51:03 “Ladies & gentlemen I ask your assistance in financing the construction of shelters in our public schools...” applause. Mayor says tomorrow he will start shelter plans. Men building; checking signs put outside city buildings. Doctor & nurse giving first aid instruction; boy listening to shortwave. Band in full uniform. Tilt down square & main street street scenes. The End credits.
Cold War Paranoia; 1960s Americana; Fear; Hysteria; Happy Ending; Atomic Age; Nuclear War; Fallout
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Town Of The Times Pt 2 of 2 Groves reading newspaper as wife does needle-work. “Did you know chickens & eggs are highly resistant to radiation.” They talk about building a shelter; he says he’s against them. Wife says she would run to be w/ daughter if school had no shelter. 14:42:54 High school band playing to raise funds for uniforms. Mr Allen leading fundraiser; gives talk about fallout shelters, has chart showing how nuclear cloud sucks up particles which fall back at different rates etc. & why protection is good idea. Question from woman: “How far away do you have to be to live thru it?” He explains ducking from blast wave; more questions & standard answers of government policy. 14:47:35 Man jumps up, asks to speak. “I’ve been sitting here for fifteen minutes listening to you & I’m appalled that you would lull these people into a false sense of security! Etc. They get into argument; Groves stands up & asks to answer. “Your thoughts are familiar to me... I faced two possibilities: world peace & world destruction; I was notably reluctant to face the third, the possibility of a nuclear war in which some will survive. The most difficult...” Intercut w/ CUs of people listening. 14:51:03 “Ladies & gentlemen I ask your assistance in financing the construction of shelters in our public schools...” applause. Mayor says tomorrow he will start shelter plans. Men building; checking signs put outside city buildings. Doctor & nurse giving first aid instruction; boy listening to shortwave. Band in full uniform. Tilt down square & main street street scenes. The End credits. Cold War Paranoia; 1960s Americana; Fear; Hysteria; Happy Ending; Atomic Age; Nuclear War; Fallout