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Summary:

"A film about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. One is the filmmaker's mother, Pauline Silvia, who was a biologist in the Navy in the early 1950s and was sent to the Nevada Test Site where she participated in five detonations. At 23 years old, she was one of the few women scientists on an elite team of researchers. After decades of silence, Pauline is in a crisis of conscience about the work she did ... She reveals some of the grim and dark secrets of the U.S. atomic testing program. In an attempt to reconcile with her own mother's past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to resolve her own history in Japan. She was eight years old when the bomb was dropped and her twelve-year-old sister was never found. After many years of silence, Ms. Okada gives testimony of her atomic bomb experience and her commitment to education and disarmament. The film follows these survivors, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they "meet" through the filmmaking process, and as they ... attempt to understand the other"--Container.

Contributors:

Silvia, M. T.

Silvia, Pauline H.

Okada, Emiko

Smartgirl Productions

Women Make Movies (Firm)

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

English and Japanese dialogue; English version has English subtitles for the Japanese, Japanese version has Japanese subtitles for the English; closed-captioned.

Subjects:

Silvia, Pauline H.

Okada, Emiko

Women biologists — United States — Biography

Atomic bomb victims — Japan — Hiroshima-shi — Biography

Atomic bomb — United States — History

Nuclear warfare — Moral and ethical aspects

Nuclear weapons — Nevada — Testing

Nuclear weapons information — United States

Women biologists

Atomic bomb victims

Atomic bomb

Nuclear warfare

Nuclear weapons — Testing

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons information

United States

Nevada

Japan — Hiroshima-shi

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Biographies

History

System Details:

DVD-R; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Rick Butler ; editor, Jennifer Chinlund ; music, Marco D'Ambrosio, Klaudia Promessi ; Hiroshima cinematographer, Kazushi Kuroda.

General Notes:

NOTICE: This is a DVD-R and may not play on all DVD players.
Copyright has: Smartgirl Productions.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011.
Public performance rights included.
Special feature: music video, Truth be told.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

U263 ATO 2011 DVD

OCLC Numbers:

1053108576
777866614 [Invalid]