Atomic Power
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Atomic Power |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Glenn |
| production | Richard de Rochemont |
Atomic power is an American documentary - short film by Jack Glenn from the year 1946 . He appeared on August 9, 1946 in the series March of Time as the 13th episode of the 12th season. At the Academy Awards in 1947 he was nominated for the Oscar in the category "Best Documentary Short Film" .
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The episode from the documentary film series March of Time deals with nuclear energy and in particular with the construction of the first atomic bomb . It begins with the beginning of the atomic age and the first nuclear reactors , but focuses on the scientists Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project .
background
Almost all of the so-called "fathers" of the atomic bomb agreed to take part in the film. So they acted out scenes that contributed to the development of the bomb. Einstein and Leó Szilárd can be seen as they appeal to Theodore Roosevelt to build the atomic bomb . In addition to Einstein, Szilárd and Oppenheimer, the film also features Vannevar Bush , Leslie Groves , James Conant , Enrico Fermi , Dean Acheson and Bernard Baruch . Due to pressure, especially from Bush, Conant and the Office of Scientific Research and Development , the film turned out to be much more positive than comparable productions of the time. The course of the film showed that the aim of the research was the peaceful use of atomic energy and that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end the war. The film was made with more support than was available for the feature film The Beginning or the End, which was made around the same time . This was much more critical as far as the use of the bomb was concerned.
Web links
- Atomic Power in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The March of Time. (No longer available online.) HBO Archives , archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jonathan Stuart Setliff: The March of Time and the American Century . ProQuest, 2007, p. 254 .
- ↑ James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age . Stanford University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8047-2619-1 , pp. 286 f .
