DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Atomic mom [videorecording] / directed and produced by M.T. Silvia.

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 2011.

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

"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.

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.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Silvia, M. T.

Silvia, Pauline H.

Okada, Emiko.

Smartgirl Productions.

Women Make Movies (Firm)

Copyright has: Smartgirl Productions.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011.

Special feature: music video, Truth be told.

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

DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1.

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

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