A Short Vision – Apocalyptic Animated Short Film from 1956
I’ve been doing a lot of digging around for early examples of post-apocalyptic media, and just came across this A Short Vision on YouTube.
Continue readingI’ve been doing a lot of digging around for early examples of post-apocalyptic media, and just came across this A Short Vision on YouTube.
Continue readingOn a recent episode of Podcast at Ground Zero, Jarred mentioned that he was on the lookout for a British documentary called On the 8th Day, that had been shown in the US after the airing of Threads on TBS in 1984.
Continue readingI came across this video on YouTube today. It’s a great compare and contrast discussion of The Day After and Threads by the folks at the Movie Moan podcast.
Continue readingIn this episode I joined Shawn of PostApocalypticMedia.com to talk about the week’s post-apocalyptic news. We talked about the new season of War of the Worlds, the upcoming WOOL series on Apple TV+, and then a non-spoiler discussion of Sweet Tooth on Netflix.
Continue readingI’ve been spending some time putting together a Post-Apocalyptic YouTube channel by gathering all of the public domain, creative commons, or just really old post-apocalyptic short films and movies that I can find.
Continue readingIt’s Christmas at ground zero
There’s music in the air
The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing
While the air raid sirens blare
Unseen for years and made public for the first time by the National Security Archive, the film depicts the U.S. Air Force’s implementation of war plan “Quick Strike” in response to a Soviet surprise attack against the United States.
Continue reading“Duck, and Die Anyway” blends the audio from early Civil Defense films with clips from about 30 different movies and TV shows, each used at just the right spot to put a spin on the commentary that is just about the opposite of what was intended.
Continue readingJustin Cronin discusses certain aspects of his novel The Passage, and visits some of the locations in the books.
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