Atomic Age Cinema - 20th Century Retro Video

The Secret Land (1948)

Taro — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:28:02 +0000

This film documents the largest expedition ever undertaken to explore Antarctica. The expedition, code named “Operation High Jump,” was made by the U.S. Navy and involved 13 ships (including one submarine), 23 aircraft, and about 4700 men. It was touted to be an expedition to find “coal deposits” and other valuable resources, but in actuality they were trying to find the underground base of the Nazis in Neuschwabenlandt. The Nazis had done a very detailed study of Antarctic and were alleged to have built an underground base there.

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RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (1961)

Taro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:20:03 +0000

RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE - 1961

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A Is For Atom (1953)

Taro — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:26:09 +0000

Vintage cartoon explaining the atom bomb. Digitally enhanced by Retro-matic™, LLC., in Hollywood, CA.

The Philadelphia Experiment

Taro — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:27:01 +0000

Based on an “actual event” that took place in 1943, about a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future in 1984.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Taro — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:46:17 +0000

After Raymond returns from the Korean War as a decorated hero, the other members of his platoon can’t really remember what he did to win his medal. Two of the soldiers start having recurring nightmares, and one of them decides to investigate Raymonds current activities. What dark and sinister secrets are being withheld by the Government and the Army ?

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The Stepford Wives (1975)

Taro — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:44:55 +0000

Joanna Eberhart, a previously successful photographer, after a series of shocking events suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the ascerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a Jewish writer who’s also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful, and somehow… high-tech slaves. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men’s Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?

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Licence to Kill (1989)

Taro — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:07:23 +0000

James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter is left near to death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 do not feel Sanchez is not their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill. Bond is now more dangerously than ever. Bond gains the aide of one of Leiter friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep up his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bonds true intentions?

The Living Daylights (1987)

Taro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:58:57 +0000

James Bond 007’s mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond’s mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.

A View to a Kill (1985)

Taro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:56:44 +0000

A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design to the Russians. When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.

Octopussy (1983)

Taro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:53:55 +0000

James Bond’s next mission sends him to the circus. A British agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Faberge egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General, Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn’s and Orlov’s plan is to blow a nuclear device in an American Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn. Will Bond be quick enough, before World War III begins?