The atomic age,
frame by frame
A film publication about nuclear cinema, laid out the way a photographer reads a proof sheet: every image numbered, every image captioned, the writing running as annotation in the margin of the picture it is arguing with.
The sheets
Four sheets, twenty-three frames
Every section reachable without a dropdown · all frames
The Supporting Programme
The B-picture creature features and giant-insect cycle — the second-bill films that carried the anxiety the A-pictures would not name.
After the Bomb
Post-apocalyptic films from the 1950s to the present — how cinema has staged the aftermath and what each era needed it to look like.
The Science They Got Wrong
The specific, verifiable errors — mutation, radiation sickness, half-life — that Hollywood repeated until they became the genre's own physics.
Newsreel & Civil Defence
The government films, duck-and-cover reels, and test footage that the studios watched, borrowed from, and occasionally hired out.
Latest annotations
Short pieces, filed this roll
Five frames · 3–4 min each
The Road Inherits Nothing
Naming the disaster implicitly is the adaptation’s decisive error.
Why Ants, Not Missiles
A monster can be killed in reel three. That was the whole trade.
The Geiger Counter as Dramatic Prop
The click rate was written for the scene, not for the physics.
Bert the Turtle as Graphic Design
The most reproduced image in the civil-defence corpus, read as design work.
The Nevada Test Site Footage Studios Licensed
The archive as a commercial object, with a paper trail.
Frame 17 · the geography
Where the footage came from
Real coordinates · test sites, laboratories, and the studio city that bought the reels
