Tuesday, June 1, 2021

THINGS TO DO ON THE DAY AFTER

THE DAY AFTER (1983)
dir: Nicholas Meyer

THINGS TO DO ON THE DAY AFTER
MAD #239, June 1983
w & a: Al Jaffee

From the fifties to the eighties the biggest fear in America was that the atom bomb would be dropped on them at any time. This made-for-TV movie about how a small town was affected by such a situation, which you can see above, helped fan the flame of those fears and was even required watching in some schools, where classrooms had a new technology that year called VCRs.

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