A Trip Down Memory Lane

by Robert Koehler on June 15, 2009

Ah, the Cold War… things were so simple back then.

{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 nystrus June 16, 2009 at 4:20 am: The bad suits, the hair. I loved the 80′s, though I was but a child.

But seriously, for a fictionalized documentary, this is very elaborate.
2 Dram_man June 16, 2009 at 8:41 am: I used to love stuff like this in the 80s. Great find!
3 Dram_man June 16, 2009 at 8:59 am: Just looking at the first few minutes, and, man, their just as dumb and paranoid on financal matters as the press currently. What do they mean by “issuing script for currency”? what do they thing happened after Nixon got us off the gold standard in ’73?

Gotta love the James Brady look-alike as press secretary.
4 The Western Confucian June 16, 2009 at 10:46 am: When I watched that back in the ’80s, it freaked me out.
5 John from Daejeon June 16, 2009 at 10:24 pm: A showing of “The Day After” is what gave me nightmares to this day. I wonder how it would go over now in South Korea as their cousins to the North are making a big showing of being able to split the atom while being unable to feed themselves.
6 Benicio74 June 16, 2009 at 11:06 pm: “The Day After” scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!
I had nightmares for months!
7 eujin June 16, 2009 at 11:44 pm: Is the posted film “The Day After” or some sort of prequel? I missed a lot of US TV in the early 1980′s.
8 Benicio74 June 17, 2009 at 11:20 am: “The Day After” was more of a drama about nuclear war and the survivors in Lawrence, Kansas. The “survivors” just died slowly from radiation poisoning.
It was a very scary thing for a 10 year old to watch!

There was another one, later, about “survivors” in a northern California town- how they were just slowly dying from radiation and the desperation. Can’t remember the name now, but it was not a happy movie.
9 Benicio74 June 17, 2009 at 11:25 am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_(film)