Dark Circle (film)

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Dark Circles is a 1982 American documentary directed and produced by Judy Irving, Christopher Beaver and Ruth Landy that focuses on the relationship between nuclear weapons and the nuclear power industry, with a strong emphasis in individual humans and the cost of the protracted US environment involved. One thing that is obviously made by this film is that while only two bombs were dropped in Japan, hundreds were detonated in the United States.

The film won the Grand Prize for a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and received a national Emmy Award for "Outstanding individual achievements in news and documentaries."

For the opening scene and about half its length, the film focuses on the Rocky Flats Plant and its plutonium contamination of the surrounding environment. The rest of the film includes the development, wartime use and testing of US nuclear weapons, including the manufacture of plutonium-239 in commercial nuclear power plants such as the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. The documentary is not rated. A dramatic World War II film recording of a Nagasaki bomb victim whose back and left arm were stripped of the skin was displayed; closed scar, he told his story in this day too. Testing of nuclear weapons in live pigs with very close proximity to the skin, Priscilla Test, and US military forces in a more secure range are also shown.

The film closes by highlighting anti-nuclear protest activities directed at the Diablo Canyon Power Station on the California coast in the United States. The protesters argue, and support the film, the statement that the protest was responsible for delaying the licensing of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant and, as a result of the delay, serious construction fault disclosures were announced before the plant was online and began to generate strength. Found by a 25-year-old engineer before the initial criticality, seismic support for nuclear piping has been retrofitted. The film documents protests with large close recordings including when this information is known.

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PBS

The film was approved for the national broadcast of PBS in 1985, but the decision was rejected a year later. According to Barry Chase, PBS vice president for news and public affairs:

"This is an advocacy film and it does not provide an opportunity for any viewer who comes to the subject for the first time to draw any conclusions beyond what the producers have in. Our stakes here for a long time have been if that's the case, we have two option: We can not run the movie or we can run it with the cover representing the other side We will make the second choice in this case because, cinematically and technically, the film is well done but very bad journalism We have done this topic four ways from Sunday in the last few years and we do not need this.We can spend 50,000 dollars, or whatever is needed for a good cover, on something we have not done before. "

Independent producers allegedly censor. B.J. Bullert commented that the PBS/KQED decision "robbed a national public television audience." He extrapolated this critical statement to media across the board and his failure to focus public attention on the alleged biological danger of nuclear power.

Regardless, the film was aired on PBS ' POV ("Documentary with viewpoint") on August 6, 1989. PBS summarizes the thesis of this film as "Bomb killing ordinary Americans, even without the presence of nuclear war."

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Critical reception

BJ Bullert, in his title of Public Television: Politics and Documentary Film Battle, deplored the swift national broadcast and stated that the Dark Circle was beyond the mainstream in making the statement now widely accepted. Nat Katzman, former manager of KQED station, quoted in Bullert's book, states "It's harder to say ( Dark Circle ) to forge anything, but leave one with the uneasy feeling that this is propaganda, not journalism.

John Hart, for The Seattle Times , says the movie "Probably the most eloquent, broad and convincing film on the subject to date, and that offers the best proof of hope."

Kenneth R. Clark, for The Chicago Tribune , writes " Dark Circle does not pretend journalistic objectivity.This is the advocacy part wrapped up in the nightmare of terrible movie footage, many of which have so far been classified secrets. "

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See also

• Radioactive contamination from Rocky Flats Plant
• Nevada National Security Site (formerly Nevada Test Site)
• Abalone Alliance
• Mothers for Peace
• Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
• Christian Iversen

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References

• Bullert, B.J. (1997). Public Television: Politics and Documentary Film Battle . New Brunswick: Rutgers. pp.Ã, 37-62. ISBN: 978-0-8135-2470-2.

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External links

• Dark Circle on IMDb

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