On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. In remembrance of that day 66 years ago, the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the SLC Film Center (now Utah Film Center) showed Atomic Mom to about 125 people at the Salt Lake City Public Library.
M. T. Silvia made the documentary about her mother, Pauline Silvia, who joined the Navy and worked at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Pauline Silvia’s work with animals and the effects of radiation on them, and her viewing of the atomic bomb testing in Nevada haunt her later in life.
“I think you should tell the truth about what happened to you,” said M.T. Silvia via Skype to a member of the audience who had been in St. George Utah at the time of and exposed to the radiation from the Nevada testing. M.T. Sylvia also stated that the song Truth Be Told was available as a free MP3 download at the film’s web site.
The movie was preceded by a reading of the story Katsuji Yoshida, a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb drop. This was the third reading in the United States of the story that students from Sakurababa Junior High School wrote and illustrated after hearing Yoshida’s story of survival.
Atomic Mom will be shown at the 2011 DocUtah Film Festival in St. George between September 9 and September 17, 2011.
This article was originally published at examiner.com. Links updated Feb. 2017.
M. T. Silvia made the documentary about her mother, Pauline Silvia, who joined the Navy and worked at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Pauline Silvia’s work with animals and the effects of radiation on them, and her viewing of the atomic bomb testing in Nevada haunt her later in life.
“I think you should tell the truth about what happened to you,” said M.T. Silvia via Skype to a member of the audience who had been in St. George Utah at the time of and exposed to the radiation from the Nevada testing. M.T. Sylvia also stated that the song Truth Be Told was available as a free MP3 download at the film’s web site.
The movie was preceded by a reading of the story Katsuji Yoshida, a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb drop. This was the third reading in the United States of the story that students from Sakurababa Junior High School wrote and illustrated after hearing Yoshida’s story of survival.
Atomic Mom will be shown at the 2011 DocUtah Film Festival in St. George between September 9 and September 17, 2011.
This article was originally published at examiner.com. Links updated Feb. 2017.