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Films of the Cold War: “Lady Bug, Lady Bug” (1963)
October 16, 2013 @ 12:00 am
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film “Lady Bug, Lady Bug,” about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening,
Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will lead a brief discussion of the film.
The film showing is free and open to the public; delicious refreshments will be served. Please join us for this exciting event!
In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the students to their homes. Amid mounting dread–made all the more haunting by the film’s quiet, rural setting–the children try to comprehend the looming catastrophe, and to make sense of a world that could unleash it.
hm 10/6/13