{"id":3508,"date":"2011-08-07T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:58:54","slug":"sunday-matinee-a-is-for-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/07\/sunday-matinee-a-is-for-atom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Matinee &#8211; A is for Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3510\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/07\/sunday-matinee-a-is-for-atom\/dancing-atom\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?fit=640%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,468\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dancing-atom\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?fit=640%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3510\" title=\"dancing-atom\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?resize=448%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dancing-atom.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworlduk.com\/news\/public-sector\/3295333\/swedish-man-arrested-for-building-nuclear-reactor-in-kitchen\/\">story<\/a> of the Swedish man who built an atom smasher in his apartment made me think of this little educational gem created by General Electric to introduce and educate American students in the wonders of atomic power. It&#8217;s animated so that it would captivate the kiddies and just long enough so that the teacher could suck down a couple of <em>Chesterfields<\/em> in the teachers&#8217; lounge while it was playing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I caught this little wonder from a bygone era on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pubdhub.info\/\">Pub-D-Hub<\/a><\/strong> channel via my fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roku.com\/\"><strong>Roku<\/strong><\/a> player. It was nice being re-introduced to sub-atomic particles, and I actually learned some things about the mechanics of fission. Not enough to build my own atom smasher, but I really dug the madly dancing atoms like the one pictured above. <em>That must have killed them in the fifth grade!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>So settle down, class while Herbert threads the projector. Susie, get the lights. Children, behave. I&#8217;m leaving Bobby in charge. I have an important meeting in the Teachers&#8217; Lounge. Sit quietly and let&#8217;s all learn about <strong>Atomic Energy<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"506\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"cachebusting\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'isforAto1953_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/a_is_for_atom\/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming','showCaptions':true},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'},'captions':{'url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.captions-3.2.0.swf','captionTarget':'content'},'content':{'display':'block','url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.content-3.2.0.swf','bottom':26,'left':0,'width':640,'height':50,'backgroundGradient':'none','backgroundColor':'transparent','textDecoration':'outline','border':0,'style':{'body':{'fontSize':'14','fontFamily':'Arial','textAlign':'center','fontWeight':'bold','color':'#ffffff'}}}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the Swedish man who built an atom smasher in his apartment made me think of this little educational gem created by General Electric to introduce and educate American students in the wonders of atomic power. It&#8217;s animated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/07\/sunday-matinee-a-is-for-atom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,368],"tags":[208,565,560,562,567,561,17,564,569,3672,563,568,185,566],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-movie-matinee","tag-1950s","tag-animated","tag-atom","tag-atom-bomb","tag-atom-smasher","tag-atomic-energy","tag-cartoon","tag-eductional","tag-general-electric","tag-movie-matinee","tag-nuclear-fission","tag-pub-d-hub","tag-roku","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-UA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36227,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/10\/a-lady-cabbie-and-george-sanders-brother\/","url_meta":{"origin":3508,"position":0},"title":"A Lady Cabbie and George Sanders&#8217; Brother","author":"Joe","date":"July 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another satisfying but forgotten mystery movie the likes of which used to play regularly at local movie houses when there were local movie houses. 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