Sputnik Mania

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On Oct. 4, 1957, the USSR announced to an unsuspecting world that it had launched the first man-made object ever to successfully orbit earth. Americans were stunned and then terrified. Americans asked themselves what had happened to our academic and technological superiority; could the Soviets overtake us; could their satellites be used as weapons of mass destruction? Recalls the impact the satellite had on the American psyche, and how the shock catapulted the nation from complacency into action.

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Statement of Responsibility: a film by David Hoffman ; directed by David Hoffman ; produced by Eric Reid with David Hoffman, John V. Barrett ; written by David Hoffman & Paul Dickson

Title: Sputnik mania
[videorecording]

Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] :, History :, Distributed by New Video,, c2008.

Characteristics: 2 videodiscs (ca. 87 min.) :,sd., b&w with col. sequences ;,4 3/4 in.

Notes: Based on the book: Sputnik : the shock of the century / by Paul Dickson.
Documentary.

Contents: [disc 1]. Feature film (87 min.)
[disc 2]. Bonus. Alert today, alive tomorrow (16 min.) ; Yankee go home (36 min.) ; Communist society (30 min.) ; Laica (6 min.) ; Missiles, missiles, missiles (7 min.).

Credits: Editor, John Vincent Barrett.

Performers: Narrator, Liev Schreiber.

Summary: On Oct. 4, 1957, the USSR announced to an unsuspecting world that it had launched the first man-made object ever to successfully orbit earth. Americans were stunned and then terrified. Americans asked themselves what had happened to our academic and technological superiority; could the Soviets overtake us; could their satellites be used as weapons of mass destruction? Recalls the impact the satellite had on the American psyche, and how the shock catapulted the nation from complacency into action.

System Details: DVD; Dolby digital stereo.

Other Language: Closed-captioned.

Subject Headings: United States Politics and government 20th century Video recordings.
Astronautics and state United States Public opinion Video recordings.
Artificial satellites, Russian Political aspects Video recordings.
Sputnik satellites History Video recordings.

Genre/Form: Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Feature films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films

Topical Term: Astronautics and state
Artificial satellites, Russian
Sputnik satellites

Additional Contributors: Dickson, Paul - Sputnik.
Schreiber, Liev
Barrett, John Vincent
Reid, Eric
Hoffman, David - 1941- - (David Michael),

Publisher No: AAAE118880

ISBN: 9781422917206
1422917207

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