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November 23, 2020 4:19 AM Subscribe
Maralinga testing was the first contact with the world of the white man for Nyarri Morgan, a young man in the late 1950s. Imagine just walking along in your ancestral lands and hey, boom - atomic bomb! Now represented in VR immersive video, his experience will live on as a part of the collective memory. Found on Reddit TIL. FREE bonus links (YT): Contemporary British Movietone Reel telling us how jolly good it was / Australian Atomic Confessions (full documentary) / Living with the legacy of British Nuclear testing: Bobby Brown / Maralinga, Midnight Oil.
Also worth a look: the six-part drama series Operation Buffalo, set mostly at the Maralinga test site, does a pretty good job of capturing the spirit of the time. The 160-bit number 8ce1ba1e269033675066a086df7afba272686724 might be of interest to people unable to get it via iView.
posted by flabdablet at 7:28 AM on November 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
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For more on the making of Collisions and the involvement of the Martu people in its production, see this Artlink article.
posted by zamboni at 8:44 AM on November 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
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