Talk:The Atomic Submarine

Background
This section must be misnamed, because there's no information pertaining to the background of the film's inception, production or reception. Rather, it seems like a vague and badly written observation of '50s attitudes towards the relatively new (culturally speaking) concept of Atomic power. I would like to edit it, but I'd first like some other viewpoints on the matter. Willpower 00:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Moving background info for editing (possibly)
This film was made at a time when nuclear submarines were very new, shortly after the USS Nautilus made the first undersea crossing of the polar ice cap in 1958. Atomic submarines caught people's imagination as the embodiment of the idea of harnessing the power of the atom.

The trailer and movie posters for the film suggested that it was a more traditional military action movie by playing down the science fiction elements and focusing primarily on the novelty of the nuclear submarine. The extraterrestrial spacecraft is alluded to only obliquely as the unspecified dire threat to the world which the crew of the submarine must overcome, but it is not clearly seen or called a flying saucer or UFO in the trailer.

The movie's few futuristic elements include cargo-freighter nuclear submarines and a mini-sub within a submarine. The impression conveyed was that the events in the film take place in the very near future.

The 1950s are often called the Atomic Age because people were very enthusiastic about the promise of atomic power. The word "atomic" meant "high-tech and powerful", even if it was used to describe breakfast cereal. People of the day imagined a bright future where nuclear reactors would allow for electric power to become extremely cheap and plentiful. It must have been very topical at the time to imagine nuclear submarines that were inexpensive enough to be used to carry freight (and indeed, large numbers of civilian passengers) under the North Pole.

The film's special effects were not high-tech, being typically of low-budget films of the time. Stock footage of submarine actions is matched with unconvincing underwater and missile sequences. --end

Luigibob (talk) 20:35, 27 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Right. That section smacks of original research. Binksternet (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Navy Ranks and the Title of Captain
In the U.S. Navy, the Commanding Officer of a ship is always addressed as "Captain" even if the officer's rank is something lower, such as Wendover's rank of Commander. A Lieutenant Commander such as Holloway is never addressed or refered to as "Commander". He would be called "Mr. Holloway".Ftfrk61 (talk) 11:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)