civil defense officers and journalists viewing a nuclear bomb blast at Yucca Flat in Nevada in 1955. The second shows audience members at a 3D movie in 1952. Both were published in LIFE Magazine. What might these two images, taken together, reveal about U.S. Cold War culture?
“Color Film Records A-Blast as Civil Defense Watches from Afar,” LIFE Magazine, May 30, 1955, p. 39.
Audience at the opening-night screening of Bwana Devil, the first full-length, color 3-D movie, November 26, 1952, at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood. J.R. Eyreman-Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images