Public Shelter CD-ROM Information Page

        JAYNE LOADER'S PUBLIC SHELTER IS NOW AVAILABLE
        
        EJL Productions is pleased to announce that JAYNE LOADER'S PUBLIC 
        SHELTER, a CD-ROM inspired by her classic film THE ATOMIC CAFE, is now 
        available in a signed, limited addition (Windows version only).  
        PUBLIC SHELTER contains 40 minutes of video--much of it unseen since 
        the 1950s--400 photographs, 18 original songs, 12 hours of audio, and 
        1400 text files (a total of 15 meg of fully searchable text) all 
        pertaining to atomic weapons and energy, from the Trinity Test to the 
        present.
        
        Most of the documents in PUBLIC SHELTER are original artifacts, many 
        of them recently declassified by the United States government.  Some 
        of the most shocking deal with nuclear accidents and waste, atomic 
        testing, and government-sponsored radiation experiments on human 
        beings.
        
        PUBLIC SHELTER extends the "found footage"  concept to the CD-ROM 
        format.  There is no top-down interface and no "script of God" telling 
        the user what to think or how the information in the disc should be 
        experienced or organized.  All political points--and there are 
        many--are made through editing and juxtaposition.   
        
        The organizational metaphor of PUBLIC SHELTER is the World Wide 
        Web--not the Web as it is now, but the Web as it will be in the 
        future, when the images, sounds,  and videos load and play instantly.  
        Some Homepages are real places (Los Alamos, the Department of Energy).  
        Others are events (World War II) or concepts (Peace).  Each of the 20 
        Homepages has LINX to other related Homepages.  Each is supplemented 
        by a Browser, where one can obtain additional information.    Formally 
        unique and content-rich, PUBLIC SHELTER is one of the first attempts 
        made by an independent filmmaker to extend the art of documentary to 
        the CD-ROM format.
        
        To order this signed, limited edition of PUBLIC SHELTER by mail, send 
        a check or money order for $79.95 to:   EJL Productions LLC, 906 W. 
        Main St., Waxahachie, TX 75165 (Texas residents add 8.25% sales tax).
        
        For more information, or to book Jayne Loader as a speaker at your 
        university, museum or conference, contact EJL Productions via Internet 
        e-mail: ejl@netcom.com.
        
        PLEASE NOTE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:  Windows 3.1 or newer, 486 or higher 
        processor, 8MB of RAM, local bus vido card that will display more than 
        256 colors, Windows-compatible mouse and soundcard.

EJL Productions
906 W. Main St.
Waxahachie, TX 75165
e-mail: ejl@netcom.com.