Image record
Major Kong rides the bomb, Dr. Strangelove
The closing image of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, in which Major Kong rides a falling nuclear weapon like a rodeo bull, used in the CivBench essay over the account of the nuking of Toulouse.
- Creator
- Stanley Kubrick
- Created
- 1964
- Medium
- video
- Rights
- fair dealingDr. Strangelove (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick, Columbia Pictures
Placed in the essay over the moment the agent commits to nuclear escalation, with the caption reworking the film's subtitle.
The rights position is worth stating precisely, because it differs from the
molt.church images even though both carry fair-dealing. Those three have no
published terms and no traceable licensor. This one has a well-resourced rights
holder and a clear position: a short extract used for criticism and review, with
acknowledgement, is a recognised exception, and nothing here licenses anyone else
to reuse it.
Links to
Referenced by
- illustrated by
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
Source: knowledge/images/strangelove-nuke.md
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