The Atlantic Community: NATO’s First Documentaries (1949-1957)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the end of World War II, the new world order was conditioned by the creation of two opposing geopolitical and defence blocks that confronted each other in the so-called Cold War. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1949 in opposition to the Soviet sphere of influence in order to secure the defence of Western Europe in alliance with Canada and the United States of America. At the beginning of this new war, which was often experienced in a non-explicit way, propaganda mechanisms served to construct the idea of the Atlantic Community founded on four main pillars: liberty, democracy, development and defence. Cinema and television were important media in spreading the message of Western military cohesion in association with the Marshall Plan, bringing new patterns and language codes for national development according to North America. The Atlantic Community documentary series, produced for NATO during the 1950s, dedicates one episode to each country member of the Alliance. The series strongly reflects Western European reconstruction efforts under the Pax Americana rule, an attempt to amalgamate nations that sometimes had very different and antagonistic origins and historical trajectories.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".