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200092                      SIL       COL      02:00:44 - 02:06:57            Atomic / Nuclear bomb montage
Various different nuclear / atomic mushrooms following explosion. Shot on land and at sea. Some aerials - very spectacular shots.
No further info on locations etc.


220534                      Sd        col       03:12:50 - 03:15:17            Undergound Nuclear Tests
Aerial views test site - voice off camera countdown - slight explosion seen above ground.
03:14:11 Side view of test area - NB data / code visible on screen -voice off camera countdown - camera shakes as bomb detonated. Smoke rising from ground


220534                      Sd        col       03:15:25 - 03:17:29            Undergound Nuclear Tests
Aerial views test site - voice off camera countdown - slight explosion seen above ground.

220345          1940s; 1970s            SD        COL&B/W        09:20:18 - 09:29:51

[Air Force Now - Birth and History of the Air Force - Part One]
Fast Montage USAF from pre WWII early flight  to Vietnam through to NASA Space Program, rockets launched.

Incl. - Paul Tibbets re dropping nuclear bomb on Hiroshima - 1940s and 1970s interviews.   Hiroshima atomic  bomb explosion.  Enola Gay.  Tibbets and others by Enola Gay B-29.  PlaneÕs bomb hatch opening seen from inside then below and bomb dropped.  Atomic blast.
1945? Test pilot Frank Everest  re speed of sound and Yeager.  Yeager in X-1 plane (breaking altitude record).


220634          1930s SD        B/W    12.00.00 - 12:14:24            Spirit of Nobel 2 Reels - Includes many atomic scientists who left Germany when Hitler came to power.
Reel 1 -  Dramatic reconstruction - Edward Nobel with invention - stick of dynamite.  Explosions as dynamite used for progress  to create railway tunnels, clear dams -  cars driving through tunnel.  Actor playing Nobel superimposed over images of WWII. 
12:01:55 CU Nobel prize medal.  Nobel ceremony  1938 - Pearl Buck receives Nobel prize for literature.  CU Hitler gesticulating during speech - Goering - Rosenberg - Julius Streicher - Goebbels - 
Reconstruction ? Nazis burning books,  identity parade.   Hitler speaking, Mussolini with crowds - torchlight parade.  Prisoners of the Nazis.  Refugees and DPs on road.
12:04:10 Reconstruction - Nazis throw Carl ? into prison.
12:04:27 Various unid. building.  Interior office, Nobel Peace Prize winer in 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas sitting in chair reading.
12:05:10 Columbia University -  Harold Clayton Urey in chemistry laboratory.
12:05:29 Irving Langmuir in chemistry laboratory - oil on water experiment.
12:05:49 Clinton Davisson winner of Nobel prize for Physics 1937  in lab.
12.06.00 Arthur Compton in lab.
12:06:13 Ernest Lawrence sitting at desk with dials. Cyclotron.
12:06:23 Robert Millikan and Carl Anderson. 
12:06:34 AVs Observatories in mountains ?
12:06:42 Otto Loewi in lab. Chemistry.
12:07:22 Victor Hess - physics. In lab.
12:07:49 Sigrid Undset - Literature - sitting at desk reading
Reel 2 -  12:08:28 Chicago - Enrico Fermi working in lab. 
12:08:50 Maurice Maeterlinck  with dog.
12:09:02 James Franck - atomic physicist in lab.
12:09:24 Thomas Mann walking down street.  Man seated on couch with unid. woman. Seated at desk rading book. 
12:10:25 Albert Einstein in library - walks to bookcase - smoking pipe in front of fireplace.
12:10:51 Nobel prize dinner. ?  Four men in dinner suits including Carl Anderson, Otto Meyerhof, Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) . Harold Clayton Urey with Hess.
12:11:56 Montage shots to signify political freedom - science - hospitals -  young children at school, open air class. Kids at play .  Students. Church. Interior library. FDR  making speech.  Pilots with aircraft.  Crowd walking down steps of Capitol.
12:13:17 Montage Nobel winners.

           
220310          1930s             Sd        B/W    15:06:03 - 15:07:18            Jewish refugees - poor quality
Short sequence Nazi build up.  Jewish refugees leaving Germany.  Italian Scientist Enrico Fermi who fled to America with his Jewish wife.  Stills of Fermi. Niels Bohr, nuclear scientist arriving New York


200513  + 170006  1940 c            si         B/W    10:00:00 - 10:11:27            [Radio Listening]
CU of man; woman & child; radios; man in suit.  Family.  Group of well dressed adults in a sitting room.  Working class men talking; nuclear family by fireplaces - women & girls in CU.  Men in tuxedos (same well-dressed people). Cuts back & forth between groups.  Women knitting.

220336          1940s Sd        b/w     21:26:14 - 21:33:33            Army Air Forces - Pacific - Atomic bomb section film shrunk.
Army Air Forces contribution to victory in Pacific
Include. - B29 flying to Hiroshima (picture jumps and sound is damaged over this section).  Atomic cloud.  Plane flies off.


220344          1940s - 1980s          SD        COL      08:11:25 - 08:14:43            [Air Force Now - Tonapah Nuclear Test Range]
Officer at newsdesk presents.
Tonapah Test Range, Nevada - home of F-117A Stealth Fighter and nuclear test site.
Maintenance work on airfield. Control tower.  Officers talk re secrecy of operation and officers not knowing what mission was before they went.  Bags X-rays for security.
Plane on airfield at sunset.
Atomic

220289          1944   sd         Colour 07:39:12 - 07:55:42           

include. -
07:54:57 Atomic explosion New Mexico (B/W)
07:55:32 Sunset
NB Pix end at 07:55:49, Sound out at 07.56.25


200541          1945   SD        B/W    15:11:23 - 15:16:20           Berlin Conference 1945 Reel 2
Incl. - 15:15:05 Newspaper headlines Russia declares war on the Japanese.  New Bomb Frees Atomic Energy, Stalin, Truman and Atlee pose. 


220303          1945   Sd        B/W    04:41:03 - 04:42:06            Atom Bomb 10Jul1945
Full screen shots of explosion of first Atomic bomb at Alamogordo New Mexico


220306          1945   Sd        B/W    07:00:00 - 07:04:49           

Incl. -Atomic explosion - mushroom.  USS Missouri, Sunday September 2nd 1945  Japan surrenders Battleship Missouri.  3rd fleet.  Sailors aboard ship.    Japanese foreign minister Shigamitsu signs for Japan - Douglas  MacArthur signs  - Chinese  General Chang? signs.


220306          1945   Sd        B/W    07:04:55 - 07:07:21            Victory - Atomic Bomb
Oakridge & other plants. Desert.  Trinity explosion.  Explosion from 6 miles. Atomic mushroom. View from 8 miles in air  of explosion.  Same explosion ground level 6 miles.


220306          1945   Si         Col       07:18:26 - 07:30:34            Assembly & explosion of Atomic Bomb - Trinity Test - Colour 16Jul945
Pan over countryside, hills.  Truck w/ A-bomb under tower, lifted out.  Canvas lifted to shade.  CU of bomb.  Men working on top of bomb, wiring.  Oppenheimer watches.   Lifting & moving bomb & putting tyres under as raised to top of lift.  Pan over surface of bomb showing wires and equipment.  Explosion & mushroom cloud boiling up; CU of brown  cloud roiling.  Explosion & cloud.  Exploded on 16Jul45.


220436          1945   Sd        Col       02:06:15 - 02:14:54            The Last Bomb, Part 3 - colour
Fighter plane making run over dock area, strafing  ships in harbour and at sea.  P-51s in formation flight. Fighters returning after mission, coming in to land  making Victory rolls on airfield at Iwo Jima.  Ground crew waiting.  B-29 Bombers  land. Cloud covering airstrip on Iwo Jima - bale out,  parachute coming down, bomber crash lands in sea just off beach, plane in water.  Bomber lands and immediately bursts into flames - firefighting by ground crews.
02:10:34 Interior bomber and crew. Operations room as wait for returning planes.  Bomber landing.  Shots from front of plane as taxiing.  Landing on Guam.  Crew out of plane - talking to ground crews.  Aircraft  burning on field, injured man on stretcher.  Night shots fire blazing.
02:13:44 Bombers in formation flight. Single bomber in sky - mushroom as atomic bomb explodes over  Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Bombers in flight

220446          1945   Si         B/W    13:46:58 - 13:53:24
US Take over Japanese Atomic Research Laboratory
Exterior Sixth Army HQ - jeeps pull up outside building, military personnel exit building, into jeeps and drive off. Same shots closer angle. Jeeps arriving at Imperial University of Osaka. Military officer and others inside atomic laboratory, scenes show cyclotronic and other atomic equipment.  Dr Kikuchi, leading physicist of Japan, going over papers with US officer.  Exterior - electricity pylon and power lines going into laboratory building.  More shots Dr Kikuchi with military officers. US soldier using acetylene torch on sections of the cyclotronic equipment. Various shots soldiers attaching winch cable to atomic equipment through hole in wall. Cable pulling Cyclotron apart


220448          1945   Sd        B/W    15:10:51 - 15:13:09            Prime Minister Attlee Addresses US Congress
Clement Attlee gets standing ovation from Congress as takes stand.  Attlee makes speech praising America and saying that she will never use her power for selfish aims or territorial gain.  Talks of Atomic bomb and the need for all men to feel secure. President Truman meets with Attlee and Mackenzie King.  Talks have been about atomic energy being used for industrial and humanitarian purposes.


220468          1945   SD        B/W    02:21:19 - 02:27:20            Navy Day - President Truman Leads the Nation In Tribute To Our Victorious Fleet
Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt  dedicated by Truman.  Forrestal with Mrs. Truman, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. FDR (Eleanor).  Truman speech incl. - Re atomic bomb: 'the possession in our hands of this  new power of destruction we regard as a sacred trust... that trust will not be violated...  we hope... world cooperation for peace will soon reach such a state of perfection that atomic methods of destruction can be  outlawed for ever.'

 

220468          1945   SD        B/W    02:31:55 - 02:36:49            President Truman - Atomic Bomb
Truman speech announcing atomic bomb blast on Hiroshima. Refers to 26Jul45 ultimatum to Japanese at Potsdam. Threatens more destruction Òthe like of which has never been seen on this earthÓ
Early electrical experiment to smash the atom conducted in Britain.
Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence and his cyclotron.  Dr. Harold Urey.  Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.  Dr. Arthur Compton. FDR and Churchill talking.
02:34:54  Aerials Oak Ridge Atomic plant.  Workers going into work.
General Leslie Groves with Vannevar Bush and Dr. Richard Tolman. Groves speech describes 16Jul45 first atomic bomb explosion '... it is a universal hope of all present that no American citizen will ever witness it on United States soil again'.
Aerials Hiroshima before the bomb. Bombers in formation
Titles: Buy That Extra War Bond Today.
Manhattan Project

220471          1945   SD        B/W    07:40:01 - 07:40:38            World Events: Yanks Smash Jap Cyclotrons
Japanese atomic laboratory taken over by Americans as part of weapons destruction program.   Equipment thrown out of windows, Japanese scientists? watch.  Equipment blown up in field. Explosion.


220473          1945   SD        B/W    12:01:03 - 12:02:27            President Truman Dedicates New TVA Dam In Kentucky (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Truman with Lillienthal at dedication. Crowd.
Incl. - Truman speech re atomic energy: "... We've just discovered the source of the sun's power: atomic energy... We had to turn it loose in the beginning for a destruction... but that tremendous source of energy can create for us the greatest age in the history of the world. "

220474          1945   SD        B/W    13:26:55 - 13:28:50            Utter Destruction Of Japanese Cities By Atomic Bombs
Aerials devastated Hiroshima or Nagasaki; Yokohama; Kure Naval Base with sunken cruiser; Tokyo ruins.
B-29 Superfortress in flight.  New Mexico Trinity atom blast test (Los Alamos).
Hiroshima ruins and aerials;  charred trees; bent steel girders; occasional person walks amidst devastation.

220475          1945   SD        B/W    15:00:52 - 15:02:15            Actual Atomic Bomb Hit On Nagasaki
Crew  poses in front of plane before mission to drop Nagasaki atom bomb:  Brigadier General Thomas Farrell; Commander Ashworth; pilot Major Sweeney;  bombardier Captain Kermit Beahan.
B-29 takeoff and in flight.  Aerials Nagasaki atom blast - many views mushroom cloud.


220481          1945   SD        B/W    04:16:45 - 04:18:00            Problem of Atomic Energy Given To UNO Commission
Byrnes speech at United Nations (UN) re atomic energy
'We won the war by fighting together. We must now preserve the peace by working together.  Peace and reconciliation require common action...   problem of devising the necessary  safeguards to ensure that atomic energy will be used for the benefit of humanity and not its destruction.  We have fought together for freedom. Let's now show that we are worthy of the freedom that we won.'


220643          1945   SIL       B/W    04:00:07 - 04:09:49            B-29s on Iwo Jima
Aircraft lands and taxiis. Lookout post in sand dunes, tents and military vehicles along side of airstrip. Tent with sign re coffee shop.  Interior men drinking coffee.  Plane making emergency landing. Injured man helped to jeep.  Ground crew looking at damaged aircraft.  Wounded crew removed and taken on stretcher.  Bullet holes in fuselage.  Another plane lands.  Bullet holes, ground crew.
Airmen standing next to B-29.  Various shots B-29s landing for emergency repairs, service and refuelling after missions to Japan.  Serviced by detachment A, 21st Bomber Command provisional unit.  Plane landing - nose art glamour girl and writing A-Broad Eleven Yanks.  Chow time, men digging hole.  Crew working on engine of B-29.  Various shots repairs.
NB This reel includes 10 second shot of ÒSilver PlateÓ B-29, type used in atomic drop with turrets removed taxiing past.


220643          1945   SD        B/W    05:27:37 - 05:31:09            President Truman Tells the World About Hiroshima
President Truman aboard ship sits at table with microphone. He says a short time ago an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. Talks of the power of the atomic bomb.  Says he is prepared to destroy any enterprise the Japanese have in any city.  Will completely destroy JapanÕs ability to make war.  Says Japans leaders rejected the Potsdam ultimatum.  Says US has spent more than 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history.  Praises scientific brains - industry and labour in the manufacture of the Atom bomb.
Nuclear and atomic


220644          1945   SD        B/W    06:00:09 - 06:10:00            Crew of Enola Gay
Officers and men standing in front of the aircraft which dropped the first atomic bomb - B29 - Enola Gay. Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell ? Farrow ? , theatre commander of the atomic bomb project gives interview re responsibility of seeing that the atom bomb is always used for good and never for evil. Captain William Sterling Parsons, USN - scientific head of the atomic bomb project.  Recounts his journey on the Enola Gay.  Colonel Paul Tibbets - commander of atomic bomb group and pilot of Enola Gay.  Tells of experience in dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. Commander Frederick L. Ashworth USN  tells of experiences over Nagasaki. Major Tom Fairby ? - bombadier of Enola Gay - tells of bombing.  Major Charles W. Sweeney, pilot of the second B-29 which dropped its bomb on Nagasaki.  Says they failed to reach primary target and dropped bomb on secondary target of Nagasaki.  Captain Kermit Behan? - Bombadier on second plane.  Captain Theodore J. Van Kirk ? - navigator of the Enola Gay. Talks of going over coast of Japan.
Shots of Enola Gay  - CU name


220644          1945   SD        B/W    06:41:44 - 06:50:33            Radiation Sickness - Japanese film on Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Radiation Sickness and Pathology. 1-20Oct1945
Damaged buildings.  Shack on site of hospital designated for infectious disease.  Japanese doctor and nurse changing dressings on burns caused by nuclear fallout. Various shots patients suffering from radiation sickness - skin discolouration - bleeding gums / teeth.
Animated map showing position from ground zero.  Soldier showing loss of hair.  Two children who were 2km from epicentre of bomb - have developed loss of hair and other symptoms. Other patients.
Woman survivor caught near bomb - only survivor of family. Patient suffering with anaemia.
06:46:12 Title - Pathology - Human femur bone - bone marrow - blood cells.  Spleen - lymph nodes.  Ulcerated skin - testicles with no sperm - Ovaries in atrophy - necrotic inflammation of digestive tubes. Bleeding in lungs.  Swollen liver. Pathology of other internal organs.


220644          1945   SD        B/W    07:17:55 -  07:25:30           Air War in the Pacific Reel 2
Incl. -  B-29 in flight (Enola Gay ?) zoom in on bomb.  Atomic explosion in New Mexico during tests.  B-29 in flight.


220645          1945   SD        B/W    08:01:13 - 08:06:09            Atom Bomb and Reds Doom Japs
Potsdam conference. Official portrait.  Bombers, aircraft carriers, fighter bombers & Japan harbor.  Diagram with atomic bomb compared to huge bombs, diagrams of explosions,  Dr. Ernest Lawrence & cyclotron, Gen. Groves, Vannevar Bush, Dr. Richard Tolman.  Mining uranium ore.  Bags moved while soldiers guard.  Richland Washington plant & workers coming off bus & into plant. Col Mathias head of Hanford.  Oak Ridge workers look at newspaper headline.  Pre-fabricated homes & trailers with women hanging wash.  Shopping mall of merchants.  May Day Parade in Moscow.  Truman speaks:  'We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely...their docks, their factories, their communications... it was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction... behind this air attack...


220645          1945   SD        B/W    08:06:39 - 08:16:56            President Truman after Potsdam
Makes report re his trip to Berlin and the conditions there.  Thanks God that America has been spared - re maintaining military presence for World peace - talks re United Nations Charter.  Tells of decisions made at Potsdam re the future government of Germany.  Talks of Soviet Union declaring war on Japan.  Says the Allies had given Japan adequate warning of what was in store for them - warnings unheeded - atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Says he realises the tragic significance of the atomic bomb - says will continue to use the bomb until Japan's power to make war is destroyed. 'Atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless World'  .. awful responsibility.. thanks God bomb not in hands of enemies.  Talks re Victory in Europe.


220815          1945   SD        COL&B/W        03:18:36 - 03:21:11            [Inside The Enola Gay]
Crew incl. Paul Tibbets outside Enola Gay on airfield.   Enola in silhouette.  Night preparations and propeller  turns - taxies and takeoff.  Aerial Iwo Jima.  Enola Gay  in flight.   Inside cockpit;   CU instruments and dials.    Little Boy  nuclear bomb dropped.   Aircraft backs away.  Hiroshima ? Nagasaki ?  mushroom cloud explosion (colour).

220836          1945   SD        B/W    04:00:35 - 04:10:32            Surrender In Pacific - Reel 1
Sep45
Allied warships in Tokyo bay.  Hoisting American flag in Tokyo with MacArthur .   U.S. troops marching down a Japanese road.  A bulldozer clears rubble from Tokyo's streets.  Japanese civilians read occupation bulletins .  Man pulling cart with Singer sewing machine.    American planes above Tokyo and Imperial Palace.
Japanese bow to Emperor Hirohito.  Hirohito and Tojo.   Blood of American Sergeant administered to  Tojo after suicide attempt.   Hiroshima mushroom cloud nuclear blast. 
Hiroshima aerial before atom bomb and aftermath.   Nagasaki aftermath and rubble - aerial. 
15Aug45  Allied fleet in Pacific.  
30Aug45 Occupation begins - troops land in Japan from LSIs, raise the US flag, and inspect Japanese war materiel at Yokosuka Naval Base.   Battleship Nagato surrenders. 
Atsugi airfield -  Japanese labourers clearing up strip - Gen. MacArthur deplanes from a B-29 and  greets Eichelberger. 
USS Missouri and Japanese surrender.  MacArthur speech.  Shigemitsu signs.  MacArthur signs with five pens. 
04:09:42  Map of Asia shows allied zones of occupation.

220900          1945   Si         B/W    22:10:05 - 22:18:39            Red Cross Activities Tinian Island
Incl. Р 22:16:26 Enola Gay - Painted on nose, First Atomic Bomb August 6, 1945. Ground crew working on aircraft. B-29 landing.
Pacific War

220271          1945c sd         B/W    01:00:00 - 01:02:29            United States Navy Combat Bulletin No. 7 - Victory
Oakridge & other plants. Trinity explosion. View of explosion from 8 miles in air. Explosion from 6 miles. Atomic


200091          1946   SIL       col       20:03:26 - 20:12:14            Hiroshima Aftermath
Injuries to civilian Japanese after atomic explosion on Hiroshima. Woman carrying baby on back, burns to face. Woman is undressed to show radition burns on body and damage caused to skin of baby.
20:04:46 Another victim turns to show hair loss.
20:05:12 Male victim stripped to waist to show burns. Young woman with hair missing. Japanese doctor and nurse looking at extensive burns on mans back. Doctor removes bandage from mans arm - shows burns and deformity. Burns shown on young girls back.  Burns on hands and chest of man. Woman with burnt and deformed face. Young woman with deformed arms. Young men with various burns and deformities.  Woman with scars on breasts.

200554          1946   SD        B/W    01:08:30 - 01:15:20            Winston Churchill in Fulton Missouri
Winston Churchill off train with President Truman and into open top car. Car down street lined with schoolgirls.  Motorcade, Churchill and Truman ride on back of car.  Truman and Churchill enter university.  Truman wearing cap and gown intros. Churchill.  Talks re danger of atomic bomb and how glad he is that the knowledge etc is not yet in the hands of Òsome Communist or neo-fascist'
01:11:01 Talks of the 'Special relationship' between Britain and America.  (some sound breakup) Crowds in audience. Talks of goodwill towards Stalin.  Welcomes Russian contact.... however, talks of fifth columnists, calls them a threat to Christian civilisation.
01:14:29 Truman awarded degree.  Truman makes speech.  Churchill gets degree and makes speech (very short)


220296          1946   Si         B/W    18:54:57 - 18:55:52            Einstein Letter to FDR (President Roosevelt)
CU typewritten letter from Einstein to the President, subject of letter is atomic bomb and nuclear research.


220306          1946   Si         Col       07:30:35 - 07:39:26            Hiroshima Aftermath 29Mar1946
Various shots devastation following explosion of Atomic bomb. Flattened buildings.  Shells of buildings left standing.  Part of statue -  07:34:57 Japanese with boxes of ashes, interior shots - exterior  Japanese men, women and children scavenging in ruins for bricks and tiles bowls.  07:37:37 Japanese woman places flowers on grave - shrine ? Japanese girl walks by with bandaged head.  Locals entering and leaving building.  Man pulling hand cart loaded with ?.  Cameraman Harry Mimura


220362          1946   Si         b/w     09:10:25 - 09:17:38            [Atomic Power - Einstein home etc]
Exterior of Einstein home, trees, vines.  112 Mercer St.  Doorway & various angles.  Einstein with pipe in study.  Looks around.  CU equation.    Einstein w/ Leo Szilard on porch looking at letter as Einstein smokes long-stemmed pipe.  Good MCU.  (09:14:52)  Typing Einstein address on letter. Einstein Letter to FDR (Roosevelt).
CU typewritten letter from Einstein to the President, subject of letter is atomic bomb and nuclear research.

220362          1946   Si         b/w     09:17:39 - 09:25:00            [Atomic Power - University of Chicago]
Metallurgical labs, Eckhart Hall in foreground, entrance to Eckhart hall. Entrance to Institute for the study of Metals (sign) Squash court containing graphite pile.  On right is Dr Enrico Fermi and two assistants testing for radioactivity  09:22:17 CUs  Fermi and assistants.  Geiger counter with flashing lights.  Fermi making notes in laboratory book. Good shots Fermi.


220362          1946   Si         b/w     09:25:01 - 09:27:26            [Atomic Power - Desert Re-enactment]
Night shots two soldiers talking.  Actors reconstruction Oppenheimer ?  Soldier (Groves ??) on field telephone - re-enactment.


220468          1946   SD        B/W    01:01:55 - 01:02:17
News Flashes - Woman of the Year
Atomic scientist Lisa Meitner awarded WomenÕs National Press Award for Woman of the Year

220474          1946   SD        B/W    13:34:11 - 13:34:57            News Of The Nation [Ships in Pacific Atom Test]
German cruiser Prince Oygen arrives in Boston - to be used in atomic bomb experiment in Pacific. Other ships to be used in experiment shown - American and one Japanese.  USS New York; USS Arkansas.
Trinity atom test blast.


220657          1946   Si         B/W    00:10:52 - 00:17:25            [Nuclear & Atomic - Working Uranium]
First pictures of uranium used by scientists to develop the Atom bomb.
Lathe grinding machine w/ operator wearing respirator.  Inspects work. MCU.  CU.  Milling uranium block.  Man & woman technicians using pantograph to handle radioactive fluids.  CU of microamp meter.  Woman using quartz fibre micro-balance to measure to 1 billionth of a gram.  CU of machine. 16:14:30 Argonne officials holding brick of super heavy uranium. L/R Col Arthur Frye, Dr. Hilberry; Dr. Zinn. 16:15:01 Measuring radiation.  Technician w/ panel, needle registering.  Technician scaling glass tube w/ blow torch to measure gasses.  Woman w/ Geiger counter measuring radiation.  Woman wearing tubes to measure exposure to radiation; handheld geiger counter checking for radiation on clothing.  CU of microamperes.


220721          1946   Si         B/W    22:12:18 - 22:19:33            [Einstein Home]
Exterior of Einstein home, trees, vines.  112 Mercer St.  Doorway & various angles.  Einstein with pipe in study.  Looks around.  CU equation.
22:14:21  Einstein w/ Leo Szilard on porch looking at letter as Einstein smokes long-stemmed pipe.  Good MCU.  22:16:42 Typing Einstein address on letter, then to FDR, CU of letter concerning Atomic Bomb.


220836          1946   SIL       COL      04:32:12 - 04:43:18            [Nagasaki - Damage Pt 1]
Wrecked temple.  LS razed city with tall chimney still standing.    Timber yard? with  nuclear burn marks on wood.   Oil tank?   Japanese writing on tree trunks.   Wrecked factory?   LS ruins of Nagasaki.   Church exterior.   Telegraph poles and / or electric towers - some standing, some downed.   Ruin of house with slippers still in entrance.   Cemetery - damaged tombstones. Shadows burnt in ground. 

220900          1946   Si         B/W    22:21:57 - 22:32:34            Operation Crossroads (nuclear and atomic) Reel 1
Film coverage of Project Crossroads, a project of the two atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in l946 and including Able Day test of an atomic bomb drop from a B-29 on 1 July 1946, and Baker Day test, the underwater detonation of an atomic bomb on 25 July 1946. Included are B-29 operators, damage to the target fleet, and personalities including Maj Gen Curtis LeMay, Gen Joseph W. Stilwell, Vice Adm S.H.P. Blandy.
Aerial shots of Bikini Island. Air to air  B-29 No. 354 (Atom bomb drop aircraft) in flight to the left while opening and closing the bomb bay doors. B-29 No. 7354  (Daw's Dream) in take off to the left.
Crew putting on their Mae West vests and parachutes and boarding the aircraft. Placing and removing a shroud around the bomb bay door of the B-29.  Starting engines and closing bomb bay doors of B-29 No. 354.


220900          1946   Si         B/W    22:32:43 - 22:43:18
Operation Crossroads Reel 2 (nuclear and atomic)
Civilian and military VIPs walking  down steps of C-54 aircraft. Ground crew - Firetruck hosing down plane which will carry atomic bomb. Interior cockpit - CU pilot, bombardier and co-pilot.
22:39:17 Major General Curtis LeMay talking to reporters / press. . Interior shots crew in plane looking out of windows
22.42:11  C-54 Transport plane taxis - General Stilwell and party off plane

 
220900          1946   SD        B/W    22:43:27 - 22:50:57            Operation Crossroads Reel 5 (nuclear and atomic)
Flyover and landing of B-29. Crew members off plane .  Interviews with members of crew and Major General Curtis LeMay after mission.


220900          1946   SD        B/W    22:43:27 - 22:50:57            Operation Crossroads Reel 5 (nuclear and atomic)
Flyover and landing of B-29. Crew members off plane .  Interviews with members of crew and Major General Curtis LeMay after mission.


220900          1946   Si         B/W    22:51:08 - 23:02:07
Operation Crossroads Reel 7 (nuclear and atomic)
Coverage from three cameras of atomic blast and cloud on Able Day - 1st July 1946.  Aerial views mushroom cloud - long thin column of smoke. Blast from other angles.
22:56:14 Eniwetok - Removing Air sampling equipment.  Men remove cameras  and air sampling equipment from DB-17. Man carrying cage of rats / mice which had been in observation plane.  Instruments from belly of plane removed using trolley on ropes - carried by forklift - men using some safety procedures re contamination.

220900          1946   Si         B/W    22:51:08 - 23:02:07
Operation Crossroads Reel 7 (nuclear and atomic)
Coverage from three cameras of atomic blast and cloud on Able Day - 1st July 1946.  Aerial views mushroom cloud - long thin column of smoke. Blast from other angles.
22:56:14 Eniwetok - Removing Air sampling equipment.  Men remove cameras  and air sampling equipment from DB-17. Man carrying cage of rats / mice which had been in observation plane.  Instruments from belly of plane removed using trolley on ropes - carried by forklift - men using some safety procedures re contamination.

220934          1946   SIL       B/W    02:00:07 - 02:06:39            [Scientists Testing Machined Uranium]
MS worker in mask operating heavy machinery.  VS machinery shaping Uranium for atomic bomb.  Scientists making tests at Argonne lab, University of Chicago.  Three men, one in military uniform, handling block of uranium.  More lab tests.
02:05:17:  Piece of uranium in Petri dish.  Scientist checking for contamination.

220901          1946  1955   SIL       COL      00:00:05 -00:12:03             Atomic Blasts
Aerial shots atomic blast - bright white - mushroom cloud.  Smoke rising.
00:03:02  Closer shots seen from lower level, good shots roiling clouds
00:04:27 6th April 1955 (Operation Teapot) High Altitude atomic test, vapour trails in sky, blinding flash, mushroom cloud in sky. 
00:07:24 Atomic test at sea.  Aerial several ships, blinding flash, mushroom cloud
00:09:23 Bikini Atoll - Operation Crossroads -  1946.  Huge atomic explosion.  (Baker)
00:10:48 Bikini Atoll - Operation Crossroads -  1946.  Aerials of atoll. Huge atomic explosion.  (Able)

220917          1946 - 1963 SD        B/W    00:32:31 - 00:42:10            Pursuit of Peace Reel 2 pt 1
B/W War Graves  - blowing up aircraft after WWII.  Demobilization in US - fleet in mothballs - scrap jeeps.  Production of household / white goods, irons, electric cookers. Whiz-pan.
00:33:15  1946 - United Nations - Bernard Baruch - proposal for international control of all atomic energy.
00:33:40 Aerial views Berlin post WWII,  bomb damage.  US aid  / Marshall Plan / Cargo ships unloading.  Montage shots European countries benefiting from aid - construction work - laying new RR tracks - steam train - agriculture - haymaking.
00:34:24 AVs Berlin 1948 - ground shots empty railway stations and roads - travel restrictions - blockade. Berlin airlift  - planes flying in low - supplies unloaded. Blockade lifted - border gates opened.
00:35:11 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Flags flying - montage military - naval - aircraft - troops marching.  Scots guards. (NATO)
00:35:31 Korea - Night shots artillery barrage. Day, Korean refugees.  United Nations Security Council.  Battle scenes Korean war.  Injured soldier carried on stretcher.  Blood transfusion given in the field.  Korean peace talks - delegates arrive - sign.
00:36:40 Rocket fired - space race - Russian experiments with weightlessness etc.  Missile launched. Nuclear powered submarine.  Russia - Military parade in Moscow's Red Square - montage shots Russian and US Military hardware intercut.
00:38:12 USAF Reconnaissance plane landing. Still pix missile bases on Cuba.  Brief shots re missile crisis - press. President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation re crisis - announces Cuban blockade - speech continues over shots Recon. planes landing - film removed, developed and studied.  operations rooms.  B-52 bombers taking off.  Brief shot JFK on small TV screen, people watching. 
00:40:02 Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations -  asks USSR delegate if they are putting missiles in Cuba.  Russian delegate refuses to answer.  AVs Russian ships approaching Cuba  - UN Navy ship running parallel.
00:41:26 Averell Harriman with Dean Rusk arrive at Kennedy holiday home after negotiating atmospheric atomic test ban treaty in Moscow. Press - photocall with President.
00:41:45 Moscow - Kremlin - treaty signed by US, Soviet Union and Great Britain. 
Cold War


220362          1946 ?           Si         col       09:05:33 - 09:07:56            Aftermath Hiroshima - Population
Close up shots of radiation burns on face and hands following the atomic explosion on Hiroshima. Boy turning slowly  to show radiation burns on head. Various shots burns on body. Boys face. Woman with radiation burns on upper body .


220717          1946 ?           Sd        b/w     18:00:11 - 18:09:23            Duck and Cover - Civil Defence / Defense Film - some animated cartoon
Cartoon - Turtle walking down road - taking cover inside shell.
18:01:34 Actuality - children in school classroom practice what to do in the event of a nuclear / atomic attack - Duck and Cover under desks. 
18:01:50 Other dangers -  Fire department - men down pole and into fire engines. Traffic - policeman on traffic / point duty -  cars - Crossing signal lights.
18:02:22 Children listening to teacher  - effects of atomic bomb - animation shows aftermath of bomb.
18:02:59 Mother putting ointment on boys sunburn - children in class taught to duck and cover.  Teacher explains about atomic attack with warning - pix radar dishes  civil defence offices, men on telephones, spotters on rooftops.  Air Raid drill, children playing in school yard, siren sounds - kids into building to take shelter.  Children playing at home when siren sounds - kids go into house.  Girl walking along street when alarm sounds, asks older person where to go for shelter - Sign re Public Shelter.
18:05:01  Simulated atomic explosion without warning.  Suburban houses - film flashes.  Animation turtle Duck and Cover.  Older children in school teach young ones how to Duck and Cover in corridors, away from windows.  Duck and cover under tables.
Mother kisses children goodbye as they leave house.  Brother and sister  walking along street - show how to duck and cover.   Boy on bicycle - shows how to duck and cover.  Civil defence  worker helps boy.
School bus - duck and cover under seats.
18:07:50  Family on picnic - flash - all duck under tablecloth.  Farmer on tractor shows how to Duck and Cover.
Children in school.  Turtle animation.

220901          1946 +           SIL       COL      00:23:45 - 00:34:44            Atomic Blasts
Bikini Atoll - Aerial group of ships.  Huge atomic explosion.  (Baker)
00:27:10  Night shot test  x  2
00:30:08 Desert area  - explosion and mushroom cloud
00:32:14 Desert area - cactus plant in foreground, flash and nuclear explosion, mushroom cloud

220972          1947   SD        B/W    09:00:00 - 09:09:22            [Howard Hughes Testifies At Congressional Hearing]
MS Howard Hughes seated behind microphones answers question from Senate War Investigating Committee, c.Nov47.  MCU General ? seated behind microphones under questioning.
09:02:18:  MCU and CU Hughes seated behind several microphones, holding receiver to ear; speaking about Roosevelt, military procurement bureaux and aviation kickbacks:
'Let me tell you something senator.  If TWA does anything wrong I get blamed for it, if TWA does anything right then I had nothing to do with it. That's like Hollywood, when it's a good picture Sam Goldwyn made it, when it's a bad picture Willy Wyler made it...'
'I think the atomic bomb was procured through channels that were not normal...'
09:05:55:  MS and CU General Bennett Myers under questioning.  Ends abruptly.
'Spruce Goose'.


220900          1947 ?           Si         COL&B/W        22:00:10 - 20:02:04            Explosion of H-Bomb (Nuclear and atomic)
LS Explosion of H-bomb. LS Same; showing shock waves (slow motion). LS Looking toward explosion site as shock waves travel over water (camera shakes). LS Aftermath of explosion showing red sky and smoke; as explosion recedes, scene darkens; smoke continues to rise into air. LA LS Top of huge smoke mushroom. LA MLS PAN Mushroom of smoke and base of smoke cloud. LS Base of smoke cloud; PAN to top of smoke mushroom.
Very little colour on this item


220661          1947 ?           SIL       B/W    08:46:38 - 08:49:56            Union and Communist Parade
Crowds on pavement watch Trade Union parade. Banner with Members of ALGWU.  Women with placards re Raise Wages, Roll Back Prices.  Some people carry anti-atomic bomb placards. Men carrying New York Communist Party banner.  Servicemen marching in parade.
08:47:45 Crowds line street watching demonstrators walk past with American and other  flags.  Furriers women's committee in protest march, banner demanding better conditions and wages. Police tussle with man.  Group of teenagers shouting at demonstrators. from behind barrier.   Placards with Save Willie McGee, Repeal the McCarran Law,  End Police Murder.  Small disturbance / riot - police intervene and crowd settles.  More disturbances in the crowd - anti-Communist hecklers.  Servicemen in parade. Art students for peace in rally.

221016          1947 c            SD        B/W    09:37:13 - 09:47:54            [United Nations - Australian Delegate & Austin Speeches on Article 27]
Incl. 09:39:54  American delegate Warren Austin speaking, refers to speech made the day before by Russian delegate.  'In war we gave our allies all the help and cooperation a great nation could ... In peace will support the United Nations with all the resources we can send...I shall not participate in any exchange of recriminations'.  Speaks of disarmament and regulation re atomic weapons.  'World society and world rule of law...where the veto withers away...'
09:47:18  Session closed - speaks in French. 

220776          1948   Sd/Sil  B/W    13:02:11 - 13:14:14            [Zipper - Let's Bomb the Soviets - Movie Theatre]
Nov48
NY Times moving sign (zipper) re Cold War:
'Stalin blames Britain US and France for failure to solve Berlin dispute  - charges West follows warmongering policy but discounts possibility of new world conflict.  Stalin flays former British Prime Minister Churchill as 'Chief Instigator of war'.
Then: 'Read the New York Times.'
Western diplomats describe Stalin's attack on Allied powers as propaganda statement.  Britain US and France halt heavy flow of Western marks out of Berlin.'
People in street looking at moving electric sign. 
13:08:17  Men in bar talk about bombing USSR with atomic bombs;  newspaper headline ÒEuropean peace bid rejected by Soviet'.

LN 501-017  1948  Si         B/W    00:49:40 - 00:54:31            Bob Ripley Visit Hiroshima. Mr Ripley arrives at FEAF Operations, poses with soldiers and boards plane. Shots taken from aircraft window - Mt Fujiyama in distance. Interior plane - Ripley and PIO Officer seated. Aerial views from plane.  Ripley with RAF officer and others out of plane. Visit to site where centre force of atomic bomb struck  - damaged buildings - Peace shrine. Ripley poses with Japanese girl. Ripley with microphone broadcasting over radio (mos) Children and other civilians watch. Ripley with flag of the Adventurers Club, New York City. Shot from inside plane as Ripley and officer board.


220585          1949   Sd        B/W    12:01:34 - 12:08:11            Senator McMahon announces USSR  Russian Atomic Bomb Test
McMahon outdoors at microphones waits.  'The President (Truman)  has announced the dropping of an atomic explosive in Russia.  This comes as no surprise to those who have been involved in our own...over 3 years ago we offered the whole world...unfortunately the Russians...there is yet time if we use the kind of ingenuity that the problem demands...masters of the Kremlin.'
12:03:45  President Truman has announced the perfection of an Atomic Explosion by... 
3rd take interrupted by cloud.
12:07:13 says Stalin should be able to talk to our people as Pres. Truman should be able to talk to the Soviets. 
12:07:53 Walks out of brush to mics.


220606          1949   SIL       B/W    03:45:40 - 03:46:46            Headlines - Reds Explode Atom Bomb
Headline 'Truman Says Reds Exploded Atom Bomb', man reading.  Other newspapers with same headline & man with cigar reading re Russian Nuclear blast.  Other men reading.  Henrich's Homer Ties Count.  POV walking past stoop / doorstep.
 

220657          1949   Si         B/W    00:00:06 - 00:10:41            [Nuclear & Atomic - Los Alamos AEC Views]
Aerial over housing & multi-story buildings w/ snow on ground.   Canyons & mountains, summer.
Security Sign:  Keep Out.  Cars along road; security checkpoint w/lines of cars stopped & workers checked thru.  Passes checked seen from in car & out.  Workers walking in past soldiers. Trailer park.  Trading post. CU of signs.  US Post Office.  Large home.  Workers to cars.  Street scenes.  Fire Dept.  Schools.  Kids run to camera.  Los Alamos Times sign & printing press.  North American Indian man running press. HQ of security. MPS march. Observation tower & police.


220777          1949   Sd/Sil  B/W    14:45:27 - 14:53:38            [French Atomic Energy Commission]
Mar49
Sign in doorway for Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat). Sign 'Haute Cour de Justice'.  
Mrs. Joliot-Curie & Bertrand Goldschmidt talking;  French Scientific Committee meeting w/ Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Lew Kowarski, Francis Perrin.  F. Joliot-Curie makes speech in English on France's progress in Atomic Energy.
Pierre Biquard seen?

220777          1949   Sd/Sil  B/W    14:53:46 - 15:04:46            [Joliot & Szilard at Columbia University]
Columbia University Physics Department - Pierre Joliot testing uranium disintegration; using Geiger-Muller counter. Dr. Leo Szilard in lab with George Pegram operating oscillograph.  Dr. George Pegram calling Navy Dept. on phone telling them Fermi will explain to them the military possibilities of uranium fission.
Studio reenactment:  Navy Commander Office - scientist leaving office and interviews with Commander and Lt Commander - Atomic bomb theory being turned down by Navy. 

220887          1949   SIL       B/W    05:14:08 - 05:18:57            [Argonne Lab;  Atomic Pile; Uranium Lathed?]
May 49
Scientists at machines in atomic lab.  Performing experiments?


220361          1949 / 1950s            Sd        B/w     04:07:00 - 04:08:22
Soviet Atomic Scientists
Kulchatov and other scientists relaxing - Kulchatov home movies with family and friends. Interior Worlds first atomic power station


220361          1949 & 1953 Sd        Col       04:04:35 - 04:05:10
First Soviet Atomic Bomb and First H-Bomb
Atomic explosion - debris flying around - some tape damage. 1953 Testing of first Thermo Nuclear bomb tested. Loading on aircraft - plane takes off


220361          1949 & 1953 Sd        Col       04:05:26 - 04:06:44            First Soviet Atomic Bomb and First H-Bomb
Atomic explosion - debris flying around . 1953 Testing of first Thermo Nuclear bomb tested. Loading on aircraft - plane takes off.  Spectacular nuclear explosion. Russian speaker Anatoly Alexandrov President Soviet Academy of Sciences. with American voice dubbed over
Ends abruptly

220362          1949 & 1953 Sd        col       09:08:30 - 09:09:57            First Soviet Atomic Bomb and First H-Bomb
Atomic explosion - debris flying around . 1953 Testing of first Thermo Nuclear bomb tested. Loading on aircraft - plane takes off. Spectacular nuclear explosion. Russian speaker Anatoly Alexandrov President Soviet Academy of Sciences. with American voice dubbed over
Ends abruptly

220271          1950               B/W    01:21:57        Truman at press conference.  Atomic explosion seen, night.  Narration about use in Korea.  Dead & refugees in Korea.  Saint Peter's & pilgrims in Rome praying.  United Nations as symbol.


220655          1950   Si         COL      21:31:32 - 21:42:32            Atomic / Nuclear Tests - Explosions
Aerial view - spectacular underwater explosion - mushroom cloud.
21.34.48 Flash from nuclear explosion in desert  - mushroom cloud
21.37.20 Nuclear test in desert.
21.38.00 Desert test - long column of white smoke - mushroom cloud
21.40.04 Desert test - cactus in foreground - flash and mushroom cloud


220789          1950   SD        B/W    05:27:01 - 05:30:02           Red Menace - It Happened in Europe It Can Happen At Home
May Day parade - Crowd marching with banners against atomic arms & placards re Joliot-Curie in France.  Joliet & Curie marching (?). 
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