1950s - Color, Educational Film, Cold War: H-Hour ...Minus Ten

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk H-Hour ...Minus Ten 01:47:18 Night, Color, MCU man listening to loudspeaker, lights match & looks at wristwatch. View over Yucca Flats w/ just beginning light, light over cactus, silhouetted troops visiting; man lights cigarette. Tower over Ground Zero, early light & in daylight. Measuring instruments, 01:48:37 Car, buildings, military equipment to be tested for blast effect. Soldiers into slit trenches; large warehouse type building, railroad cars, bridges on steel piers, aircraft parked. Redi-mix concrete truck backed up to tree in hole to anchor in concrete. B-29 bomber, other planes. “We are engaged in the grim business of survival. The fate of our nation could well depend on our progress in atomic weaponry...” 01:49:26 Base of large tower, officers inspecting equipment. Man putting mannequin into car. Tower w/ cables, man at electronic recording equipment. 01:50:06 Pan across sagebrush & cactus. Blast. B-29. Blast on ground w/ cloud rising. Atomic cannon firing & explosion w/ cloud rising. 01:51:01 Men meeting around table. Large truck arriving at gate w/ two large crates. Soldiers showing identification at gate, coming & going. Quonset hut w/ sign on door: Headquarters Test Command, men enter. Officers w/ clipboards. 01:52:03 4-engine plane overhead; men at various monitoring points. Bomber & fighter jet taking off. Drawn map showing test sites. 01:52:35 Entrance to military housing at Camp Mercury; aerial over Desert Rock encampment for troops participating in tactical maneuvers during test. Road running between Frenchman Flat & Yucca Flat. Pan over control building, cars parked outside, w/ dry lake beyond. Int. briefing by various specialists, weather effect charts used. 01:54:13 Men on top of buildings put on dark glasses; countdown. Blast & lighted group. 01:54:39 Blast effect rolling over jeeps, dust clouds, collapsing warehouse building, railroad cars blown over. 01:54:54 Trees bending, building walls blown in. Arrival of shock wave, men in trenches. 01:55:10 Mushroom cloud in sky rising; men watching. CU match burning. Mushroom cloud & tilt down stem to base. The End. 1950s; Atmospheric Atomic Test Program; Atmosphere; Explosions; US Government Propaganda; Cold War; Nuclear Testing; NOTE: Entire reel sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk