Atomic Energy Commission, AEC, Test Shot Priscilla, Nevada Test Site, Jun57

Atomic Energy Commission, AEC, Test Shot Priscilla, Nevada Test Site, Jun57 Slate: 07Feb57 Soldier w/ geiger counter taking readings on desert plants & sand. Checking subsidence crater (?). Three soldiers walk towards camera; large group huddled w/ heads bowed; another group laying on ground away from blast seen lighting them, get up and climb hill. Tilt up mushroom cloud & men looking. 17:02:08 Slate: 06Aug57 Camp Desert Rock. Drilling tower or ??. Men out of back of Army Communications truck; on telephone, GIs around back of pick-up w/ radio gear. 17:03:11 Slate 23Jun57 Radar antenna turning, other seen. Explosion white-outs film, slowly normal exposure w/ bright mushroom cloud darkening. (19:03:58) white light & dust cloud past. Tilt up mushroom cloud boiling further into sky. (19:05:10) CU of top of cloud. 17:05:27 Desertscape, H-34 helicopter across & landing, several views (burn-in on lens from ??); lands after taking air samples. 17:07:07 Slate: 18Jun57 Frenchman Flat Soldiers beside & boarding Army buses, follow car out of area. Past camera on desert road of test-site w/ desertscape in background & much dust. 17:08:59 Canadian & American officers listen to Maj. Robert E. Zadra explaining about test shot. 17:10:04 Several looking at tank used during test shot; climb on tank. Buses leaving w/ much dust. Radiation Testing; Cold War; 1950s;