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Post-WWII - 1948, Canada: Documentary - Inside The Atom

Reel Number: 221803-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1948,1940s

Country: Canada

Location: Chalk River Plant,Great Bear Lake,Ontario

TC Begins: 20:54:22

TC Ends: 21:04:55

Duration: 00:10:33

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 20:54:39 Montage: MS Sign - Picture Taking Prohibited from across water, column of buses along forested highway past sign: No Trespassing, National Research Council of Canada Atomic Energy Project...; guard w/ rifle watches another open high fence for Defence Industries Ltd bus; passengers show identification; many workers off buses & walk into plant; man carrying radioactive isotope (?) on metal pole along road w/ buildings behind. 20:55:32 Int. Man at microscope moving tiny uranium sample w/ probe in Petri dish. Dissolve to... 20:55:47 Chinese laborers digging, carrying, four men on foot-powered water pump (group effort). European men digging in underground coal mine. 20:56:10 CU manipulating uranium sample, dissolve to illustration of nucleus, tilt down to children in Science Museum; zoom in on dot over i in book & then animation of nucleus & splitting w/ neutron & explosion giving off radiation & multiple explosions. Dissolve to... 20:57:34 Great Bear Lake, Canada. Pan snowy (?) mountain plain. Mining train w/ ore cars; men dumping cart in mine. LS tilt down to Chalk River Plant, Ontario pile building plant w/ man carrying metal pole walking alongside road. MS 3 men talking outside, CU Dr. D.A. Keys, Dr. Wilfred Bennett Lewis (w/ bad teeth), Engineering Chief Kenneth F. Tupper. Technicians working in lab, woman manipulating fluid & uranium w/ tiny equipment of microchemistry. CUs weighing on torsion balance viewed w/ microscope. 20:59:42 Ext. Trash cans labeled radioactive waste. Int. woman preparing radioactive films for badges & read by densitometer. Nurse checking fingerprint patterns in wax. 21:00:24 Dump truck arriving from Pile w/ container w/ radioactive isotope containers lifted out; opening heavy doors of Chemistry Building storage area & moved in. Measuring level of radioactivity & lowered into shielded flasks. 21:01:38 Technician puts lead container on work bench, lifts out isotope tube w/ tongs & pours isotope into glass container. Handling others. Airplane delivering isotope; man carrying container into hospital cancer ward & places it next to technician who opens, removes bottle on wire & then cap removed & poured into test tube? Technician gives to patient to drink; monitoring magnified & clicks counted as its picked up by cancer both locating & killing cancer cells. 21:04:05 Montage: workers leaving Chalk River plant, technicians / scientists in lab measuring, checking equipment, measuring, etc. 21:04:32 Man outside carrying rod w/ ?? along road. 21:04:46 End credit. 1940s Atomic Medicine; Research; Development; Post-WW2; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Film noir-ish music & some visuals. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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