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Offsite Monitoring Of Fallout From Nuclear Tests Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221409-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1958

Country: USA

Location: Mercury,Nevada,Overton,Tonopah

TC Begins: 16:40:13

TC Ends: 16:54:17

Duration: 00:14:04

Offsite Monitoring Of Fallout From Nuclear Tests Pt. 2 of 2 Atomic tower at test site w/ activity at base. Anemometer turning; weather briefing w/ pointer & path of fallout. 16:41:04 CU clock 4:59 w/ second hand turning. Men charting on wall chart. Blackboard listing Shot XII SHASTA. Pickup truck drives off; radio mic & driver; charts; radio operator calling; men hearing & reacting in trucks, on ground. Police plan roadblocks, men watching silhouetted. 16:43:07 Bomb explosion, cloud rising & spreading. Tilt down it. Airplane nearl Aerial of B-29 flying around cloud, airman relaying data, ground crew into Dodge pickup & monitoring at various sites, motel, geiger counters, clipboards. Man in pickup talking on radiophone microphone. Ranch corral, farm, pasteur, rangeland tested. Tonopah, Nevada rooftops & gathering & changing filters. Fallout trays collected. Badges gathered from farm woman & buildings. Samples of milk & water taken, swimming pool, farm ditch. 16:46:44 Dodge pickup & measuring fallout along highway: sign Las Vegas 69, Beatty 46 miles. Return to CU sign: Off Site RAD-SAFE. Int. laboratory technician & chemical & electronic testing & measurement of radioactivity. CU slide rule. Secretary & man in office, reports, data. Man interviewing two women outside w/ children playing in wading pool. Men in pole corral of ranch check cow; handshaking. Town street, boy on bicycle, man walking; woman in yard w/ flowers waving. Family playing outdoor shuffleboard. Family picnic. 16:51:08 Technicians & monitoring instruments; on city rooftop; int. electronic radioactivity monitoring. Industry & instruments w/ automatic printouts being read at industrial sites. 16:52:41 Students & instructors walking on university campuses, into buildings. Professor demonstrating badges, geiger counters to students. Classroom lecture of science class; instructor at blackboard, students w/ slide-rule. The End. Credits. 1950s Atomic Test Preparations; Small Town Americana; Government; Businessmen; Propaganda; Radioactive; Safety; Hazards;

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