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1954 - Doom Town, Atomic Bomb Tests Ability to Survive

Reel Number: 250042-18

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1955

Country: USA

Location: Nevada Test Site

TC Begins: 11:02:09

TC Ends: 11:06:50

Duration: 00:04:41

1954 - Doom Town, Atomic Bomb Tests Ability to Survive 11:02:19 Aerial over desert w/ houses under construction, trailer houses & vehicles placed for test. CU helicopter pilot w/ shadow of helicopter over houses & ground. Large tower & pan to houses, construction & workers. 11:02:55 Newsmen in dust, inspecting houses, mannequins of family. Shelves w/ food.\ 11:03:19 Electrical transformers. Man in control room at microphone; guard outside auditorium. Man at podium. 11:03:38 Line of tanks moving across desert w/ dust behind. MCU. 11:03:52 Night & newsmen waiting behind barrier, seated on bleachers. Man at podium. Soldiers in trenches covering faces. Television camera. 11:04:07 Explosion. Mushroom cloud; wind blowing past houses intercut w/ cloud & houses burning & blowing apart in slow motion. 11:05:01 Large mushroom cloud & early morning light. Helicopters across. 11:05:17 Civil defense workers at destroyed house, broken power poles behind. Testing w/ geiger counter. Views of destruction & checking on buildings, cars, mannequins. Nuclear Testing; Nevada Test Site; Effects; Simulation; Simulated;

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