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Post-WWII, Heavy Water Plant, Rjunkan, Norway

Reel Number: 221438-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany,Norway

Location: Rjunkan

TC Begins: 02:40:21

TC Ends: 02:43:40

Duration: 00:03:19

Post-WWII, Heavy Water Plant, Rjunkan, Norway; Partially bomb destroyed Vemork Heavy Water Plant w/ mountains behind. Steaming or smoking rubble & standing steel beams & pipes. High angle down on plant & town in valley, river running alongside seen frm aerial cable car ascending. Fog or clouds over valley. View from descending cable car showing plant w/ partial still intact. 02:42:42 View across valley to large plant, steam rising from base. 02:43:03 Looking up penstock pipes. Woman in fur coat standing, Mr. Jomer Brun, engineer & manager in suit & hat out of plant door, shakes hands and talk as she takes notes. CU of Brun. Germany Atomic Bomb Production; NOTE: Plant was destroyed by series of Norwegian guerrilla operations between 1942 & 1944 codenamed Freshman, Grouse & Gunnerside.

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