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1957ca - Documentary: Atoms For Peace

Reel Number: 221496-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1957

Country: USA

Location: Arco,Idaho,New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 09:38:36

TC Ends: 09:55:29

Duration: 00:16:53

Title. Pile of photos & atomic pamphlets added. Man working at atomic furnace in government laboratory producing atomic isotopes; handling lead bars, carrying vials in lead shielding. Refinery; oil well pumping at base of derrick. Animation of movement of oil w/ radioactive isotopes to track petroleum from wells. 09:41:07 Radioactive piston rings attached to piston & wear is measured in running engine. Animated diagram showing piston moving & oil w/ radiation. Technician in lab analyzing, counting by geiger counters & printing out on tape. Automated machinery. Thickness of sheet metal being measured, animated drawing. 09:43:32 CU radiation detector dial. Paper rolls moved. Measuring pipes for cracks - animated explanation. 09:44:24 Photographic laboratory & processing exposed films of metal showing flaws. Radioactive atom in animation. Large shovel moving coal; interior of power turbine. Animation of reactor producing steam & electricity. Large model of first electric power plant run by atomic energy. 09:45:56 Arco, Idaho EVR breeder reactor exterior; interior w/ operator at control panel bringing up to power. CUs. Lighted bulbs. Steam gauges Man opening valve to let steam into turbine, spinning drive. Dark ext. 09:48:00 Control room at panel to shift to electricity provided by reactor; MCUs & CUs. Exterior as lights come on. Farmers working in field; plant scientists & technicians working int. & ext. 09:49:37 Studying photosynthesis in laboratory w/ atomic tracers. Watering plants 09:50:52 Fertilizers w/ tracers used to measure how plants take up nutrients. Equipment monitoring various use of radioactivity. Patients in waiting room; doctor doing thyroid treatment. 09:53:10 Ext. of building w/ sign: Medical Research. Doctors & nurses in operating room. 09:53:42 NYC Montefiore Hospital w/ Cobalt Teletherapy Unit. Beam of atomic radiation being used to treat tumors in back, head for cancer treatment. Montage of farmers, factories, technical workers. The End. Peaceful Atomic Energy; US Government Propaganda; 1950s; Atoms For Peace; Educational Films; ca1957; Medicine; Medical Procedures;

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