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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221342-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1952
Country: USA
Location: Desert Rock,Las Vegas,Nevada,News Nob,YUcca flats
TC Begins: 18:05:21
TC Ends: 18:12:18
Duration: 00:06:57
Atomic Energy Commission, AEC, Newsmen Observing Blast from News Nob, ??52 Slate: 04??52 View of mountains across valley (Frenchman Flat?) 18:06:03 Flash & returning to normal w/ light moving towad camera & tilt up to cloud in sky roiling into mushroom. Very good. 18:07:00 Tall thin cloud w/ smoke-ring like cap on top. 18:07:27 Base & cloud but fairly dark, exposure opened. 18:08:44 Looking down from hillside to journalists & soldiers at tables & standing in cleared area, cloud in distance, tilt up base & hold on bright white top. Slate: ??52 View of newsmen & others sitting on chairs & rock outcrops wearing dark eye covers. Flash of light & then they remove them; army photographer takes their picture. They flinch when shock wave hits. Newsreel cameramen on hillside. News Nob sign visible. KTLA TV truck briefly visible. Radiation Testing; Cold War; 1950s; Human Research; Propaganda; Atomic Safety; Atomic Warfare;