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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250033-09
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1952
Country: Marshall Islands,USA
Location: Eniwetok
TC Begins: 17:06:53
TC Ends: 17:19:08
Duration: 00:12:15
Pt. 2 of 2 Weather briefing w/ heads of Task Force Group. SOF. Men at railing as Reed Hadley talks to camera off ship. Googles put on; men inside at control panel wearing microphones & headset counting down. 17:08:52 Blast w/ large red celled cloud & shock wave; mushroom cloud in sky expanding. 17:10:09 Hadley turns & talks to camera; helicopters leaving the USS Rendova (CVE-114) aircraft carrier. Rear Admiral Wilkins w/ binoculars on bridge; men boarding Marine helicopter & taking off. Hadley watching helicopter take off w/ camera; view over Ground Zero with island swept clean. Waves. 17:12:18 Repeat of final countdown, blast. New York skyline superimposed over fireball to show scale. Mushroom cloud still rising. Animation of buildings stacked to illustrate height; then against Stratosphere. 17:13:54 Aerial of island area before & after showing effect. Cutaway of crater depth. Radius of blast shown for effect & damage. Compares w/ map of Washington DC; 17:15:33 Name & desk w/ Val Peterson, Civil Defense Administrator who speaks to camera: “...an awesome turning point to history...well being of our homes & our families.” Quotes Eisenhower speech to United Nations; then says what Civil Defense steps must be taken. The End. Cold War; Thermonuclear Weapons Test Preparations; Hydrogen Bomb; 1952; Operation Ivy; Test Shot Mike; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate; or any continuous 14 minutes at per reel rate.