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Post-WWII - 1949, A-Bomb - U.S. Tightens Security On Report Of Red Blast

Reel Number: 250038-71

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: Russia,USA,USSR

Location:

TC Begins: 03:14:32

TC Ends: 03:17:30

Duration: 00:02:58

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Title. 03:14:38 Newspaper headlines re Atomic Blast in Russia. Men reading newspaper w/ headline showing. 03:14:49 Vishinsky arrives by sedan to United Nations, Lake Success, Long Island. Int. CU Andrei Vishinsky / Vyshinsky looking at newspaper w/ ??. 03:15:10 Dean Acheson & Warren Austin; Ernest Bevin & ??, LS of General Assembly. MCU of ??: “If the announcement made by President Truman that the Soviet Union now has the atomic bomb is true, then item number 23 in the agenda of the present session of the assembly will project itself as one of the most important questions that we will take up.” 03:15:47 Same man: “The impasse that now exists regarding the international control of atomic energy must be broken, and the assembly must face this question squarely for the sake of mankind and the peace of the world. 03;16:02 LS tracking past the fence around an atomic manufacturing plant. Entrance inspection station / checkpoint. Cars entering, inspected, searched. 03:16:30 CU sign: US Government Property - No Trespassing; pan to Piper Cub patrol plane low over sagebrush. Landing, blocking car on gravel road. 03:16:51 Guards w/ pistols firing on target range; firing machine guns at targets. Men run to small tanks, pose in hatches. Nuclear Weapons; Atomic Bombs; Cold War; NOTE: Blast not seen, nor is Truman’s announcement on 23Sep49 heard. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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