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Go to HomepageReel Number: 920003-04
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1979
Country: USA
Location: Nevada Test Site,New York City,NYC,Pennsylvania,Three Mile Island
TC Begins: 12:38:10
TC Ends: 12:50:18
Duration: 00:12:08
No Nukes Pt. 4 of 8 Graham Nash performs “Barrel of Pain”. 12:39:46 Interview w/ Graham about nuclear waste dump off San Francisco Bay in Farallon Islands, giant mutant sponges growing out of barrels on bottom. 12:40:46 “Barrel of Pain” continues, w/ backup singers. Audience applauds. Fade out to distorted red light. 12:42:46 James Taylor in hall. Jackson & Graham talking. 12:42:57 James Taylor performs “Your Smiling Face”; CUs. Audience applauds w/ lights on audience. 12:45:50 James introduces film. Bikini atomic blast. CU faces & eyes of crowd at Madison Square Garden. Soldiers going to atomic blast in Nevada desert. Chaplin describes beauty of atomic explosion & mushroom cloud to soldiers waiting for test. “It’s a wonderful site to behold.” Troops marching in silhouette. Soldier describes test. Large group of soldiers during Nevada test in open. 12:48:01 Interview w/ dying veteran, Paul Cooper. Int. w/ scientist about already knowing the effects of radiation from Hiroshima & Nagasaki explosions. “They knew what they were putting us through...you’ve got to have trust in your government.” 12:49:09 Pres. Eisenhower, 1953 Atoms for Peace Speech at UN. 12:49:24 Pres. Johnson, 1966: “we have moved far to tame for peaceful uses...and we have only just begun” about taming the atom for peaceful use. 12:49:34 Pres. Nixon, 1973: talking about nuclear power & energy independence by the end of that decade. 12:49:47 Three Mile Island exterior. Interview w/ evacuees. Int. w/ people & children re TMI accident & radiation. Political demonstration; Anti-nuclear; Pop music; Protest songs; Fans; Performances; NOTE: Its estimated that 80,000 55 gallon barrels were dumped off Farallon Islands between 1945 & 1970; also the irradiated ship USS Independence, target ship at Bikini, was sunk there.