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1951 - Government Documentary: Operation Greenhouse Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221406-10

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: Marshall Islands,USA

Location: DC,Eniwetok Atoll,Los Alamos,New Mexico,Pacific Proving Ground,Washington

TC Begins: 11:20:04

TC Ends: 11:30:35

Duration: 00:10:31

1951 - Government Documentary: Operation Greenhouse Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Drone aircraft taking off overhead guided by mother-plane. Fighter jet drones take off. Night shots of planes in flight. 11:21:39 Blast, explosion & cloud forming seen from plane. Slow motion of blast hitting constructed factory building & others. Blowing apart & collapsing. Cloud rising. 11:22:39 Men putting on gas masks; looking at instruments. Oscilloscope; men installing & checking electronics, microscope, cockroaches; mice placed into tubes for tests. Buildings constructed; materials exposed to measure effect. Naval vessels patrolling, radar, door padlocked. Touring for last inspection before blast. Men in torpedo boat. Military thru check points. Going up tower, arming bomb, descending & locking. 11:26:14 Firing party to home island. Men in front of console w/ sequence timer controls. Men on phone, count down. Gages w/ sweep hands. Final ten seconds. 11:27:37 Explosion & cloud rising & expanding. Rear view from plane taking off. Aerial view of island. 11:28:35 Los Alamos airport, light plane lands & men out wife & son wave & greet man. Workers thru check point. Man walks into house w/ arm around father & son. US Post office; men at instruments, looking at hillside & sunset. 11:29:45 Blast explodes, cloud unfolds. The End. Atomic Test Preparations; Pacific Islands; Science; Propaganda; Military; NOTE: 4 tests 08Apr-25May51 Source material contrasty.

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