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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250071-17
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1952
Country: USA
Location: Nevada
TC Begins: 21:19:10
TC Ends: 21:28:20
Duration: 00:09:10
1952 - Atomic Testing: Operation Desert Rock, Apr-May52 POV across Nevada sage brush covered desert from army truck 21:19:36 Slate: illegible. POV from truck looking back at convoy / column of jeeps leading army trucks along paved road in early morning light past entrance gate. Continuing on desert road past Camp Mercury sign. 21:20:40 MS 3 marine officers, pan to enlisted men standing about. 21:21:00 Officer paper to group of marines. LA Marine on wooden platform talking into microphone. Pan of scattered marines & many along trench waiting. 21:21:50 Slate: 01May52. Operation Desert Rock. Marines walking past w/ rifles, officer talking from back of jeep into mic. w/ marines lined up listening. Marines saunter past w/ rifles. 21:23:04 Slate: 01May52 Yucca Flats. 12:00. Marines standing about, officer w/ geiger counter; two columns of marines past looking at damage. Walk past & overturned truck; tanks sitting. 21:24:07 MS Line of parked C-46 at airfield Marine walks & boards bus, others follow. Buses leave. 21:24:57 POV across desert, past signs 21:25:07 Slate: illegible. Two marines in sandbagged foxhole among sagebrush. CU helmet down against dirt. 21:25:44 Mushroom cloud fairly high in sky. Marines walk forward watching cloud, tilt up to top. 21:26:20 Slate: Apr52 Operation Desert Rock IV. Marines unload crates out of army truck & stack. 21:27:38 Marines w/ rifles & packs boarding bus after blast. 21:28:04 Tent & marines w/ packs & rifles march out. Other tent & packs on ground. Operation Tumbler-Snapper; Atmospheric Tests; 1950s;