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Atom, The... Year of Purpose Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221526-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1968

Country: USA

Location: Amchitka,CapE Canaveral,Fermi Lab,Illinois,Nevada

TC Begins: 01:15:41

TC Ends: 01:28:37

Duration: 00:12:56

Continued... Aerial over Fermi lab accelerator ring. POV along road on top. Surveyor outside waving. Technicians inside working. Looking at large photos of particles & tracks. Camera inside. Color background & patterns of particles. 01:16:42 Interior of factory space & parts for Bubble Chamber w/ workers welding, rolling copper, measuring w/ micrometers. Particle Detector & assembly super conductor magnet. Hoist moving large cap over copper bands. 01:17:47 Ext. of tower & engineers beside. Illustration or diagram of geology containing natural gas & Project Gas Buggy lowering atomic explosive into drilled hole & detonating to allow gas to flow. 01:19:01 Tower & men working assembling pipes & valves, CU turning valves. Men working on pumping station. Flame burning on top of pipe. 01:19:42 Aerial over Nevada canyon. Uplift of five explosions 150 feet apart of 135 ft deep; crater afterwards. Diagram of explosions to be used to dig a canal or harbor. 01:20:54 Large nuclear complex at Los Alamos & moving reactor into place to test power rocket engines. Reactor test underway. 01:21:54 Men in simulated space capsule. Illustration of capsule in space. Two men carry bucket. Men assembling SNAP generator fueled by plutonium. Putting fuel in place (?). Astronauts training in space suits w/ SNAP-27 generator. Illustration on moon. 01:22:57 Simulated (?) satellite over earth. Rocket firing in CU. GOOD. 01:23:13 Waves breaking on rocks; sea otters in CU. Many eating abalone or ?? some w/ young. CUs. Catching on Amchitka, loading cages on truck & transplanting by airplanes for conservation. 01:24:44 Diagram of dropping instrumented projectile that goes deep into ground & gives out data. Man on surface looking at hole & measuring entry point. CU holding rocks. Man w/ cups / containers of steel alloys in lab measuring stress & strength. Man loading high speed centrifuge, starting & CU gage. Experimental artificial kidney & engineers. Computers generating braille tapes. 01:27:08 Montage of various atomic scenes seen in film. Credits. Government Atomic Energy Propaganda; 1968; 1960s; Technology; Thermal;

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