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Story of Camp Century, The - The City Under Ice Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221572-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961

Country: Greenland,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 05:45:22

TC Ends: 05:59:39

Duration: 00:14:17

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Continued... Ext. Man ouf of escape hatch. GIs skiing behind snowcats. Riding bouncing 55 gallon drum. Tom Evans washing clothes; talking to man about construction. 05:46:24 Convoy of ice sled w/ large diesel tank. Aerial over tractor trains across ice. Maintenance shop built & used. 05:47:16 USNS Marine Fiddler arrives w/ nuclear power plant, PM-2A. Harbor & unloading large vapor container unit & trucking to ice cap. Convoy of tractors & trailers. Reloading from trailer to sleds. Two tractors pulling vapor container on flatbottom sled. 05:48:13 Crane pulled across ice; storn. Construction in blowing snow; tractors still pulling container. Crates opened & crane lifting pieces for reassembly. Nuclear plant into trench & assembled on heavy wooden floor on steel beams. CU winching cable; bolting together & assembling gages, controls. 05:52:20 Capt. Jim Barnett (sp?) wearing white safety hat describes the start up of the reactor core. 05:52:53 Fuel elements removed from shipping barrels; bars containing 500 grams of U-235 unwrapped & loading into fuel storage tank. Crewmen watching lowering into water; men reading gages & announcing results. Men monitoring increase of energy. Men waiting. 05:55:22 MCU lowering rod / bar into water. Gages at start up. Turning light bulb. 05:56:03 Completed trench, men walking. Men showering, brushing teeth in completed quarters. Shaving. Medical dispensary w/ x-ray. Chapel & religious service. Warehouse storage of frozen food. Large kitchen & ovens; bakery w/ biscuits. Men eating & talking in mess hall. 05:57:42 Man entering quarters, men sitting reading, lounging. 05:58:22 Scientists boarding snowcats & loading trailers w/ scientific equipment. Snowcats thru blizzard. The End. USA Military Research; Nuclear Power; 1961; Army Corps of Engineers (?); Construction; Arctic Research Center; NOTE: Card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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