Operation Wigwam Pt. 1 of 2

Operation Wigwam Pt. 1 of 2 Helicopter landing on ship’s deck; CU sailor blowing bosun’s whistle. CU loudspeaker. 06:14:11 Title: Task Group 7.3 Presents Operation Wigwam. Produced by USAF Lookout Mountain Lab. 06:14:34 Men on deck look up; large four-engine plane. Aerial of line of ships & barges w/ large helium balloons attached. VO” ...14May55..eyewitness to most unusual atomic test...a joint military & scientific operation.” Testing 30 kiloton Mark 90 Betty 500 miles SW of San Diego. 06:15:12 Atomic blast at Operation Crossroads, 1946 tested effect on ships in shallow water. 06:15:35 WWII anti-submarine mine thrown & exploded & subchasers; torpedo seen from above & exploding against freighter; men in water rescued. View of sinking ships from submarine. Aerial over diving submarines. 06:16:15 Low aerial above barge w/ men; VO “...several under feet below suspended atom bomb...how effective...Operation Wigwam conceived to answer...” 06:16:46 Aerial over Pentagon building. CU hands holding secret monograph: “Operation Wigwam.” MCU pan of naval officers & others at table. LS Nine talking at table, looking at maps. Dissolve to overhead from mast of ship deck while underway. Men on deck preparing fish, pulling in buoys. LS aerial of ships pulling barges, target submarines. 06:18:29 Diagram of tethered submarines to surface buoys. Three placed at different distances. Nose of sub hulk no. 12 constructed w/o engine, prior to submerging. Interior shot of test equipment & robotic electronic instruments. 06:19:42 Test resurfacing of sub. LS aerial of Task Force Group 7.3. MS of frogmen on sub deck next to landing craft. Low aerial of helicopter on platform of small barge suspending A-Bomb. Men on large floating buoy preparing recording instruments. Men placing floating smaller buoys. Rocking suspension barge w/ landing craft alongside seen from water. 06:21:05 CU control w/ panel announcing two hours till blast. Scientists at electronic instruments & leaving, climbing onto landing craft & moving away from barge. Small aircraft carrier CVL-49, USS Wright, & propellor planes taking off. Radar antenna turning during countdown. Underwater Nuclear Testing; Cold War; Technology; Atomic Blasts; NOTE: ENTIRE FILM (2 CARDS) SOLD AT PER REEL RATE.