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Post-WWII - 1946, Atomic Energy, USA: Oak Ridge Production & Daily Life

Reel Number: 221803-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946,1940s

Country: USA

Location: OAK RIDGE,Tennessee

TC Begins: 20:23:28

TC Ends: 20:34:20

Duration: 00:10:52

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWII - 1946, Atomic Energy, USA: Oak Ridge Production & Daily Life Technician compressing billet 20:23:43 MS Table w/ many metal tubes; CU. 20:23:54 Two men standing on platform inserting large metal tubes, turning mall knob / valve on external pipe, sighting along tube. Tilt down from upper level of ?? w/ many pipes to technicians below working controls. CU label on small heavy metal container being wheeled past: Danger - Do Not Operate. Container placed on small cart & pushed into end of machine labeled Bank 1. Cable then pulls it on in thru thick walls & very thick door swung shut. 20:25:02 Technician w/ long metal rod retrieves small vial of liquid from Bank 3 & places in small wheeled container. Pan from view into ?? as vial removed & into protective container; second man using pole puts double lid on container. 20:25:33 Man lifting vial out of container & putting into. Fluid drawn off & put into smaller bottles, capped & put into shipping container (?). 20:26:43 Man at bench working w/ small furnace (?) heating sample. CU reading gage & stop watch, writes reading, takes out sample, weighs on laboratory balance scale. 20:27:46 Box wheeled out & man w/ camera films & another tests w/ Geiger counter (?). 20:28:12 CU Sign: Monsanto... Prohibited Area...except to authorized personnel. Camera, firearms...are forbidden. Pan to road w/ sign: Danger High Tension Line Clearance 49’. 20:28:40 Sign: Prohibited Zone - Do Not Enter, Area Patrolled By Military Police. Buildings on hillside behind. MLS of factory building w/ two tall chimneys. 20:28:52 LS Jackson Square (Oak Ridge original townsite) parking area in middle of U-shaped shopping center building w/ supermarket, etc. People out w/ bags of groceries. Movie theater marquee: Red Ryder & Little Beaver in Sun Valley Cyclone. Pedestrians under canopy pas Henebry’s Jewelers, window shopping. Supermarket entrance. 20:29:56 Billboard: Protect Your Country’s Secrets. Illustrated w/ mushroom cloud, eye etc. GOOD. 20:30:04 LS across tennis courts to barrack housing on hillside; MS tennis players. 20:30:28 LS trailer houses & houses on hillside lots w/ others on top. MS family on lawn chairs beside table outside house. Men pitching horseshoes. Three women & man playing cards. 20:31:07 Ext. United States Post Office, people enter & exit. 20:31:18 Church w/ people leaving; MS out door in Sunday clothes. LS people arriving; leaving downhill past camera. Ministers in doorway talking w/ family. 20:32:12 Man pitching horseshoes; group playing cards. LS across large outdoor swimming pool(s) w/ Ferris wheel in distance. Divers, swimmers, women in two-piece swimsuits walking past others sunbathing. 20:32:56 MLS Ferris Wheel & small amusement park rides; CU Ferris Wheel & other rides. GOOD 20:33:24 Trailer houses on hillside from below & above. MS people sitting outside talking. 20:33:56 Segregated Black living, Blacks in shade outside hutments. Girls fixing hair. GOOD. Atomic Age; History; Nuclear Science; Manufacturing Technology; Security; Secrets; Cold War; Daily Life; Segregation; 1940s; 1950s; African-Americans; Shopping Center; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Please send corrections & additions to the following e-mail. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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