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Operation Crossroads Reel 7

Reel Number: 220900-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: Marshall Islands,Pacific

Location: Bikini Islands,Eniwetok

TC Begins: 22:51:08

TC Ends: 23:02:07

Duration: 00:10:59

Operation Crossroads Reel 7 (nuclear and atomic) Coverage from three cameras of atomic blast and cloud on Able Day - 1st July 1946. Aerial views mushroom cloud - long thin column of smoke. Blast from other angles. 22:56:14 Eniwetok - Removing Air sampling equipment. Men remove cameras and air sampling equipment from DB-17. Man carrying cage of rats / mice which had been in observation plane. Instruments from belly of plane removed using trolley on ropes - carried by forklift - men using some safety procedures re contamination.

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