Atomic Tests in Nevada
Atomic Tests in Nevada
"The United States Atomic Energy Commission presents..." "Atomic Tests in Nevada: The Story of AEC's Continental Proving Ground." Credits. Car driving around a curve in pre-dawn hours on U.S. Highway 91. Headlights sign on sign for St. George, Utah. Car drives past Twin Oaks Motel. Overview of St. George, Utah in the morning. Church steeple clock: 5:00 AM. Car drives past Twin Oaks Motel. Adult Caucasian milkman walking to his truck. Milkman opening back door of truck and putting milk basket inside. Police officer on patrol on foot, checking store door, looking through window. UTOCO Gas station attendant filling up car. Pre-dawn view of street in St. George; light in the sky, but streetlights still on. Church steeple clock: 5:00 AM; white flash appears. Milkman turns to look. Policeman looks. Gas station attendant looks. Milkman closes door to truck. Gas station attendant continues filling car. Adult male narrator says, "Just another atomic test...nothing to get excited about anymore."
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Overview of St. George, Utah. Cars driving in St. George. Caucasian male and female children walking together to school. Adult Caucasian female hanging clothes on clothesline to dry. Man opening store, putting display in front of store. Two women sitting with two female children, listening to radio at home while one is reading magazine and the other stitching. Woman in the kitchen, washing dishes; stops to listen to broadcast. Radio broadcast advises people to stay indoors because the wind has changed, bringing fallout towards this little town. Two men in automotive store listen to radio. Man listening to radio. Women and children in home listening to radio. Man stops cars, listens to radio. Woman, feeding baby milk, listens to radio. Woman in kitchen listening to radio. Woman peeling potatoes in a bowl, listening to radio. Man goes inside house. Low angle view of a woman looking to the sky from window, backs away and closes window. Hand closing windows. Three men and woman disperse.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Three adult Caucasian men in a barbershop; one man talking animatedly. Two men talking; "Enemy Target No. 1" sign in BG. Printing press; superimposed nuclear-related news headlines. "U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Test Site Mercury, Nevada" sign. Cars entering and leaving from guarded gate. Map of route from Las Vegas to other cities and nuclear test sites. Panning view of Nevada desert landscape. Two different adult Caucasian male scientists working on machines. VS of military officers in a meeting. VS of male technicians assembling instruments. Male scientist working in a laboratory; obscured by intersecting pipettes, tubes. Over the shoulder POV of a man looking at papers; smoking. High angle view of men looking over blueprint. Metal tower with two men standing nearby; military airplane in FG and mountains in BG. Zoom in on metal tower. Overview of St. George, Utah. Street scene. Silhouettes of two women and two female children standing and looking toward rock cliff.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Aerial view of Pacific Ocean islands, sandbars. Map of North America, highlighting the United States; line showing the distance to Pacific area nuclear testing site. Wooden crates being towed to ship. VS of crates being loaded onto ship. Bulldozers clearing site for Pacific Ocean island testing. VS of ground zero site for nuclear weapons testing. VS of a group of adult Caucasian male scientists in a meeting. High angle view of two men exiting a building, walking together. Metal tower at ground zero; desert vegetation. VS of instruments and equipment used for "diagnostic experimentation"; three men working on equipment. Three trailers full of high speed cameras. Man working inside trailer. VS of instruments used to measure heat and light intensity. Tower at ground zero; man standing and looking at tower in FG. VS of metal towers. Three men working on equipment; metal tower in BG. U.S. Army soldiers placing sandbags; soldiers digging in BG. Military scientists gathered on a hillside.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
U.S. Army soldier standing on a platform in the FG, speaking to soldier in front of him. Panning view of military vehicles scattered on ground zero site; mountain ridge in BG. Military truck. Armored vehicle. Artillery cannon. Three men walking on a construction site that is assembling structures. Barrels stacked in triangle formation. Different types of walls aligned together. Cement and metal structures on ground zero site. Two story house model. VS of cars scattered on ground zero test site; two adult Caucasian men approach car, one opens door. Two men setting up biomedical test using small animals in cages. Pick-up truck towing tree past planted trees in ground zero test site. Low angle view of metal tower. Two men exiting tower elevator at base.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Panning view of Nevada desert landscape in the morning; ground zero site. Caucasian male hand dialing rotary telephone. Close-up of adult Caucasian man speaking on telephone. Man speaking on telephone. Military airplane takes off. Two men exit pick-up truck. Men take out equipment from pick-up truck flatbed. Building control station. VS of adult Caucasian male scientists making observations and final preparations. Metal tower. Scientists observing dials, measurements. U.S. Army soldiers crouch in their foxholes. VS of soldiers putting on their goggles. Formation of military jets flying. VS of military airplanes flying. Scientists in control room. VS of soldiers crouching, heads down, hands over ears. Man counting down "5, 4..." Zoom in to top of metal tower housing nuclear bomb. Nuclear explosion, soldiers visible in FG.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Adult Caucasian male soldier walking to steps of a civil defense house, kneeling to pick up something; twisted metal and wreckage in BG. Charred and destroyed cars. Overturned tank. Close-up of overturned Jeep. Destroyed military airplane. Jeep driving up to a destroyed military bomber. Structure walls destroyed. Men walking up to destroyed objects, measuring radioactivity. VS of men, wearing, gloves, masks, hazardous material suits, walking, observing, and retrieving materials that have a nuclear "fingerprint".
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Three men working on an instrument; metal tower behind them. VS of military aircraft flying. Artillery cannon fires; nuclear bomb explodes. Metal tower at ground zero test site; desert vegetation in FG. Adult Caucasian man standing next to car holding a Geiger counter. Control point building. VS of a test organization staff meeting. Aerial view of Nevada nuclear test site; flash of light. Map of Nevada, test site area, and danger zone. Cars backed up on highway; man speaking to driver at the front. Explosion in the Nevada desert in the evening. Adult Caucasian man unlocks and opens door to store. Test organization staff meeting.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
"Radiation" title superimposed over flecks of white on screen. Adult Caucasian man reviewing a "Winds Aloft" chart at a test organization staff meeting; pointing out trajectories on a map. Man going over map at meeting. Tilt up a nuclear mushroom cloud. Helicopter taking off. VS of livestock grazing. Panning a nuclear mushroom cloud. Map of Nevada, highlighting the test site; radioactive cloud shown moving away from the test site and slowly dispersing. Man charting the path of a dispersing nuclear cloud on a clear glass panel.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Tilt down from sky to Nevada mountains, pan right. Panning view of a city.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Illustration of solar system with planets, asteroids, and stars; animation of spinning Earth being bombarded by radiation from space and from within the planet itself (known as background radiation). Mushroom cloud. Test organization staff meeting. Panning overview of Nevada mountain and city landscape. Adult Caucasian man walking outside of a small cabin measuring radiation levels with a Geiger counter. Pick-up truck turning into a general store parking area. Two men monitoring radiation using equipment set-up in the back of a pick-up truck. Map of Nevada with the test site and fifteen air sampling stations highlighted. Two setting up equipment from the back of pick-up truck; third man walks out of General Store. Man walks out of cabin, squats by a bench placed against cabin's wall that carries equipment, devices. Man calibrating and moving instruments on bench.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Aerial view of U.S. Air Force airplane flying. Airman, wearing headset, looking at a pieces of paper, telegraphing message from airplane. U.S. Air Force personnel writing notes from control building; device on table. Man drawing information on clear glass pane. Map of the United States with Nevada test site and over one hundred U.S. Weather Bureau stations highlighted. Male hands putting gummed paper into envelope. Adult Caucasian female processing, sorting mail. Adult Caucasian man retrieving samples. Caucasian hands marking samples. Men in a meeting; man moving his hand across a map of the United States, circling the Northeast with his hands. Pages flipping to show various weather maps and barometric pressures. Information being written and seen through a projector. Circular slide rule. Desert vegetation set against the backdrop of a sunset. Panning view of Nevada desert during sunset.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Adult Caucasian man points areas near Nevada, Utah, and Arizona on a map. Test organization staff meeting. Metal tower in the midst of a sunset. Map of Nevada with the test site highlighted and St. George, Utah, and Las Vegas, Nevada marked; animation of a nuclear cloud moving southeast from the test site, slowly dissipating. Weathervane showing change in wind direction. Animated map of the nuclear cloud changing direction. Two policemen entering a building. Two men sitting together; policeman picks up the telephone. Man radio announcer reads from a script into microphone. CU windvane showing change in wind direction. Radio announcers reading scripts into microphone. Street intersection in St. George. Adult African American male radio announcer reads from a script into microphone. Adult Caucasian female feeding baby a bottle of milk while listening to radio. Highway traffic halted as man measures radioactivity near car using Geiger counter.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
Two adult Caucasian men working with equipment from the back of a pick-up truck. Various pieces of equipment on a bench; man places a piece of equipment on top of material in plastic laid on top of paper. Church, church steeple. Test organization staff meeting; couple of men smoking. Man observing smoke or steam coming out of a cannister; tobacco pipe in mouth. Man working on experiment behind connected pipettes and tubes. Man working on machine. Pan across Nevada desert and nuclear testing site with mountains in the BG. Nuclear explosion. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower giving an address. Panning overview of a city and surrounding landscape in the southwest.