Reel

Atomic Blast

Atomic Blast
Clip: 498167_1_1
Year Shot: 1946 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1531
Original Film: 019-518
HD: N/A
Location: Marshall Islands, Bikini Island
Timecode: 00:32:26 - 00:39:48

Imagery is dull / dark Atomic Blast! Operation Cross-Roads. Flag ship, Mt Mckinley with Admiral William H Blandi on board. Sailors taking sheep off the destroyer and put on Bikini, to find out what are the effects of the Atomic Bomb on animal life. Captain LH Bibdi last man to leave, sailors evacuating ship. Sailors in transport boat. Older sailor talking on large walkie-talkie (communications). Pilots of "Dave's Dream", men putting on parachutes. MCU propeller turning, plane in flight past camera. Interior back view of bombardier. Radar turning. Various view of men and officers looking through binoculars. Side-view plane in flight, CU pilots, CU receiver (communications). Men putting on goggles (protective eye wear), large group of sailors seated on deck cover their faces with their arms for protection. CU man with mustache wearing goggles, various shots of sailors wearing goggles watching blast. WS blast. Aerial view of mushroom cloud. Low angle shot of mushroom cloud. Man aboard ship with Geiger counter, checking radiation levels. Pan men wearing goggles. Another view of mushroom cloud, explosion.