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Close up footage of a person writing NUCLEAR WEAPONS on an old typewriter, with sound
Close up footage of a person writing NUCLEAR WEAPONS on an old typewriter, with sound...
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Close up footage of a person writing WORLD WAR III on an old typewriter
Close up footage of a person writing WORLD WAR III on an old typewriter...
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Close up footage of an old typewriter and a person writing NUCLEAR WAR on it...
Close up footage of an old typewriter and a person writing NUCLEAR WAR on it...
Bridgeman Arts
HIROSHIMA JAPAN, 1981
Hiroshima 1981, illuminated signs, a couple hugging, shopkeepers, people in evening strolls. Thirty-six years later -the voice in the film tells- Hiroshima reminds nothing of the disaster that shocked mankind on August 6, 1945. The film...
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Atom bomb test ban agreement reached by political leaders
Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, W Averell Harriman representing the US, and Viscount Hailsham representing Britain and other men seated around large table after having accepted the atom test ban agreement for their governments....
Bridgeman Arts
Atomic bomb test, (named RDS-2 or Joe 2), Semipalatinsk test site, USSR, 24 September 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion cloud. Explosion power 38 kilotons. 24th September 1951. The nuclear device, codenamed RDS-2, and nicknamed by the US as Joe 2, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site, also known...
Bridgeman Arts
First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951
HD colour footage shows the formation of a nuclear explosion in the air, from the first Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 18th October 1951. The device of RDS-3 (known by the US as Joe 3) was tested at the Semipalatinsk test...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Nevada underground test site in Yucca Flat
Title: "First pictures of A-Blast underground" superimposed on a dust of an explosion / Scores of soldiers march forward and the group watches as the blast goes off / A closer view of the dramatic blast cloud
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addresses the UN to ask world powers for peaceful use of atom
PAN delegates seated at meeting of the UN General Assembly / Intertitle "25 times the power of first atom bomb" superimposed over file footage of atomic bomb explosion / Intertitle "Hydrogen Bomb = to more than 5,000,000 tons of TNT"...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower appears before UN after Bermuda conference to ask world powers for peaceful use of atom
Title Card: "Eisenhower Before U.N. The Atom For Peace, Soviet Hits Plan" / Intertitle "Bermuda" rear view of US. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower boarding plane, turning around waving hat before entering plane // Intertitle: "New York:...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Great Britain successfully tests its first nuclear weapon in Australia
Title superimposed over a fireball: "Films just released - Britain's First Atom Explosion" / An aerial view of one of the barren Montebello atolls with structures / Tall craggy rock formations // HMS Campanica and HMS Narvik / Men...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Review of 1953: Pres. Eisenhower speaks at UN recommending atomic use for peaceful purposes during the atomic age
Card: "Paramount News Issue No. 40" / Title: "Paramount News Presents Twelve Crowded Months" superimposed over calendar pages / Title: "Review Of The Year 1953" superimposed over calendar pages / CU Spinning globe superimposed over books...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Civil Defense workers in action in Civil Defense drill in New York City for atom bomb attack
Title "A-bomb test, 'Blitz' over New York" superimposed over firemen at night illuminated by spotlight fighting simulated fires from A-bomb attack / WS Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan / VS people working in Civil Defense headquarters /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US marines observe atomic bomb test from foxholes in Nevada desert
Title: "Yucca Flat, Nev. - Foxhole View For 2,100 Leathernecks" superimposed over US Marines out of slit trenches, plume of smoke from atom bomb blast in background / WS Yucca flats / CU Marines going into slit trenches / Back view...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Woman playing slots in casino stops when atom bomb flashes off-screen
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: VS blonde woman plays slot machine in Flamingo Hotel casino, man watches to her side, bright light flashes off screen and they turn and look / CU window on slot machine / CU woman's face of joy as she...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Build up shots for atomic bomb test in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1951
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: VS four people, two women, two men, one in uniform, in casino playing roulette and placing bets stop periodically when there is a bright light off-screen, they turn toward the light and look worried /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Miner in desert puts on sunglasses and ties cloth over burro's eyes prior to atomic test
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: VS man in buckskin coat with fringe, boots, cowboy hat and scraggly beard (looks like miner) holds burro on rope in middle of the desert, mountains in bkgd, man puts on sunglasses and ties cloth...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Women lounging beside pool put on eye shields and sunglasses
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: young women in bathing suits sitting in lounge chair poolside / one woman looks at her watch, then they all (except women wearing sunglasses) put eye shields on / VS women poolside put on eye shields...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Man and woman holding baby put tape on windows at saloon and home prior to atomic test
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: VS elderly man in cowboy hat and shirt stands outside saloon and tapes up windows / VS from outside, woman standing in living room holding baby puts tape strips across large picture window
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Nevada desert with Joshua tree, yucca plants, wires on ground and mountains prior to atomic bomb test
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: MS Joshua tree in desert, mountains in bkgd / two cords or wires laying side by side on desert ground / Pan up to Joshua tree and yucca plant with mountains in bkgd / pan desert with shrubs, mountains...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Men and women sit and sip Atomic Cocktails at bar in Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: shot through woman's legs standing on bar, bartender serves fancy atomic cocktail to two women and one man seated at bar, another man stand behind them, sign at the end of the bar reads "Flamingo...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
People playing roulette look up when there is a flash of light from atomic bomb test
Build up shots for atomic bomb test: VS casino employee manning wheel and five people, three women, two men, one in uniform, in casino playing roulette and placing bets stop periodically when there is a bright light off-screen, they turn...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Atomic bomb drill in Times Square
Title: "Quiet Shrouds New York in A-Bomb Drill" superimposed over graphic of mushroom cloud expanding over New York skyline / air raid sirens going off / Times Square pigeons take flight / police and air raid wardens directing people...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Fear of Russia's nuclear capabilities
SOT Senator Brien McMahon speaking on Russia / street scenes in Paris / crowded sidewalk cafe / man reads newspaper headline on Russia and atomic bomb / CU Franc-Tireur newspaper / WS and CU of University of Chicago scientists, Louis...