Desert Rock (Can 2) (silent)

Description: Reel assembled from three rolls. Order as follows:

1. "Desert Rock: Doomtown"

2. "Desert Rock: Atom Soldier into Ground Zero"

3. "Desert Rock: Wilson at Airport"

Can states: ""DESERT ROCK" DOOM TOWN / MEN WATCH BLAST / WILSON AT AIRPORT / ATOM SOLDIER / B/W B-WIND FGM / CAN 2 OF 2 / MEN WATCH BLAST PULLED FOR GILLBE 7/10/85"; "ORIG. PIX "DESERT ROCK" CAN 2 OF 2 B-WIND FGM"

On the Doom Town experiments, see John Wills, "Doom Town, Nevada Test Site, and the Popular Imagination of Atomic Disaster," Journal of American Studies (Vol, 57, No. 3), July 2023, pp. 393-415, open access, online at www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/doom-town-nevada-test-site-and-the-popular-imagination-of-atomic-disaster/ (Accessed February 8, 2024).

Information on the Desert Rock Exercises is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Rock_exercises (Accessed February 8, 2024).

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Subjects: 1950s,Cold War,Military,War,Nuclear weapons

Tags: atomic bomb blast footage; buildings blowing up; interiors; exteriors; sets; models; fire; high angle views of desert with models and mannequins; substations; radio towers; protective equipment; goggles and gas masks; mannequins in rubble; fireballs; mushroom clouds; film slates; smoke; military men in trenches; military service members; person with camera photographing burning rubble; staged homes with mannequins; "living room brick house" slate; pointing; looking through binoculars; soldiers parachuting out of airplane; parachutes; sheep in a trench; bombs; press conferences; atomic weapons; A-bomb

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Credits: Camera: Richardson; Simmons

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1952; 1955-04

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Genre/Form: military, government, research

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 547