OPERATIONS CROSSROADS, ATOM BOMB TEST, BIKINI ATOLL Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 7176 ADC 7176 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy) FILM: ARCH E APC MP 917' ea Silent OPERATIONS CROSSROADS, ATOM BOMB TEST Bikini Atoll (No captions) Jul 1946 Ints: technicians working on recording devices. One man is setting a disc on a machine for the recording of data. CUs, faces of two men at recording device. As one receives data it is broadcast over a microphone. CU, dial moving on meter. CU, man at microphone watching dial and then shouting the fire order. CU, panel board with light flashing on. MS&CU, announcer broadcasting over microphone. MS, officer aboard ship as information is received and broadcasted over microphone. Officer watching dial moving on recording device. Officer speaking over microphone. Establishing shot of radio control room aboard the "USS Paramint." Personnel checking recording devices, officer speaking over microphone. Men going through hatch door with a signabove "Restricted Area-Authorized Cross- roads Personnel Only." RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities