Worldwide Fallout From Nuclear Weapons, Various Locations Reel 2 · Part 2

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES rrr9 am THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILI BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 116-62 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 4,000 ft. 35mm FINE GRAIN TO; May 31, 1962 color composite) WORLDWIDE FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS (Official Defense film released by Department of :efense) This 50-minute film, produced by the Defense Atom: Support Agency, explains what is known and is not known by today's Science about the long- term consequences of worldwide fallout. It is confined fallout on which & substantial amount of information is not available--tip fallout produced by all nuclear explosions prior to 1961. After discussing thermo-nuclear explosions and fallout, the film deals with the redicactive elements now believed to be potentially most hazardous Cesium 137, Startium go and Carbon 14. The summary states: "A careful survey of the best available evidence suggists strongly that in comparison to the many, many rinks we face in today's feverish world, the risk of even minor injury from worldwide fillout is completely insignificant." NOTE TO EDITORS: 2 reels (4,000 35mm colpr composite print handed out to Fox-Novictone, Washington, to service theatrical pool mathers. Print to be returned to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Lor Island City, New York, within 72 hours. Script of film errosed. 9-10-63 4-4-63 INKR NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dup e negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered` to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases