"A" BOMB BLASTS Part 1

Description

1) LS Area of Yucca Flats, showing mountains in far BG; streamers are off to the right BG reaching up into the sky; the scene goes white from the tremendous flash of the exploding Atom bomb; the whiteress clears away; the fireball is seen curling up from the dusty floor of Yucca Flats, contincously churning skyward into a mushroom; wide area of smoke and dust is at the floor level; PAN upwards keeping up with the mushroom cloud moving up to a greater height, continuing to churn inward; a streak in the sky is above the mushroom cloud denoting an aircraft; cloud continues moving skyward churning inward from the top. VG2) MS Mushroom cloud is moving off to the right slightly. VG3) MS Top section of the mushroom cloud starting to drift off to the right. VG4) AtoG MLS Looking down over floor of Yucca Flats; streamers come up into sky denoting the blast coming on; the scene turns pure white due to the irtense heat froz the blast; whitenese disappears; "A" bomb is seen directly after the explosion; black smoke and fireball curl up from the floor surrounded by a mass of dust around the floor itself; black and crey mushroom cloud churns skyward; scene becomes rather jumpy as camera pans up and own. G to F5) AtoG MS Looking down over base of the Atom blast showing the large amount of smoke and dust; PAN slowly upwards showing the tremendous smoke cloud; PAN down trailing the smoke down towards the ground area; PAN back up along the length of the curved smoke cloud drifting off to the right; PAN down cloud to the base and back up to the neck of cloud, following it off to the right showing the main body drifting off and starting to break up from its original shape. G

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities