+"Los Alamos New Mexico USA" +1951 stock footage and images

Instrumentation of Operation Greenhouse at Los Alamos in New Mexico.

Animated atom logo of the Atomic Energy Commission. Narrator comments that in World War 2, the operations at Los Alamos were hidden behind postal box 663. View of the town of Los Alamos in New Mexico, United States. Men, women and children in the town going about ordinary business at post office, shopping, cutting grass in a front yard of a home, playing golf, hanging out laundry to dry on a clothesline. Workers entering secure areas of Los Alamos atomic and nuclear facilities, with views of fences and a sign with two ears on it that says, "Security starts between the ears." Officials inside the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the Atomic Energy Commission of United States. Narrator speaks of the "J Division" as the unit responsible for testing of nuclear weapons, which the narrator notes is "a routine practice by now." Scenes of scientists working with specialized equipment in laboratories at the LANL. Officials viewing a map of Eniwetok Atoll. Aerial view of the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Officials of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission, in a joint meeting, collectively map Operation Greenhouse. Joint Task Force Three. View of Washington Monument in Washington DC, panning down to views of people and traffic near the Main Navy and Munitions Buildings. Group of uniformed officials of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Atomic Energy Commission meeting around a large conference table in Washington DC. Men from government agencies, colleges and universities throughout America work to instrument the operation; scenes of more scientists in laboratories; closeup views of beakers and test tubes. A man at Los Alamos leaving his house, accompanied by a boy (his son) and a dog who walk with the man toward a car as the man departs for extended work on Operation Greenhouse. Aerial shots of the Perry Islands (U.S. transport and scientists base) and the Eniwetok Atoll (US Army and Air Force base). U.S. Navy ship anchored at the lagoon. Scenes of barracks, laboratories and scientific structures on the islands. Scientists and engineers standing near the frame of a metal tower used for hoisting and positioning an atomic weapon for testing. Views inside the test tower, looking upward at the elevator system. Wide view from the distance of a test tower on an island.