Operation Sandstone, the third American series of atomic bomb tests (tests number 6,7 and 8) at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in Marshall Islands,Pacific Ocean. Shows development of an atomic test site at the Enewetak Atoll. American personnel dressed in protective suits perform tests and scavenge wreckage on the Eniwetok Atoll. View of men at the shore and distant convoy of U.S. ships at the horizon. An aerial view of the atoll. American army officials map the operation, back at home. Shows unloading of supplies at the shores of Enewetak atoll. Areas are cleared of trees and foliage. Coral soil is leveled by machines. Cement and tar added to harden the surface. Men detonate underwater obstacles. Aerial view of a causeway joining the two islands. Shows tent city for living quarters and quonset supply huts on the island. Workers build cubes of reinforced concrete. Tower in the middle of the lagoon. Man lays underground cables. View of a tower holding fissionable material on the island. Scenes of American scientists working in the Atomic Energy Commission laboratories, exterior of an American university and Mexico's desert.
A view of broken forms, door frames, stones at an abandoned mining town or ghost town in California. The photographer Edward Weston sets the view camera in a suitable position on a tripod stand. A woman student accompanying him uses a focusing cloth over her head. The photographer reduces length opening of the camera. The student looks for an object. Edward Weston seen talking, laughing and eating with friends on the shore of the Pacific ocean on the California coast. He looks for objects for his photographs. View of road, rocks, cliffs, and ocean on the coast of California.