Men talking outside the Las Vegas City Hall. A man carrying a WHO case enters the city hall. A man plasters a sign that reads “All cameras must be registered at photo desk no binoculars”. Personnel attaches tags on cameras. Sign reads “Joint Test Information Office”. Journalists attend an Operation Doorstep briefing by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Defense Department, and Civil Defense officials. Journalists on bus heading to Yucca Flat of the Nevada Test Site. A man stands in front of a sign that reads “U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Ground Mercury, Nevada”. Bus enters the Nevada Test Site. United States civil defense observers and media representatives gather at Yucca Flat. Cameramen carrying equipment. Two men placing a sign “Main St.”. Personnel inspect House Number 2 in the Nevada Test Site. United States soldiers move into a trench two miles from ground zero. Media, newsmen, Television crews, observers and civil defense personnel gather 7 miles from ground zero for the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test. Sign reads “CIVIL DEFENSE”. TV crew prepare their cameras. A wristwatch moving to 5:20. Atomic bomb blast forms a glaring mushroom cloud over the Nevada Test Site. House is quickly demolished. Civil Defense observers wearing goggles witness the blast. Tremendous glare of the nuclear blast. The house collapsing is then shown in stop motion (slow motion). Narrator details the effects of the nuclear explosion on the house, describing the changes seen in the stop motion frames, and stating that all it happened in 2 1/3 seconds. Blast wave blows house apart.
Copper smelting factory in McGill, Nevada. Smoke rises from smokestacks. Mountains from the Egan Range in the background. Copper smelter factories in Garfield, Utah, Douglas, Arizona and Anaconda, Montana.
Point of View (POV) from car passenger seat, with view of late 1930s car dashboard in a moving car. A hand is seen driving the steering wheel of the car. Car traffic is also seen in the background. View of highway, bridges, and tunnel heading into New York City. Car passes by bridges, factories, and buildings.
A woman with a radio in Manhattan, New York City. New York City skyscrapers are seen from her window. The woman leans her head on her hand while listening to the radio. She turns a knob to tune the radio.
Low, near street-level views of a young African American girl putting her hand inside her mouth while walking with her parent in New York City during World War II. The girl looking up. Aerial or elevated view of intersection of West 34th Street and 7th Ave. New York. Pedestrians crossing intersection with traffic. Rear view of women wearing fur coats and crossing 6th Ave at West 34th Street in New York City towards the Empire State building. Low, near street level views of traffic and pedestrians on busy streets of New York City A mannequin dressed in a fashionable ladies’ coat seen in department store window display, likely Macy's.
Pedestrians emerge from elevated railway cars and walk on platform in New York City during World War II. Pedestrians, including African Americans, emerge from the Interborough Bowling Green Subway Station in front of the New York Custom House and cross Broadway to One Broadway, the International Mercantile Marine Company Building.
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