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Damage from ground zero of the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test.
United States Army troops move out of the underground trench offering some protection, following Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep during the Cold War. Dark smoke from nuclear blast. TV crews capture the mushroom cloud formed after the atomic bomb explosion. A helicopter carrying Federal Civil Defense Administration Director Val Peterson lands. Val Peterson is escorted out of the helicopter. Val Peterson talks about his experience during the nuclear test. American physicist and Atomic Commission Test director Dr. Alvin C. Graves gives an interview. Radiological Safety Team helicopter takes off. Radiological Safety Team personnel wears a gas mask. Houses far from ground zero shows minimal damage. Blown up windows and frames are seen from damaged houses. Mannequins posed inside a living room and dining room before a nuclear test. Mannequins in disarray and a trashed living room after the blast. A mannequin lying on debris from nuclear blast. Plaster and window damage in bedroom. Decimated house shows total destruction near ground zero. A mass of rubble and debris. Roof and walls blown into several sections. A destroyed car under the roof. First floor disintegrated and second floor collapsed inside a house near nuclear test site ground zero. Pushed back wooden girders blocked stairway leading to basement. Part of the kitchen and dining room has fallen into the basement. A mannequin is seen in the basement. A cracked beam in box type shelter. A group of mannequins inside a box type nuclear shelter. Cars left at the Nevada Test Site show significant damage.
Mannequins and different models of atomic bomb shelters
Headlines about Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapons test that was part of Operation Doorstep, on the front pages of newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Review Journal, and Las Vegas Sun. Outdoors nuclear bomb shelter at the Nevada Test Site. A basement leading to a box type shelter during the Cold War. Scale model of home fallout shelters. Mannequins sitting and posing in living room and dining room. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A nuclear blast explosion.
Media crews and government personnel prepare for Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapon test
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.
The Corvette and other cars are introduced at General Motor's Motorama in New York, United States.
Different models of cars, including the all-new Corvette, are displayed at General Motor's Motorama in New York, United States. A man and woman demonstrate the Corvette as it turns on a turntable. The man demonstrates the telescoping steering wheel. Automobiles shown at this event included the Buick Wildcat, Pontiac La Parisienne, Oldsmobile Starfire, Chevrolet Corvette, Cadillac Orleans and Le Mans. Men and women get into cars and take a closer look at the new models being displayed.
Athletes perform walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet.
Athletes walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet in New Jersey. Men walk along the rope with long poles. Crowd watches the show as one man is blindfolded to walk along the rope. In France, a former trapeze artist walks on his hands and covers six miles a day.
Rescuers reach the wreckage of Regina Cargo Airlines Douglas C-49K plane which crashed in wooded mountainside
Rescuers reach the wreckage of a Regina Cargo Airlines Douglas C-49K (DC-3) in wooded mountainside southeast of Vail, Washington. Rescuers examine the wreckage. The registration number (N19941) of the DC-1 is seen. Dead bodies on the litters. Rescuers carry the bodies to an ambulance.
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