Summary: Report on a test in the Nevada proving ground on houses and domestic installations subjected to a 30 kiloton atomic blast.
Description: The film, which appears to lack its soundtrack, opens with captions explaining that with modern weapons of much greater destructive power, the type of damage seen would cover a far wider area. The film shows construction work on a number of houses of various typical American designs and other installations such as water tanks and electricity stations, many within one mile of ground zero. The houses are equipped with furnishings (including well stocked refrigerators) and mannequins dressed in everyday clothing. A blast shelter in one of the houses is occupied by dummies. Food in boxes is buried in shallow trenches. Observers gather at a safe distance to witness the blast. Film from a number of automatic cameras show the effect of first the heat flash and then the blast on the buildings. Afterwards people, many of them seemingly civilians, wander about the wreckage. The buried food is recovered and, after a field kitchen is set up, apparently fed to the observers.
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Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:USA 129
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1964
Production Country: United States of America
Production Details: Department of Defense (Production sponsor)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 507 ft; Running time: 14 mins
