Title:TRINITY TEST - BASE CAMP AND SHELTERS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:USA 9
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Summary: Silent, unedited film showing the base camp and shelters built for the Trinity test, 16 July, 1945.
Description: Three sequences, separated by spacer. (1) Colour. MS pan around scattered wooden buildings, parked trucks and personal vehicles. Desert and mountain background. Similar shots in black and white, showing wind pump and water tanks. Trinity base camp. (2) Colour. MS of wooden buildings. Walls protected by banked earth. Buildings painted with black panels (to test variations in heat absorption from the flash?). Break. Entrance to a bunker. MCU of instruments. Break. MS of wooden buildings. CU of recording equipment. (3) Colour. MS of bunkers (?) surrounded by debris of construction. Break. Various LS views of mountainous desert skyline. 90 degree pan.
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Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:USA 9
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-05
Production Country: United States of America
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Keywords: sciences, United States - physic: Trinity atomic bomb tests (object name)
weapons, United States - bomb: atomic bomb & [R and D] (object name)
USA & Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico (geography)
