COLLECTION NAME:
Rare and Distinctive Collections Moving Image Film and Video
Record
Collection Name:
Rare and Distinctive Collections Moving Image Film and Video
Title:
Worldwide Fallout, excerpt
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
Science films
Genre:
sound films
Place Created:
[Washington (D.C.)]
Date Created:
1962/1980s
Publisher:
Defense Atomic Support Agency
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 film reel (7min., 29sec.)
Form:
color film (film, material)
Form:
16mm (photographic film size)
Abstract:
Hand-edited collection of clips. Producer, Defense Atomic Support Agency. Includes animated graphics of fallout radii after nuclear explosions, with unidentified man presenting to camera on the relative risks associated with nuclear testing and nuclear energy
Note:
Collection of origin: Dark Circle Collection
Note:
00:00:00 The narrator discusses how a nuclear explosion interacts with the Earth's atmosphere and it's interactions with wind, rain, and tropopause breaks. 00:01:22 The narrator Discusses British Christmas Island H-Bomb tests. 00:01:48 The narrator discusses how the soviet tests were different. 00:02:20 The narrator discusses consequence of fallout preferring the north tropopause break and how the southern tropopause break is less effected. 00:03:02 Infographic ends, shot changes to the narrator themselves discussing 30 year radiation dose of fallout compared to everyday radiation exposure. 00:04:00 The narrator discusses potential medical complications for coming generations. 00:04:50 The narrator discusses nuclear power. 00:05:14 The narrator discusses gas and oil pollution, a smog attack in England and Pennsylvania, and automobile accidents as examples of cancer-causing agents in our atmosphere already which don't garner fear the same was as nuclear fallout. 00:06:37 The narrator concludes with a summary statement that concludes injury from worldwide fallout is insignificant. 00:07:01 Produced for The Defense Atomic Support Agency by Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, Air Photographic, and Charting Service (Mats) project 30-106. 00:07:29 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Subject Topic:
Radioactive fallout
Subject Topic:
Nuclear energy
Subject Topic:
Climatic changes--Effect of nuclear explosions on
Subject Topic:
Tropopause
Identifier:
U183050997778_U183050997786_narv_darkCircle_722-AB_worldwideFallout_a.mp4
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.