Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons

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Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons is a short film from 1960 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

11:00:57:02 VS aerials of Washington D.C. with Washington Monument prominent in shot.

11:01:20:20 Aerial of army airbase with various aircraft parked along edge of runway.

11:01:35:24 Screen lights up and slowly clears to show surreal aerial of enormous nuclear explosion and burning red fiery mushroom cloud forming; shadow of mushroom clouds along ground around explosion.

11:01:57:07 VS aerials of U.S. Air Force plane carrying nuclear weapon.

11:02:36:23 Incredible high-angle shot of farmer on tractor stops and looks up at sky as shadow of an army bomber plane crawls across the ground and moves over him.

11:02:49:28 High-angle group of six workers next to fence with yellow stop sign, one man points up to sky and all the men look up as the shadow of an airplane passes over them.

11:02:58:21 High-angle shot of 1960s pedestrians, men, women and children waiting on sidewalk at crosswalk; dark shadow of an airplane passes over them.

11:03:26:19 Air Force bomber in air carrying a nuclear weapon.

11:03:46:26 CU Air Force pilot in cockpit of bomber plane; CU controls in cockpit; nice shot of Air Force bomber plane landing on runway.

11:04:32:01 VS Crumley Laboratory Research Directorate Development Directorate building; CU sign for Crumley Laboratory; army scientists entering laboratory building.

11:04:43:13 Scientist wearing a suit writes complicated equations in chalk on blackboard as army man in khaki suit observes and takes notes on clipboard; CU disembodied hand writes in chalk on blackboard equation important to nuclear physics.

11:04:58:01 Man works on gigantic 1960s computer, adjusting knobs and pressing buttons.

11:05:09:15 Typewriter printing out text with anyone at the keyboard.

11:06:06:23 CU brown door with sign Special Weapons Briefing: Principles of Nuclear Explosions and second sign hanging from the first Secret man enters frame and removes Secret sign and replaces it with Unclassified sign.

11:06:16:27 VS Scientist wearing a bowtie stands in front of blackboard beside and American flag points to word Explosion written in chalk on the board; man compares convention to nuclear explosions on chalkboard; large silver sphere sits on podium in front of blackboard; camera zooms in on sphere and dissolves into cartoon on how nuclear weapons work.

11:13:23:12 Great shot of bomber plane in sky; plane drops bomb shell; shell lands in desert and explodes; bomb shell tracked from sky lands in desert creates large smoke cloud upon impact.

11:14:19:19 Bomb is dropped from plane; bombs hits desert and explodes; plane drops bomb but doesnt explode upon hitting desert floor; bomb shell lying on desert floor goes up in flames creates black smoke cloud.

11:15:27:21 Large vertical fire in desert creating black smoke; sudden explosion from within fire sprays flame and debris outward.

11:16:00:07 VS aerials of desert ranges of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

11:16:54:02 LS entire desert mountain suddenly vibrates during below ground nuclear test causing sudden erosion.

11:17:34:23 VS two men set up cameras on tripods to document explosion on nuclear weapon test site in desert.

11:17:54:15 Camera zooms out from white bomb on desert floor; weapon explodes in cloud of black smoke.

11:18:17:15 VS man with Geiger meter checking desert sand around site of explosion; CU man reading Geiger counter; VS men survey small explosion crater in desert

11:19:43:03 VS Crashed airplane on fire engulfed in black smoke in the desert; firemen arrive and spray water and foam on burning aircraft.

11:21:03:21 VS nuclear bomber plane comes into runway for crash landing; ambulances, fire trucks and medics rush out onto runway; firefighters fight fire.

11:22:33:00 Great shot of Air Force nuclear bomber plane flying in midair.

Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons
Produced byCinefonics, Inc.
Production
companies
Cinefonics, Inc.
Distributed byCinefonics, Inc.
Release date
1960
Running time
22:43
LanguageEnglish
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