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This black-and-white educational film titled “Atomic Power!” from 1946 shows the history of the Atomic Age and the Manhattan Project, beginning with the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It then goes on to describe the atom and the race to build the atomic bomb during WWII using (somewhat clunky) re-enactments. The film features many accredited scientists including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer. It ends with a discussion of the dangers of atomic weapons, including the formation of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists by Albert Einstein, intended to educate the American public about the power of the bomb.
“Atomic Power!” title banner (00:06). ‘Editors’ note’ text overlay (00:11). Destroyed land in the City of Hiroshima, Japan, after World War II (00:28). Newspaper headlines about atomic power (01:03). American civilians express their opinions about dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima in different settings (01:14). An atomic exhibit (01:37). Cosmic energy is released from the nucleus in a laboratory (02:14). An illustration explaining the process of releasing the energy with neutrons driven at enormous speed (02:22). The voltage in collected particles is raised in a laboratory (02:37). A newspaper headline about atomic power (03:02). An atomic energy symposium consisting of experts including P.C. Keith, C.A. Thomas, J.A. Wheeler, and James B. Conant (03:06). Informational text overlay (03:39). Albert Einstein (03:49). Mathematical equation (04:02). Lord Ernest Rutherford, the nuclear physicist who confirmed Einstein’s theory in 1919 (04:07). Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (04:15). American physicists Arthur H. Compton (04:22) and Ernest O. Lawrence (04:28). Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist (04:33). George Washington University (04:43). A theoretical physics conference (04:46). The presenter speaks about German chemists Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann and Otto Hahn who discovered nuclear fission (04:59). A laboratory in the Carnegie Institution for Science (05:25). Columbia University (05:55). Dr. George B. Pegram (05:59). Dr. Pegram meets with representatives from the Washington Navy Department (06:14). Dr. Leo Szilard and Dr. Fermi (06:26). Dr. Szilard and Einstein meeting in 1939 (06:40). Einstein writes to the former president Franklin D. Roosevelt calling for action on nuclear research (07:06). Economist Alexander Sachs arrives at the White House to deliver Einstein’s letter (07:14). The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) (07:59). Dr. Lyman J. Briggs teaches a class (08:02). Dr. Vannevar Bush (08:16). Dr. Bush and Dr. Pegram meeting in 1941 (08:28). An overview of research program contracts led to a dozen laboratories (09:36). A meeting between engineers in Major General L. R. Groves’ office at the War Department (09:47). The University of Chicago (10:07). Dr. Fermi and his assistants working at a laboratory at the University of Chicago (10:19). Map of plants built for the production of atomic power across the US as part of the Manhattan Project (10:47). Scientists and technicians are called for service at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (10:59). A scientist holds $50 million dollars worth of plutonium in a test tube (12:27). A meeting between atomic experts (12:43). Holloman Air Force Base west of Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16th 1945 (12:56). In the control shack is Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Dr. Isidor Isaac Rabi (13:26). The countdown to the explosion begins (13:51). Views of the world's first nuclear explosion on July 16th 1945 (14:15). Informational text overlay (14:43). A campaign starts to create awareness of atomic power amongst the public (14:52). The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists headed by Dr. Einstein (15:08). Graphics illustrate the magnitude of atomic explosions (15:43). A Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft (15:56). New York City (16:02). Dr. Bush and Dr. Conant meet at the Carnegie Institution for Science (16:09). Undersecretary Dean Acheson, selected by former president Truman, is the head of the committee assigned to create the US plan for international control (16:25). The Baruch Atom Report (16:36). Bernard Baruch and his advisors (16:44). A rocket launch (17:23). “The End” text overlay (17:53).
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