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Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Exploration

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Title: Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Exploration
File Number: PA-0514 Digibeta; PA-1022 1 inch; PA-1023 1 inch
Color: Color
Type: Educational Industrial
Year: 01/01/1962
Subjects: AERIALS RADIATION SAFETY HEALTH WELFARE NUCLEAR ATOMIC FALLOUT
Description: Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Exploration The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Public Health Service presents -- Produced for Public Health Service Division of Radiological Health In cooperation with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Albuquerque Operations Office Technical Consultants -- Ernest C. Anderson, Oliver R. Placak, Samuel Sperling, Charles L. Weaver Division of radiological reality Directed by Wilmer H. Kimberly DEPICTS ACTIVITIES OF DIVISION OF RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SHOWING HEALTH PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION. Shot in the Las Vegas, Nevada area and at the Nevada Test Site. 30:21:95 Drawing of the territory of the United States with faces of children of different ethnicities. 30:33:51 LS Children sitting on the grass in a circle one child is manipulating a model rocket. 30:51:11 Drawing: red background, molecular structures burst into pieces. 30:59:93 AV of a city in the night streets and facade of building are lighted. 31:02:20 LS Workers on nuclear reactor. 31:04:04 LS Ship being pulled out to sea on tracks. 31:08:78 MCU Researcher (dark blue lab coat) leaning on a pot of plants. 31:11:31 CU Plant leaves as a syringe dropper releases something onto it. 31:26:89 MCU Patient drinking from small cup and then a large one and then swallows. 31:42:89 CU Large metal rotating machinery with patient lying in the middle. 31:46:98 CU Cover of a book in the hands of a man reads: MEETING OF PLOWSHARE ADVISORY... PROJECT GNOME 32:06:78 Drawings - atmosphere and rockets, reads: AEROSPACE NUCLEAR REACTOR PROGRAM - flower in sky electricity post and wires, reads: PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE, PLOWSHARE PROGRAM - layers of colors with burst of fire, reads: SEISMIC RESEARCH PROGRAM 32:29:13 LS Nuclear engine in a deserted landscape, two chimneys on it with fire and white smoke coming out of it. 32:52:87 Drawings - barrel that reads: OIL - pyramidal shape that reads: COAL - flame that reads: GAS Revolving earth in the background. 33:07:98 AV of nuclear central. 33:11:18 LS Inside nuclear central large reactor and workers. 33:19:49 LS Crane. 33:30:49 Drawing of a transversal view of a mountain, different layers, outburst in the center. 33:41:49 LS Workers in a nuclear yard. 34:01:55 LS Inside a tunnel worker digs with a shovel. 34:30:49 Drawing of a transversal view of the layers of earth including hot core. 34:52:20 Drawing of the desert crevices in the ground. 34:54:55 Drawing of a map of North America pulls out onto the Americas. 35:16:27 MCU Workers with helmets, coveralls, and naked torsos. 35:54:45 LS Man in a jeep. 35:58:05 CU Man turning the knobs on equipment. 35:59:09 LS Explosions in a forest which cause the ground to burst geysers. 36:38:91 CU Workers with helmets next to a pipe spitting water. Workers fill a bottle of water. 36:57:16 MLS Two workers with helmets on a yard site with prefab (pre-fabricated) houses in the background. One worker has a pad and he gives the other a badge. 37:07:98 MLS Man with a Geiger counter measuring surface radiation. 37:13:58 CU Of the dial. 37:19:42 LS Official building with columns and capitol and front lawn. 37:22:02 LS Park with grass, small lake and Japanese bridge. 37:29:24 VS LS Nuclear Central. 38:05:93 Diagram of different departments involved. reads: ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, WEATHER BUREAU, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, BUREAU OF MINES, OTHER AGENCIES, STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. 38:07:55 LS Conference room men seated all around, taking notes on pads. 38:14:70 LS Speaker in front of board with drawing holds a pointer. 38:55:42 CU Red balloon in sky with silver at the end. 39:11:78 LS Deserted landscape mountains in the background. Two men are freeing a white balloon into the air. Radar is visible in the background. 39:24:42 MCU Man in the desert looking through some sort of camera. 39:31:35 MLS Two men in weather forecast room (walls covered with maps of streams) one points to map with a pointer. 39:39:85 CU Pointer on a map (with lines to show density). 39:45:55 MCU Two men seated at a table one man points to a map on table with a pen. 39:55:70 LS Facade of a house (wood planks painted in blue) with a small panel on it. 39:58:80 Writing on panel reads: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 40:01:50 Two men in front of weather forecast map one points to map with a pointer. 40:07:11 CU Black line drawn on map with pen. 40:11:05 CU Drawing: transversal view of the soil and all its layers. 40:21:24 MCU Two men with map of US in the background. One of them is holding a rock. 40:22:93 CU Two rocks in man's hands. 40:28:04 MLS Two men in uniforms (?) in a room of shelves with flat boxes. A geologist analyzes an object. 40:36:31 LS Two men walking in the desert towards a locked metal cabinet. Writing on door reads: WATER LEVEL RECORDER. 40:44:62 CU Graph machine. 40:50:64 CU Two dials with numbers like a clock. Man with headphones takes notes. 41:10:96 MLS Geologist in front of seismograph. Takes a sheet of paper out of the machine and rolls it. 41:27:00 CU Seismogram (black lines on white paper) and hands of the man draw a black line with pen. 41:33:35 LS Man in a conference room, standing with pointer and board. Tables with men listening. 41:38:50 LS Audience. Men in suits in front of tables. 41:48:95 LS Man in suit displaying instruments and providing explanations to an audience of women. 41:54:67 LS Audience of women seated. 41:58:95 CU Woman in profile. 42:03:02 MCU Man displaying a machine with a white screen on it. 42:17:71 MCU Man displaying badges in film packaging. 42:34:25 Vertical view from below inside an electricity tower. (Shot composed of various metal lines.) 42:36:50 LS facade of a building in a street ("BOULDER CITY NEWS"). 42:38:44 CU Satellites and antenna. 42:39:25 MLS Man in suit walking out of entrance of building with "KLRJ TV" written on it. 43:01:10 CU Neon sign: "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE." 43:03:85 LS Two men going out of glass door of chamber of commerce. 43:07:87 LS Facade of "PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING." 43:11:11 LS Facade of "CLARK COUNTY HEALTH DEPT." 43:15:87 LS Facade of building. CU Panel: "DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH." 43:29:20 LS Two workers with helmets in construction site yard. 43:48:29 LS Two workers with "Geiger counter" on top of hill. 43:52:55 LS Two workers at a construction site, next to graph machine and Geiger counter. 44:14:22 CU Graph machine labeled "DC MILLIAMPERES." Needle moving. 44:43:70 LS Two men kneeling inserting paper in graph machine. 44:53:82 LS Airplane marked "US AIR FORCE." Men manipulating machines. 45:11:85 LS Airplane taking off. Mountains in background. 45:18:73 LS Two men walking in front of little church, mountains in the background. 45:24:44 LS Two men walking in front of a windmill and water tower in desert. 45:28:67 MLS Man with Geiger counter walking. Two old men behind him watching. 45:30:62 LS Crossroads. People crossing. Geiger counter in the foreground. 45:34:90 LS School playground. Geiger counter in foreground. 45:40:13 CU Panel "FB 599." 45:45:31 MCU Man in front of a tree, sign on the tree, "FB 267." 45:52:25 CU Sign "FB 673." Film badge on clip is being changed. 45:59:20 MLS Two agents, one with note pad, shaking hands in front of red truck. 46:07:70 CU Hand typing on a teletype machine. 46:17:96 CU Beet being pulled out of ground. 46:23:56 CU Beet being placed in plastic bag. 46:28:96 CU Earth being into a small white bowl with a small white shovel. 46:36:29 MCU Man performing experiment in lab: Holds a bottle with funnel on it. Closes bottle. 46:49:18 LS Man filling bottle with water from small river. 46:52:62 Drawing with title: "RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM WATER TO MAN." 47:09:38 LS Laboratory with researcher in lab coat, pouring liquids from jars. 47:14:29 CU Glass jar, held by pinchers on top of flame to disinfect it. 47:33:55 MCU Male researcher pouring liquid from a pipette into a glass jar. 47:42:25 CU Drops of liquid falling into glass jars from pipette with faucet at their neck. 47:55:36 CU Hands pushing and turning knobs and dials on instrument. 48:02:13 MCU Female researcher seated in front of machine switching knobs. 48:26:51 CU Graph recording machine. 48:29:65 MCU Male researcher inserting a sheet of paper into a machine, then turning knob. 49:06:53 LS Man entering a building marked, "MEDICAL CENTER." 49:11:73 MCU Man in suit and man in lab coat in doctor's office. 49:19:29 POV shot, from above shoulder of doctor, of a booklet "IONIZING RADIATION." 49:39:50 LS Car stopping by ranch in Nevada. 49:52:58 LS Two cowboys facing each other in front of ranch. 50:00:65 CU LS Black and white cows. 50:07:85 CU Cow's back and belly in profile with "AEC" painted in white on its coat. 50:15:85 LS Desert in Nevada. Cows standing in line. Mountains in background. 50:26:58 MLS Researcher in lab coat with bowls containing pieces of meat. 50:31:73 CU from above of bowl with pieces of meat. 50:40:62 CU Bone of an animal, the meat surrounding it is being cut off and held with tweezers. 50:47:62 CU from above of meat being sliced in small pieces. 51:02:05 MCU Two researchers writing in notebooks on desks. 51:21:55 LS Panel: "BLDG 155 US PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OFF SITE RAD SAFE REECO ON SITE RAD SAFE" and table with machines. 51:23:35 CU Table with machines. Signs on machines: "FILM BADGE" "AIR SAMPLER" "IODINE SAMPLER" "CONTINUOUS RECORDER" 51:38:33 CU Panel: "FILM BADGE ISSUE STATION BLDG 155." 51:44:35 MCU Woman at teletype machine, man in front of machinery in background. 51:50:16 CU Instrument marked "FILM DENSITOMETER" and hand manipulating badges. 51:58:89 CU Sky and clouds. Rocket. Light in the sky. 52:08:05 Animation, earth, black atmosphere with stars and a rocket. 52:13:98 LS Crowd crossing a street in busy city with a streetcar. (Possibly San Francisco.) 52:21:82 CU Girls playing on a metal merry-go-round in playground. 52:42:73 Superimposed drawing composed of : Laurels (symbol of honor), atom with rings (symbol of nuclear energy), and a dove (symbol of peace). LS Sunset in the middle of mountains. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center. 32:30:30- 32:40:16 Overview of a Nevada test site for engines for rockets. Eerie image blue tone with fire and smoke shooting dramatically out of a building. worth noting: Two shots of a nuclear facility first is a long shot and second medium.(37:28:38- 37:33:56) 45:19:22- 45:36:49 Various shots of men checking areas with radiation detectors. We view a church, a desert area, a small town road, a busy intersection in a small city, and a playground with children. 50:13:80- 50:24:87 Excellent shot of a Nevada test site broad expanse of land (mountains in the background) with a yellow sign on it stating "Caution: Radioactive Area." Cows graze beyond the sign on the radioactive land.
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