WATCH Manhattan Project Los Alamos Home Movie
FootagePhysicist Hugh Bradner came to Los Alamos
in 1943. It was there that he met his
future wife Marjorie Hall, who was working
at Los Alamos as a secretary. With
informal permission from the U.S. Army,
Bradner shot a collection of home movies
of life at the top-secret location, a site
that didn't officially exist. His Los
Alamos home movie footage represents the
only look at life in the Los Alamos area
during that time. It shows the scientists
at work and at play. Hugh married Marjorie
in Los Alamos in 1943, however, security
was so tight that neither Marjorie's
parents nor Hugh's parents were allowed to
attend. Hugh Bradner went on to invent the
wetsuit. |
WATCH Los Alamos Documentary - The Town That
Never WasThis short Los Alamos documentary tells
the story of the evolution of the
Manhattan Project at the location from
1942-1945. Footage of the former Los
Alamos Ranch School is shown, in addition
to the top-secret town itself. The film is
from the Bradbury Science Museum. |
WATCH Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Destruction FootageThis 1946 film Tale of Two Cities
from Army-Navy Screen Magazine
and presented by the War Department is a
pictorial report of the atomic bombs'
destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan. Footage of each atomic bomb going
off is shown, followed by ground footage
of the aftermath, specifically the
structural damage that spread out from the
"zero point" directly beneath the
explosion. |
WATCH First Atomic Bomb Explosion - Trinity
Test, July 16, 1945The most famous video of the first atomic
bomb explosion, known as the Trinity test,
which occurred on July 16, 1945. The shots
were taken for unclassified distribution,
shot with 3 rolls of 35mm black and white
film instead of 16mm film. They were
referred to as the Newsreel rolls. The
wide shot utilizes a 75mm lens, the second
shot uses a 450mm telephoto lens and is
focused on the bottom of the explosion.
The final shot is with a tighter lens
focused on the barrage balloons. |
WATCH Manhattan TV Show Trailer"Whoever builds it first, that's the end
game. So it has to be us, whatever the
cost," says fictional Manhattan
character Frank Winter (John Benjamin
Hickey) in the Manhattan TV show
trailer. The WGN America drama takes the
real history of the creation of the
world's first atomic bombs via the
Manhattan Project and retells it with
fictional characters. Watch the trailer
for a glimpse at this dramatized
interpretation of history. |