| PEACE - AND THE ATOM Behind the gates of three atomic factories for the first time. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 11392 | |
| Clip Number: | 11392-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 54/27 | |
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| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1954 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Atomic / Nuclear WEAPONS: Nuclear / Atomic | |
| Description: | MISSING 3/2/2006 See also catalog #s 521171 & 521172 BRITISH ATOMIC FACTORIES British Pathe cameras are for the first time permitted into three atomic factories: Windscale in Cumberland, Springfields near Preston and Capenhurst in Cheshire. Cumberland, Preston & Cheshire. GV Winscale Works showing two atomic piles and seperator plant in centre. SV Security Officer opening up main gate. Shop through wire fencing showing workers in protective clothing entering building. & SV A/S Atomic stack pile. LV Interior: Main electrical control room. SV Operator reading dials on control panel. SV Sir Christopher Hinton in his office. GV Exterior: Uranium crushing plant. SV Pan: trolley conveying drums of uranium ore. SV Men taking samples of crushed ore from drums. SV Man in protective clothing taking sample of crushed ore. TV.Interior of crude oxide extraction plant pan from uranium liquid in tanks pan to operators below. LV Operators working on a filter presser filtering off uranium cake. SV CU Operator working wearing protective mask over face. SV Group of cameraman including Bill Jordan wearing protective clothing filming dryway plant. CU Operator giving signal for lifting operation. SV Other operators watching. SV Operators lifting reactor from furnace. SV Man at control panel. SV Lifting reactor from furnace. SV Bill Jordan in protective clothing taking pictures. LV Reactor being guided by man at remote control mechanism. CU Oper- ator at remote control. A/S Reactor being lowered into stillage. SV Physics Lab. with sign in foreground Danger alive electrical equipment - No unauthorised entry. SV Operator in fractionating column. SV CU Operator in spectograph Lab. working on defraction grating spectograph. SV Exterior men returning to changing rooms. SV Interior: men in protective clothing walking into washhouse and placing protective gloves into special bin. CU Dropping gloves into bin. SV Two men at wash basin scrubbing hands in very hot water. SV Men walking into changing room to take off protective clothing. SCU Man taking off protective rubber boots. SV Men swinging feet over to non-contact side. LV Men walking into room for check for radiation on hand and foot monitors. CU Hands in machine. CU Man looking at dials on machine. CU Dials on machine LV GV Exterior: showing new calder atomic power station in progress of erection. | |
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