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Hosted by Ralph V.H. Wood, the Philadelphia Electric Company Project Officer for Edison Electric Institute, this film discusses one of the civil defense experiments that was part of the Operation Teapot atomic bomb tests in 1955. During Teapot, a large-scale study of the effects of an atomic blast on electric power facilities was conducted. Throughout the film, there are images of utility workers on power lines and preparations for the test flash across the screen while Mr. Wood talks.
Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. It was preceded by Operation Castle, and followed by Operation Wigwam. Wigwam was, administratively, a part of Teapot, but it is usually treated as a class of its own. The aims of the operation were to establish military tactics for ground forces on a nuclear battlefield and to improve the nuclear weapons used for strategic delivery. The Civil Defense Apple-2 shot on 5 May 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast. An assortment of buildings, including residential houses and electrical substations, were constructed at the site nicknamed "Survival Town". The buildings were populated with mannequins, and stocked with different types of canned and packaged foods. Not all of the buildings were destroyed in the blast, and some of them still stand at Area 1, Nevada Test Site.
The film starts with an atomic blast at the Nevada test site (0:51) followed by host Ralph V.H. Wood, addressing the audience (1:02). Entrance sign to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Test Site (3:01) and the sign for Camp Desert Rock (3:20). U.S. Atomic Energy Commission at Yucca Flat sign, displaying the entry of a 1957 International Travelall (an early SUV) and other service trucks (3:28), along with the presence of a Joshua Tree near the camp (3:49).
The film presents a detailed layout plan of the test facility (4:03-6:01), aerial views of the one-mile test line from a helicopter (6:23), and two reinforced houses (6:39). It shows the propane gas distribution pump house (6:45), a two-story wood frame house with parked cars beside it (7:04), and one of the reinforced houses with a departing bus nearby (7:19). Scenes depict house trailers alongside a 1957 Aljoa Trailer (7:32) and offer a close view of the electric power substation (8:37-9:37). There are displays of mannequins dressed for testing heat effects (9:42) and observers arriving by buses from Brightwood line Greyhound Buses to inspect the test site (9:53). Notable scenes include a Las Vegas high school student interviewing American nuclear physicist Dr. Alvin C. Graves, filmed by a cameraman with a 1950’s-style television camera (10:00). Journalist Charles Collingwood discusses the tests with an officer in a 1950’s military Jeep (10:12). An M48 medium tank (10:23). The film proceeds with footage from the atomic bomb test (10:35-12:52) and showcases the devastation from the blast, initially from an aerial view and then up close (13:14-19:22). The narrator describes the assessment of damage to mannequins and clothes caused by the blast (19:37-21:12) and evaluates the damage to electrical power facilities (21:13-21:33). Scenes depict an electric service truck carrying an Earth boring machine that was toppled, while the equipment in the back of another service truck remained undamaged (21:40-22:20). The film highlights two still fully operational 1945 Dodge Flatbed Service Trucks (22:24). The end (24:33).
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