Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum


Motion Picture MP2007-21.

Atom Bomb and Reds Doom Japanese – Ed Herlily (narrator).

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Date: August 1945.
Formats: ¾ inch video tape.
Sound: Yes.
Color: No.
Running Time: 5 minutes, 7 seconds.
Footage: 175 ft. (original film at NARA).
Produced by: Universal News.
Copyright Restrictions: Public domain.

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SHOT LIST

    Reel 1
00:05National Archives header: “RG 200 Universal News, Vol.18, Release 423 #1”
00:13Title [Universal Newsreel Logo] “Atom Bomb and Reds Doom Japanese”
00:19Views of President Harry S. Truman, Russian Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Potsdam Conference.
00:33Atomic bombing of Japan, photographed from the air by US Navy/ Signal Corps.
00:55Description of Atomic Bombs.
01:09U. S. Atomic Bomb compared to England’s “Grand Slam” bomb.
01:28Dr. Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the Cyclotron.
01:42Gen. Leslie Graves, head of the project.
01:48Vannevar Bush, Government Director of Scientific Research.
01:51Dr. Richard Tollman, Technological Expert.
02:00Alberta, Canada – Uranium plant.
02:17Richland, Washington, atomic plant.
02:40Col. F. T. Matthias, Officer in charge, Richland.
02:48Oak Ridge, Tennessee, atomic plant and scenes of workers.
03:15Oak Ridge, Tennessee – views of pre-fabricated homes and trailers used as housing for workers; merchants on site.
03:42Russian, United States, and British troops arriving in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb attack. Stalin views troops.
03:58Portion of President Truman’s speech of August 6, 1945 on the U. S. S. Augusta, announcing the bombing of Hiroshima (“we are now prepared to obliterate . . .)
05:07end

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