Six strips of cinema film showing the test atomic

Made:
1945 in New Mexico and Alamogordo

Six strips of negative cinema film strips in envelope showing the test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico in July 1945, with later associated contact prints and a single frame enlargement, British, 1946. The strips were supplied by Gaumont-British Distributors, the prints were probably made by the museum's photographers.

Details

Category:
Nuclear Physics
Object Number:
1946-9
Materials:
paper (fibre product) and cellulose acetate
type:
cinema film
credit:
Gaumont-British Distributors

Parts

Six strips of negative cinema film strips in envelope showing the test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico in July 1945

Six strips of negative cinema film strips in envelope showing the test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico in July 1945

Six strips of negative cinema film strips in envelope showing the test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico in July 1945, with later associated contact prints and a single frame enlargement, British, 1946

Measurements:
overall: 0.02 kg
Materials:
cellulose acetate and paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1946-9/1
type:
negative
Six strips of cinema film showing the test atomic

Six strips of cinema film showing the test atomic

Six contact prints and a single frame enlargement, made fromstrips of negative cinema film showing the test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexicoin July 1945. The prints were probably made by the museum's photographers.

Measurements:
overall: 174 mm x 149 mm
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Object Number:
1946-9/2
type:
cinema film