Atomic Bomb Plane, Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico
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Atomic Bomb Plane, Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico
[Motion Picture cameras that are installed in the C-54 used in photographing the peace time atomic bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, July 1946]
April 10, 1946
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in. (24.4 × 19.8 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)
Museum accession
2007.0051.0004
Inscriptions inscribed in image on recto, LT: 474(?)-7 [sideways]
stamped in black ink on verso, TL: ZX
stamped in blue ink on verso, LC: FILE NUMBER: CR-478(?)-7 / HOLD FOR RELEASE 6 PM (EST) \ April 10, 1946. \ ATOMIC BOMB PHOTO PLANE, ROSWELL ARMY AIR FIELD, New Mexico -- \ Here are shown the motion picture cameras that are installed in \ the C-54 that the men including George E. Bertram, of Dayton, \ Ohio, George K. Newhouse of Washington Court House, Ohio, and \ Emory E. Powers of Waco, Texas, will operate. The battery of \ six Eastman hi-speed cameras in the single mount will operate \ one after the other. Camera #1 will run until 1 second after the \ explosion and so on with cameras numbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. \ These cameras are ingeniously mounted so that they all point at \ the same target regardless of whether it is up or down, to the \ left or to the right. (Joint Army and Navy Task Force One \ Photograph from Army Air Forces). [sideways]
stamped in black ink on verso, TL: ZX
stamped in blue ink on verso, LC: FILE NUMBER: CR-478(?)-7 / HOLD FOR RELEASE 6 PM (EST) \ April 10, 1946. \ ATOMIC BOMB PHOTO PLANE, ROSWELL ARMY AIR FIELD, New Mexico -- \ Here are shown the motion picture cameras that are installed in \ the C-54 that the men including George E. Bertram, of Dayton, \ Ohio, George K. Newhouse of Washington Court House, Ohio, and \ Emory E. Powers of Waco, Texas, will operate. The battery of \ six Eastman hi-speed cameras in the single mount will operate \ one after the other. Camera #1 will run until 1 second after the \ explosion and so on with cameras numbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. \ These cameras are ingeniously mounted so that they all point at \ the same target regardless of whether it is up or down, to the \ left or to the right. (Joint Army and Navy Task Force One \ Photograph from Army Air Forces). [sideways]
