
The Atomic City
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- Year:
- 1952
- 85 min
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The atomic age begins.
On a 7,000-foot plateau
in a remote section of New Mexico,
American and allied
scientists and technicians
had worked and struggled
for more than four years
to the end that the horror of World War II
be quickly concluded.
They succeeded.
Since then, these same people
and others like them
have continued to work--
to invent, to improvise--
to improve the old weapons
and develop new ones
because the spirit of aggression
is not yet dead in the world.
But the atom is not all
death and destruction.
This, too, is a product of the atomic age.
Isotopes and other atomic techniques
are saving lives all over the world.
And the people-- the men and women
who man the laboratories
and factories of Los Alamos--
what of them?
Their work is almost
unbelievably dangerous.
Every move, carefully checked
and double-checked.
The slightest misstep is serious.
Anything more--disaster.
Outside the laboratories,
the same checking goes on...
Their daily comings and goings
scrutinized minutely.
And everywhere, the barbed wire...
the gates, the signs...
the guards.
But they know it is necessary.
Absolute security is vital
if the free world is to survive
and if the atomic age
is to at last free man
from his long bondage to power.
This, then, is Los Alamos...
the atomic city.
I got a television set delivery
for dr. Addison--Frank Addison.
Get your clearance in the office.
Anything wrong?
Just a routine search.
Say, what do these sets sell for?
$173. 50, installed.
Hmm. Guess I'll wait
till they come down some.
That's the trouble with business.
Everybody's waiting.
I got a television set delivery
for a dr. Frank Addison, 1118 Rose Street.
What's your name?
John Pattiz. That's with a double T.
Where were you born, mr. Pattiz?
New York. Bronx.
I'll see if we have a pass
in the file for you.
I'm congressman Davenport.
The manager's expecting me.
Yes, sir. May I see
your identification, sir?
Sign this, please.
Surrender that pass
when you're leaving.
Sure thing. Thanks.
I'm commander Wright.
Do you have some identification
with you, commander?
Certainly.
Hi!
Oh, hi.
Lunch, Tommy! In a minute, mom!
This is the newest new model, isn't it?
Yeah.
What are these two wires,
the ones running into the condenser?
Oh, those are, uh...
Let's see...
They look like lead-in connections.
Huh? Oh, yeah, sure.
That's the latest thing.
Don't handle them.
They kick up a lot of voltage.
Between 15,000and 20,000 volts...
if they're connected.
That's enough to kill a man twice over.
No, sir. 20,000 volts won't kill you.
It'll just knock you
against the wall or someplace.
Who says so? My father.
Yeah? Your father an electrician?
No, sir. A physicist. Nuclear physics.
Aw, sure.
Say... He one of them bomb makers?
That's classified information.
Nobody's allowed to give
classified information.
Tommy. The gentleman will
excuse you while you have lunch.
I won't have time to help you.
I'm going to the fiesta with my teacher.
My son doesn't care about anything today
except the Santa Fe fiesta prizes.
My boss had to donate one of them.
He's giving them
one of those 17.95 portable radios.
The two-wheel bike's the best prize.
Come on, Tommy.
I've got three chances to win something.
Boy! I hope it's a bike!
Hey, doc, if you don't win the bike,
just build one of your own.
That's a swell idea.
Chew your food, Tommy.
I am.
How much do bicycle parts cost?
Better ask dad. He'll know.
Mom? Mm-hmm?
If I grow up, know what I'm going to do?
It's when you grow up, dear, not if.
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