Bikini! First Actual Films! (1946)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Film showing the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be tested at Bikini, nicknamed ’Able’ and dropped by B-29 bomber ’Dave’s Dream’. Full Description: Caption: Paramount News presents: Bikini! First Actual Films! The Pictures the world waited to see! Heavily censored, this is the camera story of Atom Bomb No. 4 / Photographed by newsreel cameramen, Marine Coprs, Army, Navy and Coastguard photographers / Narrated by Gregory Abbot and Maurice Joyce MARSHALL ISLANDS: Bikini Atoll: EXT AV of Bikini, AV ditto. Book opening reading “COMMANDER, JOINT TASK FORCE 1 OPERATION PLANE 1-46.“ GV pretty sea scape scene. G elev. V of Kwajalein. Pan V planes on field. GV servicing Dave’s Dream. CU V name on plane “DAVE’S DREAM“ & 7354. FV Servicing plane guard waking in f-g. Angle shot servicing plane. CU working on wheel. SCU L to R. Major R. Wood and Major
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