Operation Buffalo

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1447A

Date Released

28 Feb 1957

Date submitted

8 Feb 1957

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Operation ‘Buffalo’. DESCRIPTION: Maralinga Test Range in the stark-wide open spaces of South Australia. Operation Buffalo involved setting up a village for servicemen taking part. And the team of scientists was headed by Sir William Penney who went to supervise and observe the atomic explosions. SHOTLIST: Experimental explosion of an A-Bomb. Scientists alight from plane including Sir William Penney. Signposts - ‘London Road’, ‘Maralinga Village’. Native postman. Native has hair cut. Native cooking. Servicemen in canteen. Guns firing. Tanks. Bulldozer. Mock fighting. Army photographer. Vulcan bomber takes off. Various shots of guns and tanks to be used for testing atomic rays. A-Bomb explodes. Good mushroom shots. Jet plane takes off. Scientist in protective clothing walk round the contaminated area. Various shots of the damage done to army vehicles and clothing from the A-Bomb.

Keywords

Weapons; Nuclear energy

Locations

Australia; Maralinga

Footage sources

Central Office of Information

Card file number

69742

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

180

Story extras:

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