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Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project: The real thing! Splendedly A.I restored and colorized (1945)
About this film
This film shows original B&W footage about the activities in the New Mexico dessert to develop an atomic weapon. The film footage has been meticulously restored, enhanced and colorized to give a better view of what really went on there in 1945. In brief: this was a secret project under the name "the Manhattan project" and was lead by physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer under military supervision in the person of General Leslie Groves. In order for hundreds of scientists to be as active and motivated as possible, an new small town was constructed in the dessert at Los Alamos, where they could live with their entire family. For those who recently watched Christopher Nolan's great Oppenheimer film, it may not have been totally clear that in fact two bombs were in the making: An implosion-type A-bomb and a Gun-type A-bomb. For both bombs enough enriched weaponized plutonium and uranium-235 needed to be produced respectively. The film shows two glass bowls, a fish bown and a large wine glass, that were gradually filled with marbles to represent the ongoing production progress. The contents of the larger bowl represented what was required for the "Little Boy" bomb and the smaller bowl fo…
Directors & creators
Ricks Film Restoration
Subjects
Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Atom bomb. 1945