LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN STUDIOS
Hollywood, California
Located in the hills of Hollywood, California, this secret film studio produced as many films as those of the Hollywood majors, yet most of those films were of a highly classified nature and unseen by all but a few. The mission of Lookout Mountain, under the command of the Air Force, was "to provide in-service production of Classified motion picture and still photographs for the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission between 1947 and 1969 when the studio was deactivated. studio

stage Blast Wave
Lookout Mountain stage facility in the Hollywood Hills. Vans prepare to photograph an atomic test at the Nevada Test Site. This picture was photographed at the moment the blast wave strikes the camera.

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