How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb Exhibit opens in Las Vegas! Pete at the podium congratulates the members of the Lookout Mountain Laboratory Crew on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the secret film studio. Harold Agnew, an LANL nuclear physicist who worked on the creation of the first atomic bomb and on the project to build the hydrogen bomb attended the event. As a young member of the Manhattan Project, Agnew flew on the Enola Gay as it dropped the Little Boy weapon on Hiroshima and filmed it. Members of Lookout Mountain include Ken Hackman, Doug Wood, Jack Cannon, Ray Santini celebrating LML's 60th Anniversary. In the background is Troy Wade and Harold Agnew. Visit the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas to see the exhibit until March 2008.
Views of the exhibit at the Atomic Testing Museum. As you enter. Wall of the exhibit with the Dynafax Camera display. Photos are displayed behind a 35mm Arriflex motion picture camera.
The GSAP camera photographed many of the famous images of the houses exploding at the Nevada Test Site. Click on the Quicktime Logo to see a virtual view of the exhibit. Check out our website store for both "Atomic Filmmakers: Hollywood's Secret Studio" and the new book "How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb."