The beginning or the end

Duration: 0:32:00

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, “The Beginning or the End”. Traces the development of the atom bomb from the earliest intelligence reports in World War II that the Nazis have been conducting research on nuclear fission, through the establishment of the Manhattan Project by President Roosevelt to the destruction of Hiroshima. Addresses the early concern of scientists involved in atomic energy research, the realization of the political implications of the A-bomb and the construction and work of Oak Ridge and other research plants. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, General Leslie R. Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vanevar Bush and Enrico Fermi are portrayed in the film. Presents the testing of the bomb, its deployment and the resulting devastation as witnessed by airmen over Hiroshima.

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