Archive Newsreel: Operation Crossroads British Gaumont, 1946
Where and When:
26th February - 26th March
Artform:
ExhibitionsFilm Screenings
Highlights:
Recycled Film
Image courtesy of Tyneside Cinema.
The Tyneside Cinema was originally built as Newcastle’s News Theatre in 1937 and today is the finest surviving newsreel cinema in Britain. As part of its daily programme of free archive newsreels we are showing this 1946 newsreel of preparations for Operation Crossroads, the series of devastating nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The newsreel shows sailors preparing old battleships for the test and the launch of Dave’s Dream, the bomb-carrying plane.
Screened daily at 11:30am (17mins). FREE, no booking required.