6min 10sec clip - 1953: POTTER'S WHEEL Interlude

15min clip - Coranation of the Fleet - 1953 Naval Review, Elizabeth II

9min 36sec clip - The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology

2min 55sec british #movietone clip - Mount #Everest Conquered - this day in history 1953

1min 6sec #atomcentral clip - Nuclear Weapon Effects on Vehicles & a tent

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 Text from youtube "High Resolution, complete scans of Atomic Bomb FCDA Footage from shot Grable (1953). Grable was an atomic artillery shell, shot out of a cannon and detonated on Frenchman Flat at the Nevada Test Site. No sound. Filmed at 64 frames per second (normal speed is 24 fps).

Yield was 15 KT.

Distance to Ground Zero: 2,938 feet.

Camera elevations ranged from 11 ft 3 inches above ground to 18 ft 9 inches high."

1 min 23sec british #movietone clip - #Korean War Armistice Signed - 1953 | Today In History | 27 July

Text from you tube "On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

At long last, the misery and the bloodshed of the war in Korea has been halted. The truce negotiations had dragged on at Panmunjom for some two years before a final settlement was agreed to."

2min 55sec british #movietone clip - Mount #Everest Conquered - this day in history 1953