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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Part 1: Distributed by Artkino Pictures, “Atoms for Peace Reel 2” (1956) is a b&w English language propaganda film produced by the Moscow Popular Science Film Studio about nuclear power and its useful applications outside of armament. Radioactive iodine uptake testing: nurse aims counter at thyroid gland (0:52). Agriculture: Large greenhouse, carts in rows loaded with pots of tall corn stalks (1:49). Attendant sprays plants with radioactive phosphorus fertilizer (2:01). Plant leaves laid on photographic film paper, developed film showing distribution of fertilizer on leaf (2:12). Animation fertilizer distribution of beet (2:36). Small plane drops fertilizer over field (2:57). Rolls of steel band (3:15). Female lab technician tests sample of steel strip (3:57). Steel worker marks steel with radioactive isotope device (4:12). Steel strips pass through various machines/ treatments in production plant (4:26). Applications of tracers in metallurgy: camera pans smoke stacks, iron cranes of industrial iron steel mill (4:51). Animated cross-section diagram blast furness (5:08). Ampoule containing radioactive cobalt (6:11). Brick layer builds new blast furness, ampoule inserted into brick (6:43). Cross-section diagram ampoules at work (7:06). Worker takes sample of smelted steel (7:12). Lab technicians test radioactivity of sample (7:25). Glow of smelted metal in blast furnace room (7:49). Hand traces radioactivity level of sample on graph (8:14). Melted steel poured into casting molds (8:40). Close-up steel ingot (8:51). Steel ingot rolled (9:02). Lab technician conducts experiment with radioactive phosphorus (9:12). Sparks fly as freshly rolled rail cut (9:28). Samples placed on sheets of sensitive film, lab technician reviews prints (9:40). Steel smelter directs bulldozer, adds ferrochrome to furness (10:37). Scientist assembles ampoule, places completed vile in ferrochrome brick (11:09). Steel smelters take samples from furness (11:58). Smoke billows, metal poured out of furnace (12:43). Researcher walks onto heavy water reactor, details reactor elements (13:37). Various models of accelerators: two scientists stand on platform, look at electrostatic generator (14:56). Linear accelerator (15:27). Vault door slowly opens, reveals cyclotron accelerator (15:52). Close-up chamber where particles accelerated, sits between poles of electromagnet (16:25). Technicians adjust, tighten equipment, close-up semi-circular accelerating electrodes (16:33). Animation of acceleration chamber functions (16:57). Two lab technicians observe as electrodes inserted into chamber (17:44). Lab technician mounts targets, attaches them to large apparatus (18:07). Animation depicting cyclotron at work (18:34). Camera pans tubular chamber where particles ejected into (18:47). Institute of Nuclear Problems (Neoclassical building), USSR Academy of Sciences (19:14). Synchrotron on display in main hall (19:21). Details of acceleration chamber, interior generator (19:43). Interior synchrotron device (20:25). Scientist adds beryllium target to chamber (20:40). Rod with target slowly introduced into chamber (21:00). Close-up holes where particles exit machine (21:23). Room filled with various experimentation devices, scientist sets up devices so they are in particle’s path (21:27). Device to register nuclear particles adjusted, montage other devices in room and explanation of use (21:56). Photograph depicting particles’ path in liquid (22:54). Device for registering pi meson (pion)(23:33). Scientist in lab coat sits on Wilson cloud chamber, studies pions (23:43). Radar depicts pion tracks (23:54). Multi-channel gamma spectrometer (24:07). Synchrotron control room (24:31). Engineers (25:23). Interior/ exterior building with proton synchrotron, ring-shaped magnet (25:44). Engineers make adjustments to accelerator (26:13). Four injector (26:42). Auxiliary linear accelerator (26:46). Maze of electric cables in underground tunnel (26:56). Rows of powerful motor generators (27:09). Exhibition from First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (held in Geneva 1955) travels to India (27:24). Young Indian men crowd around one of the displays (27:41). Large crowd gathers around model of first Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant (28:18). Nuclear-powered icebreaker, most likely the ill starred icebreaker Lenin (29:19). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
