Los Alamos: The Beginning (1982)
A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of Los Alamos, recalling their experiences of the community and the creation of the atomic bomb from the inception of the program in 1943.
Directors: Mario Balibrera, Alison Kerr, Judith Liersch, Tom McCarthy, David Moore, Nancy Zachariasen.
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Eliot Kohen as Narrator (voice) |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage) |
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Frank Oppenheimer as Self |
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Hans Bethe as Self |
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Edward Teller as Self |
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Isidor Isaac Rabi as Self |
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Emilio Segrè as Self |
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Harold Agnew as Self |
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Stanislaw Ulam as Self |
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Victor Weisskopf as Self |
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George Kistiakowsky as Self |
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Philip Morrison as Self |
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Priscilla Duffield as Self |
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Dorothy McKibbin as Self |
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Robert R. Wilson as Self |
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Edwin McMillan as Self |
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Robert Bacher as Self |
| Editing | Tom McCarthy | Editor |
| Writing | David Moore | Writer |
| Crew | Fred Baker | Cinematography |
| Crew | Larry Gibbons | Cinematography |
| Crew | Robb Gordon | Cinematography |
| Crew | Tom McCarthy | Cinematography |
| Sound | Richard McCurdy | Sound |
| Sound | Cecil Montoya | Sound |
| Sound | Ernie Shinagawa | Sound |
| Sound | Bob Wellnitz | Sound |
| Production | Evelyn Sandoval | Production Assistant |
| Directing | Mario Balibrera | Director |
| Directing | Alison Kerr | Director |
| Directing | Judith Liersch | Director |
| Directing | Tom McCarthy | Director |
| Directing | David Moore | Director |
| Directing | Nancy Zachariasen | Director |