OPERATION OZONE 1954 - A FOOTNOTE TO THE CAULDRON FILM
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: DED 87).
Synopsis
Detailed report (presuming prior screening of Operation Cauldron film) on trials carried out at Green Cay, Bahamas (from 1/1954 to 6/1954) of spraying toxic agent (flown from Fort Dietrich, USA) over arc of sampling points, mapped by radar on HMS Ben Lomond.
Notes
Summary: Operation Ozone saw a return to a site twenty miles off Nassau (Bahamas) to acquire more data on spraying agents and for the first time, on a virus. (Gradon Carter, 1992)
Titles
- OPERATION OZONE 1954 - A FOOTNOTE TO THE CAULDRON FILM
- Series Title:
- PORTON DOWN TRIALS NON-NITRATE COLLECTION - UNLISTED
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1954
- Running Time:
- 19 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Sound
- Footage:
- 715 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- Ministry of Supply Micro Research
- commentator
- Morton, John
- director
- Morton, John
- Production company
- Porton Down
