About People and Atoms

A film about the history of development and problems of nuclear physics. The film uses film materials from the State Film Fund and the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR (RGAKFD). Fragments of feature films "Nine days of one year", "Hyperboloid of engineer Garin". Fragment of the film "Arrival of the Train" Lumiere. Fragments of documentary films, including: "And yet I believe" M. Romm. Portraits of A. Becquerel, E. Fermi, Maria and Pierre Curie. Chronicle footage: hostilities during the Second World War, the First World War: protest demonstrations: the building of the Physics and Technology Institute in Leningrad: physicists A. I. Leipunsky, P. A. Walter, Sinelnikov, Latyshev at the nuclear installation. Observatory; solar prominence. Otto Hahn (Germany) in the laboratory; N. Bor; E. Fermi (Italy) in the laboratory; L. Szilard; A. Einstein; T. Roosevelt; R. Openheimer. Scientists at the instruments, at the test site; explosion of an atomic bomb; General Groves; I. Stalin and G. Truman. Japan, Hiroshima (before and after the atomic explosion); neon advertisements of the night city. IE Tamm at work. Great Britain, Harruel Atomic Center, IV Kurchatov makes a report on thermonuclear research in the USSR. Switzerland, Geneva, September 1958. International Conference on Problems of Nuclear Physics. Austria, City of Salzburg, 1961. International Conference on Controlled Fusion; L.A. Artsimovich speaks. The city of Salzburg, streets, buildings, a monument to W. Mozart, traffic, pedestrians. 1969 USA, L. A. Artsimovich gives lectures on the research of Soviet scientists in the field of thermonuclear physics. Views of the city of New York. 1964 Sweden, Stockholm, presentation of the Nobel Prizes to Ch. Towns (USA), N. G. Basov, A. M. Prokhorov. Filming of the consequences of the 1973 oil (energy) crisis; portrait of S. Cohen in the newspaper. Actor A. Batalov in the house and apartment of I. G. Kurchatov, talks about Kurchatov (synchronously), reads the text of the film (behind the scenes). Photos by I. G. Kurchatov. Interview with Professor Golovin, physicists Lukyanov, Filippov, Andrianov, academicians: V. D. Shafranov, B. B. Kadomtsev, Toloka (Ukraine), E. P. Velikhov (synchronously). Physicists in laboratories. Thermonuclear installations. Physicists Mukhavatov, Razumova, Strelkov in the laboratory of the Institute of Atomic Energy, at work (synchronously), (behind the scenes).

Color

5

1982