1969: Going Back To BIKINI ATOLL | Cameron Country | Classic Documentaries | BBC Archive
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- In 1946, James Cameron was among a select group of international journalists who were dispatched to the tiny South Sea islands of Bikini Atoll, to report on a US Military experiment codenamed Operation Crossroads. There, he witnessed first hand the terrifying power of the nuclear bomb. The experience had a profound and lasting impression on him.
Now 23 years later, Cameron has been permitted to return to Bikini Atoll, where the Americans are attempting to restore the islands in order to return them to the displaced islanders. What will he find there? How will he feel? Is there anything to be learned from nuclear testing?
This clip is from Cameron Country: Back To Bikini, originally broadcast 6 December, 1969.
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What a wonderfully measured, thoughtful and introspective documentary. James had clearly spent many years haunted by the implications of what he'd seen.
I have to give my thanks to the BBC and James for this. Sharing this again is exactly what the archive release is for.
04:45 - 13 seconds of 'silence'. The pace of these older films is wonderful. Almost mesmerizing.
Equally it's not stuffed with wall to wall music either like so many modern documentaries where we wait for the musical cue to tell us what to feel about something.
A very moving (and frightening) documentary and what a wonderful reporter James Cameron was. The epitome of an old school, urbane English journalist.
This is utterly amazing. I wish I could pass on my thanks to his family. He obviously kept onto this deeply for a very, very long time and it is entirely understandable in the modern age where everyone is still in awe at old footage of these bombs. Its absolutely astounding this exists and its very well appreciated you have uploaded this.
Thank you. I will remember this for a life to come.
James Cameron really had a way with words. Reportage at its best.
What a great video, terrific journalism and excellent writing.
Wow... a very intelligent man. My dad was on Christmas Island for Operation Grapple in the late 50s. The stories he told me about the tests scared the hell out of me. The bombs in the late 50s were on a different scale to those of the late 40s.
A bomb Vs H bomb
The new generation of people always forgets what's learned in the past.
💯Your Right
Great to see thoughtful commentary on simple, well made, film documentary.
It's actually quite disgusting how humans create death and destruction everywhere they go. Humans are doomed to destroy themselves. Great little film.
Another of the old school great journalists from a time when the BBC used to be the pride of the nation.
My dad was at castle bravo.
Well I’ve learnt 10 new words
Wow! I was there in 2006 and dived the USS Saratoga EXACTLY 60 years to the day that she went down from the damage the Baker bomb inflicted. Everything was very different; the bunkers are still there of course and I think the assembly shed is now a workshop? But a row of small three room huts was built along the water front for the returning Bikinians, only for them to be evicted again in pretty short order! The air strip is very different too, it's no longer a tarmac strip, just hard packed rubble overgrown with grass. And most of the buildings on that part of the atoll (the airstrip is a boat ride from the housing and workshops etc) are gone!
I particularly liked the atom bar. The song they sang at the end was nice.
Great video.
I wish one could view all of the Cameron Country series.
"Atom bum"
Didn't you know that Godzilla is the metaphor of nuclear weapons and warfare?
It's true.
True 💯Story
@@cor2250 moral of the story is that nuclear weapons aren't toys and nuclear warfare/testing isn't a children's game.
If you know what I mean?
@@katiebonser9712 true ,but tell that to others that not open they eyes but your right.its all elite game
@15:26 what does he mean that the ships were crewed by corpses or maniacs? I assumed they were empty ships just there for testing impact? thx
They miscalculated. All those ships were too close….so the ships didn’t get destroyed, but all aboard died from the blast of radiation.
JOLLY GOOD
The Japanese came to the Bikini Atoll for a simple reason, we become curious about the one that abused us, once time has passed and we have healed somewhat, we then become obsessed with the object of our abuse and consequence of our survival of it. It’s just like that.
We may start to have to use it again..
God forbid...
I worked for DOE AEC.
What does that mean? And what was it like working for them?
russia left the chat..
Dogs leg
Sponge Bob is made then😥
The irony of a British person talking about countries running people out of their homes. I love him but you still have to think about all the small things.
spongebob
why cant we goback to chernobyl today like they did here after 20yrs?
Is this what the mid-century British elite were like?
HOOOOOOOOOO!
In the olden days BBC fakery was at least spoken with a good educated accent and thus was more believable.
Bias broadcasting corporation =BBC
Can you explain the fakery to me?
Tinfoil hat on there i see
superb use of english lingua meowca
I'm kindly waiting on the reply Andreas, I'd like an explanation as to what BBC fakery even means