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The First Secret City (2015)

ALL 11/15/2015 (en) Documentary 105 Min
  • Release
    11/15/2015
  • Production
    Stella Maris Productions
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  • Original title
    The First Secret City
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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The secret is out.

Overview

Before the creation of the secret cities of Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Hanford, the Manhattan Project hired the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis to refine the first uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. For the next two decades, Mallinckrodt continued its classified work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the Cold War. The resulting radioactive waste contaminated numerous locations in the St. Louis area some of which have not been cleaned up 70 years after the end of World War II. Told through the eyes of an overexposed worker, the story expands through a series of interviews that careen down a toxic pathway leading to a fiery terminus at a smoldering, radioactively-contaminated landfill. The First Secret City reveals a forgotten history and its continuing impact on the community in the 21st Century, uncovering past wrongdoing and documenting the renewed struggles to confront the issue.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  4. C.D. Stelzer

    Producer



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  1. Dawn Chapman

  2. Larry Burgan

  3. Dawn Chapman

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  4. Larry Burgan

    Interviewee

  5. Kay Drey

    Interviewee

  6. Carolyn Bower

    Interviewee

  7. Gerald J. Kleba

    Interviewee

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The First Secret City (2015) 105 Min

ALL 11/15/2015 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 11/15/2015
  • Production
    Stella Maris Productions
  • Original title The First Secret City
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The secret is out.

Overview

Before the creation of the secret cities of Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Hanford, the Manhattan Project hired the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis to refine the first uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. For the next two decades, Mallinckrodt continued its classified work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the Cold War. The resulting radioactive waste contaminated numerous locations in the St. Louis area some of which have not been cleaned up 70 years after the end of World War II. Told through the eyes of an overexposed worker, the story expands through a series of interviews that careen down a toxic pathway leading to a fiery terminus at a smoldering, radioactively-contaminated landfill. The First Secret City reveals a forgotten history and its continuing impact on the community in the 21st Century, uncovering past wrongdoing and documenting the renewed struggles to confront the issue.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Alison Carrick

    Editor

  4. C.D. Stelzer

    Producer



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