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Mercifully dispensing with all traces of plot, Director Vincente Minnelli gets started with a saccharine bit of professional whimsy purporting to show how the late Flo Ziegfeld is getting along in heaven. (Director Minnelli" thinks he is doing all right, puts Ziegfeld on the same cloud level as Shakespeare.) Once this pious bow to the Master has been made, Follies slips into high gear, runs through one unrelated vaudeville act after another. Among the best...
...Mukden, factories lay like raddled skeletons, picked clean of their machinery. Fires raged amid the tenements. The cloud of civil war cast a shadow on the scene; as Chinese Government troops took control of the city, Chinese Communists were poised menacingly on the outskirts...
...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
Normally, radioactive particles from the cloud should not reach the sea for two or three hours. But the bomb's hot gases, rising rapidly, might whip up a genuine thunderstorm. Then the particles would all fall much sooner, in a deluge of deadly rain. Colonel Holzman hopes to pick a day when conditions are poor for an atom-brewed thunderstorm...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...