Naval Intelligence, MKUltra and the Hippie Movement

[David Guyatt]

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My Family Disney Dynasty, Part 1

After the war he worked as a freelance commercial artist in Los Angeles, and in 1951 he joined the animation section at the U.S. Air Force Lookout Mountain Laboratory, Hollywood's “secret” film studio. There he worked as a layout, background and story-sketch artist on training and informational films for the Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission, traveled to Yucca Flat in Nevada and Eniwetok in the Pacific to witness atomic and hydrogen bomb testing.

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What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in two-and-a-half secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the installation was hidden from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By 1947, the facility featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is claimed that it was perhaps the world's only completely self-contained movie studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the covert studio included sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing facilities, an animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It also had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.




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Lookout Mountain Laboratory

Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures - more than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel Canyon the real 'motion picture capital of the world'). Officially, the facility was run by the U.S. Air Force and did nothing more nefarious than process AEC footage of atomic and nuclear bomb tests. The studio, however, was clearly equipped to do far more than just process film. There are indications that Lookout Mountain Laboratory had an advanced research and development department that was on the cutting edge of new film technologies. Such technological advances as 3-D effects were apparently first developed at the Laurel Canyon site. And Hollywood luminaries like John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and Marilyn Monroe were given clearance to work at the facility on undisclosed projects. There is no indication that any of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine studio.


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The facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians, editors, animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security clearances - and all reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel Canyon. Accounts vary as to when the facility ceased operations. Some claim it was in 1969, while others say the installation remained in operation longer. In any event, by all accounts the secret bunker had been up and running for more than twenty years before Laurel Canyon's rebellious teen years, and it remained operational for the most turbulent of those years.

The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the early 1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret movie studio somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the first to learn of its existence, through classified documents he obtained while researching his 1995 documentary, "Trinity and Beyond." And yet even today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility anywhere in the 'conspiracy' literature.

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ATOMIC FILMMAKERS: BEHIND THE SCENES
50 min. 1998 VC #5032
Peter Kuran
Story of the people who worked at Lookout Mountain Laboratory in Hollywood, Calif and who were responsible for making
over 6,500 films for the Dept. of Defense and others, many having to do with filming nuclear tests.

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Lookout Mountain Air Force Station
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Lookout Mountain Air Force Station as seen from above.
The Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (LMAFS) located on Wonderland Avenue, Los Angeles, California, provided in-service production of classified motion picture and still photographs to the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission from 1947-1969.[1]
The 100,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) facility is built on 2 acres (8,100 m2) of land and was originally built in 1941 as a World War II air defense center to coordinate radar installations. The studio was established in 1947 and its purpose kept secret. The studio consisted of a complete stage, 2 screening rooms, a helicopter landing pad, a bomb shelter and 17 climate controlled film vaults as well as, two underground parking garages. With the latest equipment the studio could process both 35 mm and 16 mm motion pictures as well as optical prints and still photographs. The nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site were filmed in various formats including CinemaScope, stereophonic sound, VistaVision and 3-D photography.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Personnel
2 Films
3 Residence
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
[edit]Personnel

The studio contained staff from many prominent studios alongside its military staff. Civilian personnel from Warner Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and RKO Pictures worked at the studio in functions such as producers, cameramen and directors.[1] W. Donn Hayes (1893-1973), coiner of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) title and past president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, worked at Lookout Mountain as his last career assignment; he had been in the film and television industries since 1916.[2] Peter G. Kuran worked at Lookout Mountain[3] before going on to an award-winning career involving both directing and visual effects work. In some cases, Kuran has brought footage of atomic tests developed at Lookout Mountain directly to his later work.
Field staff included photographers who were airmen assigned to the USAF 1352d Photographic Squadron,[4] formed out of the 4881st Motion Picture Squadron in 1952.[5] In the mid-1960s, Michael R. Potochick was the group commander.[3]
[edit]Films

A New Look at the H-bomb (H-bomb and Other Smash Hits). Part 1: A New look at the H-bomb; Part 2: Operation Cue; Part 3: United States Civil Defense in action; Part 4: Let's face it (produced by United States Air Force Lookout Mountain Laboratory Air Photographic and Charting Service); Part 5: What you should know about biological warfare (produced in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration). Produced by Reid H. Ray Film Industries, Inc.
Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio (Atomic Filmmakers) (VHS) updated and rereleased on DVD in 1999 as Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio - The Atomic Filmmakers. Directed by Peter Kuran. DVD includes the documentary Atomic Filmakers: Behind The Scenes.
Trinity and Beyond, (1995) documentary directed by Peter Kuran.
Nukes In Space (1999). The development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Directed by Peter Kuran.[6]
Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999). A tour of U.S. atomic test sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, and Alaska. Directed by Peter Kuran.[7]
Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents (2001). Documentary directed by Peter Kuran.[8]
[edit]Residence

Since its deactivation it has become part of the residential neighborhood which has surrounded it, and is presently the residence of a Municipal Court Commissioner and an artist.[9]
[edit]See also

First Motion Picture Unit
[edit]References

^ a b c US Department of Energy, Nevada Office. The Nevada Test Site's Secret Film Studio: Lookout Mountain (July 2006)
^ IMDb. Biography for W. Donn Hayes
^ a b International Combat Camera Association. ICCA Membership Roster
^ University of California, Berkeley. Media Resources Center, Moffett Library. Propaganda and Disinformation
^ USAF History. 1352nd Sq.
^ IMDb. Nukes In Space (1999)
^ IMDb. Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999)
^ IMDb. Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents (2001)
^ The Center For Land Use Interpretation. Lookout Mountain
[edit]External links

The Center For Land Use Interpretation. Map coordinates of Lookout Mountain.
California Literary Review. Peter Kuran. Images from How To Photograph An Atomic Bomb; some images of Lookout Mountain photographers at work