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Einstein smokes a pipe while talking with Szilard, Princeton 1939

Name: Einstein smokes a pipe while talking with Szilard, Princeton 1939
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T23:59:57.086Z
Duration: 22 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)

On the veranda of his house in Princeton, Albert Einstein sits in 1939 with a pipe in his mouth next to Leo Szilard, written pages of the letter draft lying before them. The conversation belongs to the final deliberations before the finished version of the letter, which Einstein signed on 2 August 1939. Delivered via economist Alexander Sachs, the letter only reached President Roosevelt in October 1939 and prompted the creation of an advisory uranium committee, from which the Manhattan Project later emerged.

Period: c. 1939–1955
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE009743
Length: 0' 22"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 506,261,396 bytes

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