1957 - Military Navy Promotional Film: Navy Frogmen, The

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1957 - Military Navy Promotional Film: Navy Frogmen, The Front view of small craft underway, MCU of frogmen into rubber raft & then into water. Large beach explosion, line of explosions. 20:45:43 Navy frogmen / UDT in boat. CU sailor. Underwater Demolition Team / UDT training: group of recruits in life-jackets crawl on sandy beach during “so solly day”. Explosions around recruits in various situations. 20:46:39 Muddy recruits w/ cans of food; crawling thru mud. 20:47:03 Ext view of New London, Connecticut training tower. 20:47:18 Recruits in swimming suits get ready; sit in pressure chamber. Instructions, rising / floating up thru water in training tower from various depths, blowing bubbles out. 20:49:13 Pirelli breathing tank tested; aqualung tested, diving & swimming past mural of mermaid. 20:50:24 Marching out in swimsuits w/ flippers & aqualungs at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In boat, underwater compass course & swimming w/ buddies in pairs past coral, fish. 20:51:44 Montage: watching from surface boats; boat hurries & pulls in / rescues swimmer. 20:52:28 Calisthenics & exercising; marching. CU steaks, eating at mess table. 20:53:04 Training from rubber rafts alongside speeding boat; retrieving swimmers in wake. Repeated. 20:54:08 Boat alongside submarine & boarding. Submarine on surface; inside briefing. View of bow in water & deck underwater. Frogmen exiting while underwater seen from outside hatch; inside & closing hatch. MCU swimmers following compass on wrist. Find submarine & return into hatch. 20:58:06 Checking equipment in submarine on another training mission, leaving w/ Pirelli lungs for shallow depth night swim. Exit submarine; swim; return into submarine. 21:00:03 Swimmers sitting on sandy bottom, remove equipment; practice underwater martial arts / judo. 21:00:39 Trainees drinking beer & listening to Calypso steel drum band. 21:01:01 Sailors in dress white uniforms ashore on Liberty / Leave sightseeing as tourists. 21:01:44 Underwater spearfishing as recreation; pulls caught grouper out of cave & up to boat. Other underwater fish, coral, swimming w/ spearguns & spearing various fish & knifing shark. 21:05:07 Recruits take final swim test on compass course; into boats, compasses set, readied & into water in pairs. Underwater swimming: fish, coral, bubbles. 21:10:57 Pairs out of water & walk onto beach; scorekeeper. 21:12:01 Further training in simulated combat: planting charges on beach & leaving, pick-up by rubber rafts. Large explosion. Summary montage of underwater shots. The End. Propaganda; 1950s; Cold War; Hell Week; Special Forces; NOTE: Any continuous fifteen minutes fo card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk