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1950s - Cold War: Vandenberg - Aerospace Air Force Base: Establishment, 1954-1958

Reel Number: 221743-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: USA

Location: California,San Luis Obispo,Vandenberg AFB

TC Begins: 21:00:02

TC Ends: 21:14:31

Duration: 00:14:29

Title 21:00:51 Blue sky w/ light clouds. 21:01:05 Tilt down to ICBM rocket. Cut to rocket w/ workers at base; dissolve to large truck & convoy pulling two rockets past entrance sign: Vandenberg Air Force Base Pine Canyon Gate 1/2 mile. 21:01:46 Int. Rocket construction w/ workers; Rocket in test stand w/ workers around rocket. Others including launch. 21:02:37 Engineers in control bunker at Eniwetok; CU gauges; explosion w/ fireball. 21:03:09 Entrance. Ballistic missile firing. Conference room w/ men looking at photographs etc. Man walking over field at Vandenberg Air Force Base, pan of hillside & rolling countryside 21:04:06 Woman walking out of military barracks housing 1st Missile Division, pan to sign: Headquarters 1st Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Major General Wade out of HQ. 21:04:22 Instructor in front of class, MCU officers listening. Other training sessions w/ models. CUs. Graduation. Working on missiles, assembly, maintenance, electronics w/ switches. 21:05:18 Nov58. Truck pulling Thor rocket on trailer backed onto launch pad; vertical w/ vapor rising 16Dec58 rocket launch of first operational missile. C U, slow motion. CU men satisfied men in control room intercut; British Royal Air Force observers pointing. 21:06:24 Missile followed out of sight. 21:06:38 Truck & transporter w/ Atlas missile past Pine Canyon Gate, backing to building. Int. building w/ man at Automatic Programmed Checked Out Equipment, APCHE console, of mainframe computer. Punched cards of programmer used for printout of test of missile functioning. Rocket, gantry removed, 09Sep59, CU operations controller at SAC HQ, Omaha w/ red telephone talks w/ Vandenberg controller & buttons pushed, countdown w/ technicians watching. 21:08:49 First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launched. 21:09:10 ICBM on pad w/ workers; various pads w/ workers shown. Aerial over rocket pad. Assembly of rockets. Missile training squadron walking down metal fabricated tunnel. Launch of Titan (?) rocket. 21:10:37 Spectators, Edwards AFB, watching firing of Minuteman from underground silo - failure. Rocket on transporter. LS of housing at Vandenberg. Aerial past rocket in gantry; Atlas w/ nose capsule raised. 21:11:32 Structure & horizontal Atlas missile, raised to firing position. View of hardened missile silo under construction. Titan raised out of silo; technicians at consoles, various rockets; rocket firing(s). 21:13:06 Montage: Sign: Headquarters, 1st Missile Division... Officers out of doorway, saluting; workers at rocket on gantry, training, computer, views of rocket assembly; rocket raised, views. The End. Air Force History; Rocketry; 1950s Cold War Defense; Guided Missiles; Propaganda; Military Pornography;

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