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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250225-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1967,1960s
Country: United Kingdom,USA,USSR
Location: California,Cambridge,Great Falls,Harvard,Malmstrom AFB,Massachusetts,Montana,Washington
TC Begins: 22:45:08
TC Ends: 22:55:35
Duration: 00:10:27
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1967 - Cold War, USA ICBMs. R1 of 2 Card 2 of 3 Blast proof door slowly opened & crew enters tunnel into control center. 22:45:43 MS Commander Dowton listening, testing & evaluating crew commander & deputy. 22:46:24 Landscape shot; crew in underground silo checking dials etc. CU sign: Cover Sheet For Confidential Information. Tape recording deck for SAC HQ messages. Red box which contains secret codes for launch of missiles, double padlocked. Pre-recorded voice reporting on current status of each missile, temperatures, etc. Outside shots at ground level of silos & pan down inside of missile. Two man team / crew working at consoles in silo, alarm test & others buttons, controls & 24 hr clock in CU w/ voice over by crewmen. 22:49:37 CU Low Angle Clock face at 9:00; striking bell, Harvard University building & college students walk on campus. Economics Professor Thomas Schelling, strategic analyst & developer of teletype hotline, crossing campus, MS to CU. 22:50:21 CUs Professor giving lecture re arms race & process of warfare; students take notes, CUs. He says “missile gap” in retrospect apparently was never there; reacting to what is thought to exist. 22:52:03 Exterior of Harvard Center For International Affairs. Interior, scholars & researchers working at tables. Prof. Schelling smoking pipe & writing at desk; talks on telephone. Books. Reading & marking papers. 22:53:16 Prof. Schelling in airplane, looking out window. Brief shots Washington Capitol building. California - Rand Corporation - think tank re defence studies. POV past Pentagon; out of car & entering Department of Defense. Interiors people walking along corridors. 22:54:06 Military officer talking of a hypothetical situation set in 1970 where an unknown country has violated the test ban treaty and there has been an atomic explosion at sea. As Scheller listens & talks of who set it off, why, and what to do about it; view around table of think tank. Cold War; Nuclear Deterrent; 1960s; Nobel Prize Winner; Politics; Peace; Security; NOTE: Any continuous 16 minutes of reel 22:33:50 - 23:05:58 cards) sold at per reel rate). NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk