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1951 - Cold War, Greenland: SAC Base Construction Preparations
Military montage & titles.
06:03:13 Sgt. James Mansfield introduction “greatest feat of military construction since WW2”.
06:03:31 Aerials of harbor of Greenland, ocean ice, mountains & glaciers.
06:04:23 Newspaper headline: Reds Press French In Indo-China. “...w/ Communist Aggression in full flood”; headline: Chinese Reds Advance In Korea; President Proclaims Emergency.
06:04:42 Pentagon interior w/ three civilians facing desk of Chief of Engineers Major General Lewis A. Pick w/ Major Knoll; Peter Kiewit, S.J. Groves, Joe Green airfield construction expert. SOF Pick: asks their help to the Corps of Engineers & describes job “...will have broken the iced waste of the far north.”
06:06:06 Illustration of North Pole on globe & Thule, Greenland animated pullback to show U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Europe & China.
06:06:32 Montage: Civilian men in white shirts & ties at drafting tables; steel mill furnace & sparks; woman operating overhead crane; men & women moving refrigerator panels; insulation for prefabrication of Clements (?) panels & fabricating. Tree falling for timber / lumber; sawmill; beams; steel trusses assembled by hand driving rivets; rolling sheet steel & moving panes. Unloading docks being converted from 8 LSTs made into dumb barges. Freight trains moving equipment into Norfolk, Virginia.
06:08:55 Men off bus w/ luggage & duffel bags in Rosemount, Minnesota & into office to sit up for cold weather construction labor; filling out paperwork, arc welding test, testing equipment, demonstration of arctic clothing on outdoor stage before group of workers & instruction in lifting safety & accident prevention.
06:09:49 LS Thule w/ men in field & Quonset huts & barracks in background. MCU Col Morton Solomen & men laying out site of buildings, constructing an Atwell Hut, prefabricated & shipped in single package. LS of large building & covering w/ tarp etc. Drilling for soil samples & permafrost shown.
06:10:58 Clearing ice on beach w/ dynamite.
06:11:12 Large supply yards in Norfolk w/ power shovels, graders, asphalt plant & other equipment. Loaded & waterproofed on shipboard.
Cold War Era; Arctic Construction; 1950s; Defense Planning; Strategic Air Command Base; SAC; Government Military Propaganda;
NOTE: Thule AB constructed in secret beginning 1951, announced in 1952 & completed in 1953.
NOTE: Partial or entire sold as single reel.
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1951 - Cold War, Greenland: SAC Base Construction Preparations Military montage & titles. 06:03:13 Sgt. James Mansfield introduction “greatest feat of military construction since WW2”. 06:03:31 Aerials of harbor of Greenland, ocean ice, mountains & glaciers. 06:04:23 Newspaper headline: Reds Press French In Indo-China. “...w/ Communist Aggression in full flood”; headline: Chinese Reds Advance In Korea; President Proclaims Emergency. 06:04:42 Pentagon interior w/ three civilians facing desk of Chief of Engineers Major General Lewis A. Pick w/ Major Knoll; Peter Kiewit, S.J. Groves, Joe Green airfield construction expert. SOF Pick: asks their help to the Corps of Engineers & describes job “...will have broken the iced waste of the far north.” 06:06:06 Illustration of North Pole on globe & Thule, Greenland animated pullback to show U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Europe & China. 06:06:32 Montage: Civilian men in white shirts & ties at drafting tables; steel mill furnace & sparks; woman operating overhead crane; men & women moving refrigerator panels; insulation for prefabrication of Clements (?) panels & fabricating. Tree falling for timber / lumber; sawmill; beams; steel trusses assembled by hand driving rivets; rolling sheet steel & moving panes. Unloading docks being converted from 8 LSTs made into dumb barges. Freight trains moving equipment into Norfolk, Virginia. 06:08:55 Men off bus w/ luggage & duffel bags in Rosemount, Minnesota & into office to sit up for cold weather construction labor; filling out paperwork, arc welding test, testing equipment, demonstration of arctic clothing on outdoor stage before group of workers & instruction in lifting safety & accident prevention. 06:09:49 LS Thule w/ men in field & Quonset huts & barracks in background. MCU Col Morton Solomen & men laying out site of buildings, constructing an Atwell Hut, prefabricated & shipped in single package. LS of large building & covering w/ tarp etc. Drilling for soil samples & permafrost shown. 06:10:58 Clearing ice on beach w/ dynamite. 06:11:12 Large supply yards in Norfolk w/ power shovels, graders, asphalt plant & other equipment. Loaded & waterproofed on shipboard. Cold War Era; Arctic Construction; 1950s; Defense Planning; Strategic Air Command Base; SAC; Government Military Propaganda; NOTE: Thule AB constructed in secret beginning 1951, announced in 1952 & completed in 1953. NOTE: Partial or entire sold as single reel. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk