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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221483-03
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1988
Country: Kenya,USA
Location: Arizona,Montana,Navajo Nation,West Yellowstone,Wyoming
TC Begins: 13:25:31
TC Ends: 13:39:58
Duration: 00:14:27
1988 - Color, USA Unid. Magazine Format Film: Yellowstone Fire; Sun Research; Navajo Contractors; Mission San Marco NASA title montage w/ animation. Streamlined civilian helicopter w/ city behind. Astronaut working in space. 13:25:52 Segment title: Saving Yellowstone. Ames Research Center Jet Propulsion Lab. 13:26:02 Brightly burning forest fire at night. Plane dropping bright red chemicals seen from ground; trucks & men thru smoke. Aerial of fire in distance & plane pulling back from huge smoke cloud beyond West Yellowstone, Montana, 1988. 13:26:40 Man & woman a map & light table plotting hot spots seen from satellite. More fire footage, men cleaning up. Color pictures from aerial C-130 & ER-2 observatory planes to get infrared pictures. 13:28:11 Fire burning heavily & men watching from close by. 13:28:38 Combined red, green & blue channels put together for natural colors explained showing fire. Infrared shows what has burned, is burning & will burn. Men in planes & aerials from plane. Men looking at photos; heavy fire. 13:29:49 Segment Title: Unmasking The Sun 13:29:58 Sunset; CU on sun. Dr. Thomas Duvall, Kitt Peak National Observatory, looks at sun thru telescope. Largest solar telescope with light projected from top of tower to reflected image into control room. 13:31:36 Sun flares shown w/ bright eruptions. Zoom in on earth. Marshall Space Center, Richard Hoover & others in clean room using x-ray telescope to study sun. 13:32:25 Solar turbulence shown from Solar Maximum satellite, repaired and moving away. Shuttle lifting off. Talking about 1990 launch of Ulysses & animation. Satellites; flares; sunset. 13:33:35 Segment Title: Ancient Skills... Modern Use. Johnson Space Flight Center. 13:33:47 Pull back from rainbow over SW butte & green desert. Navajo land of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico & Arizona w/ rivers, cliffs & logging, agriculture harvesting onions. Hogans & woman weaving rug. 13:34:53 Women sewing at NASA clothing at Navajo owned Henry Hillson Company making NASA blue jump suits. Various NASA technicians & astronauts in the suits. Peter MacDonald (Navajo Code Talker, 15 yr. chairman of Navajo Nation, 1989 attempted take-over of Navajo Nation & sentenced to prison, pardoned by out-going Pres. Clinton) speaking in front of Window Rock: “Navajo means business”. Shuttle lift off. 13:36:06 Segment Title: Mission San Marco. Goddard Space Flight. 13:36:16 Goddard Space Flight Center Sunrise in Kenya eastern Africa; elephants & leopard. Sun & clouds. Dhow on Indian Ocean, fishermen taking down sail, others moving past. San Marco launch site w/ engineers from Italy & USA going out to off shore platforms where NASA Scout Rocket is being ready to launch an Italian built satellite; instruments from various nations are put into it. 13:38:27 Santa Rita platform is launch control center; technicians at consols & countdown, CU watching. Night launch w/ rocket rising. Mission San Marco. NASA logo Scenics Beauty Shots; Fire disaster; Research; American Indians; Economics; Third World; Promotion; 1980s;