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Preparedness And National Security Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221426-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 03:20:57

TC Ends: 03:32:45

Duration: 00:11:48

Preparedness And National Security Pt. 2 of 2 03:20:57 CU National Security Act of 1947 w/ Amendments of 1949 on cover page. Open to Title 1 - Coordination For National Secrity - National Security Council. MCU Truman at table w/ Council around him. Page turns to: Central Intelligence Agency. 03:21:28 High angle of Red Square & tanks, trucks, guns on parade w/ VIPs watching. 03:21:55 Scientist at microscope; factory w/ chimneys smoking. 03:21:59 Mao off railroad & shaking hands in USSR. Montage of signs of US intelligence agencies & divisions. Research analyst at work at desk. Truman & National Security Council. 03:22:33 Montage of WWII weapons: flame thrower, planes, boats, tanks, V-2 rocket fired, bazooka, homing torpedo launched, rockets launched from land & ships. Radar antenna infield. 03:23:09 Text: Highlighted Research And Development Board. Navy research lab experiments; aviation experiment. Montage of testing men & equipment. Equipment in wet, dry, hot, cold. Test chambers. Model of jet, testing prototype jet, moving radioactive material, men at radar stations; electronics tested & training. Launching balloon; teletype; camera from stratosphere & underwater. 03:25:34 Steel mill & heavy industry manufacturing; airplane, ship & tank construction. Military equipment. National Security Resources Board. Oil field derricks; coal train; tanks on flatcars past; moving crates on planes, trains, trucks, barges. Large pileline. Warehouse, loading ships. Workers out of factories. Women working. Kids playing. 03:27:14 Map of USA w/ shadows over bombers coming from northwest & explosive markers. Radar warning screen illustrated w/ animation. Meeting to plan ground observer corps. Training in desert & at maps. Bombed aftermath in Japan after atomic bomb. Water supply w/ leaking pipe freezing. Firefighting. 03:29:18 MCU Pamphlet: State Civil Defense Plan - Governors Committee Report. Meeting w/ Director of Civil Defense & assistants. Telephone operators; New Jersey State Police car & officer on phone. Dams & reservoirs. Workers out of war plants; nurses working. Civil Defense Meeting at table. 03:31:01 Fire trucks out, aerial & ground shots of large fires. Soldier dusting inside men’s pants & shirts w/ DDT. Women outside shacks at tent city washing clothes (1930s?). Men eating in tent. State Police & stretchers out of van. Geiger coutner & gas mask. Blood bank. Coast, plains, farms & mountain shots. Neighborhoods, town centers, aerial over Manhattan. Capitol, Truman before Congress, family at radio, farm laborers, factory, military Generals. Government military meeting. 20th Century Military History Overview; Educational Films; Propaganda; Cold War; Technology;

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