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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221716-03
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1972
Country: USA
Location: Nebraska,Offutt AFB
TC Begins: 16:24:28
TC Ends: 16:40:41
Duration: 00:16:13
Grain fields in breeze, Nebraska prairie; river valley & tilt up to sky. 16:25:15 B/W Air to air, bombers in formation, beneath & inside w/ bombardier at bombsight; bombs released & dropping seen from within plane & outside; hitting factory w/ explosion. Explosions of bomb run seen from ground. 16:25:40 Heavy black smoke roiling up & fire fighters running to it (Ploesti?); fighting oil storage tank fire & rail yard. Destruction. 16:25;58 B-29 past Mt. Rainier (?); view from nose of plane. Nuclear bomb falling (?). Color test footage & effect on buildings etc. at Nevada Test Site w/ mushroom cloud rising. 16:26:23 Pan across sky to Air Force USAF Strategic Air Command Headquarters sign on Headquarters. 16:26:47 Title. 16:26:55 Moving camera, guard at rigid attention, points camera to information desk; identification checked against computer printout by Black officer & i.d. returned. POV through hallways; past other check points. 16:28:09 High angle of long console w/ men seated; wall of screens in front of them. Computer wall screen seen w/ text, changing; officer watching. Tilt down to Senior Controller, a colonel, w/ ribbons & awards. 16:29:05 Line of colored telephones hanging on hooks next to buttons. Gold phone seen beyond Controller; Red Phone & Grey Phone next to buttons; CU Red phone, tilt down to buttons labeled Alert, Klaxon, etc. 16:29:46 Controller picks up grey line. Air to air MCU B-52, Controller inter cut w/ CUs of pilot, co-pilot etc. wearing oxygen masks. 16:30:20 Aerial over arctic radar antennas & man walking past MEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System; antenna; computer screen; Controller. Ext. geodesic dome, int. radar turning inside. Assistants to the Controller at console, talking on telephones, w/ log books. 16:31:44 Aerials of camouflaged fighter jets refueling in flight above clouds. GOOD. 16:32:12 Men loading weapons onto planes on airstrip. Men on telephone; telephone operators - women & men - at console plugging connections together. Men at console passing paper; talking in MS. 16:33:25 SOF “Major Burton, will you give us a maintenance test of the primary alerting system?” Move in on red phone, CU taken off the hook; man talks into it. 16:33:53 Aerial over five B-52s parked. Crew sitting reading, playing guitar, laugh. Missile silo lid lifting seen from outside & inside. Men talk. Console w/ men at work. Pushing buttons. 16:35:02 35mm film in machine; CU buttons on wall changing from red to green & back. Stacks of stretchers. 16:35:44 Plane taxiis; Operation Looking Glass w/ EC-135C taking off over camera. Men on board air-borne command post operating as ground post. Aerial shots. CUs of HQ desks, phones; pan over console, men working. Computer print out. Men run to vans, to planes, taking off. Controllers working. The End. WWII; WW2; Cold War; 1960s; 1963 (?); Military Propaganda; SAC NOTE: VERY GOOD color & coverage.