1963 - Color, Cold War, USA: Space Race, Scatter Radar: Space Research From The Ground

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 21:00:14 Turning globe of planet earth. Montage: CU large dish radio-antenna slowly turning; CU solar flares; blue sky & clouds. 21:00:55 Animation showing ionosphere bouncing radio waves. 21:00:25 Rocket launch to place satellite into orbit. Animation showing Van Allen radiation belts; satellite circling globe; coastal rockets launched; man writing physics equations on blackboard; man at electronic console w/ oscilloscope; other technicians at work bench. 21:02:59 Ionosphere animation describing frequencies & effects. Model C4 Ionosonde being operated; graph of electronic density at various heights. Diagram of oxygen atoms w/ free electron detaching & oscillating w/ radio wave; animation of action on free electrons so as to be able to measure them. 21:05:08 LS Boulder, Colorado Central Radio Propagation Lab, National Bureau of Standards w/ traffic coming & going. 21:05:24 Physicist, Dr. Kenneth Bowles, doing calculations at blackboard as another watches. Animation. 21:06:17 1959 field site near Havana, Illinois w/ buildings & field antenna. Men looking at blue prints on round table, look at globe. Diagram of ideal location near equator. Illustration of pulsed radar signals & ions interacting; various interactions at different heights above globe w/ magnetic equator shown. 21:08:20 Montage: Lima, Peru w/ Government Palace & flag above; MCU w/ guards. Scenic shots of city buildings. Construction site; street scene of shops, sidewalks & pedestrians. Freighter unloading at dock; Braniff passenger jet w/ passengers boarding; suburban modern housing in Miraflores. GOOD. 21:09:40 Montage: CU sign: Instituto Geofisico Del Peru w/ men shaking hands outside; deep canyon & train enroute thru Andes to observatory. Snow capped peaks, llamas, village market activity & vendors; observatory w/ mirrored telescopes being operated. 21:11:37 Aerial of sand & seashore coastline; hills w/ fog; wide green irrigated valley; plane for location of Jicamarca Radio Observatory / JRO. Construction w/ large bulldozer moving rocks / boulders; installed diversion dam for mud flows. Erosion & boulders; surveying & installing antenna posts & connecting wiring. 21:13:31 Brick laying; hiring Peruvian workers. 21:14:55 Well-to-do management family housing & visiting, eating barbeque from lazy susan on patio table w/ Peruvians. Americans shopping in local fruit & vegetable market. 21:16:24 Exterior, completed large JRO building; interior man at patch panel console, men installing wiring in equipment racks. CUs. Classroom, training Peruvians by US engineer at blackboard. 21:17:27 Interior: large electrical transformer; man working on condensor bank of capacitors. Amplifier room & testing; water purification system; heat exchangers; tunnels w/ cables & plumbing pipes; control room monitoring. 21:19:51 Ext. installing piping to transmit signal; views & description of antenna field modules & power distribution. 21:21:05 Int. Dr. Bowles setting up & measuring electron density at oscilloscope & w/ Polaroid camera & viewer, CUs of photograph, chart / graph. 21:22:14 Views of antenna field from ground & above. LS. Turning glod 21:23:05 Credits; The End. 1960s Atmospheric Studies; Electronics; South America; Science; Scientists; Cold War; High Altitude Desert; NOTE: Entire sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk