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Pt. 1 of 2
Illustrated globe or arctic, zoom in on Greenland showing location. Cut-away showing geological construction & ice-cap.
05:29:44 Title: The Story of Camp Century - City Under Ice.
05:29:54 Tracked snowcats, tractors, across ice, stop & men out. Capt. Tom Evans narrates, points out location to Col Kookering (sp?). Surveying ice plateau & placing marker flags. Views of ice cap w/ cracks, crevasses from air. Glacier runoff. Harbor w/ icebergs.
05:31:35 Gravel road w/ heavy trucks & tractors moving crates supplies to edge of ice cap & offloading to bobsleds. Equipment onto sleds. GIs into wooden cabins, wonegans. Wide tracked tractors pulling bobsled trains. Polecats loaded w/ men & supplies.
05;33:57 Light airplanes & helicopters taking off. Aerial over glaciers. Convoy underway.
05:34:22 Int. of wonegan kitchen w/ cook & meat on stove. Men eating, sleeping in bunks.
05:35:02 Planes arriving at surface camp, polecats, arctic huts. Men planning construction, diagram of camp shown dug into trenches. MCU Tom Evans briefing.
05:36:40 Cutting trenches w/ tractors; men placing supports on sides of trench for support of metal arched steel roof. Bricks of snow cut. Men finishing w/ shovels. Preparing support for floor, wooden beams. Laying prefabricated flooring, walls & ceilings & assembling w/ clips.
05:40:31 Electrical wiring installed. Entrance closed w/ bricks of snow after tunnel completed. Snow pushed in & escape hatches installed. Men entering tunnel seen from inside. Carpentry & barbershop inside hut. Sign: ...the only barber shop on the polar icecap.
05:41:52 Nuclear trenches being dug by tractors; steel arches over forty foot cut & installation of floor. Steel beams installed; piping installed for water & electrical wiring. Sewer lines installed. Well dug w/ steam hose for fresh water. High voltage lines installed; interior view of escape hatch. Continued...
USA Military Research; Nuclear Power; 1961; Army Corps of Engineers (?); Construction; Arctic Research Center;
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pt. 1 of 2 Illustrated globe or arctic, zoom in on Greenland showing location. Cut-away showing geological construction & ice-cap. 05:29:44 Title: The Story of Camp Century - City Under Ice. 05:29:54 Tracked snowcats, tractors, across ice, stop & men out. Capt. Tom Evans narrates, points out location to Col Kookering (sp?). Surveying ice plateau & placing marker flags. Views of ice cap w/ cracks, crevasses from air. Glacier runoff. Harbor w/ icebergs. 05:31:35 Gravel road w/ heavy trucks & tractors moving crates supplies to edge of ice cap & offloading to bobsleds. Equipment onto sleds. GIs into wooden cabins, wonegans. Wide tracked tractors pulling bobsled trains. Polecats loaded w/ men & supplies. 05;33:57 Light airplanes & helicopters taking off. Aerial over glaciers. Convoy underway. 05:34:22 Int. of wonegan kitchen w/ cook & meat on stove. Men eating, sleeping in bunks. 05:35:02 Planes arriving at surface camp, polecats, arctic huts. Men planning construction, diagram of camp shown dug into trenches. MCU Tom Evans briefing. 05:36:40 Cutting trenches w/ tractors; men placing supports on sides of trench for support of metal arched steel roof. Bricks of snow cut. Men finishing w/ shovels. Preparing support for floor, wooden beams. Laying prefabricated flooring, walls & ceilings & assembling w/ clips. 05:40:31 Electrical wiring installed. Entrance closed w/ bricks of snow after tunnel completed. Snow pushed in & escape hatches installed. Men entering tunnel seen from inside. Carpentry & barbershop inside hut. Sign: ...the only barber shop on the polar icecap. 05:41:52 Nuclear trenches being dug by tractors; steel arches over forty foot cut & installation of floor. Steel beams installed; piping installed for water & electrical wiring. Sewer lines installed. Well dug w/ steam hose for fresh water. High voltage lines installed; interior view of escape hatch. Continued... USA Military Research; Nuclear Power; 1961; Army Corps of Engineers (?); Construction; Arctic Research Center; NOTE: Card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk