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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221755-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL and SD
Year / Date: 1950s
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 16:25:04
TC Ends: 16:35:06
Duration: 00:10:02
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1950s - Cold War, USAF: Military Aviation Development: Radar, Rockets & Missiles Triple rudder four-engine military plane, no 756 on nose, Constellation (?); w/ radar dome above & below. Interior w/ men at electronic consoles (brief). Parachute into ocean. Men at consoles watching oscilloscopes, CUs, plotting on maps. 16:26:32 Aerial above freighter; low over freighter w/ helicopter on stern & cargo stacked. Int. Man at electronic console & teletypewriter. 16:26:46 (excerpt from film on Cuban Missile Crisis) Sd (narration explaining coast & gulf under surveillance of constant ADC radar, airborne radar on RC-121’s & space track facilities). Aerial above airstrip. Ground shot of radar dish turning, radar dome w/ geodesic cover. 16:26:56 Air to air AF Constellation w/ radar dome on top, over water, coastline in background. Radar dish on top of trailer; dish on tower; CU dish turning. 16:27:14 Black 16:27:17 Sd. (narration re captured V-2 missiles) Sign: White Sands Proving Grounds w/ desert & road behind. Gantry tower pulled away from V-2 missile, man counting down & rocket launched. POV camera, radar tracking. 16:28:04 MS air to air, l. to r., F-86 (?) fighter jet in flight & launching several missiles / rockets. 16:28:18 Falcon missile launched ?? from fighter jet *& hitting target jet. The Genie unguided missile / rocket launched from fighter jet. 16:28:47 Matador, USAF ground to ground guided missile, on trailer, seen fired from in blockhouse; Mace launched from tunnel in mountainside. Snark SM-62 missile, world’s first intercontinental missile, on trailer pulled from hanger building & launched. 16:30:05 Pilotless interceptor, Bomarc, unloaded from nose of USAF transport plane & launched by rocket. Two B-47 (?) bombers in flight; B-52 on flight line & taxiing, several taking off overhead. 16:31:46 Airmen in control room at consoles, & w/ large video screens. 16:32:00 Thor missile fueled & launched. 16:32:37 X-10 Test missile taking off from dry lake bed; X-17 launched & tracked w/ telescope. 16:33:15 1955. Atlas missile & control room during launching, CUs. Seen from behind tracking cameras; in flight. Montage of Air Force missiles launched. The End. Military Weapons; Testing; Promotion; Cold War; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk