Pt. 2 of 2
Rocket / missile at entrance to Norton Air Force base w/ SBAMA on it. CU sign: Directorate Materiel Management tilt down to young civilian employees into building. Interior w/ man at control desk & large computer tape running in background. MCU from behind man at Electronic Data Processing Machine. CU cards going thru machine.
16:15:04 Aerial over AFB w/ planes parked outside large buildings & depots. Computer running; punched order cards put into transceiver & airman running a card to electronically transmit to be replicated at another site. CU tape drive running on IBM 704 computer.
16:15:43 Tracking shot past open electronic panels showing wiring, intercut w/ tape reels spinning. MCU of large printer, man stamping order form & dissolve to truck pulling newly missile under tarp out & along highway on handling trailer & into airplane. Arriving at squadron maintenance area.
16:17:07 Storage & Inspection building & nuclear warheads mounted & tested. Mated to missile. LS of liquid oxygen plant & trucks.
16:17:53 Crew out of building, MCU past. Air to air of B-52 turning away; ICBM launched. Men at desks writing, Major David Gardner, a launch control officer, & others taking notes from man at board at Convair Astronautics in San Diego. CUs of other trainees & instructors.
16:19:17 Entrance sign, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Cars arriving past card. Crewmen walking out of missile building, show papers. CU countdown time in launch operations building; MCU of control panel during training launch w/ officers monitoring.
16:21:00 Rocket launched; crew shaking hands. Buses arriving w/ crews for refresher training; sitting in large theater / room. :Launch failure w/ rocket engulfed in fireball & explosion. Men fueling rocket w/ liquid oxygen.
16:22:24 Montage: support groups of supply, communications, air police, cooks, administrative personnel.
16:22:56 Colonel Jim arriving at missile building “the first day of a nuclear war”. Sky & clouds; radar dome in arctic; mapping on transparent map at Colorado Springs; cars thru gate w/ sign: Offutt Air Force Base. Men working in SACs underground control room at red telephones, television monitors, computer printing working, men at tracking oscilloscopes; CU faces; digital clock; computer reels; switch panels, klaxon horn, switches
thrown.
16:25:40 B52 bombers taking off over camera; missile raised & carrier pulled back.
16:26:12 Officer on red telephone. Instructions given over loudspeaker; crews at work; buttons; countdown; CUs of eyes, buttons; MLS of rocket launched. Dissolve to man thinking before getting out of car; walking thru construction.
16:28:05 USAF truck w/ label Mobile APCHE (MAPCHE) arriving. Aerial over large hardened missile sites under construction, view into shaft w/ reinforcing rod in place.
16:28:45 Titan ICBM rocket w/ construction around it & test firing. POV train along rails & brief shot of Union Pacific train past w/ fuel tank cars & khaki colored enclosed cars.
16:29:17 CU missile pin on uniform, dissolving to LS firing of missile in desert. The End.
1960s; Cold War; Military Nuclear Weapons; Training; Testing;
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Pt. 2 of 2 Rocket / missile at entrance to Norton Air Force base w/ SBAMA on it. CU sign: Directorate Materiel Management tilt down to young civilian employees into building. Interior w/ man at control desk & large computer tape running in background. MCU from behind man at Electronic Data Processing Machine. CU cards going thru machine. 16:15:04 Aerial over AFB w/ planes parked outside large buildings & depots. Computer running; punched order cards put into transceiver & airman running a card to electronically transmit to be replicated at another site. CU tape drive running on IBM 704 computer. 16:15:43 Tracking shot past open electronic panels showing wiring, intercut w/ tape reels spinning. MCU of large printer, man stamping order form & dissolve to truck pulling newly missile under tarp out & along highway on handling trailer & into airplane. Arriving at squadron maintenance area. 16:17:07 Storage & Inspection building & nuclear warheads mounted & tested. Mated to missile. LS of liquid oxygen plant & trucks. 16:17:53 Crew out of building, MCU past. Air to air of B-52 turning away; ICBM launched. Men at desks writing, Major David Gardner, a launch control officer, & others taking notes from man at board at Convair Astronautics in San Diego. CUs of other trainees & instructors. 16:19:17 Entrance sign, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Cars arriving past card. Crewmen walking out of missile building, show papers. CU countdown time in launch operations building; MCU of control panel during training launch w/ officers monitoring. 16:21:00 Rocket launched; crew shaking hands. Buses arriving w/ crews for refresher training; sitting in large theater / room. :Launch failure w/ rocket engulfed in fireball & explosion. Men fueling rocket w/ liquid oxygen. 16:22:24 Montage: support groups of supply, communications, air police, cooks, administrative personnel. 16:22:56 Colonel Jim arriving at missile building “the first day of a nuclear war”. Sky & clouds; radar dome in arctic; mapping on transparent map at Colorado Springs; cars thru gate w/ sign: Offutt Air Force Base. Men working in SACs underground control room at red telephones, television monitors, computer printing working, men at tracking oscilloscopes; CU faces; digital clock; computer reels; switch panels, klaxon horn, switches thrown. 16:25:40 B52 bombers taking off over camera; missile raised & carrier pulled back. 16:26:12 Officer on red telephone. Instructions given over loudspeaker; crews at work; buttons; countdown; CUs of eyes, buttons; MLS of rocket launched. Dissolve to man thinking before getting out of car; walking thru construction. 16:28:05 USAF truck w/ label Mobile APCHE (MAPCHE) arriving. Aerial over large hardened missile sites under construction, view into shaft w/ reinforcing rod in place. 16:28:45 Titan ICBM rocket w/ construction around it & test firing. POV train along rails & brief shot of Union Pacific train past w/ fuel tank cars & khaki colored enclosed cars. 16:29:17 CU missile pin on uniform, dissolving to LS firing of missile in desert. The End. 1960s; Cold War; Military Nuclear Weapons; Training; Testing;