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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221204-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950s
Country: USA
Location: Fort Worth,Texas
TC Begins: 16:06:46
TC Ends: 16:13:55
Duration: 00:07:09
Target: Peace R1 of 2 Produced by Consolidated Vultee. Dedicated to US 8th Air Force, Strategic Air Command... Montage: Mule pulling grain wagon & harvesting w/ combine; logs into log pond; oil drilling & refinery. Man looking thru filter at furnace. 16:07:49 Montage Recreation w/ basketball, baseball & rocky coast beach scene. Downtown street scenes w/ medium city w/ pedestrians; night of large city & neon lights & cars. University, church & suburb w/ man putting golf bag into Studebaker. Couple gardening & daughter comes & gets coin. Look up and flight of ten or so B-36 planes over. 16:08:58 Aerial & ground shot of plant where B-36 built, Ft. Worth, Texas. Int. constructing planes, workers thru gates. Management, Floyd Odlum & Lamont Kohue (?) at table talking w/ others. Air Force officers; draftsmen & women office workers. Toolmakers working at machinery. 16:09:58 Tracking shot over assembly line of B-36; crane moving wing section; pilots canopy moved & fitted. Riveters; working inside the plane. Planes near completion w/ motors mounted. Men working on tail of plane dwarfed by size. Chow train brought onto floor for meals. 16:11:29 Twin engine plane cranked; Wright brothers in biplane taking off. Diagram showing distance of first flight as half wingspan of B-36. Pearl Harbor newspaper headline. Hap Arnold at desk. 16:12:15 Hanger door opening for roll-out of B-36 pulled by small tractors while sitting on cradles. Aerial of Carswell Air Force Base AFB on opposite of field from Consolidated. Logos on building for 8th AF. 16:13:14 Gen. Roger Ramey speaking to officers in front of room. CU men listening. Others training in servicing the B-36 bomber. Starting motors on field. Cold War; Leisure; 1950s; Propaganda; Americana; Family;