1968 - Color, Strategic Air Command Semi-Annual Film Report, Feb - July, 1968

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. SAC Automated Command And Control System SACCS. B-52s taking off overhead w/ minimum time between (MITO minimum Interval Takeoff), ca 15 seconds w/ heavy pollution out of engines. 06:31:35 Int. of w/ console of technicians in front of phones & buttons & wall w/ US, western hemisphere & USSR - Alaska maps. 06:31:45 LS Tarmac w/ van in front of B-52; MS men looking at wheels & hydraulic leak found. Crewman calls on radiophone who writes work order & calls Command Post Wing Commander. 06:32:40 Database updated & change status known in HQ. CU HQ computer monitor listing problem. 06:33:33 Title: Giant Plow. 351st Strategic Missile Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri testing Giant Plow reliability tests on closures after being closed for long periods in all kinds of weather. Installing electronic testing equipment on top of Minuteman Missile silo. DoD Safety personnel monitor; Lt. Colonel Charles S.Cooey (sp?) w/ bullhorn. Men in truck operating trigger for test. 06:34:53 Heavy surface door slides opens into heavy barrier; views from several sides & slow motion hitting barrier. Men inspecting open silo, view of missile nose. 06:35:48 LS missile launching firing - title: Glass Pole. Separation of stages against darkness w/ twilight phenomenon reflects sunlight from gas crystals. SAC & Logistics Command Project Glass Pole to test performance of components previously exposed to extremely low & extremely high temperatures. 06:37:01 Title: Crested Ice. 21Jan68 Aerial over SAC B-52 Crash site, Thule, Greenland. MCU unidentified wreckage (engine parts?) in snow w/ footprints around; wheel. 06:37:29 Men pulling on cold weather clothing & boots, outside barracks. Aerial over recovery crews; men on ground w/ shovels scraping up tiny pieces & others picking up pieces & putting in bags. Sign: Welcome to Camp Hunziker on base camp near accident site. Men carrying geiger counters following grader scraping snow; loaders carrying piled snow & dumping in steel containers for shipping. Crane lifting containers & aerial over large recovery site. GOOD. 06:38:49 Title: Grissom AFB Indiana. Control Tower & sign: Bunker Hill Air Force Base. 12May68 renamed Grissom AFB. Large welcome sign w/ 305th Bomb Wing, traffic on road behind. 06:39:08 High angle across runway w/ large planes (B-52s) and many people walking around. Renamed for first Air Force astronaut; speakers stand w/ widow, parents & brothers standing to applause. Assistant Secretary of Air Force Thomas Neilsen at microphones, MOS. 06:39:52 Rocket launch. 23Mar65 Grissom w/ John Young into cockpit & lift-off. 06:40:50 Strategic Air Command B-58 (?) bombers taking off l. to r. 06:41:05 Entrance sign & traffic. Continued... Nuclear Accidents; Incidents; Clean-Up; Denmark; Military Testing; Honoring; NOTE: Partial or entire sold as single reel, however may take any continuous 12 minutes of two cards 06:30:26 - 06:53:53 at per reel rate if requested. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk