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International Ice Patrol R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250148-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947,1949

Country: Canada,Greenland,USA

Location: Greenland,Labrador,North Atlantic

TC Begins: 08:00:08

TC Ends: 08:10:55

Duration: 00:10:47

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 08:00:44 Funnel, mast, lookout on Coast Guard cutter Mendota (WHEC69) on International Ice Patrol. Bridge, iceberg in fog. CU w/ waves against it. Captain looking thru binoculars. Heavy fog. 08:02:16 Overhead shot of 3-stack liner in good weather on open sea. Shipboard activities: shuffleboard, reading in sun, waiters serving tourists in deck chairs, etc. 08:02:48 Liner’s bridge w/ lookout, captain. Baby in blanket on deck, mothre in heavy coats & others bundle up against wind, fog. Many going indoors. 08:03:57 Captain passing bridge. 08:04:09 Diagram of North Atlantic & shipping, icebergs, etc. 08:04:52 Glaciers at edge of water, Greenland mountains. Calving glaciers falling into ocean. POV past small bergs; overhead shots. 08:06:19 Four-engine plane low over ocean. Interior w/ pilot, navigators. 08:06:36 Steam engine pulling railroad cars on shore. Door: operations room. Men at maps; CU teletype. 08:07:13 Pilots in patrol plane, POV over iceberg; plane overhead. Over cutter. 08:08:01 Man setting up radiosone on deck & released w/ helium balloon for weather reporting. Men receiving data. 08:08:38 Man deploying bathythermograph over side of cutter. Sailors watch & retrieve, remove recorder. 08:09:22 Patrol plane overhead; pilot & co-pilot in cockpit; aerial over twin-masted fishing boat. Spot large iceberg; call on radio. Radio operator & telegraph key. 08:10:21 Door: Coast Guard Ice Patrol Office. Int. w/ Commander Floyd M. Soule & Commandor Perkins & ??. Charting / plotting location on map. 08:10:48 Cutter from water. Abrupt end to reel. Post-WW2; Monitoring; 1947 (filming date); Weather; NOTE: Soule was oceanographer & chief scientist for the International Ice Patrol, 1933 thru 1963. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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