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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220719-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944
Country: USA
Location: Fisher island
TC Begins: 20:45:18
TC Ends: 20:54:55
Duration: 00:09:37
OSS - Campbell Missile Part three Shows series of tests on waterborne missile "Campbell” remotely controlled by radio and television. Disguised boat leaving dock. Plane in flight - interiors showing crew member using television monitoring. Operator takes over radio control of “fishing boat”. Two man crew which had taken boat out picked up from sea. AV missile boat i/cut with interiors of plane and crew members controlling boat. B-17 in flight over sea. Actual pictures as seen on TV receiver of missile boat, compass in F/G. Target ship the freighter San Pablo seen. I/cut shots from missile boat and air views as missile approaches target. Some in slow motion. 20:50:12 Missile boat hits tanker target - television pictures lost. Shots from camera ship at about a mile distance as scuttling charges explode. Huge explosion and plume of water as depth charges explode. Freighter sinking. 20:51:52 Navy frogmen dive to inspect damage. Underwater shots (poor) Frogman pulled out of water. 20:53:01 Slo-mo aerial shots of test. Inventions WWII