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Coast Guard instructs boaters to return to harbor due to small craft warnings.

Film: Seconds For Survival. Actor Raymond Massey introduces film. Very small, 2-person sail boats on a bay. A teletype message is sent to affected East Coast stations, issuing small craft warnings due to approaching storm. Coast Guard station receives the message and dispatches patrol boat to warn boaters in the bay. They intercept the little sail boats and hail them with instructions to return to the harbor. The storm arrives bringing strong winds and waves at the waterfront.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044150
The North American Air Defense (NORAD) System at work, on land, sea, and in the air.

A radar antenna turning inside an early warning system radar's geodesic spherical cover. Information from early warning system radars being shown on the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters displays, in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. A NORAD radar site. An early warning radar site on an off-shore platform, A U.S. Air Force EC-121 Lockheed Constellation Warning Star aircraft in flight. A U.S. Navy ship equipped with early warning radar. View of NORAD Headquarters Command Center.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044157
The North American Air Defense (NORAD) system at work.

North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. NORAD Commander, USAF General Lawrence S. Kuter and Canadian Deputy enter the control room. Airman reads incoming teletype message and updates data on status board. View of a NORAD building. Air Defense controllers viewing radar screens. Two F-102 fighter intercepters are scrambled. They fire air-to-air missiles. A BOMARC missile is fired. Nike missiles are fired.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044158
Cold War defense and readiness exercise and dramatization. U.S. launches Intercontinental Ballistic missiles

Dramatization of Cold War defense exercise: The White House in Washington DC. Duty officer in NORAD Headquarters Command Center war room at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs speaks on telephone. Orders transmitted to SAC Missile control centers. Close-up view of a small black box control with label "Warning circuit - Hand off" with lights and two switches between settings, "War" and "Key" and the other says "GRP" and "Key". A silo containing a Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is opened. The missile is launched. Civilian officials in White House monitor the situation. Civilian police officers are notified. Early 1960s view of pedestrians and traffic on busy streets and sidewalks of New York City. People on city streets going about their business. A NYC Transit Authority Mack bus goes by, with slogan on its side "Ride The Surface Way".

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044160
Dramatization of North American Air Defense (NORAD) operations involving U.S. and Canadian military.

Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044163
Dramatization of Strategic War events. North American Air Defense (NORAD) and U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) assets deploy

Cold war exercise dramatization showing actions by NORAD (North American Air Defense) control room (war room) staff in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and Strategic Air Command (SAC) in missile defense response to enemy attack. A Navy ship's captain reports enemy detected on radar. NORAD pilots run to Royal Canadian interceptor aircraft and take off. NORAD Commander, U.S. Air Force General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy seen in NORAD Command Post. They phone another 4-star general who picks up a red phone to call the White House. SAC bombers are seen in flight. U.S. Air Defense F-102 interceptors are scrambled.

Date: 1962
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044164