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Firemen direct water on a fire and control it in a house in the United States.

Safety in everyday life in the United States. Exterior of a house in upscale suburb in the United States. Man, woman and their child inside the house. Housewife sitting in chair sewing, and a boy child lying on the rug in a room, reading. A man working in office in another room. He carelessly throws a cigarette in an ash tray and comes out of the room. He sits with his family. The other room catches fire because of the burning cigarette. The woman calls the fire department. Firemen arrive and fire fighters extinguish the fire with water from fire hoses.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062842
Description of North American Air Defense system components and operation

Actor Raymond Massey talks about the nation's need for defense against possible air attack. He walks to a large wall map depicting North America and discusses joint efforts of Canada and the United States to establish an effective air defense system for North America. On the map, lines of radar stations are shown: The DEW line;Mid Canada line; and the Pine Tree line. Other radar installations are highlighted along East and West coasts on land, on towers in the ocean, on picket ships and on picket aircraft. Sites of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) network of radars, computer systems, and aircraft command and control equipment are depicted on the U.S. part of the map. The headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) at Colorado Springs, Colorado is highlighted. Massey points to models of intercepter missiles and long range bombers, on his desk, and discusses their employment. He then speaks of an intricate communications system to tie everything together. This is depicted on the animated map. Views of men laying telephone cable. Underground view of telephone cables. View of telephone microwave tower. Telephone poles and lines along a rural road. A mother and child telephoning the father long distance. Office workers using telephones. Teletype machines and television communications. A ship laying telephone cable at sea.Map depicts lines of communication provided by undersea cables. views of emergency supplies and equipment available in times of disaster. Downed power lines being repaired. Men at a large emergency diesel generator. Underground communication cables being installed by team of tracked vehicles. Remote lines of communication away from possible targets are depicted.

Date: 1959
Duration: 5 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062843
Construction of the DEW Line system of early warning radar sites

Narrator, actor Raymond Massey, sitting at a desk, covered with models of intercepter missiles, discusses the role played by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Bell telephone, and Western Electric, in creating the communications undergirding the North American Air Defense System. Scene shifts to arctic and view of a Dew Line site in the snow. A Pacific Western DC-3 airplane lands on snow runway, and a ship moves through icy waters, both carrying personnel and equipment for construction of the polar early warning system. A tractor hauls cargo for the project over snowy terrain. Supplies being air-dropped from a commercial C-82 Packet aircraft. Aerial view of a depot filled with supples for the DEW line project. Carpenters and other construction workers employed on the project in severe cold and windy conditions. A man making his way toward a wooden building, during a blizzard. Men installing tall steel towers at a DEW line site on a sunny day in summer. Exterior panels being placed on the geodesic dome covering a DEW line radar antenna.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062844
Defense Early Warning radar sites (DEW Line), White Alice communications systems, and North American Air Defense (NORAD)

Aerial views of Dew Line air defense radar installations in the Northern part of North America. Ground views of a man dressed in furs riding a dog sled. View from the sled of the dog team pulling it. The man and dog team moving in the snow past black microwave antennas of the "White Alice" Alaskan Communications system. Aerial view of a White Alice complex containing huge red and white checkered microwave antennas. Oil tanks and other facilities at the site. Scene shifts to closeup of receiving and relaying antennas of the White Alice system. View of a Dew Line radar site. Narrator explains how the Dew Line stations work in concert with the White Alice system. Closeup of radar antenna rotating and fade to a radar screen where a target is being painted by a sweeping beam. Operator at the radar screen picks up phone to inform NORAD (North American Air Defense Command). View of the NORAD Headquarters Building at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with mountain in background and flags of the U.S. and Canada flying from flag poles in front of the building. View inside the command and control area of the headquarters. A large tracking board on which radar information is depicted. view of a radar station complex on land and one out at sea. A Lockheed EC-121 radar picket aircraft in flight and a radar picket ship at sea.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062845
Elements of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) system and U.S. Strategic Air Command in operation

Command and control center in headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense), at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, and NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, step into the Center, to observe activities. Based on teletype messages, U.S. airman marks aircraft positions on plexiglass overlay of NORAD area map. Staff of the center phone information to other elements of NORAD. View of concrete SAGE combat center with staff at large radar monitors. USAF Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft take off on an interception exercise. They are seen at altitude, firing air-to-air munitions, under command of the SAGE combat center. A CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile is raised at a NORAD site and then launched. View inside the underground Command Control Center of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Officers oversee the operation. B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are seen taking off. A SAC Major General at desk with a "Red Phone" connecting all SAC elements and the White House (shown). Control room of a ballistic missile center. View of SM-65 Atlas intercontinetal ballistic missile on launch pad and then launching. Civil defense officials man phones of national warning system, from NORAD headquarters. The system's links to North American cities shown on map. City street scenes.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062846
U.S. developments in defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles

Actor Raymond Massey standing in front of color map of North America, speaks about U.S. measures to defend against potential enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles. Aerial view of one of the largest radar antennas in the world being set up in Greenland and Alaska, and another planned for Great Britain, all part of the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System). A teletype machine printing information transmitted by the BMEWS system. View of technicians working in BMEWS communications circuit vault. More views of BMEWS radar antennas. Animated diagram of earth with early warning satellites orbiting to provide instant notice of missile launch. Views of U.S. Army Nike-Hercules missiles being tested, before development of the Nike-Zeus versions.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062847