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Otsu Shiga Prefecture Japan 1950 stock footage and images

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Shows U.S. Navy Central Group stuck in the ice and aircraft being prepared for exploration missions in Antarctica.

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Shows a U.S. Navy fleet stuck in the ice in Antarctica at "Little America." Coast Guard Icebreaker Northwind and landing crafts break and loosen the ice. The fleet is freed and gets underway. Aircraft are prepared for exploration missions. Cameras including K17 models,film reels and other photographic apparatus are loaded aboard aircraft. Radar magnetic detectors are mounted on the plane to detect minerals under the ice. Aircraft takes off. Shows Admiral Richard E. Byrd aboard an aircraft flying above Antarctic glacier. He drops a boxed U.S. flag from the plane's window.

Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029551
Admiral Richard E. Byrd makes a photographic survey of Antarctica in his plane.

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Show USS Pine Island (AV-12) and its crew. A PBM-5 Mariner takes off to map the Phantom coast in Antarctica. Shows Admiral Richard E. Byrd's plane in flight above Antarctica. Photographic survey of Antarctica is made. Valuable data is recorded. Byrd's plane falls short of fuel and loses altitude rapidly. Altitude meter shows a rapid drop in the altitude. Extra weight is dumped from the plane. Byrd's plane manages to land successfully.

Date: 1950
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029552
Search and rescue mission for PBM Mariner George I, in Antarctica during Operation High Jump

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump in 1946. Reconnaissance aircraft take off for a search and rescue mission in Antarctica. Crew members of a PMB-5 Mariner aircraft fly above the Antarctica in search of a crashed airplane crew - the crew of the Mariner George 1. The missing crew is located on Thurston Island after 13 days by Commander Howell, supplies are dropped for the survivors and they are rescued finally. Aerial scenes of the crew discovered and the names of the dead painted by the survivors on the plane wing. Three did not survive: Max Lopez, Bud Hendersin, Fred Williams. Captain George Dufek welcomes the survivors. Survivors Captain Caldwell, Moore, Robbins, Kearns, McCarthy, eating their food (not including seriously injured "Frenchie" LeBlanc). Coastguard icebreaker arrives. Supplies and equipment are loaded back on the ships. Admiral Richard E. Byrd is seen. Animated map shows the statistics of Operation High Jump.

Date: 1950
Duration: 8 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029553
Town scenes in Southville, Kentucky.

Men at a fuel station in Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky. A car stops by the station. Man refuels the car. A small boy looks out of the car's window. Exteriors of the Shelby Court building. School bus stops near a store. Children get off the bus. They eat ice cream.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029784
Farming activities in Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky.

Farming activities in Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky. Corn crop and tobacco plantation. Natives take hayrides across countryside. Woman plays accordion while an old man plays violin. Natives gather in a shopping store and chat.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029785
Sunday's edition of newspaper delivered via railroad to Southville (Shelby County), Kentucky.

Edgar Skelton and his daughter leave their home in Southville Kentucky and greet neighbors with a tip of the hat in front of the Edgar Skelton general store. Residents on their way to church cross a primitive rope suspension bridge. External view of church in Southville. Parishioners shake hands with the pastor as they enter church. Diesel electric locomotive number 6711 pulls into Southville railroad train station. Ed Skelton receives stack of newspapers from the train and puts them into the bed of his pickup truck. View of pickup truck leaving Southville train station. People gathered in front of the Edgar Skelton general store in Southville receive the Sunday newspaper. Two women look at a fashion advertisement in the newspaper. Two boys look at comic cartoons in the newspaper. Ed Skelton and his daughter return to their house. Ed Skelton and daughter pray at the dinner table before eating. Men in Southville inside the Edgar Skelton general store. Ed Skelton stokes the fire in the pot belly stove. Ed Skelton sells canned food to a man standing at the general store counter.

Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029786