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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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062844
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.

Location: United States USA
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062847
Men loading the wheels of freight cars onto ships for their shipment to the Philippine Islands, United States.

A film titled 'Hannibal Victory' on the sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. Steam boat underway at Mississippi river. A man at the controls of the boat. Bridges over the river. A statue of Mark Twain amidst the ground. Two girls arrive near the statue. 'Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain' engraved on a plaque. Another statue amidst the ground. Cars passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. People walking. Trains passing on railroad stations. Aerial view of the town of Hannibal. Wheels of the freight cars on the ground. Men standing nearby. Animated map locates Hannibal and San Francisco. The wheels are loaded onto ships on the docks of San Francisco.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062867
The Hannibal Victory ship sails under the San Francisco Bay bridge and the Golden Gate bridge underway at sea in the U.S.

The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. Equipment stacked on the dock. Hannibal Victory ship underway at San Francisco bay. Men aboard the ship. Other ships underway at sea. Equipment being loaded onto the ship. The ship sails under the San Francisco Bay bridge. A man watching the bridge. Flags atop. flag poles on the ship. Men aboard a boat underway at the sea. Ship sailing under the Golden Gate bridge. The harbor pilot leaves the ship. He comes aboard the boat. Men testing the deck gun aboard the ship.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062869
Members of the weather bureau working to collect and record the weather information in the United States.

A film titled: 'Flood weather' on the working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered area. Mountains in the foreground. The weather bureau gathers information about the weather and gives early warnings to people. A map locates different areas. A member of the weather bureau working to collect the information. He reads and records the information with the help of gauges. A man working with the help of cable and transmitter. The information is recorded for the purpose of providing the same, as and when required. The exterior of a building. A ship underway at sea. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. A map locates different areas.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062892
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