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Activities of United States Continental Army Command; U.S. Strike Command; and North American Air Defense Command

Opening scene shows sign at Fort Monroe, Virginia, Headquarters of the United States Continental Army Command. U.S. Army soldiers come pouring out of their barracks and assemble in formation as non-commissioned officers inspect their personal gear. Inspectors look over closely parked armored vehicles.Troops rush to board CH-47 Helicopter transports. Sign identifying Headquarters United states Strike Command. Views of Exercise Delawar, a United States-Iran joint armed forces combat readiness operation conducted in April 1964 in Iran. (Delawar is a Persian word meaning courageous.) Paratroopers lined up and inspecting their gear as they ready to board through rear door of a transport aircraft.View of Pilot and Copilot in cockpit. Paratroopers jumping from the aircraft. Formation of U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft dropping paratroopers, with chutes clearly visible as they descend. View of troopers exiting rear cargo door of C-130 aircraft. Ground view of paratroopers landing on Iranian desert. Some set up field artillery pieces, others deploy on foot, and some ride in trucks pulling artillery pieces. Change of scene to North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Combat Operations Center. Inside, General John Koehler Gerhart, Commander of NORAD, sits at a deck in a control room with several other officers. Next, officers and non-commissioned officers, e.g. a Master Sergeant, who regularly work in the center are seen at their stations. Army Air Defense personnel run from their ready room to man batteries of Nike-Hercules missiles. An air defense radar site, part of the early warning system. Missiles of the Nike-Hercules battery being raised to firing positions.

Date: 1964
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038111
United States Army assists local population following Louisiana Hurricane in 1965

Civilians crowded atop a U.S. Army DUKW (amphibious truck) during Army efforts to help them following the Louisiana Hurricane in 1965. Front view of DUKW moving amidst smaller civilian boats. Men in DUKW distributing bread and other food to local people. Men women and children entering an Army tent to receive food.

Date: 1965
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038112
United States Army soldiers being trained at various training centers in United States

Statue of U.S. Army infantryman (called "Follow Me.") is seen at opening of film. Closeups of some trainees crawling under barbed wire as trainers observe them. Others are seen running and jumping obstacles. Trainees on a firing range training with rifles and M60 machine guns. Glimpse of soldier placing a large round into a mortal tube. Soldier firing an M40 106mm recoilless rifle. Infantry advancing across a field. An M48 Patton tank maneuvering. An M109 155mm self-propelled Howitzer. An M113 tracked Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) moving in wooded area. View of Infantry Hall at the U.S. Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. The statue of an infantryman, called "Follow Me," stands in front of the building. Infantry training in a rugged area. They wear elements of natural camouflage. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Gun. Scene changes to U.S. Army Armor Center Headquarters, also at Fort Benning. Tanks are seen maneuvering and raising dust in a lightly wooded area. An M60 tank maneuvering and firing its gun. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Long Tom gun firing. A Pershing missile slowly being raised toward firing position. Gun crew firing an 8-inch howitzer at zero elevation. Shell exploding in distance. Views of elaborate radar antenna system and of Army technicians monitoring instruments and printers in a control center. Green Berets at the the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They tend to a wounded Special Forces soldier in a primitive shelter. Others are seen reading instructions as they sit in foliage. Some maneuver aboard rubber rafts in a river. Two Green Berets set a demolition charge on a rail line. Soldiers engage in unarmed combat practice. Others train surviving off the land. An instructor lectures an audience of officers and men in an outdoor setting. Soldiers in a parachute shop with parachutes of various colors opened for inspection. Lines of parked Army trucks. Jeeps and trucks undergoing routine inspection and maintenance Doctors and nurses tending sick and wounded soldiers.

Date: 1965
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038113
United States Army Reserves train for combat and peace keeping missions.

U.S. Army Reserve soldiers train at regular Army Camps. They are seen in formation outside barracks. Then they participate in bayonet practice. Closeups of Reservists and instructor doing practice moves using rifles with fixed bayonets. Next, Army M60A3 Battle Tanks and M113 APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers) are seen maneuvering in a field. Crew in an M113 APC moving through woods. Reserve infantry moving along a field with smoke rising ahead of them. Troops moving in concert with APCs as smoke rises from explosions nearby. Army ROTC cadets being led in pushups during training. Officer training graduates parade on a field past a military brass band.

Date: 1968
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038114
Sound recording procedure at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, for the creation of a phonograph record.

A young woman opens ribbon and unwraps a gift package containing a vinyl RCA long playing record album disc of Romeo and Juliet. View she places the vinyl record on her phonograph turntable and starts playback. A film titled ' The sound and the story' shows the sound recording procedure at the Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. View of woman studying cover jacket of her new record album. Exterior view of Symphony Hall building in Boston Massachusetts in the mid 1950s. Interior view of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, circa 1956, in rehearsal under the baton of Music Director Charles Munch. The orchestra plays as a sound engineer of RCA (Radio Corporation of America) sits at a control panel. Close up view of meters on the recording console. Music being played is recorded on magnetic tapes. Close up view of reel to reel recording tape running on recording machine. Views of Maestro Munch, and various sections of the orchestra while they play under conductor Munch. Stereophonic or stereo recording equipment configuration is shown. View of two early home stereo speakers. After the recording, Maestro Munch, smoking a cigarette, sits with the recording engineer and listens to the recording. Close up view of a manufactured RCA vinyl record spinning on a phonograph turntable.

Date: 1956
Duration: 6 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038228
Production process of a RCA records lacquer master, for production of a phonograph record, in New York and in Indianapolis, Indiana

Post production process steps in the creation and manufacture of a phonograph record. Creation of lacquer master in New York, and handling at processing plant for lacquer master disc in Indianapolis, Indiana. View of magnetic tape reel to reel tape machines running after recording a performance. Overview of steps as the sound recording is transferred to record by a recording engineer. An engineer determines groove width according to pitch of the music. Close up view of meters and dials on recording playback equipment in studio. Shows creation of a lacquer master and its positioning on spindle of turntable. Also shows steps in creating mold and finally the stamper format. A woman is shown placing the original recording tape in shelves of a library -like vault area for safe keeping. Shows inspection of record grooves through a microscope, and silvering of lacquer master for creation of metal copies of the master, with layers of silver, nickel, and copper. Record tester listens to a record in audio testing. Nickel stamper is created from mold. Scenes show each step in the record creation process.

Date: 1956
Duration: 8 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038229