Dramatization of Fire Emergency in a house in the United States. Family members relaxing in their home. Mother and her son in living room, with mother sewing and boy laying on floor reading newspaper in front of fireplace. Man smoking types a document in the study. He carelessly allows a smoldering cigarette to fall from an ash tray into some papers. Woman embroidering in the living room, smells smoke and phones the fire department. Firemen arrive in a white fire truck and extinguish the blaze.
Actor Raymond Massey introducing the subject of North American Air Defense, which is a joint enterprise of Canada and the United States. A map of the United States, Canada and the Arctic. Animation shows radar sites comprising the Dew Line, Mid Canada Line and Pine Tree Line in Canada, as well as coastal and ship borne sites around the United States. Internal U.S. sites tied to the automated SAGE system (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) are shown. SAGE is a computerized control system for tracking and intercepting enemy bombers. The headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense) is shown, at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. Mr. Massey points out models of new antiaircraft missiles displayed on his desk. Animation shows how these can be fired from the ships at sea.
An animated map of Canada and the United States. Radio communications Tower over hilltop. Workers installing underground communications cables. Telephone communications in everyday life. A woman homemaker in a house holding a young child and talking on a corded telephone. The little girl also talks on the telephone. A business man talking on corded telephone. Men and women working in an office. Man in suit in a business office talking on a yellow corded telephone. Teletype machines of United Press International and other news agencies operating on a long table. Man looks at a screen and speaks over the phone. A cable-laying ship laying communications lines at sea. An animated map showing the undersea cable connections to various places.
Emergency response and disaster preparations in the United States. Stockpiles of emergency equipment and supplies. Scene of storm damage and recovery actions. Electric utility response and repairs. A huge emergency diesel generator. Laying emergency by-pass cable with a convoy of tractors and cable-laying machinery. Emergency communications cables circumventing areas of disaster.
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.
North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, during the Cold War. 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.
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