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Colorado Springs Colorado USA 1935 stock footage and images

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Personnel working in NORAD COC on Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado; sign boards track satellites of various countries

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) combat operation center (COC) in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, United states. Major and Sergeant seated at consoles. They write notes in loose leaf notebooks. Major picks up a telephone, talks and hangs up phone. Bulletin board labeled 'objects pending decay' shows disposition of satellites of the Soviet Union and the United States. Other bulletin boards are shown, including "Box score" bulletin board that shows the status of space debris from various countries. View of "Space Defense Center Display Satellites" bulletin board.

Date: 1972, June 12
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072878
Robert Golka creates lightning arcs inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah.

Robert Golka and Project Tesla - his effort to create an energy source called ball lightning, at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Golka works near Tesla coils inside a hangar. He operates and makes adjustments on several machines. Golka fails to create ball lightning despite having Tesla's notes from the Colorado Springs experiments. Lightning arcs from the ceiling to the floor.

Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031288
The "Little Rock Nine," 7 years after integrating Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Jefferson Thomas, of the "Little Rock Nine," in a hallway, revisiting Central High School, in Little Rock Arkansas. He looks through a classroom window at a former teacher, Miss Dunn, speaking to a class from a lab table next to an anatomical model. View of Ernest Green sitting with other students in a lab filled with electronic equipment. Much later, as President of the NAACP chapter on campus of Michigan State University, he is seen handing out pamphlets to other students. Views of students congregating on the grounds of the university. One girl holds a poster reading "Give, NAACP Fund Drive." Professor David Gottlieb introduces Ernest Green who steps to a classroom podium to speak to Michigan State students in a lecture room. Green carrying books is seen entering and sitting down in the Michigan State library. In another scene, he enters sociological data into Hollerith punch cards for processing by computer. He walks in the university computer room where tape decks are seen spinning and computer operators are at work. One of the tapes mounted on a drive is labeled: "Ernest Green, Aspirations." Results from his work are seen coming out of a line printer. Green sits in a library and opens the 1960 yearbook of Central High School containing his and Carlotta Walls 'entries. View of Carlotta, in dorm at Denver University, Colorado, where she is a student. Gloria Ray is seen at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she is a senior majoring in chemistry. Terrence Roberts is seen at the City College of Los Angeles, where he is studying Business Administration. Melba Pattillo, who left college to marry, is seen in two views.Scene shifts back to Central High and Jefferson Thomas, looking at the athletic trophies on display. He (who is narrating this film) states that he will take an exam in Spring to become a Certified Public Accountant. He walks down steps of Central High and camera pans over neighborhood to the State Capitol dome in distance.

Date: 1964
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024014
The North American Air Defense (NORAD) System at work, on land, sea, and in the air.

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.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044157
The North American Air Defense (NORAD) system at work.

North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. 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.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044158
Cold War defense and readiness exercise and dramatization. U.S. launches Intercontinental Ballistic missiles

Dramatization of Cold War defense exercise: The White House in Washington DC. Duty officer in NORAD Headquarters Command Center war room at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs speaks on telephone. Orders transmitted to SAC Missile control centers. Close-up view of a small black box control with label "Warning circuit - Hand off" with lights and two switches between settings, "War" and "Key" and the other says "GRP" and "Key". A silo containing a Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is opened. The missile is launched. Civilian officials in White House monitor the situation. Civilian police officers are notified. Early 1960s view of pedestrians and traffic on busy streets and sidewalks of New York City. People on city streets going about their business. A NYC Transit Authority Mack bus goes by, with slogan on its side "Ride The Surface Way".

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044160