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General Walter C Sweeney arrives at Homestead Air Force Base during Cuban Missile Crisis

U.S. military officers prepare to receive General Walter C Sweeney. View of Hangar No 5 at Homestead Air Force Base in background. General Walter C Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB in Florida. He is greeted by other officers.1962.

Date: 1962
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025259
U.S. Air Force film expressing need for and promoting physical fitness

Woman seen backing her 1962 Ford Galaxie convertible car out of carport of her house in the suburbs. Her husband is seated on a motorized lawn mower. View from inside Ford convertible as housewife backs out of the driveway and leaves driving on suburban streets; while her husband proceeds to cut the grass in the front yard, relying on motor power rather than personal exertion. Likewise, the woman driving along in her car, exerts little effort. Air Force personnel in uniform, at work in an office setting also expend little energy. A group of Air Force men engaged in calisthenics. A man exercising with dumbells for exercise and fitness. A man playing golf. Couples riding tandem bicycles, and paddling canoes. A group of men performing calisthenics and doing pushups. Several people swimming at a pool. Children being taught to swim by their father. Youth engaged in group swimming activities. A group of boys on a swim team line up and dive into the swimming pool.

Date: 1964
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048115
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage taken from GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) camera mounted under right wing of F- 102 in flight. MB-1 rocket fired from rail launcher. Technicians work on F-102A parked outside a hangar. Two technicians wheel an MB-1 rocket on a dolly, underneath F- 102A parked on ramp. Three technicians check out and calibrate special instrumentation to be used during the test run. The instruments include different types of oscillographs, and photo panels. Special camera installations made on the F-102A vertical stabilizer, fuselage, and wings. Technician installs a l6mm camera inside the aircraft nose, then closes access panel. F-102A takes off. Radar vectoring station T-1 at Holloman AFB. Technician operates one of the tracking scanners installed on roof of building. Two men, inside the vectoring station, control the course of the test aircraft by radio communication from the vectoring machine plotting charts. The pilot in F-102A cockpit as he turns on the recording cameras to activate the armament system. MB-1 bomb extended below the aircraft. Engineer talks on the radio phone inside the vectoring station. Pilot's hand on the control stick as he activates the firing switch. MB-l rocket is fired from the short rail launcher. The aircraft is enveloped in a trail of white smoke. GSAP camera mounted underneath the right wing of the F-102A, shows the MB-l rocket being fired from the short rail launcher. Smoke due to the firing of the rocket.

Date: 1956
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020956
U.S. Air Force film intended to encourage physical fitness of Air Force personnel

Opening scene shows a U.S. Titan intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an underground silo. U.S. airmen at monitoring stations in a missile launch control room. An airman working to maintain and repair missile-related equipment and accessories. An Force Captain overseeing airmen at control room work stations. Astronaut John Glenn stepping from a NASA structure, fully suited in space suit, and climbing into a Mercury Space Capsule. Air Force personnel engaged in sports to maintain fitness, playing softball, volleyball, and basketball. An airman typing at a desk job. An Air Force woman sorting 88 column Hollerith cards punch cards by machine. An airman performing calisthenics outside his quarters on an Air Base. Another airman typing expertly at a desk job. Airmen lifting large boxes. Air Force personnel bowling for recreation. Others playing badminton at an Air Force Base. Airmen bicycling out the gate of an Air Base. Air Force bombers parked on a flight line. One, a B-52, is fitted with a large pointed missile underneath its wing.

Date: 1964
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048116
Personnel edit recordings at the American Forces Radio and Television Station in Washington DC, United States.

American Forces Radio and Television Station facility in Washington DC, United States. A man checks recordings of news, sports and special events at a station. The recordings are edited to remove commercial messages. Officials read program details at a operating schedule board. Men work at a station and feed the programs to a American Forces Radio and Television Station by short wave transmitters.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073623
Telemetry scientists of the Mercury-Atlas 6 in Mexico and the United States anticipate the countdown of John Glenn’s launch on the “Friendship 7”

View of a full moon. View of rotating white satellite dish at night-time. Station staff working on Kauai Hawaii tracking station, one of the telemetry stations for the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A Filipino telemetry communicator turns his head to speak to a colleague as they monitor the Friendship 7’s journey. View of a full moon in blue. View of the at Guaymas, Mexico tracking station at dawn. View of door with notice in English and Spanish saying, “Keep the doors closed critical air conditioning”, “Favor de cerrar la Puerta debemos mantener temperature constante” and “aviso- notice”. A portly Mexican scientist enters the computer room where his colleagues are working on telemetry for Friendship 7. The portly Mexican scientist gives his American colleague a reassuring tap on the shoulders. “M-A-O-T-N, status green, preceding with free-pass calibrations…” the American telemetry communicator radios. View of moon with blue hue. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Port Arguello, California. Two telemetry communicators on their computer working as they wait out the long countdown for Friendship 7’s take-off. A telemetry communicator opens a thermous, puts on a pair of headphones, and speaks. Three telemetry communicators in a computer room working. View of the Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station in Corpus Christi, Texas. Telemetry communicator, wearing headphones, speaking, says "roger, all systems, would you please commence pre-flight calibrations at this time since the countdown is progressing normally...." Two telemetry communicators on their desks, preparing for preflight calibration.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079055