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Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with assist take off rockets firing, takes off at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.

Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins inspect the rocket assisted take off bottles on Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. They climb up a ladder to the cockpit. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with assist takes off rockets firing. It takes off from the runway at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.

Date: 1957, April 14
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022553
Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber taxis for rocket assist, takes off at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas.

Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber taxis for rocket assist, takes off at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas. Ground crew members give directions. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber in flight with smoke trails following aircraft. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber performs roll to the left and then a dive. Interior of the aircraft with Pilot on the wheel. The aircraft performs a loop, goes into a dive, pulls out and then goes into a steep climb.

Date: 1957, August
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022554
Resupply of DEW line site shows supply ship being unloaded with cargo nets into amphibian vehicles in Canada.

Resupply of Dew line site (Distant Early Warning Station) shows supply ship being unloaded with cargo nets into amphibious vehicles in Canada for resupply of remote bases in the Northeast Region Air Command of U.S. Air Force. The vehicles including DUKW and BARC (Barge Amphibious Resupply Cargo) (LARC 60) drive ashore and goods being unloaded by cranes at remote bases.

Date: 1957
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022831
Russian satellite Sputnik 1 viewed via Lumicon as it passes over Baltimore, Maryland.

View of Russian satellite Sputnik number 1, third stage rocket via Lumicon at 8 FPS (frames per second). The satellite passes over Baltimore, Maryland. The Lumicon is a closed circuit TV device that intensifies light by 10,000 to 40,000 times.

Date: 1957, October 12
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023406
U.S. Chamber of Commerce film The Atom Comes to Town, about peaceful atomic power uses in the United States

Brief scene inside an atomic facility. A technician stands on platform above fuel pool where elements are partially submerged. Mr. Arch N. Booth, Executive Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaks about the peaceful benefits of nuclear energy. Scenes of a typical American town, with commercial district and residential areas. A woman converses with a friend, as she working in a kitchen containing electric appliances like oven, cooking range, egg beater and tea kettle. Housewife talks about the use of electricity in her home. Men in a factory working on machines talk to each other about prospects of atomic power. Women playing cards or bridge at a table discuss the building of atomic power plants.

Date: 1957
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023824
Early nuclear power plants for peaceful generation of electrical energy in the United States

Animation of a family presenting the increasing power supply demand from1500 KW/Hr to 3000 KW/Hr in homes. Similar animation for factories. Animation of coal power plant dependent on coal supply. Animation of atomic power plant as a renewable source of energy. View of technician climbing atop the small U.S. Army SM-1 (2-megawatt ) nuclear reactor at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. More views of the reactor facility seen through woods. Change of scene to the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) nuclear facility, built by Southern California Edison and Atomics International, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi hills near Moorpark, Ventura County California. Scene shifts again to the Vallecitos Nuclear Power Plant near Pleasanton, California, built jointly by PG&E and General Electric Company. (It is the first privately funded plant to supply power in megawatt amounts to the electric utility grid.) Inside the plant, a technician is seen in its control room. View of the reactor containment vessel. Film shifts to aerial view of the first full-scale PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) nuclear power plant in the United States, under construction at Shippingport, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Ohio river. The site is busy with construction activity. View from ground of a large container of fresh concrete being moved by a crane to be poured as workmen adjust its position, before releasing the contents. More views of the construction site, with cranes and numerous constructions workers engaged.

Date: 1957
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023826