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| The Cold War: A Battle Of Ideologies ("a thru z" titles) The alliance of war-time convenience between the United States and the USSR begins to freeze as World War II winds down into a new reality; The Cold War. Our Public Domain Stock Footage titles highlight events in the continuous confrontation between the political ideologies of Democracy and Communism, the "Iron Curtain" splitting Europe in half and a slate of proxy wars both large and small. |
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| A-5 Heat Seeker Missile (HD) Ref#: BOF-78-656. 2-reels. AMC Engineering Division film report on the A-5 heat seeker missile. Shown are nose section and various parts, loading of the missile into bomb bay of B-17, cutaway drawing of central system. Animation of the missile in flight, the target area, and the caphode-oscillograph in operation. Produced by Motion Picture Section, AMC Photo Service Center, WPAFB. Poster of a guided missile showing cutaway drawing of the A-5 Heat Seeker, the engine, fuel section, missile control and explosive section. CU head of the nose section of the A-5 heat seeker--technicians come over and takes outer covering off of same. Direct FV of nose section of missile--camera pans up to interior of nose section. Map of target area directly below nose section of missile. (Sound track gives details of various parts of nose section and the operation of same --technician points to various parts during explanation. CU of a caphode-ray oscillograph in operation. Animation of a demonstration of the A-5 heat seeker and target area. 4) Closer view, animation of target area. Full details are given of the operations of A-5 heat seeker. Animation chart of the A-5 in flight. Animation of target area showing various targets which could attract the heat seeker. Animation of missile in flight. Animation of target area--hand holding model of missile giving demonstration of the path of the missile toward the target area. CU of control board of the missile. Int, of laboratory showing test being conducted on the A-5 heat seeker. Int. laboratory showing test being conducted on the heat seeker. CU of nose of the A-5 heat seeker during test. Int. of B-17. CU of control board on B-17. ADS on target area. Nose section of the A-5 heat seeker placed in bomb bay of aircraft--technician signals pilot. CU of cutaway drawing of the A-5 heat seeker. 00:13:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080) Aerial Anti-Submarine Warfare (HD) This U.S. Navy training film documents the capability of naval aircraft in making surprise attacks on enemy submarines at sea. Primarily explored are aircraft tactics used in different types of attacks, including the five major classes of aerial attack: early, tardy, late, visible, and blind. Also covered are the various weapons used in anti - submarine warfare, including rockets, depth bombs, and homing torpedoes developed after WWII. 00:18:30:10 BW (1920 x 1080) Berlin 1945-1949 (HD) City of Berlin, Germany, from soon after WW II until after the building of the Berlin Wall. East Germans and Russians putting up barbed wire barricades. Refugees pouring over West Berlin. Scenes on the Berlin Airlift. Riots in the streets of East Berlin. People throw stones at Russian tank. Buildings burning. Scenes of busy modern West Berlin. People shop in stores. Men working in large industrial plants. People listening to television and radio. Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving into West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. Warehouse loaded with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks spraying water at West German civilians. East Germans constructing concrete wall. Completed wall. East German walking guard behind the wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of apartment house in East Berlin. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another. Crowds of West Berliners jeering Eat German soldiers at border. 00:06:09:05 BW (1920 x 1080) China 1947 (HD) Ref #: BOF-60-442. Reels 1 & 2 shows pagodas and the Great Wall; worshipers at a Buddhist shrine; peasants plowing with oxen; a pack-animal train; a village council of elders; rivers and canals; a camel caravan; Christian missionaries and converts; Sun Yak-sen speaking; Chiang Kai-shek with Kuomintang members Kung and Soong; Chiang speaking and reviewing troops; truck and train transport of Army units; coolies repairing rails; and the Japanese bombing of Shanghai. Japanese planes bomb Chungking; fires are extinguished. Trucks move up and coolies repair the Burma Road. Shows Chiang, F.D. Roosevelt, and Churchill at the Cairo Conference. Infantry units advance; artillery is fired. Shows Mao Tse-tung, Communist crowds, Red troops marching, and a Communist printing press. Steel is poured and electrical equipment produced in a factory. Describes the election and operation of local government. Shows children in school, Nationalist Youth Corps units marching, and youths working on farms and in factories. 00:20:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080) Chinese Independence Formosa - 1955 (HD) Taipei Formosa 1955. VS, parades and demonstrations for the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. VS, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, his wife, Maj. Gen. George Smythe, Ch of Military Assistance Advisory Group, and other American and Chinese officials leave the presidential mansion, take their places in the reviewing stand for the parade. VS, Gen. Smythe presents a F-76 fighter plane, 155 HOW, and a model of a destroyer to General Chiang-Kai-Shek as a token of esteem and American friendship. VS, masses of people forming a Chinese flag in the square. VS, Army, Navy, and Air Force cadets and soldiers parade past the review stand. Several units do a goosestep. Tanks and mechanized equipment on parade. CUT INS, VIPs and other officials entering and leaving the presidential mansion and on the review stand. 00:09:57:07 BW (1920 x 1080) Cuba - Scenes From Revolution Betrayed (HD) Sec. of State Christian A. Herter in press conference with Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba. Cuban women marching with rifles, Cuban soldiers, Cuban Military Prison. Castro speaking violently from balcony. Castro troops marching and in camp in forest. Castro is with his men. Red Chinese officers presenting medal to Cuban. MSs, CUs, Castro soldiers. Men marching with banners; another group of men waving large knives as they march. Prisoners being pulled in wagon by team of oxen. MCU, Premier Castro seated behind desk. Raul Castro greeting Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia. CU, ECU, Premier Castro ranting and raving as he speaks into microphone. MS, Adolf Hilter speaking from balcony. Book burning in Germany before WWII. Fire in Cuban street. Large group of prisoners in the military prison. Military trial. Prisoners being shot by Castro firing squad. Military Prison riot. Red Chinese in Cuba. Red Chinese invading Tibet. Cubans receiving Red Chinese arms. Castro talking with his men. Men on the alert by AA gun. Gun is traversed. Cuban women with weapons. 00:06:41:01 BW (1920 x 1080) Cuban Crisis: Missiles In Cuba - 1962 (HD) Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba making his way thru crowds in Havana streets. MSs, Castro speaking to huge crowd. Castro with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia in New York. AVs, Russian freighters at sea. Still photo of Russian ship in Cuba port. MCU, Premier Krushchev. Newspaper picture of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko with President John F. Kennedy in the White House. ELS, jet taking off. AVs, jet flying at high altitude. Airmen developing and examining aerial photographs. CUs, photographs showing Russian missile sites in Cuba. MLS, White House. Congressmen and high government officials arriving at White House. CU, sign: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." AVs, radar plane in flight over water. CU, sign: "Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector." LS, Headquarters building. Int, officers on telephones. Radarman at scope. LS, sign: "Headquarters Taactical Air Command." Pan to building. 00:06:18:18 BW (1920 x 1080) Cuban Crisis: Missiles Removed - 1962 (HD) Jet fighters taking off. MS, Pan American Union building. CU, sign on building: "Organization of American States." Int, empty chair for Cuban delegate. Sec. of State Dean Rusk speaking. VS, ships at sea. Sailors at map. Troops walking from plane. LS, M-42, self-propelled, twin-40mm gun, on field. AV, jets on airfield. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay and other Air Force general officers looking at jets. Gen. Walter C. Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB, Fla., and is greeted by officers. Trucks load into C-124. C-124 takes off. AV, B-52 refueling in flight. LS, Kremlin in Moscow. Cargo planes taxiing. LS, paratroopers jumping from planes. LS, House of Parliament in London. MS, SHAPE HQ building. Night shot, Arch of Triumph in Paris. American ships at sea. AV, B-52 in flight. Night. HS, Moscow. MS, Premier Nikita S. Krushchev speaking. CU, headline in newspaper, "Krushchev Orders Removal of Missiles." CU, photographs of Russian missile sites in Cuba. Stills of Russian ships at sea with missiles on their decks. CU, sign: "Homestead AFB." President Kennedy inspects aircraft and men and adds battle streamer to flag. CU, President Kennedy speaking superimposed over Air Force burial ceremony and formation of jets in flight. 00:07:32:19 BW (1920 x 1080) Evacuation of Tachen Islands - 1955 (HD) Keelung Harbor Formosa 1955. American Navy moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands to Formosa (Taiwan). Civilian refugees load into truck. Woman with baby on her back. VS, children, old women on pier. Arrival of second LST. Chinese soldier debarking. Women holding small children. Several are given drinks from canteen cups. LST with the decks crowded. Chinese soldiers debarking, being deloused. Soldiers walking on pier. MLS, MS, little Chinese girl with pack on her back standing at rail; soldiers going down gangplank in background. MCU of little boy. Man with sleeping boy on back. VS, civilians coming off LST. Belongings are loaded into truck. Men, women, and children board truck. VS, Chinese troops crowded on desk of LST as the ship moves into pier. VS of people on pier, soldiers coming off. US Army Capt watches debarkation. 00:10:19:00 BW (1920 x 1080) Misc Material On Communism - 1950 (HD) Washington, DC Seq: "Reds" picketing in front of Dept of Justice Building. Pickets carry placards protesting the conviction of the Communists on trial. The police watch. MS, Wm Patterson, Civil Rights Sec; Mrs John Gates and defense lawyer O John Rogge. New York: Courthouse where trial of Communists are being held. Davis and others enter; police in front. CUs, reporters seated on steps making notes. CU, man with pamphlets. CU, pamphlet: "Not 12 men on trial-but EVERYBODY." LS, pickets in front of courthouse. MS, Judge Medina on steps. MS, head-on, several Cameramen shooting with eyemos. MS, three prosecuting attorneys. CU, Chief prosecutor. Gerson in statement says that trial affects the rights of all. Pan, 11 defendants. CU, Communist, Henry Forbes. Bldg sign. "Freiheit" on sign. Signs on different bldgs: Communist Party Center, Chelsea and Waterfront Section; Henry Forbes, East Side Center Communist Party; East Midtown Communist Party. Sequence: Judith Coplon and lawyer Archibald Palmer in latter's office. Hungary: Tilt down, cathedral. Cardinal Mindszenty and retinue entering cathedral. Cardinal in procession during festival; blessing on lookers. CU, Mathius Rakosi, Hungarian Communist leader, speaking. Photograph of Cardinal during trial. New York: The Cardinal's signature: one made in 1947; the other signed to his confession. VSs, May Day Loyalty Parade, 1949, in NY; parade of Communist sympathizers same day. LS, "Procession of Protest" by Catholics at NY Polo Grounds against Russia. New York Night Club - Scenes, people seated at tables and dancing on ballroom floor. 00:06:12:19 BW (1920 x 1080) National Chinese Forces: Formosa - 1955 (HD) Chiayi Formosa 1955. VS, Chinese piloted medium bomber landing on airstrip. VS, F-84 jet fighters landing and taking off on airstrip. Seq: Chinese aviator checks his jet aircraft on ground, examining wheel, housing, cowling, etc. Air-to-air shots Chinese fighter squadron patroling sky above Formosa. Several good scenes; complete squadron of twelve planes in the air. Air-to-air level flight studies, Chinese Nationalist jet squadron patroling sky above Formosa straits. LS, Nationalist Navy PBY patrol bomber taxiing up to control tower on landing strip. Note: This is an older PBY two engine bomber. VS, Chinese propeller-driven aircraft taxiing across airstrip. VS, Chinese jet fighters taxi up to the parking positions on airstrip. PAN, F84 Thunderjet fighters parked on runway. 00:11:03:15 BW (1920 x 1080) National Space Surveillance Control Center (HD) Ref#: Bof-14-086. Reel 1. Tracking satellites and junk in space. Film covers the 496L ESSPO National Space Surveillance Control Center which was established in February 1959 by ARDC. Radar antenna rotating and scanning the sky. Airmen at work in teletype room in Space Surveillance Control Center, AFCRC, Hanscom Field. Two USAF lieutenants and a sergeant at desks in control center. Alert Test Chart showing location of satellite tracking stations in U.S. Map on wall with moving light showing satellite location. Board marked ORBITING EARTH SATELLITES giving information on U.S. and Russian satellites. Charts marked DECAYED EARTH SATELLITES and LUNAR AND DEEP SPACE PROBES. Two USAF lieutenants and sergeant at desk in Control Center speaking into phones. Shows hand operating telephone switchboard. Officer placing new satellite on board marked ORBITING EARTH SATELLITES. 00:09:15:00 BW (1920 x 1080) Navy Screen Highlights: 1960 - 1961 (HD) Ref#: BOF-50-102-63. (Audio Reel, Reels 1& 2.) Title: "Space"; scenes at Cape Canaveral of the launching of the first American into space, showing astronaut Alan B. Shepherd, Jr., Commander, United States Navy, boarding the space capsule; the liftoff and face of Commander Shepherd while in flight; scenes of the recovery from the Atlantic by a Marine HUS-1 helicopter and Commander Shepherd jumping out of the helicopter on deck of the aircraft carrier the USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39); scenes of the first manned balloon flight from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, USS Antietam (CVS-36) in the Gulf of Mexico, carrying two Navy men into space for test of the effects of space on man; the first ascension of the "Strato Lab" series that sets a new altitude record for manned balloon flight; Title: "Speed"; three F4H-1 (F-4B) aircraft taking off from Ontario, California en route to New York competing in the Bendix Trophy race, refueling mid air and landing at Naval Air Station New York, breaking the transcontinental speed record; the pilot Lieutenant Dick Gordon and Radio Intercept Officer Lieutenant Junior Grade (RIO LTJG) Bobby Young receive congratulations from Secretary of Navy John B. Connally; a Navy HSS-2 helicopter takes off from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, setting a new helicopter speed record; Title: "Ships"; scenes of the Commissioning ceremony of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke giving the address; scenes of the christening of the guided missile frigate USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) at Quincy, Mass. Title: "SEATO"; aerial views of a task force underway in the South China Sea during exercise "Pony Express" held by 8 SEATO countries; British "Commandos" take off of the carrier deck in Royal Navy Westland Whirlwind HAS-7 helicopters and land in a field in North Borneo during a vertical envelopment exercise; scenes of amphibious assault vehicles (LVTPs) underway, mechanized landing crafts (LCMs) landing SEATO troops on a beach and the troops advancing through a field; Title: "Sky Jinx" (SV) of a crewman operating a DASH drone helicopter from the helicopter deck of the destroyer USS Hazlewood (DD-531) underway at sea, and the drone unleashing a homing torpedo; scenes of Navy Chuting Stars parachuting from a P5M-1 aircraft over El Centro, California; scenes of a P2V aircraft using a "sky hook" retrieval system to rescue a man from the sea in a rubber boat. 00:14:33:00 BW (1920 x 1080) November 7th Parade - 1963 (HD) Soviet parade of missiles in Moscow November 7,1963. 00:17:15:19 BW (RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) (1920 x 1080) Operation Vittles 1948-1949 (HD) The picture shows how Berlin was supplied by air. Coal, flour, medical supplies, milk are flown into the city. Included, are animation charts giving data on the airlift. Includes a seq on a ground control unit of the Air Communication Service in action. 00:09:38:08 BW (1920 x 1080) Story Of U.S. Army Signal Corps (HD) Ref#: BOF-04-042-54. The U.S. Army Signal Corps was established in 1863. This 1976 film shows progress in communications from the time signal flags were used up to the present day technical developments. Introduction of the telephone, message coding and decoding, radio-equipped aircraft, radar and research and development have greatly contributed to the Corps' effectiveness. Many outstanding military accomplishments are featured along with the training of personnel at the U.S. Army Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia. 00:21:00:00 COL (1920 x 1080) |
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