LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN U.S. AIR FORCE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION PROMOTIONAL FILM 33584

This 1967 color film about Air Force camera crews was for official use only. Lookout Mountain Air Force Station was the photographic installation for the Aerospace Audiovisual Service Airlift Command of the 1352nd photographic group (:34-:55). The NHF building is in the San Fernando Valley. Sample film titles are shown (:56-1:35). Technical animators sit at drafting tables. A woman wearing white gloves draws on a cel, photographed by film cameras on movable platforms (1:37-2:13). A stack of film containers is picked up. Film is processed by hand onto reels. A bank of 12-track recording equipment is shown (2:14-3:02). The curtains open in a theatre setting (3:04-3:10). Clippings show actor Jimmy Stewart explaining weapons (3:14-3:26), newscaster Walter Cronkite discussing Air Force deployment (3:27-3:43), Ambassador Romulo discussing the Philippines (3:44-4:20), actor Glen Ford, of Taiwan working on Breaking the Language Barrier. Thunderbirds fly overhead (4:21-5:04). Shown are Robert Stack (5:06), Vic Morrow (5:11), Cathy Crosby in a commercial on nursing (5:18), Bob Hope and Jerry Kelowna (5:21), James Arness (5:29), and Bob Cummings and his son (5:41). A “Bob Hope Armed Forces Christmas Tour 1960” sign greets comedians boarding the plane (5:59-6:19). Atomic bomb explosions are photographed in slow motion (6:20-6:37). The Holloman High Speed Test Track films a chimp strapped into a rocket sled to test accelerated Gs (6:55-7:12). Shown are the rocket launch at a slant range of 100,000 feet and the zero launch of an F-100 (7:14-7:27). Shown is a napalm attack on a simulated military setting, reviewed via video and VHF (7:29-8:30). Film records the kill of an H-43 drone helicopter (8:32-8:52). Cameras are mounted on supersonic aircraft and sample footage shown (8:53-9:18). A crew on an attached platform films cockpit closeups (9:20-9:28). A cameraman pilot of an F-101 Interceptor documents an X-15 drop, Thunderbirds, F-102, F-104, F-105, F-106, SF4C, and F-101 aircraft (9:30-10:23). Still photographers produce transparencies and color prints (10:26-10:47). A man walks between walls of films (10:48-11:30). The launch of an Atlas missile is viewed by an editor (11:32-11:55). Vandenberg AF Base houses the 1369th photographic squadron. The maze of recirculating system pipes serve the developing machines in the film laboratory (11:56-12:34). A camera crew shoots indoor and launch scenes of an Atlas. Military personnel install tracking and remote camera equipment. The film crew rises next to the Atlas. The launch is shown from the top down. A 16-millimeter Mitchell films liftoff. Military helmets say “Photo” and equipment tracks the launch (12:35-14:30). A photography unit is at Colorado Springs. The sound stage is shown. Air Force Academy cadets pass. NORAD is filmed, as is the Athena program (14:31-15:44). Crews at Elmendorf AFB film a C-123 on a snow-covered runway (16:07-16:38). A unit is in Hawaii, Japan, and the Republic of Viet Nam, shown in two modified trailers (16:40-17:40). Parachute troops leave the back of a plane (17:49-17:57). Vietnam ground troops wade through water. Parallel flying planes document missile drops (17:58-18:26). The Kilauea volcano eruption is filmed (18:32-18:49). Thunderbirds do a loop and split off (18:50-19:13).

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