AMC PICTORIAL REVIEW NO. 6 PROJECT THUNDERSTORM Part 1

Description

Summary: LS, Int, briefing session of officers. Cut, officers listening. Pan to drawing of P-61 on board. LS, P-61 standing on field. MS, man checking film on moviola. HMS, transformers which are used for man-made lightning. LS, man walking inside huge ribbed cylinder. MLS, plane canopy subjected to bolt of man-made lightning. LS, briefing group on radar. MCU, rotating radar antenna, pan to Nissen hut. Int, hut, operators at radar sets. CU, men rigging cameras. CU, storm indication on radar screen. LS, radar unit in van; antenna rotating. Cut to three men inside as plane is called in. LS pan, P-61 coming in; radar van in fg. LS, briefing on Weather Bureau Research. MS, civilian pointing to station on chart. LSD weather testing balloons are sent aloft. MS, man at tracking radar set. Another type balloon is sent aloft which will send back report. Weather map received on facsimile receiver. LSs, teletypes, man removing message. MSs, drawing lines on weather map; shading area on map. Sgt in radar station checking shaded areas on map. CU, indication of storm on scope. LS, men rush to planes on field. LS, five P-6ls in flight, left to right. LS, single plane flying into storm cloud. RV, pilot in plane, cloudy vapor passing by. LS, P-61 flying into stormy sky. Cut to radar antenna. Men at radar set. Cut to P-61s flying through murky atmosphere. CU, storm indications on scope. P-61 flying through haze left to right. Three fliers walking away from plane toward camera. Int, three men making out reports. Three men looking at record film on moviolas. LS, P-61 gaining altitude and banking; clouds in bg.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities