First Films of Takeoffs and Landings, USS Independence, Various Locations
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 RR 6378 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RAD10-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 EXTENSION 75111 from Release No. 155-59 Footage: 100 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: 29 June 1959 FINE GRAIN TO; MGM Telenews FIRST FILMS OF TAKE-OFFS & LANDINGS (20 USS INDEPENDENCE (Official Navy footage released by Dept. of Defense) During the shakedown period, 21 April - 25 June 1959, the men of USS INDEPENDENCE learn to get the most out of each piece of equipment by means of individual effort and coordinated teamwork. For these two months, the Fleet Training Group at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba commanded by Capt. a. R. Wilson, put the ship through her paces. Film depicts the carrier training for her assigned mission air operations. Sequences show: a USS INDEPENDENCE underway Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. b Five F8Us take off separately. A4D takes off. d A4D takes off. A4D coming in for a landing. A4D landing. g) A4D touchea down and taken off. (h) USS INDEPENDENCE underway NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within Street 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. £10575
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer