The Atomic Age and The Ice Age Meet in Antarctica, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 143 OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VIS,UAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 266-61 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 200' FINE GRAIN TO; 19 December 1961 THE ATOMIC AGE AND THE ICE AGE MEET IN ANTARCTICA (Official Navy footage released by Department of Defense) The Atomic Age met the Ice Age recently in Antarctica. The USNS ARNEB steamed into McMurdo Sound behind an icebreaker escort, carrying with it a prefabricated nuclear power plent. The system, manufactured under contract with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission by Martin Marietta Corporation will be installed this season as an aid to Naval Support Forces which help maintain an extensive scientific research program throughout the Antarctic continent. The 1,500 kilowatt plant will give the base five times as much electricity as at the present time. A team of Martin Marietta engineers is on hand to supervise the reasseably of the power plant by Davel personnel. More will arrive next month as work progresses and check-outs begin. Three members of the Contractor Group will "winter over" with the Havy crew during the six-month period test operation. Sequences show: (a) Aerials of McVurdo Sound. (b) Navy Seabees from Mobile Construction Battalion preparing a site for the reactor plant on a plateau overlooking the Base. (c) Men working on construction. (a) Insulated buildings to shelter the 1500 kilowatt power plant are assembled. (e) Sidetilk superintendents. (Penguins) (L) Scientists conducting research on fish metabolism. (g) Biology Lab parsonnel.conducting tests and study of marine life. NOTE TO EDITORS: 200' 35mm fine grain handed out to NBC-TV, Washington, for servicing both IV and theatrical pool members. Fine grain to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 72 hours. 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 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New have York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dup e 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

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Filmed News Releases