USS Skate at North Pole, Arctic Part 3
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RAD10-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 75-59 Footage: 800° DUPE NEGATIVE TO: FINE GRAIN TO; 2 April 1959 USS SKATE AT NORTH POLE (Official Navy footage released by Dept. of Defense) Film depicts the nuclear powered USS SKATE on her second scientific exploratory voyage under the Arctic ice to the North Pole, breaking all previous records for distance and time in polar under-ice operations and establishing the ability of submarines to operate at any time of the year in polar regions. SKATE's Commanding Officer, Commander James F. Calvert, USN, and the 106 members of his crew brought the big submarine to the surface 10 times during the present cruise 6 once exactly at the North Pole. In the half light of the North Pole at about 6:00 A.M. (EST), March 17th, crew members carried out a last wish of the late polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins by scattering his ashes into the blowing snow. Sir Hubert died December 1, 1958, at Framingham, Massachusetts Sequences show: (a) SKATE leaving Groton and underway. (b) Cdr. James F, Calvert, USN D studying charts. (c) let to right, Walt Whitman, Cdr. Calvert and Lt. Cdr. Bill Layman (d) Radar screen. (e) Men at recreation below decks. 1) Testing for CO2 and radiation. g. Blue nose ceremony crossing the Arctic Line. (h) Periscope coming down on radar screen. (Scene upside down on screen). (1) Man at ship control. j) SKATE coming through ice. (k) SKATE in ice. (1) Divers on deck of SKATE. Typed the m) Franking envelopes at North Pole. a) Two balalistments at North Pole. and (o) Cake cutting ceremony. (p) Funeral service for Sir Hubert Wilkins 4/8 NOTE TO EDITORS: Handed out to Fox-UP, Washington, for servicing BOTTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY@ forwarded sv and to AThe master positiver released to the company designated above, 1, 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 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. E10575
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