Berlin Blockade Air Lift Story Reel 1 · Part 2

Description

Summary: Film shows various factory scenes of men and women at work; factories shown are Speri, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio and Clifford Manufacturing Company, Boston, Mass., 9-3-49. Scenes in Germany during Berlin Airlift. Flight Planning Section, C-54, Tudor 4, Depot in Germany and activity of German military and civilian personnel. April, 1949. CU boy and girl looking through record albums. Int. office scene, man sitting at desk. Slate: Project Bury-8th, 17249, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sign on building "Sperti, Incorporated". PS from L to R showing factory building. CU Woman working. Int.factory showing man at work. Int. home showing girl playing piano, boy playing with model aircraft. CU man reading paper. CU woman sewing apron. LS across residential area-car drives up in front of house and stops; man gets out and waves at two children on doorstep. Reel 2: Int. factory scene, woman wrong. Int. factory scene showing man working. Slate: Project Television, 9-3-49, Boston, Mass. Clifford Radiator Core.Assoc. Int. factory showing woman working. Slate: 9-3-49, Boston, Mass. Under Remarks -- Clifford Heliarc Welding. CU Welder at work. Slate: Clifford Outer Shell Association. 9-3-49, Boston, Mass., CU men at work. Slate: 9-3-49, Boston,Mass, Clifford final leak test. CU submerging of can in water. Slate: Clifford Tube Extrusion. Int. conference room scene. Int. office, men Sitting at desk giving speech. Int. factory scene showing woman at ark. Int. factory women scene showing women at work. Slate: Clifford Wind Tunnel Control. CU man sitting at control panel. EXT factory building, two men fg. CU sign "Clifford Manufacturing Co." MLS Street in town. Reel 3: MS loading procedures of a C-54 from truck, (Sound track with same). Int. residence, table set for breakfast -- man, woman, and little girl eating. Into night club scene. MCU couples dancing. State Airlift story, 19 April 1949, Rheinmain, Germany. Int. building, Flight Planning Section, pilot comes in and receives orders. Slate: Airlift Story, 19 April 1949, Rheinmain, Germany. Int. building showing weather chart, bg pilot comes in and gets latest weather report. MCU man and woman sitting by sandbox, small girl playing in same.Orchard in bg. Int. shows man sleeping in bed, wife waking husband. Reel 4: CU sign; "Vittles 200 hour inspection Daily Statistical Reports. Aircraft Required yesterday, Aircraft Serviced yesterday, Total Aircraft service & This Month To Date and Total Aircraft Serviced Last Month." LS long line of quonset huts. CU sign: "Welcome to Burtonwood, come of the 50th Air Depot Wing Commanding General." LS down airfield -- four British stationary bg. MLS Aerial Single Tudor-4 landing. MLS landing of a York, English markings. down on train terminal. Passenger train comes in to terminal, goes, directly underneath camera. English soldier. men and women standing on platform. Slate: First trains to Berlin May 1949. MS Sign in terminal "Charlotteburg." MS another sign "Bahnsteigc." MS train coming into terminal, stopping, MP's cleaning way, large crowd awaiting train. CU railroad engineers.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities