LAUNCHING USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA Part 1

Description

1) CU Four young girls and young boy at launch ceremony.2) HA MCU (Front view) CINCLANTFLT band playing prior to ceremonies; Chief Bandmaster directing band.3) HA CU Arrival of MISS MARI AN ANDERSON; President of Newport News Ship-building and Drydock Company, MR. DONALD A. HOLDEN greeting her and other women in party; they stand next to car, G.4) HA MCU MR. HOLDEN, MISS ANDERSON and party arriving on speaker"s platform & being introduced to various Officers & to Civilian guests or Vips, G.5) HA MCU (Looking down over L shoulder of MR. HOLDEN) He gives introduction of the principal speaker, THE HON. W. WILLARD WIRTZ, Sec. of Labor, G.6) HA CU PAN MR. WIRTZ walking up to podium to give speech, G.7) ECU (Side view) MR. WIRTZ giving speech, G.8) HA CU Some of the guests looking on, G.9) HA CU Some of the guests present listening to speech by MR. WIRTZ, G.10) HA CU (Rear view) MR. WIRTZ speaking from podium; people look on from BG.11) HA MCU MR. WIRTZ stepping back into his position on speaker"s stand; many Vips on stand applaud; MARIAN ANDERSON then steps up to podium after being introduced by MR. HOLDEN; she steps back into line with other people.12) HA MS MR. HOLDEN introducing another unident. woman who takes a bow then backs up & gets in line with other people (Vips), G.13) HA CU (Side view) MR. HOLDEN speaking from podium, G.14) CU PAN MARIAN ANDERSON ascending the launch platform to christen USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656); MISS ANDERSON is sponsor; she is met by an official of the yard, G.15) CU MR. HOLDEN, MARIAN ANDERSON & party on launch platform; MR. HOLDEN walks out of scene L, VG.16) CU MISS ANDERSON christens CARVER by smacking bottle on bow; dripping bottle is let go; it hangs from sub.; PAN R showing sub sliding down ways; crewmen on deck pulling champagne bottle up on deck, G.17) MLS (Bow view) CARVER in water at the end of the ways, F-P, soft focus, OX.18) CU MISS ANDERSON and party on launch. platform after ship"s launch; they look toward sub. out in water as they chat with MR. HOLDEN; MISS ANDERSON is then escorted on down steps from launch. platform back to speaker"s platform; she descends to the bottom of the stairs & signs an autograph for a young girl, G.10) HA CU (Looking down over MISS ANDERSON) She signs autograph as she leans against back of some elderly man; she hands the paper and pen to MR. HOLDEN, G.11) HA CU (Looking down over high-ranking Officers on speaker"s stand) They depart, F, OX.12) HA MS (Rear view) MISS MARIAN ANDERSON, MR. DONALD HOLDEN & others walking back toward limousine that will carry MISS MARI AN ANDERSON from yard; large crowd seen assembled around car, G-F (slightly OX).

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities