GUNS, ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND BACK TO GUNS Part 1

Description

1) Front view, pilot being ejected from an A-4, seen in slow motion from a camera mounted forward of canopy. 2) MS A-4 taxiing, the pilot is ejected: PAN with pilot as he breaks away from ejection seat and descends with a parachute, as seen in slow motion. 3) AtoG LS PAN over the Nav. Ord. Sta., Indian Head, Md. 4) CU Signal light, as a signalman sends a message. 5) HA MLS Fantail of an unidt. ship, as numerous test missiles are fired (SV). 6) HA MLS Missile launcher on fantail, loaded with a missile; missile is fired. 7) LA MS Slow motion view, missile as it lifts off into the sky; PAN with missile leaving a trail of smoke. 8) MCU-MS old black and white still photo of the old gun powder factory, which began at Indian Head. 9) (SV) of black and white still photos of early engineers of the gun factory and some of the early vintage gun barrels produced there (SV). l0) MS Engineer removing a plastic beaker, which is used as a mold for the solid propellant in a missile, from around a large metal drum; the drum is then rolled on the machine and another sheet of plastic is formed on drum. 11) MS Side view, black engineer adjusting one of the electrical instruments, prior to operation. 12) MS Man seated before a console, looking at graph paper moving thru the recorder in the metallurgical lab. 13) CU Overlooking knobs indicating micro volts on control panel. 14) CU Scanner moving over graph paper in recorder; zoom back, picking up the man. 15) CU Beaker filled with liquid and two chemists working in the chemical analysis lab. 16) MS Lab technician looking at a glass slide thru a microscope, and entering information in a log. 17) CU Face of technician as he dons protective goggles for viewing the slide; PAN down, as she picks up the slide and enters information in a log.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities