Summary

News Review

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Title: News Review
File Number: DN-LB-259 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1957 - 1958
Subjects: Aerials
Description: WWII-Pacific. Entertainment-Troop-WWII. Stars-Hollywood. Concert- Troop. Humor. Comedy. Sexism. Exercise-Military-Missile- Deployment. Air Forces-US-British-Australian-Korean-Chinese- New Zealand-Philippino. Planes-Military-T-33, B-57, F-86, P-51, C-130, B-66 and F-101. Aviation-Show. Industry-Defense-Aviation. Simulation-Missile launch. President-Philippines. Ceremony- Graduation. Graduation-Military. Squdron-Missile. Construction- Dome. Radar. Boat-Swamp. Propaganda-American-Defense industry- Government. Ends 19:55:20:00 19:40:55:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Opening sequence with split screen, animated globe in center, Air Force planes in four different panels. 19:41:17:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Caption, 'Far East. Bob and Jayne Wow Airmen.' Guam. Air Force plane takes off. Bob Hope is narrator, sitting on plane reminisces on Christmas tour. 19:41:48:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sign, 'Follow Me. Stop. Guam.' Pan of crowd of 10,000 men. Shots of Hope on stage with Les Brown band, Hedda Hopper. Jerry Colonna in audience making stupid face. 19:42:05:00 B W 1957 - 1958 AV of the Johnson airbase baseball park in Japan. Erin O'Brien receives bouquet of flowers from Japanese girl, kisses her. Sofa, or couch scene with Jayne Mansfield, who's trying to seduce Hope, presses her breasts against his chest. Silly. VS of airmen audience, some injured. Cuts to interior of plane, Air Force pilot, cockpit, with Colonna. Planes flying over ocean. 19:43:16:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Germany. 'Crews Simulate Matador Launching.' 701st Tactical Missle wing crest on side of plane. Preparing for simulated missile launching, mobility exercise. Missile on flat bed truck, crew working close by, missile slowly rising. MCU T-33 plane taking off. Soldiers in control room for count down, one on phone, CU of equipment. T-33 flies over launch site, simulating Matador missile in flight, Int cockpit, guidance panel. VS of plane flying. 19:44:24:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Manila. 'Philippine Aviation Week.' Long WA of Manila International Airport. Boys and young men surround B-57 plane. MLS of British Comet and high MCU of Venom fighter planes attract audience. 19:44:55:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Philippine Air Cadets honor guard, reviewed by President Carlos P Garcia and others. Band playing. Cadets march. 19:45:24:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Flags blowing in wind, four Phillipine F-86s fly over, watched by officers and woman with cat's eye glasses. Blue Diamond unit of Philippine Air Force fly in formation, displaying skill. P-51s, VO, ..'present a marked contrast to the flashy jets.' 19:45:55:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Canberras? of the Australian Air Force in sky, followed by Venoms and then American B-57s. US jet flying very low over crowd of spectators. VO, 'Besides the US and the Philippines Britain, Australia, the Republic of Korea, free China and New Zealand join in this demonstration of common purpose among the air forces of the free nations around the world.' 19:46:45:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Hawthorne, California. 'Missilemen Graduate.' Graduation of first class of USA missile men. Stage area, podium and audience. Whitley C Collins, President of Northrop Aircraft, congratulates class. Pan of graduates. Major General Alfred E Calber?, Deputy Commander of the 15th Air Force at podium, speaking. Lieu Colonel Richard W Beck, Commander of inter-continental missile squadron. Graduates line up to receive diplomas, VS. Families applaud. Graduates look at diplomas, 'Snark' missile in background. 19:48:00:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Stark guided missile launch, rocket engines detach in air. 19:48:22:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. 'Photo Squadron Gets New C-130.' C-130 Hercules jet parked, prop jet. Int, office at Lockheed Aircraft, Marietta, GA, businessmen and three men from the 1370th Photomapping Squadron of the Air Photographic and Charting Service, sign papers for jet. 19:48:54:00 B W 1957 - 1958 CU C-130 engine and propeller, turning. VO, '..It has special windows permitting a broad downward view,' re visibility. VS of plane, Ext and Int, cockpit. Plane landing, pilot in cockpit and ground crewman signals, Orlando Air Force base. Planes will be used for , VO, '..precise AV mapping photography and airborne electronic geonetic? surveying..' Commander of APCS, Brig General Edwin M Bay?, looking at plane. C-130 taking off. 19:50:21:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Okinawa. 'New Radome Beats Typhoon.' Ext, radar dome under construction, VS. Men working, tightening bolts with spanners, VS, race against storm. Panels of dome set in place. R Buckminster Fuller design. LA of dome under construction, can see sky, good. Construction at night. Securing last panel. Liquid rubber as seal. Operation Tight Top complete. 19:52:01:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. Florida. 'Swamp Buggy Gives Thrill Ride.' Two airmen from Homestead Air Force base get into swamp boat. Engine started, rudder is similiar to aircrafts. POV from buggy. Taking photograph of alligator or crocodile. Buggy cuts right through marsh grass, VS. Boat driven erratically, from side to side, driver showing off. Everglades. 19:53:20:00 B W 1957 - 1958 Sd. 'Mobile Zebra Succeeds.' Tactical Air Command's Operation Mobile Zebra, deployment exercise. Planes parked. Cuts to officers, meeting, map. Planes take off at night, B-66 bombers, take off during day. F-101s over Hawaii, AVs. 19:54:16:00 B W 1957 - 1958 B-66 flying, refueling during flight, using the 'probe and grope?' system, VS, good. VO, 'The men and airplanes of the Tactical Air Command prove once again the alertness and mobility of the USAF in discharging its global responsibilities as the guardian of freedom.' On screen, 'Security Thru Mobile Air Power.'
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