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NATIV PROJECT, 1949

ARC Identifier 65066 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-14367

Moving Images from the Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division, College Park, MD

Item from Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003

Details

Creator(s):Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )
Type(s) of Archival Materials:Moving Images
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

 
Production Date(s):1949
Part Of:Series: Motion Picture Films, Video Recordings, and Sound Recordings Relating to Military Aviation Activities, compiled 1947 - 1984, documenting the period 1909 - 1984
Use Restriction(s):Undetermined
Specific Records Type(s):motion pictures (visual works)
General Note(s):Script sheet available.
Sound Type:Silent
Edit Status:Unedited
 
Variant Control Number(s):NAIL Control Number: NWDNM(m)-342-USAF-14367
 
Index Terms:
  • Subjects Represented in the Archival Material:
    • Drawing
    • Guided missiles
    • Radar

Shot List

Summary: Guided Missile Range. 3) Pan Range. 4) Pan Concrete bldg range towers and personnel. 5) LS Radar Installation on hill. 6) CU Animated maps of terrain. 7) CU Animated missile. 8) CU Civilians assembling missile. 9) MS Men unloading missile from truck. 10) LS Test firing of missile. 11) LS truck hauling missile from hangar. 12) MS Men installing missile in tower. 13) CU Installing fuel container in missile. 14) LS Explosives storage shed. 15) MS Special equipment used to haul fuel. 16) CU Special clothing for handling fuel. 17) LS Control tower. 18) Control panel and operators. 19) LS Concrete control building. 20) CU Men sending weather balloon aloft. 21) CU Control tower operators. 22) LS Missile launching. 23) LS Same. 24) LS Missile in flight. 25) MS Radar installation. 26) LS Launching tower. 27) MS hole in ground where missile hit. 28) CU Animation. 29) CU Women taking chart readings. 30) LS Missile leaving tower and lands in far bg. 31) LS Same. 32) Animation of flight. Good

Copies

All Copies Copies 1 - 3 
Copy 1
Copy Status:Reference
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 788, Film: PPCK
Color:Color
Dimensions:Film: 16 mm
Copy 2
Copy Status:Reproduction
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 820, Film: INSK
Color:Color
Dimensions:Film: 16 mm
Copy 3
Copy Status:Preservation
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 788, Film: MPCK
Dimensions:Film: 16 mm
Type:2, 788, Film: MPT
Dimensions:Film: 16 mm

Description 2 of 2

THE NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION CO. NATIV MISSILE STORY, HOLLOMAN AFB, NEW MEXICO, 1948

ARC Identifier 65024 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-14174

Moving Images from the Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division, College Park, MD

Item from Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003

Details

Creator(s):Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )
Type(s) of Archival Materials:Moving Images
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

 
Production Date(s):1948
Part Of:Series: Motion Picture Films, Video Recordings, and Sound Recordings Relating to Military Aviation Activities, compiled 1947 - 1984, documenting the period 1909 - 1984
Use Restriction(s):Undetermined
Specific Records Type(s):motion pictures (visual works)
General Note(s):Data sheet and Catalog card available.
Contributor: Producer, USAF by Holloman AFB
Sound Type:Silent
Edit Status:Unedited
 
Variant Control Number(s):NAIL Control Number: NWDNM(m)-342-USAF-14174
 
Index Terms:
  • Subjects Represented in the Archival Material:
    • Armed forces officers
    • Fire extinction
    • Fuel
    • Guided missiles
    • H-5 (Helicopter)
    • Meteorological instruments
    • Occupations
    • Persons
    • Radar
    • Radar operators
    • Testing
    • Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )
    • Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Holloman Air Force Base. (ca. 1948 - )

Shot List

Summary: 1) Ms North American Aviation Company Personnel setting Nativ missile in launching car for static test, showing equipment used. 2) LS looking across at the launching car, showing static tests on Nativ missile. 3) LS repeat scene of static tests. 4) MLS static tests of Nativ missile. 5) PS of the personnel and fuel units at base of the launching tower. Personeel working on same. 6) MS Askania camera tracking station. 7) MCS same scene. Two airmen operating same. 8) MS RV other operators. 9) MS LS and CU of the tracking and control station showing operators and equipment. Telemastering equipment radar equipment, sky screen and controls, personnel, weather station and operations of telemetering equipment, radar and optical tractor in operation. 10) PS control station, personnel going about their duties. 11) CU tracking equipment in operation. 12) CU radar screen. 13) CS weather ballon being raised. 14) MCS camera man focusing camera for tracking of the missile. 15) PS radar tracking station. 16) ELS Nativ missile tracking in distant bg. 17) MS low angle looking up at men working on the launching tower. 18) LPS Nativ missile launching. Camera follows missile in flight. SLATE: Holloman AIR FORCF BASE 7-14-48. 19) LS Nativ missile in launching tower. Launching. Missile does not leave tower --two scenes of same. Reel 2: SLATE: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE. PROJECT 770, 10 SEPTEMBER 1948. 1) LS high speed camera showing vertical launching towers launching of Nativ missile. Camera pans upwards showing flight of Nativ missile. Missile crashes in far distant bg. Three scenes of same. Reel 3: SLATE: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE PROJECT MX 770 15 OCTOBER 1948 BLOCKHOUSE AND TOWER PRE FIRE OF MISSILE. 1) LS concrete control block house and camera installation near block house. PS from control house to vertical launching tower showing ambulance, fire truck, and workmen adjusting the angle of the launching tower. 2) MS base of camera stand, showing photographic officers and project officers Standing near the scenes 3) MS ambulance and fire fighting apparatus near base of launching tower. 4) LS firing of Nativ missile. Camera follows smoke trails showing flight of same.  5) LS tower being washed dawn after firing tests. 6) LS control tower building showing smoke rising from top, denoting all clear sign. 7) LS launching of Nativ missile. Scene ends before missile leaves tower. Reel 4: 1)First scene showing vertical launching tower. Nativ missile launching, and in flight. 2) GS R-5 helicopter hovering above camera. NOVEMBER 5TH, 1948 PROJECT NATIV. 3) PS Nativ missile launching from vertical launching tower. Camera follows missile in flight. 4) LS concrete block house with all clear smoke signal atop same. 5) LS impact area Nativ missile, showing dust raised in far bg from calling missile. Reel 5: 1) MLS group of ground personnel changing the angle of the vertical tower for launching Nativ missile. 2) LS truck pulling fuel trailer for the Nativ missile. 3) Acid analine fuel containers. Good

Copies

All Copies Copies 1 - 3 
Copy 1
Copy Status:Reference
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 735, Film: PPS
Base:Cellulose Acetate
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:2
Type:1, 330, Film: PPS
Base:Cellulose Acetate
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:3
Type:1, 229, Film: PPS
Base:Cellulose Acetate
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:4
Type:1, 389, Film: PPS
Base:Cellulose Acetate
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:5
Type:1, 162, Film: PPS
Base:Cellulose Acetate
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Copy 2
Copy Status:Reproduction
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 754, Film: DNS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:2
Type:1, 348, Film: DNS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:3
Type:1, 254, Film: DNS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:4
Type:1, 412, Film: DNS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:5
Type:1, 182, Film: DNS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Copy 3
Copy Status:Preservation
Contact(s):

Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.

Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:1
Type:1, 733, Film: FGMS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:2
Type:1, 328, Film: FGMS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:3
Type:1, 226, Film: FGMS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:4
Type:1, 386, Film: FGMS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm
Media 
Specific Media Type:Film Reel
Reel/Tape/Disk #:5
Type:1, 160, Film: FGMS
Color:Black-and-White
Dimensions:Film: 35 mm