Reel

The rise of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the successes of the Mercury space program, Alan Shepard & John Glenn, Telstar satellite & other technological advances.

DO NOT USE Opening Credits and stills.

Television commercial for Accutron watches by Bulova, nervous salaryman trying to correct incorrect time of watch worn by slumbeirng man on train.

TLS U.S. Marines UH-34 D Sea Horse helicopter hovering over submarine. Aerial shot of U.S. aircraft carrier sailing. Panning MS F-3 jet fighter taking off from naval carrier. High angle TLS USN E-2 C Hawkeye surveillance plane with radar dish taking off from carrier (probably the USS Kitty Hawk). Panning h/a TLS F-4U Vigilante or F-111 Aardvark on carrier. Tilting TLS deep sea Polaris missile test launch. TLSs massive Telstar communications satellite in a hangar. Animation of Telstar operating in space. MS President JOHN F. KENNEDY at a press conference, talking about the satellite's importance.

Astronaut Alan Shepard is launched into space, 1961: TLS rocket on gantry, night; MS astronaut ALAN SHEPARD being crammed into Friendship 7 Mercury space capsule; TLSs Redstone rocket being launched; MS Shepard in orbited capsule; TLS deep sea capsule & astronaut retrieval by USMC UH-34 D Sea Horse chopper; MS press photographers & newsreel cameramen outside White House; MS President JOHN F. KENNEDY pinning medal on Alan Shepard at White House; TLS/MS Alan & wife Louise Shepard riding in parade. John Glenn is launched into space, 1962: CU smiling astronaut JOHN GLENN; MSs Glenn squeezing into Friendship 7 space capsule; TLS rocket launch; MSs Glenn in space; animation of capsule in orbit, reentering atmosphere; TLSs capsule retrieval; MS Col. Glenn on deck of destroyer; MSs Col. Glenn being greeted by wife Anna; MS gaggle of newsreel cameramen, cameras on tripods; MS President JOHN F. KENNEDY pinning award on Col. Glenn; MS/LSs Glenns on parade in Washington, DC. MCU NY Daily News newspaper headline-- "Two Reds Circle in Twin Orbits; Make Contact by Sight, Radio"; NY Herald-Tribune-- "The Space Twosome"; New York Mirror-- "Reds Whirl in Space Side-By-Sode." Panning MS Gemini and Apollo mission astronauts. MSs simulated space station in hangar, astronauts at work. Animation of delta-winged planes launched by Titan rockets (essentially the predecessor to the space shuttle).

LSs rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. (See also catalog # 429084 for color version.) MSs President Kennedy delivering "We choose to go to the moon" speech at Rice University. Cut together with shots of the astronauts.