Radar Secrets
Radar Secrets is a short film from ca. 1940s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
01:21:28:14 VS of radar satellites rotating.
01:21:37:20 CU radar monitor.
01:21:42:25 Stock shot of Hitler in profile on podium delivering speech in front of microphones.
01:21:44:24 VS huge German military audience at Nazi rally. Nazi insignias visible. Nazi women saluting with Nazi flags flying behind them.
01:21:52:18 CU Nazi flag on ground set on fire.
01:22:17:19 Military radar.
01:22:26:07 VS American soldiers with headphones monitoring radar. CU soldier looking into small radar monitor.
01:22:38:08 CU meter that read Range in Yards 0990
01:23:11:18 Soldier looks up from radar and turns to two seated soldiers and delivers orders commence firing, commence firing. Shot are fired in the darkness. Bright explosion in the black night.
01:23:36:03 Engineer stands beside radar equipment and turns a knob; CU frequency analyzer of radar shows sine wave .
01:24:15:04 CU radar scope with bright line sweeping counter-clockwise in a circles over black screen.
01:24:45:12 VS fighter plane finding its target with airborne search lamp, bombs enemy submarine, then pulls away.
01:25:15:29 Shot through planes gun sight.
01:25:20:02 WWII fighter plane firing off missiles at target in ocean.
01:25:26:00 Battleship in ocean firing off a barrage of missiles about 15 at a time; targets hit on beach; huge black clouds of smoke.
01:25:42:02 MS sign: Oak Ridge [arrow pointing right], West Oak Ridge Prohibited Area Only Authorized Personnel Admitted [arrow pointing left].
01:25:48:26 Black out screen, audio track narrates the Atomic Bomb, then huge atomic explosion lights up the screen and an enormous mushroom clouds begins to form.
01:26:03:10 CU newspaper headline in the PM Daily Greatest Story of the Age: Atomic Bomb Opens New Era! , Chicago Daily Tribune headline Atomic Bomb Story!: Tell How Deadly Weapon Was Developed Japs Halt Trains to Smashed City, Truman Vows Rain of Destruction , picture in paper of B-52 bomber in air; headline in the New York Herald Tribune Allies Willing to Retain Hirohito If He Carries Out Their Orders Foe Likely to Agree, Maybe Today , image of atomic mushroom cloud on front page; headline Second Atom Bomb Makes First Obsolete.
01:26:26:16 Pan up hull of Navy battleship being built inside of warehouse.
01:26:31:00 Huge crowd or audience of men fill entire frame, no empty space in shot.
01:26:52:52:00 CU silhouette of soldier in helmet looking off into the distance.
01:26:53:19 VS one soldiers turns over in his sleep while other soldiers sleep on bunk-bed cots inside battle ship.
01:27:06:11 VS two Navy radar operators in headphones watch radar scope; low angle radar satellite rotating; CU speaker in battleship ringing; soldiers quickly rolling out of bed run to report for duty.
01:27:54:19 CU four Navy soldiers huddled around table hurriedly planning attack. Good Navy jargon:
6000 yards, forty degrees on starboard bow, speed 3-O, course 0-0-5, time 12 minutes.
01:28:46:29 VS Radar and radar scope.
01:29:10:22 VS World War II Navy radar operators at work.
01:30:41:06 CU dial of U.S. Navy clock which reads 12:57.
01:31:08:16 CU different clock reads 12:57.
01:31:29:08 CU Navy soldier on lookout lifts binoculars and looks through them.
01:32:13:10 VS officer delivering orders to fire torpedoes, torpedoes fire of ship into water.
01:32:33:16 CU clock reads 12:59
01:33:50:20 CU clock reads 1:00
01:36:22:22 Shirtless army soldiers pushing a bomb down a conveyor line at a B-29 base in the Marianas.
01:36:27:24 Audience of soldiers at B-29 base being briefed on targets.
01:36:47:02 VS B-29 planes starting their engines and taking off.
01:37:18:18 Great shot from within plane in sky looking out window at a fighter plane flying in the clouds alongside it.
01:37:23:14 VS 15-20 B-29 bomber planes flying in clouds at 23000 feet over Japanese waters.
01:37:48:04 VS pilot in cockpit of B-29 reading instruments in preparation for bomb drop; shot from plane slowly entering cloud dissolves into radar scope monitoring Japanese target. Audio track narration:
If the enemy took comfort in the thought that the bombardier sees nothing more than this, they were living in a fool s paradise. For at a calculated instant tons of high explosives, and yes, even the atomic bomb, would be sent away to the target, aimed by the miracle of radar.
01:37:55:20 CU Radar scope. Audio track: before you now is the radar scope, a small circular screen giving x-ray like vision to the mysterious eleventh member of the crew; the radar operator; VS of radar operator.
01:38:22:20 Graphic illustration of plane over ocean sending out radar signals.
01:39:23:14 CU wristwatch reads 4:05
01:41:11:09 CU map of Japan. Pencil points out bomb target near Tokyo.
01:41:38:03 CU low angle B-29 bomber in the sky opening its bomb doors.
01:42:06:00 VS CU inside B-29 bomber looking down throw bomb doors as bombs are dropped on Japan. VS bombs falling from plane.
01:42:23:05 VS Burning buildings in Japanese city; rubble in aftermath of bombing while narrator says This is what the Jap sees, his cities, his factories in ruins.
01:42:32:21 CU photograph of American bombed Japanese factory; camera zooms out to show soldiers holding the photograph. Soldier holding photograph says A lot of you might be asking well, why shows us this the war is over? Well we wanted to let you in on one of the big secrets of the war, thought you might be interested
zoom in to CU soldier speaks to camera: But our scientists must go on perfecting old inventions and developing new ones for the security of our nation at peace. And you who bought bonds in support of the war effort can buy a share in the peace by investing in bonds today, how about it?
01:43:45:03 Advertisement with drawing of a torch encircled by a wreath. text Buy Bonds, Hold Them! Victory Loan| Radar Secrets | |
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| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
| Distributed by | 0 |
Release date | ca. 1940s |
| Language | English |
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