- Title: VM-576B
- Summary: NO FRONTIER IN THE SKY: METEOROLOGISTS. WEATHER EQUIPMENT, STATIONS. FOLLOWING PATH OF HURRICANE FORMING. EARLY COMPUTERS. FAX MACHINE. MYTHOLOGICAL GODS. METEOROLOGISTS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS. TIROS. TELEVISION & INFRARED OBSERVATION SATELLITE.
- Description:04:42:35 - ANIMATED CUT OUTS TELL STORY OF NOAH'S ARK 04:43:15 - SUN SHROUDED IN CLOUDS BARELY VISIBLE 04:43:31 - ANIMATED SCENES OF EGYPTIAN SUN GOD, RA, GREEK GOD ZEUS, ROMAN NEPTUNE, AMERICAN INDIAN GOD OF RAIN, AZTEC GOD OF WINDS 04:44:14 - STILLS 04:44:28 - ANIMATED SCENE OF PHILADELPHIA & BOSTON WITH RAIN SPILLING FROM CLOUDS 04:44:38 - NEW YORK CITY URBAN RAIN STORM PEDESTRIANS UMBRELLAS FLYING ACROSS WINDY STREETS HITTING OTHER PEDESTRIANS 04:44:48 - MASSIVE URBAN SNOW STORM, CU SPINNING TIRES OF CAR STUCK ON ICY SNOW 04:44:54 - MS TRIO DIGGING OUT DRIVEWAY AFTER SNOW STORM 04:44:58 - MS MAN AT BASEBALL GAME WITH NEWSPAPER OVER HIS HEAD, BASEBALL GAME BEING PLAYED IN RAINSTORM POURING RAIN 04:45:05 - LS TREES BLOWING ON WINDY DAY, CLOUDS SWIFTLY PASSING OVERHEAD 04:45:40 - POV IN BACK SEAT OF CONVERTIBLE DRIVING IN CITY TRAFFIC, WEATHER REPORT COMES ON CAR RADIO. DRIVER SEEN IN REAR VIEW MIRROR 04:45:59 - CU YOUNG MAN LISTENING TO WEATHER REPORT ON TELEPHONE 04:46:03 - TELEVISION NEWS WEATHERMAN USING MAP. METEOROLOGIST GIVING WEATHER REPORT, WEATHER FORECAST. DRAWING ON VISUAL BOARD. 04:46:38 - AIRLINE WEATHERMEN IN WEATHER STATION, PILOTS, CAPTAINS CHECKING WEATHER FORECAST. CU POINTER ON WEATHER MAP 04:47:59 - COMMERCIAL AIRPLANE TAKING OFF 04:48:17 - AIRPORT WEATHERMEN BUSY WORKING ON FORECASTS, MAPPING OUT WEATHER PATTERNS. CU TELETYPE MACHINE TYPING OUT INFORMATION. CU PREPARING A SELECTIVE BULLETIN 04:48:52 - METEOROLOGISTS USING EARLY COMPUTER, CU EARLY COMPUTER WEATHER PRINTOUT, NUMBERS & LETTERS USED TO CREATE WEATHER PATTERNS 04:49:03 - CU OPENING BOOK ON METEOROLOGY WRITTEN IN THE 17TH CENTURY. CU GALILEO'S DRAWINGS OF THE THERMOMETER & BAROMETER 04:49:23 - MS RELEASING RADIOSONDE BALLOON. RADIOMETEORGRAPH WEATHER BALLOON 04:49:34 - CU WEATHER REPORTS COMING IN ON TELETYPE MACHINE FROM AROUND THE WORLD, ANTARCTICA, RUSSIA, EASTERN USA, PHILIPPINES 04:49:44 - MONTAGE WEATHER STATIONS, METEOROLOGISTS MEASURING WEATHER, CU GRAPH CHARTING RAINFALL, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, HUMIDITY, DURATION OF SUNSHINE, CLOUD HEIGHTS 04:50:10 - POV ON WINDY ROUGH SEAS, WEATHER SHIP IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC, SETTING OFF WEATHER BALLOONS. FLOATING WEATHER STATION 04:50:33 - INTERIOR OF SHIP, RADAR OPERATOR, WEATHER STATION 04:50:50 - SEAGULL FLYING OVER STORMY SEAS, ROUGH WEATHER 04:50:55 - RUSSIAN SHIP BREAKING THROUGH MASSIVE CHUNKS OF ICE IN THE ANTARCTIC, STUDYING WEATHER PATTERNS IN THE ANTARCTIC 04:51:19 - CU PENGUINS WITH SHIP IN B/G 04:51:21 - CU CAPTAIN SHOUTING THROUGH MEGAPHONE 04:51:24 - MEN UNLOADING CRATES FROM SHIP 04:51:28 - MS MAN PLAYING WITH PENGUIN, CU PENGUIN PLAYING WITH MAN'S HAT, FLAPPING HIS WINGS, FIGHTING WITH A HAT 04:51:42 - MS QUICK SHOT TRUCK BEING UNLOADED FROM SHIP CRASHING THROUGH THE ICE. HEAVY LOAD BREAKS THE ICE, TRUCK FALLS IN ICE 04:51:50 - LS CRATES PILED UP ON FROZEN LAND, SNOW BLOWING HOWLING WINDS 04:51:54 - BUNDLED UP MEN WALKING THROUGH HOWLING WINDS SNOW, BITTER TEMPERATURES. BRUTAL WEATHER CONDITIONS 04:52:03 - EXTERIOR & INTERIOR TENT, SCIENTIST METEOROLOGIST STUDYING WEATHER PATTERNS. USING MEASURING INSTRUMENT UNDER WATER THROUGH HOLE IN ICE 04:52:15 - METEOROLOGISTS, SCIENTISTS OUTDOORS STUDYING, MEASURING OCEAN CURRENTS, WIND SYSTEMS. CU WEATHER VANE. MS ALL KINDS OF INSTRUMENTS LAID OUT ON ICE 04:52:31 - MONTAGE AMERICAN METEOROLOGISTS USING TELEVISION & INFRARED OBSERVATION SATELLITE (TIROS). CU TIROS SPINNING, ROCKET LAUNCHING SATELLITE INTO SPACE. 04:53:23 - ANIMATED ILLUSTRATION OF HOW TIROS WORKS 04:53:58 - LS & MS GIANT CANDELABRA SHAPED RECEIVER RECEIVING TRANSMISSIONS FROM TIROS SATELLITE 04:54:04 - CU MASTER CLOCK SENDING OUT COMMAND SIGNALS TO TIROS. CU PICTURE INFORMATION BEING TRANSFERRED TO FILM. CU INFORMATION BEING STORED ON TAPE. CU GRAPH MACHINE RECORDING INFORMATION 04:54:31 - TIROS PHOTOGRAPHS BEING DEVELOPED. DEVELOPING FILM. CU PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM SATELLITE 04:54:51 - CU METEOROLOGIST DRAWING UP CLOUD CHART & COMBINING WITH OTHER OBSERVATIONS 04:55:31 - FACSIMILES OF TIROS MAPS BEING TRANSMITTED BY RADIO. CU INFORMATION BEING TYPED UP 04:55:51 - HARRY WEXLER, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH FOR THE U S WEATHER BUREAU SPEAKING ABOUT SATELLITES & WHAT THEY CAN MEASURE. D. A. DAVIS, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION SPEAKING. WMO SPOKESMAN. RUSSIAN EXPERT SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN 04:57:58 - EXTERIOR HEADQUARTERS OF WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION 04:58:27 - INTERIOR WMO, EXPERTS IN MEETING, BROWSERS IN WHO LIBRARY 04:58:55 - METEOROLOGISTS LOOKING OVER WEATHER CHARTS, GRAPHS 04:59:11 - METEOROLOGISTS IN CHILE STUDYING HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES. MAN ON CHAIR WITH INSTRUMENTS CROSSES RIVER ON CABLE PULLEY. MONTAGE HYDROLOGISTS STUDYING AREA TO SEE IF DAM COULD BE BUILT ON THIS RIVER 04:59:53 - WHO AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGISTS TAKING SAMPLES OF DESERT SAND, STUDYING WEATHER EFFECTS ON PLANTS, CU SAND STORM 05:00:19 - SWAMPED LANDS, TOO MUCH WATER, FLOODS 05:00:24 - MONTAGE CLIFFS LOSING DIRT, EROSION, TOPSOIL FALLING OFF CLIFFS INTO WATER 05:00:34 - MS SMALL PASSENGER PLANE IN FLIGHT 05:00:43 - POV IN PLANE OVER SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS 05:00:48 - ETHIOPIAN STUDENTS WATCHING FILM, LIGHTS GO OUT, FILM STARTS 05:01:00 - ETHIOPIAN FARMER MOVING OXEN WHILE WEATHERMAN CHECKS WEATHER STATION 05:01:13 - INTERIOR OF HOME, WEATHERMAN CHECKING HIS EQUIPMENT WHILE HIS WIFE COOKS ON AN OPEN FIRE. OLD MEETS NEW 05:01:22 - CU WEATHERMAN TALKING INTO RADIO RECEIVER, MEN RECEIVING MESSAGE AT OTHER END 05:01:27 - ECU AIRPLANE PROPELLER SPINNING 05:01:30 - INTERIOR PLANE'S COCKPIT RECEIVING WEATHER INFORMATION, LOOKING OVER CHART, FLYING OVER CLOUDS. 05:01:43 - MONTAGE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CONVEYING INFORMATION TO PILOTS AERIAL OVER THE COLOSSEUM IN ITALY 05:03:12 - CU TIROS CAMERA RECORDING WEATHER PATTERNS, HURRICANE FORMING HIGH ABOVE THE ATLANTIC. CU SERIES OF PICTURES SHOWING HURRICANE'S PATH 05:03:26 - AERIAL OVER WEATHER SHIP IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC 05:03:33 - CREW ABOARD WEATHER SHIP TRACKING HURRICANE CU SIGNALS COMING IN 05:03:42 - LOW ANGLE RADAR WINGS TURNING 05:03:45 - RECONNAISSANCE PLANE IN FLIGHT. POV FLYING THROUGH CLOUDS, MEASURING INTENSITY OF WINDS 05:04:04 - GROUND STATION PLOTTING HURRICANE'S COURSE 05:04:12 - CU WINDSWEPT APARTMENTS, WATERFRONT BUILDINGS, HOUSES IN HURRICANE'S PATH 05:04:15 - RESIDENTS PACKING UP CAR , EVACUATING 05:04:20 - LS ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK, RIDES, FERRIS WHEEL 05:04:22 - LS BOAT YARD, BOATS TIED UP & LEFT. MS MAN WEARING CAPTAIN'S HAT POINTING UP, BEING BLOWN BY WINDS 05:04:28 - HS & MS AIRPLANE LANDING 05:04:54 - HURRICANE FOOTAGE & AFTERMATH, HOUSES SMASHED TO BITS BY HURRICANE FORCE WINDS, FLOODS, SUBMERGED HOUSES 05:05:34 - HS FOOTBALL GAME, PLAYER JUMPS INTO SPECTATORS 05:05:42 - FISHERMEN ON PIER FISHING, WOMAN STRETCHED OUT ON BENCH TAKING A NAP WHILE MEN FISH 05:05:52 - PACKED BEACHES OF RIO ? HIGH RISE APARTMENT LINING BEACH FRONT. SUN BATHING. RIO DE EJNEIRO 05:05:56 - POV INSIDE OFFICE BUILDING, WINDOW WASHERS WASHING WINDOWS OF HIGH RISE BUILDING 05:06:57 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-576B