Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Opening titles and still photos of two men inspecting the internal circuitry of a TV camera.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
A bicycle designed to ride over flights of stairs; MS of the inventor testing it out. Bizarre radio-controlled golf caddy, followed by newsreel of a robot lawnmower. Tight LS's of a propeller boat flying over a lake "traffic jam". Weird. LS's of an inflatable passenger plane being inflated, then taking off.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
tLS's of "the world's largest" jet helicopter (a military ware). LS's of turbo prop fighters positioned on military aircraft carriers. LS's of and early Boeing 707 jet liner taxiing, taking off. LS's of B-52 bombers taking off.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
JOHN GLENN returning home after setting the coast to coast 3 hour flight record.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
The successful Navy X-15 rocket plane launch.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
JONAS SALK at a press conference, followed by MS's of children receiving the polio vaccine.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Lucky Strike TV commercial (dancing cigarettes).
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
A-bomb and H-bomb tests. LS of an atomic cannon firing a nuclear warhead, mushroom cloud in BG.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
MAMIE EISENHOWER christening the Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine. MS of 2 men entering an airlock sealed room where nuclear energy tests are enacted. MS's & CU's of scientists testing solar batteries and other alternative energy means.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Animated cartoon of Sputnik being launched into space.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
CU of DWIGHT EISENHOWER Speed of progress in the satellite project can not be taken as an index of our progress in ballistic missile work. Our satellite program has never been conducted as a race with other nations. (cut to LS of one of von Braun's failed rocket attempts; tremendous explosion) I consider our country's satellite program to be well designed and properly scheduled to achieve the scientific purposes for which it was initiated.
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
America's 1st successful satellite launch (ends w/ stilted spiral shots of the earth).