Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology. Advancements & temporary setbacks in American science & technology, late 1960s.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
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Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
B&W newsreel of a New York transit strike, 1966: MSs New Yorkers walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, some carrying bicycles, CUs feet on steps, walkway; LS crowded highway during late rush hour, car headlights on. Color panning WLS New York City (Manhattan) skyline during the 1966 Blackout. Air pollution montage: panning LS skyline of unidentified city imbued by smog; panning TLSs Eastern, American & TWA commercial jet airplanes taking off from airport, expelling thick exhaust trails; MS/LSs industrial incinerators & smokestacks spewing smoke, pollution; panning LS smoggy city; TLS cars traveling on a highway, cam on overpass.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Subjective POV & objective shots of automobile safety crash tests conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute (Nader-induced); collision test, some in slow motion.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Montage of Hurricane Camille ravaging Mississippi in 1969: high winds, lightning, waves. MS scientists working on the weather satellite Tyros; CU radar-like relay screen; satellite weather photos. MS/CUs television satellites; illustrations of how they operate
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
DO NOT USE Satelitte fed images on TV.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Great LS/TLSs NASA Mercury mission rockets taking off (liftoff, lift-off, launch, launch pad). Great shot of thruster ring being cast from rocket, planet Earth in near BG. MS/TLSs astronaut EDWARD WHITE (Ed White) on the first EVA or spacewalk (space walk), 1965. MS Apollo astronauts in space gear walking toward transport van. MS/CUs astronauts donning gear, technicians helping. MS astronaut getting into capsule. MSs astronauts working in space, conducting science experiments in zero gravity. Excellent slow motion MS astronaut Ed White on space walk, using propulsion gun to direct himself, cloudy planet earth in BG (beautiful shot).
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Apollo XI (Apollo 11) landing on the moon, July 20, 1969: subjective shot of the Eagle lunar module landing on the moon surface; stills of footprints, planting the American flag; high speed TLSs of the astronauts walking on the moon; LSs Eagle module returning to the orbiting capsule; LS Earth rising, as viewed from the moon.