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Object description
Scenes covering North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) satellite communications programme, known as SATCOM. The film gives an impression of the development, construction, testing and political significance of the SATCOM program. The content includes the launch of the NATO SATCOM satellite from Cape Kennedy air base, Florida. The unedited reels mostly provide extra detail concerning the content covered in NATO documentary 'Watch and Ward'.
Content description
(Reel A) The arrival of NATO's SATCOM satellite at Cape Kennedy air base; NATO officers and officials (including Secretary General Manlio Brosio and Lord Coleridge) in Cape Kennedy's Control Centre; the launching of the NATO communications satellite.
(Reel B) The radar dome at SHAPE headquarters; SATCOM mobile terminals.
(Reel C) SATCOM Operators' School at SHAPE headquarters.
(Reel D) Construction of the radar dome at SHAPE headquarters; mobile radar unit assembled in the field; TARE at NATO Headquarters' Communications Centre.
(Reel E) The Presentation Room in the Situation Centre at NATO headquarters, and shots of the NATO flags flying outside; testing of NATO's SATCOM satellite at the Philco and Ford plant.
(Reel F) Outside the NATO Communications and Information Agency in The Hague; construction of radar outside SHAPE headquarters; Skynet shipboard terminals on board HMS Intrepid (two RAF Westland Sea King helicopters visible on deck).
(Reel G) Edited version distributed by the Army Pictorial Centre, covering satellite communications links between NATO nations.
(Reel H) TV Clip - an edited version made for television.
Physical description
16mm
