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to Catch a Shadow (1969)

1969 · Short film · 29 min

  • War
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This color, Cold War era recruiting film is about the U.S. Navy and their tactics in locating enemy submarines. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, and/or destroy enemy submarines. Copyright is 1969. Featured in the film is footage of P-3 Orion search aircraft, DASH drone helicopter, and the venerable aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), as well as destroyers USS Leary (DD-879), USS Walker (DD-517), USS Bridger (DE-1024) and various submarines including USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Also features footage of Norfolk, Virginia and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Opening: Submarine under the sea (:08). "To Catch A Shadow" (1:04). Hour after hour, the crew of a P-3 Orion searches for enemy submarines (1:24). Men radio one another in the plane (2:05). Submarine periscope breaks the surface (3:17). A marker is dropped into the sea from the plane (4:02). Submarine under the sea (4:24). MAD, a Magnetic Anomaly Detector is an instrument that detects minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. A submerged submarine represents a mass of ferromagnetic material that creates a detectable disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field (5:00). Faces of vigilance (5:50). ASW base (6:24). Military briefing (6:45). Sunrise mission - airplane takes off (6:57). Clocks show military or Greenwich Mean time (7:33). Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (7:48). Command center (8:11) where ships are…

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Running time
29 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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