films available from the Defense Department
compiled by Michael Ravnitzky
SOME INTERESTING DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FILMS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST PART I - INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATION by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com Recently I received a large partial inventory list of thousands of Defense Department motion picture films and videotapes. I have selected a tiny sampling of these films that seem interesting for some reason or other, or have remained classified for years despite evidence of some public interest in their contents. This is just a personal selection; please keep that in mind. There are thousands and thousands other films out there waiting to be viewed.
The source of these film titles and catalogue numbers are the film transfer lists and proposed transfer inventories held by the National Archives and DVIC.
Forthcoming lists of films in various subject areas will contain the addresses at the bottom rather than at the top.
Most of these films are either restricted in distribution or are still marked as classified, either confidential or secret, as noted. However, most of these films have not been reviewed for declassification or public release in many years, or even decades. You can request a copy of any of these films by writing to the following two addresses and requesting a copy of the film under the Freedom of Information Act. All of these films will be available and under the authority of one or both of the following two addresses.
The first address is the Department of Defense [DoD] FOIA Office. Note: in your request letter to DoD, you may wish to mention that these films are or were under the responsibility of the Defense Visual Information Center, DVIC, but that FOIA requests to DVIC are processed by the DoD FOIA Office.
WARNING: The DoD FOIA Office does not like to process requests for audio-visual materials such as motion picture films, because they are much more troublesome than requests for paper records. Nor do they have a very good track record in regard to processing such requests. Just keep careful track of your requests, and send in an inquiry if an excessive amount of time has gone by. You may need to send an appeal letter if too much time goes by.
The second address is the National Archives office that has accessioned some of these films--it is not entirely clear which films were accessioned and which remain at DoD. One or both of these offices have all of these films.
Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 INTERESTING DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FILMS Part 2 - Biological and Chemical Warfare Films by Michael Ravnitzky mikerav@ix.netcom.com Half a Loaf: Evaluation of an Anti-Crop Weapon - SECRET chemical and biological warfare against food crops Film Number PIN 1000500 DF, Film 0949 Mustard Spray Tests with Multiple Planes - CONFIDENTIAL - Old - Film Number FB 163 Biological Warfare Film Number OD-CD TVSP7 Tactical Employment of Chemical Troops in Attack Film Number TF 3-10 Identification of U.S. Chemical Ammunitions Film Number TF-3-2658 ABCR [Atomic Biological Chemical Radiological] Warfare Decontamination, Eglin Field, Florida, 9 March - 11 May 1953 Film Number USAF 21572 - CLASSIFIED Riot Control Munitions - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 20769 DF, Film FR 759 The U.S. Crime of Bacteriological Warfare - The Evidence a 1950s Chinese Documentary??? Film Number USAF 38216 - CONFIDENTIAL Chemical/Biological Weapons Development, Equipment and Components USAF, early 1960s Film Number Illegible - SECRET Medical Defense Against Biological Warfare, Part 1 Navy, Film Number Illegible - CONFIDENTIAL Medical Defense Against Biological Warfare, Part 2-B Film Number PIN 1011349 DN, Film MN 08549B - CONFIDENTIAL Medical Defense Against Biological Warfare, Part 3-B Film Number PIN 1011349 DN, Film MN 08549C - CONFIDENTIAL Biological and Chemical Air Launched Weapons Film Number WEPS 1-65 - CONFIDENTIAL Medical Aspects of NBC: Latest Developments of Chemical and Biological Warfare [HAPMB 528] - SECRET Film Number MED 28-65-A Biological and Chemical Warfare - SECRET Film Number MN 09170-A ========================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 SOME INTERESTING DOD FILMS: Part 3: Vietnam Related Films compiled by Michael Ravnitzky mikerav@ix.netcom.com ===================================== Riot at Thu Duc Prison - Prisoners, Gia Dinh Province, Vietnam, 18 Oct. 1970 Film Number LC 56236 - CONFIDENTIAL Rebuilding Khe Sanh Firebase Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, 29 Feb. 1971 Film Numbers LC 56252 and LC 56253 - CONFIDENTIAL NVA Invasion, 1972 Kontum, South Vietnam, 28 April - 7 May 1972 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Numbers LC 56913 and LC 56914 US Troop Withdrawals, Koreans Take over Security Functions DMZ Korea, 21-23 April 1971 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Numbers LC 56265, 56266, 26267 and 56268 Mayaguez Control: Operation Rescue - Mayaguez Film Number VR-FS01/508 - CLASSIFIED Recovery of the USS Mayaguez Film Number VR-FS01/509 - CLASSIFIED SS Mayaguez Recovery - 1975 Film Number VR-FS01/511 - CLASSIFIED Ice Cream Anyone, Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam September 1967 Film Number USAF 43600 - UNCLASSIFIED ======================== Available Upon Request From: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 SOME INTERESTING DOD FILMS Part 4: Oddball or Unusual Aircraft compiled by Michael Ravnitzky mikerav@ix.netcom.com [please note that most of these films have never been seen outside of the DoD, and thus have never been used for any television documentaries] ==================================== Inflatoplane - Seaplane Version [1202-169] Film Number 945-X - CONFIDENTIAL *Microjet* - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 33303 Reconnaissance Parasite Aircraft Film Number USAF 19661 XC-99 - Worlds Largest Land Plane Film Number USAF 19738 Convertiplane Test at Wright Patterson AFB, Aug. 1952 Film Number USAF 20772 XV-1 Convertible Airplane, McDonnell Aircraft, Aug. 1955 Film Number USAF 24123 Transcendental??? Convertible Plane Film Number USAF 24324 XFV-1 Progress Report [weird Navy Plane] Film Number USAF 21984 XV-3 Convertiplane Film Number USAF 22691 Horton Wingless Aircraft [WW2 era German Flying Wings] Film Number USAF 22259 Northrop Research Flying Wing Aircraft and XP-56 Film Number USAF 24262 MB-1 High Card Ding Dong Documentary 1955-56 Film Number USAF 23268A The MB-1 Air to Air Rocket - SECRET Film Number PIN 1000425 DF, Film FR 27 MB-1 Documentary 1955-56 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 29521 Big Buster, the F-89J, MB-1 Bomb System - SECRET Film Number PIN 27458 DF, Film TF 1-5335 Ryan X-13 Vertijet Film Number USAF 23711 X-13 Vertijet, Edwards AFB, CA, May 1956 Film Number USAF 25816 X-13 Transition Phase Film Number USAF 25817 Second F-100D Piloted Zero Length Launch, 11 Apr. 1958 Edwards AFB, CA Film Number USAF 25873 LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany 1928 Film Number USAF 24056 Early Helicopter and Autogiro Tests Film Number USAF 25516 First Helicopters for the Army Film Number USAF 25516A 25th Anniversary of the USAF Helicopter Film Number PS 104-9/50-1 The B-70 Weapon Introduction System - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 26350 XB-70 Progress Report 1963 Film Number USAF 36374 The B-70 Weapon System - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 26997 B-70 Film Progress Report - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 28149 B-70 Joining Concept - SECRET Film Number USAF 27514 SR-71, June 1966 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 41332 SR-71 Project, Beale AFB, April 1966 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 43370 RS-71 Air to Air Footage Film Number USAF 38289 The Story of the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing [U-2 and later SR-71 aircraft] Film Number SFP 2144, PIN 26750 DF - SECRET 100 Strategic Reconnaissance Wing - SECRET Film Number USAF 47207 C-5 Galaxy Aircraft Model Ditching Investigation 1968 Film Number EC-13-68 Dyna-Soar Wind Tunnel Tests [Dyna Soar was a 1960s Air Force space shuttle design] Film Number USAF 27224 USAF Presents a Report on the Dyna-Soar Progress, April 1960 - June 1961 Film Number USAF 29561 Dyna-Soar Mockup Inspection Film Number USAF 29993 Dyna-Soar Program - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 31246 X-20 Dyna-Soar - April 1962 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 33060A Human Downward Ejection Tests Film Number EC-30 Space Ship Take Off; A Technical Fantasy [A Seized German WW2 era Film???] USAF 28533 MiG-25 Foxbat - SECRET Film Number PIN 47236, FLV 13-0013, videotape MiG-25 Foxbat - SECRET Film Number VT-D0365/807CH Operation of System 119-L - SECRET [an intercontinental reconnaissance balloon mid-air recovery program] Air Force Film Number Illegible ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 INTERESTING DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FILMS Part 5 - Flying Disk Aircraft by Michael Ravnitzky mikerav@ix.netcom.com ================================== Avrocar I Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report, Feb. 1958 - May 1959 Film Number USAF 29668 Flying Disk Aircraft Classified Film - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 29669 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 29670 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 29671 Avrocar Vehicle Manufacture Film Number USAF 29672 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 29673 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 29675 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 29676 Avrocar Flying Disk Aircraft Progress Report Film Number USAF 31347 Advanced Pyewacket Progress Film Number USAF 28520 ========================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting Dod Films: Part 6 - Broken Arrow Nuclear Accidents and other Incidents compiled by Michael Ravnitzky mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== F-105B Incident, September 1958 Film Number USAF 27567 Atlas ICBM Blows Up On Pad Film Number USAF 29764 B-52 Crack Up, Yuba City, Colorado, Broken Arrow Incident, 14 Mar. 1961 - SECRET Film Number USAF 27815 U-2 Salvage Operation, Key West Naval Station 23 November 1963 - SECRET Film Number USAF 35853 Broken Arrow B-52 Crash Near Cumberland, MD 1-13-64 Film Number USAF 36970 - SECRET Broken Arrow Near Cumberland, Maryland, 14-15 Jan 1964 Film Number USAF 36052 - SECRET Disaster Control, B-52 and KC-135 Team Operations, Palomares, Spain, 1966 Film Number USAF 40730B - SECRET Midair Collision, B-52 / KC-135, Camp Wilson, Spain 6 and 7 February 1966 Film Number USAF 40730C - SECRET B-52 Crash at Thule, Thule AFB, Greenland Jan./Feb. 1968 Film Number USAF 43765 - SECRET Broken Arrow Nuclear Accident - Date/Location Unknown Film Number USAF 50655 - SECRET B-52 Landing Incident, Edwards AFB, CA, early 1955 Film Number USAF 24401 C-123B Crash, Thailand, April 1963 - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 36721 Nuclear Training - Emergency Nuclear Weapons Evacuation Film Number PIN 28091 DF, Film TF 6578 - SECRET ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 7: Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Matters compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Intelligence Operations - Air Sea Land Exfiltration Film Number TF 30-3514-B - CONFIDENTIAL Intelligence Operations - Air Sea Land Infiltration Film Number TF 30-3514-A - CONFIDENTIAL ALSOS Mission, Colonel Pash Reports, 1941-1948 [ALSOS targeted WW2 German nuclear and chem/bio research] dec. file supplemental file 210.68 16 mm film at Record Group 319.0004 - STILL CLASSIFIED! A Day in the USSR - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 20844 Taiwan Alert, September 1958 - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 26819 Recognition Training - Sino Soviet Aircraft Film Number FS 3187 - CLASSIFIED Aircraft Recognition - Soviet Jet Aircraft Recognition Film Number PIN 1011004 DN, MN 06898-D - CONFIDENTIAL Aircraft Recognition - Soviet Jet Aircraft Recognition Film Number PIN 1011005 DN, MN 06898-E - CONFIDENTIAL Communist Defeat in Malaya Film Number USAF 36343 The Thrill of it All - National Security Seminar Film Number USAF 36388 - CLASSIFIED Reporting Espionage, Sabotage, Terrorism and Subversion Film Number VR-D1-569/508CH Interview With Soviet Pilot - SECRET Film Number USAF 50791 Defector: A Soviet Pilot - SECRET Film Number PIN 51187 DF, Film AVR 239 Defector: A Chinese Pilot - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 51337 DF, Film TS 1471 Conrolled Counter-Intelligence Assets - SECRET Film Number PIN 47600 DF, Film TF 6312 Red Flag 78-5: Quick Look - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 50276 DF, Film TS 0992 Red Flag 79-2 Quick Look - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number TS 1334 Blue Flag SAM/TAC Air ECM Confrontation Film Number PIN 48139, Film TS-1172 - SECRET So You Think You re Secure? - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 28059 DF, Film TF 6502 The Third Man is Listening - SECRET Film Number AVA 145 Countering Vehicular Kidnapping - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number TS 723 Responsibilities for Latin America, Jan. 1963 Film Number Illegible - SECRET HUMIT Film Number USAF 49637 - SECRET Protection of the President Film Number PIN 21019 DF, Film FRV 1029 Skyjacking Film Number FS 3262 TAC Intelligence Briefing Nicaragua TIP-83-21 - SECRET Film Number PIN 600660 DF, RB DF3 TAC Intelligence Briefing - People's Republic of China - SECRET Film Number PIN 600661 DF, RB DF3 TAC Intelligence Briefing - Poland TIP-83-22 - SECRET Film Number PIN 600664 DF, RB DF3 TAC Intelligence Briefing - Soviet Assault Helicopters - SECRET Film Number PIN 600665 DF, RB DF3 OPSEC in Action - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 11273 DF, Film TF 6651 - videotape Target Intelligence In Action - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 26249, Film SFP 661 Deception: Methods Soviets Use to Deceive US Aircrews Film Number PIN 48124, FLV 04-0020 - SECRET Worldwide Security Police Symposium - The Threat Videotape - SECRET Film Number PIN 50691 DF, Film AVR 148 RX for STINFO - scientific & technical information Film Number FR 0541 USAF Counterinsurgency Course: British Tactics for Counterinsurgency Film Number TF 1-5542-F Naval Intelligence - The Intelligence Cycle Film Number MN 10889B - CONFIDENTIAL Informants - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number MA 98560 or MN 9850 Enemy Territory, USA - SECRET Film Number MN 11018 Naval Intelligence - The Naval Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center Film Number MN 10889D - SECRET Naval Intelligence - Naval Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center Film Number MN 10889E - SECRET Naval Intelligence - Intelligence and You Film Number MN 08279B Communication Discipline - videotape - SECRET Film Number PIN 52745 DF Communication Security Briefing - the ALPHA 3 Story Film Number PS 99-1/C - CONFIDENTIAL OSI Source System - Contact and Sources Film Number TF 6492 - CONFIDENTIAL AND ALSO SOME AUDIO TAPES The U.S. Army Intelligence Command seminar briefing, speaker B/G William Blakefield February 20, 1969, 7" Tape Reels 1, 2 and 3 - CONFIDENTIAL Accession number Record Group 319.009, 319.010, and 310.011 The US Intelligence Command, speaker B/G William Blakefield, April 10, 1969, Accession Number Record Group 319.012 CONFIDENTIAL, 7" Tape Reel Command Readiness presentation to Chief of Staff, June 17, 1966, accession number Record Group 319.013 CONFIDENTIAL Intelligence Command briefing by B/G William Blakefield, October 12, 1967 in Bell Hall Auditorium, Record Group 319.015 - CONFIDENTIAL ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 The audio tapes are available only from the National Archives. Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 8: World War II Era and Earlier Materials compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Berlin Bomb Damage - World War II - CLASSIFIED Film Number AAFCFS 3396 Casualties of War - SECRET Film Number WF 49 Disney Film: Victory Through Air Power - de Seversky Film Number USAF 38105 Ball Turret School Film Number AAFCFS 1484 Controlling German Prisoners of War Film Number FB 164 The Baseball Grenade Film Number FB 19212 Oriental Prisoners of War Film Number FB 19239 World War I Footage Film Number USAF 45408 A War Department Report on German Morale Film Number WF 42 Horse Power Film Number EF 172 Military Mountain Climbing Film Number CMC 8-58 Story of German Atrocities at Dachau and Buchenwald, Germany April - May 1945 Film Number USAF 23200 1930 and 1931 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23961 1930-1931 Newsreels Film Number USAF 24084 Army Air Corps News in 1932 Newsreels Film Number USAF 24033 1934 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23962 1935 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23772 1936 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23933 1937 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23771 1937 and 1938 Newsreel Film Number USAF 23837 1938 Newsreel Film Number 23959 1938A Newsreel Film Number USAF 23960 Army Air Corps Newsreel from 1939 Film Number USAF 24032 1940 Newsreel Film Number USAF 24397 1941 Newsreel Film Number USAF 24666 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 9: Nuclear Powered Aircraft and Missiles compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Project Orion - Film Report No. 1 - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 27597 Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program: Manned Aircraft Film Number PIN 20619 DF, Film FR-3A - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program - manned Aircraft, 1956-1958 - SECRET Film Number PIN 20619 DF, Film FR-3A Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Orientation Film Number PIN 26172 DF, Film SFP-342A Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Status Report, 1955 Film Number PIN 26173 DF, Film SFP 3429 The Nuclear Ramjet Program - Pluto, 1963 Film Number FR-0258 - SECRET Project Pluto - Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion, Eighth Summary Film Report, July-December 1962 Film Number USAF 34537 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Systems, Fifth Summary Film Report, 1961 Film Number USAF 37438 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Systems, First Summary Film Report, 1959 Film Number USAF 37487 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Systems, Second Summary Film Report, 1960 Film Number USAF 37488 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Systems, Third Summary Film Report, 1960 Film Number USAF 37489 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Systems, Fourth Summary Film Report, 1960 Film Number USAF 37490 - SECRET Project Pluto, Sixth Summary Film Report, 1962 Film Number USAF 37491 - SECRET Project Pluto Seventh Summary Film Report, 1962 Film Number USAF 37492 - SECRET LASVN2 1964 Annual Report, Low Altitude Supersonic Vehicle Nuclear Film Number USAF 38911 - SECRET LASV-N1 1963 Progress Report, Low Altitude Supersonic Nuclear Vehicle Film Number USAF 38912 - SECRET Pluto Ceramic Fule Elements Tory IIC - SECRET Film Number USAF 38914 Nuclear Powered Missile Study Film Number USAF 38918 - SECRET Project Pluto Nuclear Reactor Fuel Fabrication Film Number USAF 38921 - SECRET Nuclear Powered Missile Study, Supersonic Low Altitude Missile Film Number USAF 38922 - SECRET Low Altitude Supersonic Vehicle Nuclear Progress Report Number 2, December 1963 Film Number USAF 38925 - SECRET Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program: ROVER, PLUTO, SNAP, Progress Report, 1956-68 Film Number FR-0003-B ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 10: Classified Film Reports to Congress compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== The Air Force Reports to Congress - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number FR-0499 Report to the 89th Congress - 1966 - SECRET Film Number FR-0604 Report to the 90th Congress - SECRET Film Number FR-0673 Report to the 90th Congress, Second Session - SECRET Film Number FR-0876 Report to the 91st Congress, First Session - SECRET Film Number FR-1030A Report to the 91st Congress, Second Session - SECRET Film Number FR-1133 Report to 91st Congress, Second Session - Outtakes Film Number USAF 46338 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 11: Human Factors Miscellaneous Films compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Rocket Sled Runs - Human Subjects Film Number USAF 23250 Radiation Hazard From Flight Through Atomic Clouds Film Number USAF 23311 - CLASSIFIED Radiation Hazards From Flight Through Atomic Clouds Film Number SFP 446 Combat Fatigue Psychosomatic Disorders Film Number TF 1-8126 Bionics Research Film Number EC-10-65 Experimental Studies of Human Reaction to Impact Forces Film Number PIN 1011536, MN 09124 Sustinance of Man in Aerospace Film Number EC-14-65 Submarine Escape Film Number PIN 1011079 DN, MN 07418-C Urinary Diversion; Heitz-Boyer Procedure Film Number EC-27-68 Human Tolerance to Intense Heat Film Number EC-34-68 Report on Project Volscon - subject unknown??? Film Number ER-2 Crash Survival Research Film Number ER-3 Project Alpha - CLASSIFIED Film Number ER-9 Explosive Decompression Pulmonary Pathology Film Number ER-16 Physiological Testing - Washout Cadets Film Number USAF 27576 Bio-Science, Studies in Advanced Vehicles Discoverer, Mice Film Number USAF 27691 - CLASSIFIED RB-66 Rocket Catapult Test and Ejection 22 May - 17 August 1959 - Live Monkey Test Film Number USAF 27573-A Zero-G - Pigeons in Zero Gravity Film Number USAF 28708 Primate Tolerance - Chimps Film Number USAF 29429 Primate Vibration Tolerance Film Number USAF 36402 Excelsior III - Joseph Kittinger Jump from 103,000 ft, 16 August 1960 Film Number USAF 29448 Human Factors Test Experimental Stress Project Film Number USAF 34359 - SECRET Physiology of Space - Eating in Zero Gravity Film Number USAF 31296 Effects of Vibration on Human Performance Film Number USAF 31354 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 12: Atomic Weapons and Warfare compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== The Atomic Bomb at Sea - SECRET Film Number MF-20-8125 Davy Crockett; Weapons System - CONFIDENTIAL [the Atomic Bazooka] Film Number MF-9-9315 280mm Atomic Artillery Shell - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number TF-38-1842 Fire and Atomic Weapons - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 23680 Air Force Rail Transfer System for Handling Special Weapons Film Number USAF 24020 Nuclear Weapons Film Number AVS-8-021 Tactical Employment of Atomic Weapons in Support of Ground Troops Film Number TF-20-1937 The Pentomic Army, 1959, 50 minutes Film Number TF-20-2561 Effect of Atomic Weapons and Troops in the Field Film Number MF-20-8598 A is For Atom Film Number MF-20-8636 Effects of Nuclear Weapons Film Number MF-20-8927 Effects of Fire and Fire-Fighting Agents on Lithium Hydride Film Number USAF 25193 - CLASSIFIED Air to Air Nuclear Weapons - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 25732 Atomic Weapon Cookoff Test Number 2, Aberdeen, MD Jan 1957 Film Number USAF 25801 - CLASSIFIED The Minuteman III Missile - CLASSIFIED Film Number B-1785 The Minuteman III Missile, Mark XII Animation Film Number B-1857 This is Atlas - Annual Progress Report Film Number USAF 26710 - CLASSIFIED Existing Nuclear Development Sites and Current Technical Highlights Film Number ER-60 - CLASSIFIED ICBM-IRBM Special Report, 31 December 1956 Film Number USAF 31570 - CLASSIFIED IRBM Progress Report 1958 Film Number USAF 34222 Minuteman Re-entry Box Seat, Eniwetok 1964 Film Number USAF 38309 - CLASSIFIED Minuteman Re-entry Brass Ring, Eniwetok, 1964 Film Number USAF 38310 - CLASSIFIED Nuclear Effects During SAC Mission - SECRET Film Number PIN 1001858 DF, Film TF1-5363 Non-U.S. NATO ADO Custodian Training - SECRET [giving other countries control of nuclear weapons] Film Number PIN 27636 DF, Film TF 5544 C-130 Nuclear Airlift - SECRET Film Number PIN 10002029 DF, Film 5803 Hydrogen - SECRET PIN 27410 DF, Film TF-1-5147 Strategic System Survival in a Nuclear War - SECRET Film Number PIN 20931, Film FR-1155 Effects of Nuclear Weapons - Target Considerations Film Number PIN 27432, Film TF 1-5220 - CONFIDENTIAL Techniques for Employment of High Speed Bombers Film Number USAF 25934-B - CONFIDENTIAL Atomic Demolition, Part 1, T46EZ Flying Device Film Number MA-8872-A - SECRET Atomic Demolition, Part 4 - SECRET Film Number MA-8872-D Atomic Demolition, Part 5, 7-4 Munitions Film Number MA-8872-E - SECRET Delivery of Atomic Depth Bombs - SECRET Film Number PIN 1011408 DN, MN 08846 This is Bullpup - CONFIDENTIAL FILM PIN 1011380 DN, MN 08736A Regulus I - Tactical Capabilities - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 1011662 DN, MN 09394 Navy Employment of Atomic Weapons - Controlled Destruction Film Number PIN 1016100 DN, MN 09368 - CONFIDENTIAL Developments in Nuclear Attack Delivery 1958 - SECRET Film Number AER 9-58 Atomic Bomb at Sea - SECRET Film Number MN 07856 Naval Atomic Weapons Vulnerability Program - SECRET Film Number ORD 9-59 Preparation for Firing 8 Inch Atomic Artillery Shells, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Color/Sound Film Number X1-1/9, 052157 - SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA Modern Navy Weapons - SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA BuOrd, Color/Sound Film Number J12 052159 Atomic Bombs at Sea US Naval Photographic Center Film Number F41-6[19] 070953 - SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 13: Forecasts and Technology Predictions compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== New Horizons II, Parts One and Two - SECRET Film Number USAF 49770 Beginning of a New Era - CLASSIFIED Film Number ER 34 Culture Beat - 1975 A.D. - a 1960 film Film Number USAF 28778 Eye in the Sky, Technology for Tomorrow Film Number USAF 31309 Project Second Look - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number FR 0367 Air Force Sword & Shield, 1961-1970 - a 1960 film Film Number FR 0189 - CONFIDENTIAL Technology Classification - Project Forecast Film Number USAF 49633 - CONFIDENTIAL Future Strategic Weapons of the Air Force, a 1964 film Film Number USAF 50818 - CONFIDENTIAL Intelligence Briefing, Soviet Air/ICBM Threat to the U.S., 1959-1963 - SECRET Film Number FR 0059 Probable Soviet Space Development USAF Film Report 61 - SECRET Film Number FR-0200-A The Difficult and the Impossible, The Air Force Program and the Soviet Threat - SECRET Film Number Illegible Limited War and Consideration - SECRET Film Number USAF 49629 Project Forecast - Short Version - SECRET Film Number USAF 49634 Air Force 1980 - a 1970 film - SECRET Film Number USAF 49635 General Schriver Forecast - SECRET Film Number USAF 49639 Forecast Close Military Capabilities - SECRET Film Number USAF 49641 New Weapons - SECRET Film Number MN 09037 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 14: Early Laser Weapons compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Laser Effects - Kirtland AFB, NM, 15 Aug. 1972 Film Number USAF 60402 - SECRET Laser Effects - Kirtland AFB, NM, 6-8 Dec. 1972 Film Number USAF 60402-A - SECRET Laser Gun - Kirtland AFB, NM, 19 Sept. 1972 Film Number USAF 60403 - SECRET Flashback - Kirtland AFB, NM, 28 May 1970 Film Number USAF 60404 - SECRET Laser Briefing Film - Kirtland AFB, NM, March 1973 Film Number USAF 60406 - SECRET ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Films, Part 15: Miscellaneous Interesting Films compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== This is an assortment of unusual or otherwise interesting films that I have located. Some are interesting simply because they remain classified even after many years. Others, while not classified, remain restricted and off limits to the public for no discernable reason. Please note that this is only a very very tiny percentage of all of the films that are available. Although I will soon post instructions on how to obtain complete film lists, please note that the full lists are extremely awkward to use for a number of reasons. A Century of Army Signals, 1860-1960, A Centennial Message from the Chief Signal Corps Film Number MF-11-9220 Electronic Warfare - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number MF-11-8912 Beyond Tomorrow - The Story of an American Girl Film Number MF-208418 No Fox Hole in the Sky Film Number USAF 20861 Gun Camera Footage of MiG Kills, Korea, march 1953 Film Number USAF 20931 The Jet Story Film Number USAF 21501 Highlights in Research and Development, 1953 & 1954 Film Number USAF 21601 Soviet Bombers, May 1954 - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 21858 Candid Shots; Major Murray and Major Yeager Alongside the Bell X-1A Aircraft, Sept. 1954 Film Number USAF 21924 RB-66 Weapons System - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 22189 The Falcon Story - CLASSIFIED [missile] Film Number USAF 22902 The Falcon Story - Second Revision - CLASSIFED Film Number USAF 24055 MC-130E Combat Talon Capabilities - CLASSIFIED Film Number AVS-O-146 Project Bird Dog, Edwards AFB, CA - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 23397 Military Aid to Libya, July 1956 Film Number USAF 23437 Brass Ring Progress Report Number One, MX-1457 Film Number USAF 23582 - CLASSIFIED First Flight of YF-105A, Edwards AFB, 22 Oct. 1955 Film Number USAF 23699 - CLASSIFIED T-37 Accident Film Number AVS-2-384 Introduction to the F-107A Fighter/Bomber Film Number USAF 24012 - CLASSIFED Weapons System 123A - Goose - 1956 Report Film Number USAF 24110 - CLASSIFIED Project Hiran Manilla Air Station, South Cay North Danger Island, South China Sea Film Number USAF 24356 - CLASSIFIED Anti-Jamming Technique - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 24457 Electronic Countermeasures Film Number AVS-8-022 Conventional Weapons Film Number AVS-8-024 Soviet Industry - Classified Version Film Number USAF 24871 X-15 High Temperature Structural Testing Film Number USAF 25084 - CLASSIFIED Phase II Flight Tests of Boeing XB-52, Nov 52 to Mar 53 Film Number USAF 25206 - CLASSIFIED The Long Range Intercepter Weapon System 202A Film Number USAF 25446 - CLASSIFIED MiG Kill Film Number CP-56 MiG Kill Film Number CP-57 Soveit Manned Space Flight, Vostok I-VI Film Number EC-20-65 - CLASSIFIED The Eagles Strength Film Number USAF 26758 Gunship II, 21 August 1967 - CLASSIFIED Film Number EC-11-68 NASA's Project Mercury Film Number USAF 27195 Sierra, The Formosa Series [Project RAND] Film Number USAF 27232 - CLASSIFIED Operation Eastward Ho, Kadena AF, Okinawa 8-12 December 1958 - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 26918 Agencies of Air Power - CLASSIFIED Film Number ER-85 Coronet Brief - Electronic Warfare Threats and Countermeasures - CLASSIFIED Film Number FS-3163 Tactical Electronic Warfare Penetration Aids Film Number FS-3251 - CLASSIFIED Pigs to the Pacific, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, 18 Jan 1960 Film Number USAF 29360 Dedication of the Los Angeles International Airport 1961 Film Number USAF 31248 Air Police Documentary - 1961 Film Number USAF 31254 Bob Hope Christmas Television Show - 1961 Film Number USAF 31303 The Armored Sky - CLASSIFIED Film Number USAF 31456 Paisley Print, Wright Patterson AFB, OH - CLASSIFIED Film Number SPR 7-73 Highlights of the Hughes Beanstalk Proposal Film Number USAF 43610 Soviet Space Crew Soyuz Training - CLASSIFED Film Number SPR-20-70 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Some Interesting DoD Motion Picture Films, Part 16: More Miscellaneous Films compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com ======================================== Combat Report - Jap Suicide Attack - WW2 - SECRET Film Number MN-0920-J-1 Combat Report - Kamikazi Attack Film Number MN-09020-J-26 Weather Modification, Number One Film Number WEPS 9-70 - SECRET Weather Modification, Number Two - D-A-LHL-71-1 Film Number WEPS 1-71 - SECRET The Use of Forest Fires as a Tactical Weapon, Program 67001 - SECRET Film Number USAF 49611 Biological and Chemical Air-Launched Weapons Film Number PIN 1011718 DN, MN-10309 - CONFIDENTIAL Hot Hand Project, 16 Dec. 1959 - 21 Dec. 1960 [mid-air pickup of space capsules and reentry vehicles] Film Number USAF 269050 Hot Hand Project - Sentry G Chase - 1958 Film Number USAF 27929 NASA Project Mercury Film Number USAF 27195 Reentry and Recovery; Cool Water II Eniwetok Marshall Islands - 29 Aug. 1963 Film Number USAF 38305 - CLASSIFIED Survivability Technology Film Number SPR-35-69 - CLASSIFIED Air Force in Unconventional Warfare - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 26419 DF, Film SFP-1247 World Wide Airborne Posts Command Film Number PIN 20805 DF, Film FR 840 - SECRET Low Level Mission Techniques, B-47 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 27478 DF, Film TF1-5354-A Commando Unit V - SECRET Film Number PIN 20953 DF, Film FR 1246 BMEWS Mission - Men of the Top - SECRET Film Number PIN 27745 DF, Film TF 5746 American Space Defense - SECRET Film Number PIN 1002065 DF, Film TF 6041 Annual Guided Missile Review - SECRET Film Number PIN 20621, Film FR-34 Strategic Air Command Film Report No. 4: How Combat Target Information is Obtained and Developed Film Number PIN 1000431 DF, Film FR-198 - SECRET Soviet Concepts and Capabilities for Theatre War in Europe - SECRET Film Number USAF 49960 High Altitude Intercepts - ADC Tactical Report #4 Film Number FR-0223 SAC [Strategic Air Command] and the Cuban Crisis Film Number FR-0351 ADC and the Cuban Crisis Film Number FR-0361 USAF Gunship Operations - CLASSIFIED Film Number PS 181-1/C *Ralph*/Meteorites/Antarctica Film Number 55661 Ampex: Television Backpack Film Number PS 660-C F-14 Tomcat Briefing August 1973 w/cartoons Film Number RG343.0055 - CLASSIFIED Operation Party Line - ECM Support Aircraft Protection for Bombers - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 1001547 DF, Film SFP-0549 Guided Missiles - A Film Report - 1947 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number MN-09152 Canadian Arctic Operation - 1947 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 1010924 DN, MN-06666 Strike Footage - Vietnam - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number 53806 Strike Footage - Vietnam - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number 53807 Swimmer Sapper Defense, PFCCG Project 073-70 Film Number 1591-X - CONFIDENTIAL Hamlin Submurgical Amphibian - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number 379-X Homemade Incindiary Devices - DA-PHH-05-71 Film Number WEPS 5-71 The Untold Story - SECRET Film Number MN 05836 The F9F-6 Cougar Familiarization - Flight Ops Film Number PIN 1011162 DN, MN-08045-F - CONFIDENTIAL Operation Aesop - Guided Missile - SECRET Film Number PIN 1011232 DN, MN-08215-A Airship Ground Handling Film Number PIN 1011233 DN, MN-08219 Air Towed Sonar From Airships - 1954 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number MN-08059 FJ-4B Aircraft Familiarization - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 1011377 DN, MN 08660 Submarine Service UDT - Maneuvers - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 1011551 DN, MN-09162 Air-Intercept Missiles - AIM-9C, AIM-9D, Sidewinder 1C Film Number PIN 1011713 DN, MN-09996-A - CONFIDENTIAL American Space Defense - SECRET Film Number PIN 1002065 DF, Film TF-6041 F-111 Weapon System Defensive Tactics - SECRET Film Number PIN 27931 DF, Film TF 6173-E Interceptor Armament Employment - Weapons Characteristics Film Number PIN 27966 DF, Film TF 6266 - CONFIDENTIAL Igloo White [airdropped jungle listening microphone sensors in Southeast Asia] Film Numbers 71-VBP-PB-2119, 71-VBP-PB-2120, 71-VBP-PB-2121 and 71-VBP-PB-2128 Igloo White - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number PIN 21026, FRV-1270 E-3A AWACS Orientation - SECRET Film Number PIN 39324, AVA 0817 Spacepower, October 1966 - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number FR-0676-B The Holloman [AFB] Story - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number SFP-367 Spread Eagle - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 32876 Radar Camouflage of a Jet Aircraft - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 34280 Operation Bowling Ball - CONFIDENTIAL Film Number USAF 36932 Annual Activities Report 1966 - Foreign Technology - SECRET Film Number USAF FR-0699 Air Force Systems Command Annual Activities Report, Foreign Technology - SECRET Film Number FR-0786-A Mission North - SECRET Film Number Illegible OPFRAG - Stick Candy - PROJECT Film Number Illegible Project Genie - SECRET Film Number USAF 27976 Operation Mantrac - SECRET Film Number USAF 33788 Operation Blue Banner - SECRET Film Number USAF 34202-A Manned Orbital Laboratory Pressure Suit Evaluation, Outtakes [military space station program] Film Number USAF 42108 - SECRET The BMEWS Mission, Men or the Tor Thule AFB, Greenland, April/May 1966 - SECRET [when the nuclear accident happened?] Film Number USAF 42671 Active Tiger - SECRET Film Number USAF 39479 TIPI-WS/428A - Tactical Intelligence Processing and Interpreting, Langley AFB, VA April 1970 Film Number USAF 48011-A - SECRET ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Interesting DoD Films: Part 17 - Further Miscellaneous Films compiled by Michael Ravnitzky, mikerav@ix.netcom.com Study of British Army Sonic Warfare - SECRET Film Number MF 20-0911 Use of War Dogs - SECRET Film Number FB-091 Armor for the Inner Man - DECLASSIFIED [tests of soldiers [and cats] on LSD] Film Number CRDL 460 Resuscitation of Nerve Agent Casualties Film Number CRDL 653 Space Technology for the U.S. Army Part 2 Film Number TF 44-3395 - CONFIDENTIAL Demilitarization of Bilogical Agents, Toxins and Munitions, Pine Bluffs Arsenal Film Number SBF-73-5 - SECRET The Silent Picket - SECRET Film Number MF-32-5275 Stockpile to Target - SECRET Film Number 8116 The Atomic Bomb - General Description - SECRET Film Number MF-8141 The Defeat of Nonconventional Armor - SECRET Film Number PA-207 Gravel Anti-Personnel Mine - SECRET PAP-32009X Atomic Demolitions, P. 1-T-46EZ Demolition Firing Device Film Number TF-5-2677 - SECRET Atomic Demolitions, P. 2-W-7 Atomic Demolition Munition Film Number TF 5-2678 - SECRET Atomic Demolitions - SECRET Film Number TF-5-2679, TF-5-2680, and TF-5-2681 Aviation Aerial Surveillance Company Film Number TF 46-8340 - CONFIDENTIAL U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal Technical Film Report [chemical weapons and defense development] Film Number CRDL 420 Ronald Haeberie Interview on the Today Show Concerning the Mylar Incident?? Film Number MPF-179 CBS Wednesday - Fragging Story - Vietnam Film Number MPF-181 First Tuesday in June: America*s Nerve Gas Arsenal Film Number MPF-185 First Tuesday - Chemical Biological Radiological Film Number MPF-192 Vietcong - Mines and Booby Traps Film Number TF 5-3866 Employment of the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense System - SECRET Film Number ABM 61 Safeguard Missile System - 24 Jan 1972 - SECRET Film Number ABM 62 Deseret Test Center Progress Report Number 2 Film Number DTCF PR-2 - SECRET Deseret Test Center Progress Report Number 3 Film Number DTCF PR-3 - SECRET Deseret Test Center Progress Report Number 4 Film Number DTCF PR-4 - SECRET Operation Hole Card - SECRET Film Number FFM 352 ======================================== Any of these films may be requested from: Freedom of Information Act Director telephone: (703) 697-1160 Directorate for Freedom of Information 1155 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 William G. Lewis, Archivist Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001
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