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CBS Reports: Why Men in Space?

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Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
1200 feet
850 feet
Running Time
29 minutes 29 seconds
23 minutes 44 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
CBS News
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

CBS reporter Howard K. Smith presents a program about man's hope to fly to the moon and beyond. People who appear in the program include Carl Sagan, John Glenn, Harrison Brown, and Dr. William Pickering.

Date(s)
April 27, 1961

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

     
    Reel 1
     
0:00   Shot of Jupiter.
0:20   Jupiter’s moon can be seen orbiting Jupiter.
0:41   View of Earth from space.
0:44   Rocket launch.
0:56   Cut to CBS Reporter Howard K. Smith.
1:15   Prototype for spacecraft design to land on the moon.
1:22   Cut to space doctor.
1:30   Astronaut in full space gear.
1:39   Space doctor.
2:03   Harrison Brown, top geochemist in room with large globe of Earth.
2:27   Dr. William Pickering, jet propulsion scientist from California Institute of Technology.
3:09   Brad Hoyle speaking to the growth of the machines and technology.
3:18   Title and credits.
3:32   [Insert commercial]
3:35   Commentator begins talking (no picture).
3:38   View of the Milky Way, slowly zooming into a picture of Earth.
4:03   Picture of Earth.
4:10   John Glenn.
4:13   Group picture (John Glenn and two unidentified men).
4:18   Unidentified astronaut.
4:20   Unidentified astronaut.
4:25   John Glenn.
5:37   Booster rocket.
5:45   Mission control; people are setting at computers and machines preparing to launch the Booster.
6:02   Rocket.
6:10   Kurt Debus, Director of John F. Kennedy Space Center.
6:18   Mission control.
6:34   Booster being launched.
7:26   Kurt Debus’ interview in front of Saturn 3 booster.
9:12   Aerial view of rockets and space center.
9:24   Chart of rocket path.
9:33   Albert Hibbs interview in front of planetarium chart; Explanation as to why man willgo to Venus .
12:35   Question on intelligent life of our planet.
14:56   Satellite.
15:20   View of sun and solar flares.
15:50   James Wagoner, biomedicine.
15:56   Mercury spacecraft.
16:04   Wagoner.
16:20   Sun/solar flares.
16:57   Wagoner speaking about weightlessness and the adverse effects it can have on astronauts.
18:58   Moon; Harrison Brown, geochemist, speaking about the moon.
20:16   Harold Urey speaks on the creation of the moon.
21:08   Harrison Brown discusses meteorites, craters, and the feasibility of landing on the moon
26:01   View of the moon.
26:13   Lunar landing tests run in a controlled environment.
26:39   Dr. Pickering discusses the lunar ball, its creation, job it should accomplish on moon.
28:06   Rocket launch, example of landing on moon with scientific instruments, view of space moon, etc.
29:29   End of reel.
     
    Reel 2
0:00   Title and credits.
0:06   Dr. Pickering and Howard K. Smith.
0:36   Clifford Cummings discusses space race, landing on the moon.
5:28   Dr. Pickering talks about the Ranger, Surveyor, and Prospector projects.
6:15   Atlas launch.
6:51   Nuclear power; chart and description, Rover.
7:01   Saturn (planet).
7:25   Dr. Carl Sagan talks about life on other planets, i.e., Mars, Venus.
12:29   Radar contact with Venus.
14:16   Distance from Earth to the Sun.
14:38   Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Microbiology at Stanford. Jupiter v. Mars.
18:05   Brad Hoyle talks about reasons man should think about going into space; instruments v. man.
20:09   Dr. Pickering.
20:23   Harrison Brown.
20:36   John Glenn.
21:00   Dr. Debus answers the question “Why Man in Space.”
22:02   Summary by Howard K. Smith.
22:36   End of program.
22:38   [Insert commercial]
22:41   Credits.