NATO Anti-Sub Screen Magazine Special Edition
Channel: David Hancock
Date: 12/07/2016

A few years ago I found a large reel of 35mm movie film with an audio track. It  took a while to get it digitized, but here is the result. The 13-minute clip has 171 splices, so I apologize now for the clicks in the audio track.

The footage was part of a NATO anti-submarine propaganda/educational video distributed during the 1960s. The footage features footage of WWII U-boats, 1960s fighter jets, the Royal Canadian Air Force  Argus Aircraft, a U.S. W2B Constellation, RAF Shackleton aircraft in flight, and Neptune aircraft. The film also has footage of nuclear subs in dock as well as breaking the water.

The footage has clips from the NATO war room, training school clips with wargames, a hunter-killer group in formation, sonar-carrying helicopters, robotic remote controlled helicopters that drop torpedoes, the Forrestal-class U.S.S. Independence CV-62 and CVL-22, The U.S.S. Skipjack,  footage of the carrier's battleship group loading depth charges, depth charge detonation, and battleship-mounted missile launches.

The footage also shows a Polaris missile test where the missile is launched from underwater and caught by a crane.