" REPORT FROM AEROJET " 1950s AEROJET GENERAL MISSILE & ROCKET ENGINES THEODORE VON KARMAN 74522

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‘Report from Aerojet’ is a 1950s promotional film that outlines the different divisions of Aerojet General company and the multitude of ways that their products and technologies contribute to military defense in the form of drones, missiles, and rockets. The film was produced by Aerojet’s general corporation, which is a subsidiary of General Tire and Rubber Company. In the film, the narrator discusses the different Aerojet power plants across the country in Azusa, Covina, Downey, San Ramon, and Sacramento in California and Frederick in Maryland. Additionally, the types of products and research done at each division of Aerojet are described and demonstrated with footage of Aerojet employees at work.

00:20 A missile taking off from a silo, probably a Minuteman 00:25 Movie title: ‘Report from Aerojet’ 00:33 Movie production credits 00:55 A Polaris missle taking off from undersea 1:30 View of a full parking lot outside an Aerojet power plant 1:37 Map of America with the six plant locations across the country marked: Azusa, Covina, Downey, San Ramon, Sacramento (in California) and Frederick (in Maryland) 1:54 Aerial view of the Azusa plant 2:16 Theodore Von Carmen sitting and talking into the camera 3:17 Two Aerojet employees working on a rocket engine skirt 4:17 A large solid rocket motor chamber (for Polaris 3?) being made with roving glass filament and epoxy 5:05 Boeing KC-135 having it’s radiation characteristics studied under the RAMP program at the Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Florida 7:27 Aerojet employee constructing a field lens 9:06 A doubly refractive polymer being tested for stress strain relationships using color spectra measurements 9:33 An Aerojet employee working on a Chromatographic device 10:03 A scientist placing a sample of basalt rock from a volcano in the Mojave desert in California under a vacuum jar in an arc image furnace 10:51 A scientist propagating algae in large tubes 12:03 A ship on the ocean (a Gearing-class destroyer?) 12:29 A MK 46 Torpedo being launched from a rocket carrier on the sea 12:41 A Grumman S-2 Tracker dropping a MK 46 torpedo 13:14 A ring channel testing models and prototypes at the plant in Azusa, California 14:35 Snap-8 turbo electric space vehicle power system in place 15:24 a 500 KVA model alternator 16:03 Aerial view of the Aerojet General Nucleonics Plant in San Ramon, California 16:22 View of a gas cool reactor 16:55 The ML1 reactor or power conversion unit being transported on the back of a flatbed 17:05 Technicians working on an assembled ML1 power plant 17:32 Rubidium metal being boiled in the lab 17:55 Aerial view of the Aerojet Downey Power Plant in Downey, California 18:30 T45 or T46 Warhead taking off into space 18:56 An ordinance laboratory and test area in the Chino Hills, California 20:02 Technicians working on a SD2 multi-purpose drones 21:03 Chambers for Polaris rockets being produced in the an Aerojet manufacturing division 21:23 A mechanized production line for missile chambers at the production plant in Downey, California intended for use in the Hawk, an air defense weapon 21:57 Aerojet model letter and parcel sorters 22:44 view of Aetron sign outside the headquarters of the architect engineers division in Covina, California 23:07 Test stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California 23:19 Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand in Huntsville, Alabama (check) 24:06 General Tire and Rubber Company in Odessa, Texas 24:43 Titan I or Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) engines on a conveyor belt 24:57 View of two Titan II ICBM engines at the base of a missile 25:18 A Titan I missile launch at the Vanderberg Air Force Base, California 26:28 Model of a liquid hydrogen and oxygen engine 28:21 A high speed research sled taking off 29:01 A Polaris missile taking off 29:06 The Douglas AIR-2 Genie rocket being dropped and taking off 29:11 A Hawk missile taking off (MIM-23 HAWK?) 29:16 A AIM-7 Sparrow missile being dropped by a F4D-1 Skyray 29:27 A RIM-24 Tartar missile being launched 29:31 The GAR-9 Missile 29:33 A Scout rocket 29:40 Minuteman III Second Stage rocket 32:13 Text: Aerojet-General Corporation 32:19 End credits.

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