Year

1963 (circa)

Video Details

15:00; B&W; sound; V-9; CA077; S. 828

Description

This film starts with a wonderful Mercury launch sequence. It shows a thriving aerospace industry in its prime. Viewers see an unsuccessful launch, lots of technology of the day (including transistor pocket radios) and 12 gallons of gas for $3.60. The film shows recreation, educational centers, and corporations and their space-related products. It describes the economic, cultural and population booms. Viewers see tactical missile launches and astronaut medical test equipment. The film predicts and shows a model of the Vehicle Assembly Building. It shows Miss Baker, the astro-monkey, Pensacola's School of Naval Aviation Medicine and Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach. It is a tribute to the space program. Produced by Leroy Crooks; sponsored by FDC.

Contributors

LeRoy Crooks
Florida Development Commission

Corporate Subject

Mercury rocket
NASA

Geographic Subject

Cape Canaveral
Fort Walton Beach
Pensacola
Titusville

Subject

Aerospace industry
Astronauts
Space program
Space race