Operation Blue Jay
From the Archives: made by the U.S. government and kept in the National Archives. IFN shows it for its history; it isn’t an independent production.
In 1951, in great secrecy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set out to build a huge air base at Thule, Greenland, in the frozen Arctic, with only a short summer to do it. Released once the project was declassified, this episode of the Army’s television series The Big Picture shows how they did it, filmed by Signal Corps cameramen.
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Public domain · Source: Internet Archive (from the National Archives, via Public.Resource.Org)
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A U.S. government production, not an independent film: an episode of The Big Picture, the U.S. Army’s television series (1951–1964), filmed by Army Signal Corps cameramen and kept in the National Archives.
- Live action
Filmed with a camera, with actors and real locations.
Credits
- Production
- U.S. Army Signal Corps, Army Pictorial Service
- Series
- The Big Picture
- Archive
- National Archives, Local Identifier 111-TV-227
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