# NORAD NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENSE COMMAND CANADIAN AIR DEFENSE F-101 VOODOO SAGE SYSTEM 53774

This 1970s educational film, “Air Defense Command” was produced for the Canadian Armed Forces and provides information on the 22nd NORAD region in Canada. On May 12, 1958, the U.S. and Canada sign the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) agreement \[today known as the North American Aerospace Defense Command and based at Colorado Springs, Colorado\]. The film opens with a pair of McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo interceptor aircraft taking off, flying, and landing. These planes were used between 1961 and 1984 (:07- 1:03 ). North Bay, Ontario is the headquarters for the 22nd NORAD region ( 1:04 - 1:33 ). A government car drives into the granite entrance of the three-story complex ( 1:34 - 1:53 ). More than 600 feet below ground is the SAGE (semi-automatic ground environment control system). A diagram is shown of the 10,000 feet of tunnels before the car continues driving through the darkness, its red revolving light shown turning and flashing ( 1:54 - 3:02 ). The airman arrives and enters the building ( 3:03 - 3:23 ). A pointer highlights on the map the continent’s geographical areas for the air defense of both countries ( 3:24 - 4:17 ). The airman picks up a phone and turns on switches and dials on the system. A rapid succession of equipment images is shown ( 4:18 - 4:50 ). The facility has kitchen and dining facilities (shown), a hospital and infirmary, a canteen, wash rooms, and showers. It also has underground generators ( 4:51 - 5:05 ). Airmen are seen wearing headsets and…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/53774CandianAirDefense)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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