# THE MARTIN COMPANY BALLISTIC MISSILE AND SPACE PROGRAM FILM "TEN YEARS TO REMEMBER" 71052

This film, created by the Martin Company in 1964, documents the challenges and accomplishments of the United States during the “space race” of the previous decade, with an emphasis on rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles (TRT: 26:26). A covered wagon train in the American west (0:08). A steam locomotive billowing smoke. A Union Pacific E-9 locomotive. POV operating an excavator (0:30). An early mainframe computer with magnetic tape data storage units. Still photo of the US Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee aka the “Teapot Committee” (0:41). Color animation: Soviet rockets against a red sky (1:03). A crowd gathers on the lawn outside an office building. The Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo, CA, 1964. Airmen salute (1:35). A crowd at a street corner, waving. A guard watches through binoculars. A streetside memorial. An elderly couple looks on (1:59). Montage: a US V-2 “Bumper” sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral. The Vanguard rocket in 1957. The Titan II Gemini Launch Vehicle erupts from an underground missile silo (2:10). Opening titles, “Ten Years to Remember” (2:52). The USS Nautilus nuclear submarine launches, 1954. Cape Canaveral (3:05). General Bernard Schriever speaks (3:30). 1954 rocket launches. A large airframe is transported. Black smoke pours from a rocket engine (4:25). A missile guidance system under a magnifying glass (5:01). Montage: R&D. Clean rooms, computers, engineers at drafting tables (5:09). The nose of Atlas I in close up,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/71052TenYearsToRememberNew)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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