“To Catch a Shadow”, Eastman Color? Red Fade,
“This color, Cold War era recruiting film is about the U.S. Navy and their tactics in locating enemy submarines. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, and/or destroy enemy submarines. Copyright is 1969. Featured in the film is footage of P-3 Orion search aircraft, DASH drone helicopter, and the venerable aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), as well as destroyers USS Leary (DD-879), USS Walker (DD-517), USS Bridger (DE-1024) and various submarines including USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Also features footage of Norfolk, Virginia and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Opening: Submarine under the sea (:08). “To Catch A Shadow” (1:04). Hour after hour, the crew of a P-3 Orion searches for enemy submarines (1:24). Men radio one another in the plane (2:05). Submarine periscope breaks the surface (3:17). A marker is dropped into the sea from the plane (4:02). Submarine under the sea (4:24). MAD, a Magnetic Anomaly Detector is an instrument that detects minute variations in the Earth’s magnetic field. A submerged submarine represents a mass of ferromagnetic material that creates a detectable disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field (5:00). Faces of vigilance (5:50). ASW base (6:24). Military briefing (6:45). Sunrise mission – airplane takes off (6:57). Clocks show military or Greenwich Mean time (7:33). Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (7:48). Command center (8:11) where ships are deployed, includes shot of African American sailor at work. A briefing topic about a submarine being discussed (8:22). Submarine under water (9:28). ASW Carrier (9:37). Combat information center on the ship (9:51). Periscope is used (10:24). USS Walker (DD-517), a Fletcher-class destroyer (10:58). U.S. Navy helicopter (11:16). U.S. Destroyer moves ahead (12:07). Ship fires hedgehog type rockets (12:28). A remote control DASH drone (12:53). This is a Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), a small drone helicopter built by Gyrodyne Company of America for use as a long-range anti-submarine weapon on ships that would otherwise be too small to operate a full-sized helicopter. It remained in production until 1969. The P-3C Orion is a land-based, long range anti-submarine warfare (ASW) patrol aircraft (13:45). Detect, classify, localize, and kill is the way of the ASW (13:57). Carrier based fixed winged Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) aircraft assist to locate the submarine (14:52). This aircraft is part of CVGS-55, or Carrier Antisubmarine Warfare Air Group 55 from USS Yorktown (CV-10), which in this era operated as an ASW platform. Drone takes off (15:25). U.S. Destroyer (15:42). Inside a U.S. submarine (16:36). Sailors play cards (17:10) as coffee percolates. Course is set for the submarine (17:33). Men move around the submarine (18:06). Battle stations to be manned (18:34). U.S. Submarine moves quietly underwater (19:11). A target is located by the U.S. submarine (19:37). Confidential or top secret papers are handed over on the ship (20:15). Captain speaks to the crew of the ship about the discovery of a submarine near them (20:50). Television camera on board the carrier (21:24). Briefing onboard the ship (21:50). Plane propellers spin (22:25). P-3C’s take off (22:48). Planes and helicopters try and close in on the intruder (23:20). USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) (24:26). Shadow boxing images. Torpedo fired and sinks a ship. Polaris ballistic missile launch (25:05). World War 2 footage of U.S. versus Japan (25:57). United States GUPPY submarine on surface (25:20). U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion SSN-589 (26:44). Polaris missile fired from submerged submarine (27:30). End credits (28:14). “
