{"id":391,"ia_identifier":"gov.archives.arc.2569626","programme":"nara","naid":"2569626","local_identifier":"111-TV-357","pin":null,"title":"Big Picture: Army Ballistic Missile Agency","year":null,"date_raw":"","creator":null,"description":"National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569626 / Local Identifier 111-TV-357 Big Picture: Army Ballistic Missile Agency DVD Copied by Katie Filbert. \"THE BIG PICTURE\" cameras enter the Army's classified missile agency -- The producers of the Army's weekly TV series, THE BIG PICTURE, deserve particular credit for the straightforward and honest approach made in examining the guarded installation at Redstone Arsenal. The headquarters of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency is near the growing community of Huntsville, Alabama. It is here that the challenge of tomorrow is being met--a birthplace for research programming that delves into the secrets of outer space. High-speed cameras follow the flight of the now famous Redstone missile as it gains altitude and finally vanishes into space. Models of future missiles are seen being built and tested in the laboratory under the careful eyes of civilian employed engineers and scientists. The finest and most complicated equipment is provided for this research, consisting of supersonic wind tunnels and electron microscopes that can enlarge a human hair to the size of a Redwood tree. Viewers will realize as the film continues, that this activity at ABMA constitutes a \"crash program\" for the world of tomorrow is being opened at Huntsville, Alabama. As ever with THE BIG PICTURE, it is an entertainingly instructive half hour for both old and young.","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","collections":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-actual","fav-booker512","fav-edward_fackina","fav-lamont1991","fav-niceislife","fav-thegreenflyingkiwi"],"ia_metadata":{"_rg":"111","title":"Big Picture: Army Ballistic Missile Agency","creator":"National Archives and Records Administration","credits":"Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org","subject":["archives.gov","public.resource.org"],"_rg_holder":["Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Signal Corps","federal"],"collection":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-actual","fav-booker512","fav-edward_fackina","fav-lamont1991","fav-niceislife","fav-thegreenflyingkiwi"],"identifier":"gov.archives.arc.2569626","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","description":"National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569626 / Local Identifier 111-TV-357 Big Picture: Army Ballistic Missile Agency DVD Copied by Katie Filbert. \"THE BIG PICTURE\" cameras enter the Army's classified missile agency -- The producers of the Army's weekly TV series, THE BIG PICTURE, deserve particular credit for the straightforward and honest approach made in examining the guarded installation at Redstone Arsenal. The headquarters of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency is near the growing community of Huntsville, Alabama. It is here that the challenge of tomorrow is being met--a birthplace for research programming that delves into the secrets of outer space. High-speed cameras follow the flight of the now famous Redstone missile as it gains altitude and finally vanishes into space. Models of future missiles are seen being built and tested in the laboratory under the careful eyes of civilian employed engineers and scientists. The finest and most complicated equipment is provided for this research, consisting of supersonic wind tunnels and electron microscopes that can enlarge a human hair to the size of a Redwood tree. Viewers will realize as the film continues, that this activity at ABMA constitutes a \"crash program\" for the world of tomorrow is being opened at Huntsville, Alabama. As ever with THE BIG PICTURE, it is an entertainingly instructive half hour for both old and young."},"status":"government-work-uncertain","reason":"Not asserted: the record does not name the creating body; its local identifier places it in NARA record group 111 (Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Signal Corps), a federal agency's records, which is evidence of federal origin but not proof of authorship, since agencies also filed acquired and captured footage.","flags":["no-creator","record-group-federal"],"loaded_at":"2026-09-05 17:30:27.797238+00:00","downloads":16526}