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University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory films, 1944-1978

Overview of the Collection

Creator
University of Washington. Applied Physics Laboratory
Title
University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory films
Dates
1944-1978 (inclusive)
Quantity
128 reels (circa 42,000 feet) : silent, black and white, color ; 16mm, Super 8mm
Collection Number
PH1114
Summary
Film documenting the activities of the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

The original films are not accessible due to preservation concerns. Arrangements can be made to view the film by contacting the Visual Materials Curator.

Request at UW

Additional Reference Guides
Languages
English
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Historical Note

The Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington was founded in 1943 by Dr. Joseph Edmonds Henderson who worked in conjunction with the United States Navy in order to research and design the tools and technologies necessary to successfully support the U.S. military in World War II. APL-UW was the second of the Navy-sponsored research facilities founded in collaboration with universities across the country; today it is one of the few remaining institutions of its kind. For many years, APL-UW was a leading expert in the Navy’s torpedo technologies, beginning with its development of a reliable torpedo influence exploder in the 1940s. Today, APL-UW research and development has broadened to acoustic and remote sensing, ocean physics and engineering, polar science, medical and industrial ultrasound, environmental and information systems, and electronic and photonic systems.

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Content Description

The films in this collection focus primarily on early torpedo research, including torpedo exploder tests and acoustic tracking range experiments. The torpedo exploder was a device developed to trigger the torpedo explosion as the device senses proximity of the target ship’s hull; while research to improve these exploders began during WWII, APL-UW continued research and development well into the 1950s to provide the Navy with a reliable standard device for the fleet. As part of the APL-UW research on underwater acoustic sensors and equipment, tracking ranges were installed in the Pacific Northwest (Keyport, Washington and Chatham Strait, Alaska) as well as in the Caribbean (St. Croix, Virgin Islands). Other projects documented include underwater research vehicle experiments and early footage of APL-UW research vessels still in use today. The SPURV (self-propelled underwater research vehicle) was an autonomous research vehicle developed at APL-UW as part of the lab’s oceanographic and acoustic research projects. SPURV vessels were used in APL-UW research from its initial development in 1957 through the 1980s, including research trips to the Cobb Seamount in the Pacific Ocean west of Gray’s Harbor, Washington.

Filmed on location throughout the Pacific Northwest, the collection features the Naval Torpedo Station at Keyport (NTS KPT), Dabob Bay, and Puget Sound in Washington, Chatham Strait in Alaska, the Cobb Seamount, as well as the Caribbean and Hawaii. Several films feature founding APL-UW Director Joseph Henderson; Jack Robertson, and Washington Senator Henry Jackson. Other film notes mention Dr. C.E. Miller, Dr. Terry Ewart, and Captain W.N. Moore of the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the Special Collections division of the University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The films have been arranged chronologically within the following groups: Torpedo Exploder Tests, 3-D Acoustic Tracking Ranges, APL-UW Research Vessels, APL-UW Institutional Footage, SPURV: Self-propelled Undersea Research Vehicle, Navy Films, Cobb Seamount Experiment, Assorted APL-UW Projects, and Un-labeled Films.

Acquisition Information

Donor: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington (APL-UW), May 3, 2012

Processing Note

Processed by Erica Leigh Nelson, 2012, Alden Lee, 2012 ; completed by Andrew Weaver, 2014.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Torpedo Exploder Tests

    Other Descriptive Information

    The Applied Physics Laboratory was established as a direct result of the U.S. Navy's need for an improved exploder for its torpedoes. These new exploders were designed to efficiently detonate when underneath a targeted ship.

    • Description: Torpedo Operations at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Beached Mark 13 torpedo recovery on Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport range. Air drop photography.

      Dates: July, 1944
      Container: Reel 1, Item 1
    • Description: Mark 9-0 Torpedo Exploder Tests, Miami, Florida
      1 reel (275 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Torpedoes launched from P.T. Boat at (DD) type target, runs 18-32.

      Dates: 1944 December 12
      Container: Reel 2, Item 2
    • Description: Mark 9-0 Torpedo Exploder Tests, Miami, Florida
      1 reel (225 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Mark 9-0 Torpedo Exploder Tests, Miami, Florida, runs 19 through 24. Torpedoes launched from PT boat at DD target.

      Dates: December 1944
      Container: Reel 3, Item 3
    • Description: Torpedo Tests and Handling at Naval Torpedo Station Keyport
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Torpedo handling at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, WA. Erratic torpedo running on beach at NTS. Mark 9-0 exploder being serviced at NTS.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Reel 4, Item 4
    • Description: Mark 9 Mod 3 (9-3) Torpedo Exploder Training Film
      1 reel (400 feet) : sound, color ; 16mm

      An animated training film describing how Gradient exploder uses the theory of magnetic influence exploders. Describes the function of the gradiometer, detonator, CC unit, and time-delay catridges. Scene of the USSNevadabeing torpedoed.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Reel 5, Item 5
    • Description: Aerial Views of Puget Sound. Exploder Tests in Miami, Key West, and Havana, Cuba
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Aerial photography of Puget Sound. Exploder Tests on Motor Target in Miami, Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba.

      Dates: 1950
      Container: Reel 6, Item 6
    • Description: APL-UW Colorado Cosmic Ray Project and Exploder Tests at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport.
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Applied Physics Lab trailer site in Colorado. Also includes C. Miller exploder tests at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport.

      Dates: October 1951
      Container: Reel 7, Item 7
    • Description: Acoustic Torpedo Target Tests in Lake Washington
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Acoustic torpedo target tests in Lake Washington. Target container has reel installed which is controlled by remote signal.

      Dates: 1953
      Container: Reel 8, Item 8
    • Description: Mark 3-0 Universal Target Tests
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Field tests for Universal Target Mark 3-0.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Reel 9, Item 9
    • Description: Mark 14 and 16 Torpedoes, with MK 9-4 Exploders, Sinking L.S.T. 17 off Washington Coast
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      L.S.T. 17 sinking off the Washington Coast by Mark 14 and 16 torpedoes from USN submarine using MK 9-4 exploders.

      Dates: April 1957
      Container: Reel 10, Item 10
    • Description: Mark 17-0 Torpedo Target Winch
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Mark 17-0 torpedo target winch in operation at sea.

      Dates: circa 1960
      Container: Reel 11, Item 11
    • Description: Aerial View of Torpedo Runs
      1 reel (250 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Undetermined exercise, torpedo runs - Torpedo travels under DD type vessel.

      Dates: circa 1964
      Container: Reel 12, Item 12
    • Description: Mark 29-0 Towed Target Launch
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Mark 29-0 towed target being launched from vessel.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Reel 13, Item 13
    • Description: Mark 29-0 Towed Target Launch
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Mark 29-0 towed target being launched and towed from APL-UW 50' U. Boat. Likely filmed in Puget Sound or Hood Canal.

      Dates: 1967
      Container: Reel 14, Item 14
  • 3-D acoustic tracking ranges

    This tracking range system was used for the testing and evaluation of torpedoes, for the alignment of sensor systems, and for tracking ships during exercises. It was the first tracking range capable of accurate 3-D tracking, which was mandatory for the new Anti-Submarine Warfare Torpedo. Keyport conducted torpedo testing for tracking ranges at Dabob Bay, Hood Canal, and Port Orchard Inlet.

    • Description: Torpedo Air Drops at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Shallow Water Tracking Range
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Torpedo air drops over the NTS, KPT shallow water range.

      Dates: June 1944
      Container: Reel 15, Item 15
    • Description: Torpedo Air Drops at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Shallow Water Tracking Range
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Naval Torpedo Station shallow water range. Magnetic wire across the range on the surface, air drops, and erratic torpedo, run hitting the beach. Torpedo recovery from the beach.

      Dates: July 1944
      Container: Reel 16, Item 16
    • Description: Torpedo Air Drops at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Shallow Water Tracking Range
      1 reel (75 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Torpedo air drops over the shallow water tracking range at the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Reel 17, Item 17
    • Description: Torpedo Air Drops at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Shallow Water Tracking Range
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Torpedo air drops over shallow water range at the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport. Magnetic wire across range on surface and footage of Dr. C.E. Miller.

      Dates: 1944
      Container: Reel 18, Item 18
    • Description: Torpedo Air Drops at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Shallow Water Tracking Range
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Torpedo air drop over the shallow water range at the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport. Smoke bomb and green torpedo location dye in water.

      Dates: 1945
      Container: Reel 19, Item 19
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Hood Canal
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Surfacing first High Frequency 3-D array, Hood Canal.

      Dates: 1954
      Container: Reel 20, Item 20
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Hood Canal
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array plant in the Hood Canal.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Reel 21, Item 21
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Assembly at Naval Amunition Depot, Bangor, Washington
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array assembly at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor, Washington.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Reel 22, Item 22
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Hood Canal
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array plant, Hood Canal.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Reel 23, Item 23
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Hood Canal
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array test planting, Hood Canal.

      Dates: 1956
      Container: Reel 24, Item 24
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range in Dabob Bay with Cable Run to Whitney Point
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      First high-frequency 3-D array plant in North Dabob Bay and cable run to Whitney Point.

      Dates: 1957 May 9
      Container: Reel 25, Item 25
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Dabob Bay
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array plant in North Dabob Bay.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Reel 26, Item 26
    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Assembly at Coats Electric Company and Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      First Low-frequency 3-D array assembly at Coats Electric Company and at Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor. Also scenes in Alaska 1958-1959.

      Dates: 1958
      Container: Reel 27, Item 27
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Transducers, Helicopter Flight, and Naval Torpedo Station Vessel Landing at Whitney Point
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Assembly of high-frequency 3-D array transducers, helicopter flight, and Naval Torpedo Station duck making landing off Whitney Point.

      Dates: February 1959
      Container: Reel 28, Item 28
    • Description: Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, 3-D Tracking Range Array
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Surfacing Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport-designed pendulum 3-D array.

      Dates: February 1959
      Container: Reel 29, Item 29
    • Description: Whitney Point Computer (BLOG) and Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Whitney Point computer BLOG and Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport. Retriever terminating cable on shore.

      Dates: February 1959
      Container: Reel 30, Item 30
    • Description: High-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Cable Run at Whitney Point
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      High-frequency 3-D array cable run from 1st array to shore, Whitney Point.

      Dates: May 1959
      Container: Reel 31, Item 31
    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range in Chatham Strait, Alaska
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Low-frequency 3-D array plant in Chatham Strait, Alaska including rifle fire in place of array release hook.

      Dates: July 1959
      Container: Reel 32, Item 32
    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Low-frequency 3-D array plant in the Chatham Strait, Alaska.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 33, Item 33
    • Description: Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport 3-D Tracking Range Array on Deck of APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel, RV Henderson
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport-designed pendulum. 3-D array on barge deck of RVHendersonin Dabob Bay

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 34, Item 34
    • Description: Joseph Henderson, Jack Robertson, and Captain Moore Escorting Senator Jackson at Whitney Point
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Joseph Henderson, Jack Robinson, and Captain Moore NTS KPT escort Senator Henry Jackson and party on tour of Whitney Point.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 35, Item 35
    • Description: Air Flight from Sea-Tac to Chatham Strait, Alaska, and the 3-D Tracking Range Site
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Air flight from SeaTac to Chatham Strait Alaska. Applied Physics Lab personnel in Alaska at 3-D range site. Captain W. Moore, Co., NTS, KPT also shown in this film.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 36, Item 36
    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Operation in Chatham Strait, Alaska. APL-UW Acoustic Research Vehicle RV Henderson Under Construction
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Low-frequency 3-D range Chatham Strait Alaska operation. Applied Physics Lab barge, RVHenderson, under construction.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 37, Item 37
    • Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, 1959

    • Description: Probing Beneath the Sea: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Operation at Chatham Strait, Alaska, and Naval Torpedo Station Keyport, and APL-UW Building, and Whitney Point
      1 reel (800 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Complete Applied Physics Lab/Naval Torpedo Station Alaska 3-D range operation computer on board YF885, array planting, current measuring drift bottle preparation, etc. NTS main gate, APL-UW building, and Whitney Point visitors scenes from 1958-1959.

      Dates: circa 1959
      Container: Reel 40, Item 40
    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Range, January 1960
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm
      Dates: January 1960
      Container: Reel 41, Item 41
    • Description: Operation Deeptrack and Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range, Chatham Strait, Alaska
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Operation Deeptrack installation off San Clemente, Island. APL-UW/Naval Ordinance Test Station (NOTS). Low-frequency 3-D array plant, Chatham Strait, Alaska.

      Dates: 1960 March 1
      Container: Reel 42, Item 42
    • Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Assembly, Dabob Bay and Alaska

    • Description: Low-frequency 3-D Tracking Range Array Recovery
      1 reel (700 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Low-frequency 3-D range, recovery of damaged array.

      Dates: December 1961
      Container: Reel 45, Item 45
    • Description: Aerial View of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      View of west coast of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Film taken from aircraft.

      Dates: 1962 September 14
      Container: Reel 46, Item 46
    • Description: Aerial View of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      View of west coast of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Film taken from aircraft.

      Dates: 1962 September 19
      Container: Reel 47, Item 47
    • Description: Aerial Survey for 3-D Acoustic Tracking Range, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
      1 reel (350 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Aerial photography of the first St. Croix, Virgin Islands, survey for 3-D range site.

      Marked "Garrison Sandstrom."

      Dates: 1962 October 2
      Container: Reel 48, Item 48
    • Description: St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Tracking Range Installation
      1 reel (700 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      St. Croix range array installation operations.

      Dates: 1964 February-March
      Container: Reel 49, Item 49
    • Description: St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Tracking Range Installation
      1 reel (750 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      St. Croix range array installation.

      Dates: 1964 February-March
      Container: Reel 50, Item 50
    • Description: St. Croix Range Expansion, Array Hardware
      1 reel (800 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Tugboat along the St. Croix coastline. Acoustic range expansion array lifted in and out of water with crane. Details of array parts. Men working on array. A scuba diver swims to a man in a small boat.

      Dates: November 1966
      Container: Reel 51, Item 51
    • Description: St. Croix Range Expansion
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Range expansion at tracking range in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

      Dates: 1966 November 8
      Container: Reel 52, Item 52
    • Description: Tracking Range Operations, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
      1 reel (1,200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      St. Croix underwater tracking range, hardware repair operations.

      Dates: 1970 March-June
      Container: Reel 53, Item 53
    • St. Croix Range Repair

      • Description: Residue film from St. Croix Range Repair, Part 1
        1 reel (1,500 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

        Residue film from St. Croix Repair.

        Dates: 1970
        Container: Reel 54, Item 54
      • Description: Tracking Range Repair Program, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Part 2
        1 reel (900 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

        Residue from the Underwater Tracking Range Repair program, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

        Dates: 1970 May-June
        Container: Reel 55, Item 55
  • APL-UW Research Vessels

    • Description: APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel Henderson Launch at Builder's Yard
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Initial launching of Applied Physics Lab barge by crane at builders' yard.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 56, Item 56
    • Description: APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel, RV Henderson, En-route to APL-UW Dock
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      APL-UW barge en route from builders yard to APL-UW dock (no deck plates installed). Also close-up views of completed barge in 1959-1960.

      Dates: 1960
      Container: Reel 57, Item 57
    • Description: APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel, RV Henderson
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      APL-UW barge during initial trial runs.

      Dates: 1961
      Container: Reel 58, Item 58
    • Description: APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel, RV Henderson, at APL Dock
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Barge, RVHenderson, making landing at APL-UW dock.

      Dates: 1961
      Container: Reel 59, Item 59
    • Description: APL-UW Acoustic Research Vessel, RV Henderson, En-route Dabob Bay to Seattle
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      APL-UW barge enroute from Seattle to Dabob Bay. Hood Canal Bridge. Barge in Dabob Bay and Lake Washington. Canister marked "Acoustic Barge Operations at Dabob Bay - March 1962. Hyperbolic Tracking Operation."

      Contents include: 1) Bad weather on trip to Dabob 2) Hood Canal Pontoon Bridge 3) Barge in Dabob Bay 4) Rigging 1.07 Array in Lake Washington.

      Dates: March 1962
      Container: Reel 60, Item 60
    • Description: Research Vehicle 102-000
      1 reel (350 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Research vehicle 102-000.

      Dates: 1965 May 17
      Container: Reel 61, Item 61
  • APL-UW Institutional Footage

    • Description: Aerial Views of Hood Canal and Dabob Bay
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Hood Canal and Dabob Bay.

      Aerial photography by D.S. Potter.

      Dates: 1960 February 19
      Container: Reel 62, Item 62
    • Description: APL-UW Animation Graphics
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      APL-UW bug, conf. stamp, and conf. material handling statement; to be used for animation.

      Dates: circa 1963
      Container: Reel 63, Item 63
    • Description: Oceanography at APL
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Oceanography at APL-UW.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Reel 64, Item 64
    • Description: Oceanography at APL
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Loading computer van onto ship, leaving port. Bissett-Berman launch and recovery and computer operations. Bonabuoy launch. SPURV checkout. Launch and recovery. Drift bottle launch and recovery. Entering San Francisco Bay.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Reel 65, Item 65
    • Description: Ewart movie sp. 85
      1 reel (250 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm

      Men work with equipment inside a tent. Tents and building of a snow camp or base. A plane lands. Men in tent work with equipment hanging over hole in the ice. A man lights an object on fire in the snow. A wench is in place over a hole in the ice at the camp. A sign of a hotel. Men are seen by a airplane. Men working with equipment in the snow, setting up guy lines of a pole.

      Dates: circa 1984
      Container: Reel 66, Item 66
  • SPURV: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle

    SPURV was an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, seeing its first use with the Navy tugboat, Tatnuck, on a trip to Cobb Seamount in 1957.

    • Description: Research vehicle #3
      1 reel (250 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Research vehicle footage, likely later SPURV.

      Sticker on reel says "Orig Tatnuck."

      Dates: undated
      Container: Reel 67, Item 67
    • Description: Naval Torpedo Station YF (self-propelled) Vessel in Chatham Strait, Alaska
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      NTS YF vessel in Chatham Strait, Alaska. NTS officers and APL-UW personnel on board.

      Dates: July 1959
      Container: Reel 68, Item 68
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle Tests in Dabob Bay
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Original APL-UW research vehicle in-water runs in Dabob Bay.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 69, Item 69
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle (SPURV) Launched from USS Tatnuck
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      APL-UW research vehicle being launched from USSTatnuckat sea.

      Dates: 1959
      Container: Reel 70, Item 70
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle (SPURV) Operations from USSTatnuck, Washington Coast and Elliot Bay
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV operations from USSTatnuck, Washington Coast and Elliott Bay.

      Dates: 1960
      Container: Reel 71, Item 71
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle Operations from USSTatnuck
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Vehicle Tatnuck Trip, "Original run SPURV".

      Dates: circa 1961
      Container: Reel 72, Item 72
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle (SPURV) Operations from USSLiden, Oahu, Hawaii
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      APL-UW research vehicle runs off Oahu, Hawaii from USSLiden(ATFBS).

      Dates: February 1962
      Container: Reel 73, Item 73
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle Pressure Tests on USSTatnuck
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Self Propelled Research Vehicle pressure tests from the USSTatnuck.

      Dates: June 1962
      Container: Reel 74, Item 74
    • Description: Cobb Seamount Experiment, Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle Operations from USSTatnuck
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Tatnucktrip research vehicle tests. Drift bottle current tests at Cobb Seamount.

      Dates: August 1962
      Container: Reel 75, Item 75
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle (SPURV) in Dabob Bay and FLIP Vessel
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      APL-UW research vehicle run on surface prior to dive and FLIP vessel surfacing in Dabob Bay.

      Dates: 1962
      Container: Reel 76, Item 76
    • Description: Self-Propelled Undersea Research Vehicle Operations in Puget Sound and Dabob Bay
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV II vehicle operation films. Puget Sound and Dabob Bay runs.

      Dates: circa 1962
      Container: Reel 77, Item 77
    • Description: SPURV Operations in Puget Sound
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV II operations.

      Dates: circa 1962
      Container: Reel 78, Item 78
    • Description: SPURV Cuttings from San Diego
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV cuttings from San Diego.

      Dates: October 1963
      Container: Reel 79, Item 79
    • Description: Vehicle Computer Spar
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Vehicle computer spar in rough sea. SPURV, Puget Sound, Golden Gate Bridge.

      Dates: circa 1966
      Container: Reel 80, Item 80
    • Description: DSRV only taken at Mazatlan area
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      DSRV only taken at Mazatlan area. SPURV Mazatlan.

      DSRV stands for Deep Sea Research Vehicle.

      Dates: 1968 February-March
      Container: Reel 81, Item 81
    • Description: SPURV Launch
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV launch.

      Dates: circa 1968
      Container: Reel 82, Item 82
    • Description: SPURV Launch and Recovery
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Launch and recovery footage.

      Roll 1, LeRoy Olson.

      Dates: circa 1970
      Container: Reel 83, Item 83
    • Description: SPURV Recovery
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Roll 3, LeRoy Olson.

      Dates: circa 1970
      Container: Reel 84, Item 84
    • Description: SPURV Launch
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      ASA 160.Good launch shot of SPURV II.

      Roll 4, LeRoy Olson.

      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Reel 85, Item 85
    • Description: SPURV Launch and Recovery
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SPURV launch and recovery.

      Roll 2, Leroy Olsen.

      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Reel 86, Item 86
    • Description: SPURV Recovery
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Vehicle recovery shots and Zodiac recovery.

      Roll 5, LeRoy Olson.

      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Reel 87, Item 87
    • Description: Cobb Seamount Experiment: Sonabuoy Launch and SPURV Operations
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Bonabuoy launch and SPURV operations.

      Dates: August 1971
      Container: Reel 88, Item 88
  • Navy films

    • Description: Sinking of Japanese Submarines
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Sinking of Japanese submarines I-203, I-14, I-401, and I-400 by four different U.S. submarines off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in May June 1946.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Reel 89, Item 89
    • Description: Denise at San Clemente Island
      1 reel (800 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Produced by the Pasadena Film Branch of the Technical Information Department

      US Naval Ordinance Test Station, Documentary Film Branch, Pasadena Station P75231.

      Dates: 1964
      Container: Reel 90, Item 90
    • Description: Denise at San Clemente Island
      1 reel (900 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Produced by the Pasadena Film Branch of the Technical Information Department.

      Dates: 1964
      Container: Reel 91, Item 91
  • Cobb Seamount Experiment

    • Description: Cobb Seamount Acoustic Experiment
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Cobb Seamount acoustic experiment.

      Dates: June 1970
      Container: Reel 92, Item 92
    • Description: Cobb Seamout Experiment
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Cobb Seamount Acoustic Experiment.

      Ryland's editing.

      Dates: June 1970
      Container: Reel 93, Item 93
    • Description: Cobb Seamount Experiment
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Cobb Seamount Acoustic Experiment.

      Ryland's editing.

      Dates: June 1970
      Container: Reel 94, Item 94
    • Description: Cobb Seamount Experiment
      1 reel (150 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Transmitter and receiver tower launcher.

      Dates: 1971
      Container: Reel 95, Item 95
  • Assorted APL-UW Projects

    • Description: Project Zillah and Torpedo Operations at Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Project Zillah and footage of torpedo launching from NTS firing pier. Footage of upper structure and torpedo net.

      Dates: October 1945
      Container: Reel 96, Item 96
    • Description: Powder Wafer Assembly and Detonation in Desert
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Powder WAFER assembly and detonation in desert.

      Dates: November 1945
      Container: Reel 97, Item 97
    • Description: Project Zillah Rocket Launch in Desert
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Men in cars and trucks look on as several rockets launch. A parked airplane is briefly seen.

      Project Zillah concerned rocket bomb and guided missle research.

      Dates: April 1946
      Container: Reel 98, Item 98
    • Description: Project Zillah Rocket
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      A man with a camera smile. An object falls from the sky and a vehicle appears to go retrieve it. A man holds up what appears to be a section of a rocket. A chalkboard indicates the prior sequences are confidential. A man plays on a golf course, seen from a distance.

      Bill Ruland and Julian Ray.

      Dates: 1946 May 1
      Container: Reel 99, Item 99
    • Description: Project Zillah Operations
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Parachute opening and chute drop of Zillah & Zillah range.

      Dates: 1946 September 17
      Container: Reel 100, Item 100
    • Description: Project Zillah Launch in Desert
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Zillah launch in desert. Actual explosion in desert ground.

      Dr. C.E. Miller named on box.

      Dates: November 1946
      Container: Reel 101, Item 101
    • Description: Project Zillah Rocket Launch in Desert
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Project Zillah rocket launching in desert and personnel assigned to project.

      Dates: 1947 March 27
      Container: Reel 102, Item 102
    • Description: FORACS II Guantanamo Facility Installation Operations
      1 reel (500 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Cliffs along the water. Men assembling a structure. A ship is marked "U.S. Navy." Two divers are seen in the water. A building is being constructed near the shore. View of the cliffs, shore, and inland.

      FORACS stands for Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check Site. These ranges test the accuracy of a ship's sensors using radar and acoustic targets.

      Dates: 1963 July-October
      Container: Reel 103, Item 103
    • Description: BENDIX Towed Target Tests
      1 reel (300 feet) : negative ; 16mm

      APL/BENDIX towed target, tests 12, 012, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25. LUMF.

      Dates: November 1966
      Container: Reel 104, Item 104
    • Description: BENDIX Towed Target Tests
      1 reel (400 feet) : negative ; 16mm

      APL/BENDIX towed target, tests 26-42 including LUMF 16-17.

      Dates: November 1966
      Container: Reel 105, Item 105
    • Description: BENDIX Towed Target Tests
      1 reel (300 feet) : negative ; 16mm

      APL/BENDIX Towed Target Tests 2, 5-11 incl. LUMF 9, 11.

      Dates: November 1966
      Container: Reel 106, Item 106
    • Description: Composite of 1968 February Trip, Vehicle Pipe Acoustic Misc.
      1 reel (1,000 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Loading equipment and computer vans at annex. Vans going onto the U.S. Naval ship Charles H. Davis. Preparing RG-8 for acoustic experiment. Davis and vehicle launch from small boat. Vehicle launches and recoveries. Motor launch overboard. Davis seen from small boat. Bottle and pipe over side. Spar in water. Retreiving line with floats. Retrieving bottle and pipe. Retrieving acoustic experiment. Sea turtle. Entering San Francisco Bay.

      Dates: March 1968
      Container: Reel 107, Item 107
    • Description: Japan Cruise
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm
      Dates: 1969 August-September
      Container: Reel 108, Item 108
    • Description: Japan Cruise
      1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Reel 109, Item 109
    • Description: SCUT Buoy Experiment
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      SCUT buoy pipe experiment.

      Dates: circa 1969
      Container: Reel 110, Item 110
    • Description: Corn Cobb Experiment
      1 reel (450 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Fragments, faked scenes, titles, and diagrams.

      Dates: June 1970
      Container: Reel 111, Item 111
    • Description: Kiket Island Experiment
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Tracer dye experiment.

      Dates: March 1971
      Container: Reel 112, Item 112
    • Description: Hawaii Diffusion Experiment
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Bonabuoy launch. Dye release package launch and recover. SPURV recovery and opening. Russian ship. Bridge area - radar buoy tracking. SPURV recovery with Russian ship watching. Drogue launch; Drogue launch again. BB with Rosette (deck only). SPURV launch. Computer van interior - dye search plot. Packing. Radar transponder buoy launch. Drogue launch.

      Dates: March 1972
      Container: Reel 113, Item 113
    • Description: MATE Experiment
      1 reel (340 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm

      View of the Applied Physics Laboratory building at the University of Washington. A crane of the U.S. Naval shipDe Steiguerlowers what appears to be underwater acoustic range equipment into the water, including a hydrophone and flotation sphere. Control panels are seen. A submersible goes into the water.

      MATE stands for Mid-Ocean Atlantic Transmission Experiment; it was the second Cobb Seamount Experiment. Acoustic transmissions were performed to better understand the effects of internal waves on acoustic transmissions.

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Reel 114, Item 114
    • Description: MATE Experiment
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Reel 115, Item 115
    • Description: AMET Experiment
      1 reel (250 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm

      A man operates equipment on board a boat. What appears to be a small submersible is seen. Two men in scuba gear get into the water. A man on deck hands the submersible to the divers. The submersible takes off in the water. Men operate equipment.

      Dates: 1978 August 31
      Container: Reel 116, Item 116
    • Description: AMET Experiment
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm

      AMET outtakes.

      Dates: 1978
      Container: Reel 117, Item 117
  • Unlabeled films

    • Description: From the U.S. Naval Ordinance Test Station, Pasadena, CA
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      A diagram shows the placement of underwater equipment. Aerial views of an unknown location. Men disembark from a plane that lands on a beach. A white building is seen along the shore. Men assemble machinery. Lubricating machine parts. What appears to be underwater acoustic tracking equipment hangs from a crane on a ship. Aerial footage of ships on what appears to be the Puget Sound. A man in a military uniform and a man in civilian dress hold up a flag with "99.3.8" displayed on it. Objects are fired from a ship into the water. More underwater acoustic tracking equipment attached to ship's crane.

      Dates: 1960 February
      Container: Reel 118, Item 118
    • Description: St. Croix Range Expansion
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Workers assemble a mount for a large, spherical device. Welders work on the mount section. A crane lifts a sphere onto the mount and workers lock it in place. Details of various parts of the apparatus. A metal frame is attached, surrounding the sphere.

      Dates: November 1966
      Container: Reel 119, Item 119
    • Description: Hydro Lab Testing
      1 reel (450 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Objects in glass tanks of moving water are tested at various velocities.

      Sent to APL-UW from Anti-Submarine Warfare Systems.

      California Institute of Technology Bendix

      Dates: circa 1966
      Container: Reel 120, Item 120
    • Description: Two Mechanisms
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Two mechanisms are seen.

      Dates: circa 1966
      Container: Reel 121, Item 121
    • Description: Underwater 3-D Acoustic Tracking Range Equipment
      1 reel (600 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      Workers on a ship lower acoustic tracking equipment into the water. Trailers are seen along the shore. Cables run from cliffs and into the water. A man operates a switch box. A man assembles what appears to be a cable at a work bench. A ship is seen carrying underwater acoustic tracking equipment.

      Dates: circa 1966
      Container: Reel 122, Item 122
    • Description: Submersible Dives
      1 reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      A group of men on a ship stand by an unmaned submersible. The propellor is tested before it is lowered into the water. A man works at a control panel. The submersible returns to the ship and a man removes something from the nose of the craft. It appears that data is retrieved. The submersible returns to the water and it is seen being hoisted onto the ship at night.

      Likely filmed by or belonging to Terry Ewart.

      Dates: circa 1967
      Container: Reel 123, Item 123
    • Description: Towed Target
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      A Navy man stands at a control panel on the deck of a ship. Equipment is hoisted from the water.

      Dates: circa 1967
      Container: Reel 124, Item 124
    • Description: Submarine Test 10-5 & 6-71
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm

      A man is seen in scuba gear. Views of a building by a marina. Men inside a building filled with machinery.

      Dates: circa 1970
      Container: Reel 125, Item 125
    • Description: Two Water-Slug Firings
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm

      Scope and content could not be derived from film footage.

      "Line shows up gray prior to firing." Tube photo tests.

      Dates: 1974 July 15
      Container: Reel 126, Item 126
    • Description: Tire Commercial
      1 reel (300 feet) : sound, color ; 16mm

      An advertisement for tubeless, sealed air tires. A Golden Sierra car tests the tires in various settings to show how they compare to the tires of competitors. Tires are punctured with arrows, bullets, knives and also harpooned underwater.

      Narrated by actor and sportscaster Bill Stern. Featuring Roscoe Reams, Dan Carroll, Tex Allen, and Ricou Browning.

      Dates: circa 1975
      Container: Reel 127, Item 127