White Sands Missile Range (Tularosa Frontier) "The Big Picture" - 1950's American Military Film

"Tularosa Frontier" is a film documentary, skillfully photographed and written, covering the historical achievements and present progress of the White Sands Missile Range in developing missiles for national defense. Opening with a review of the historical highlights of the Tularosa Basin, brief sequences are shown of Spanish conquistadores, early-day prospectors, wagon trains, cowboys, Indians, and the Cavalry, culminating in the first "A" bomb explosion which took place on the present-day White Sands Missile Range. The body of the film goes on to scenes of an early-day V-2 missile test. There follow brief sequences of technological "firsts" achieved at White Sands (e.g., missile-borne camera shots of the earth, the Viking missile, high-speed sled tests, static motor tests, and many others. Back dropped by the Oregon Mountains of New Mexico, "Tularosa Frontier" becomes a picture posing the question: "What does the future hold?"

This movie can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569727

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[GravelGrunt]

Amazing to see how primitive the "high tech" equipment looks today. I was watching to see if I'd see my father in this. I have spotted him in similar videos, but he was with NRL and this is an Army film..

[wdtvlive42]

@GravelGrunt

I have quite a few more movies to post covering the various armed forces and early missile programs, so stay turned and you never know when your father will pop up next :-)

[nick5400]

Great video! Nostalgic and interesting.