https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/05f03db3-240b-4e28-a5fc-c1e03c2482af Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Likely dating to 1959 or 1960, this raw footage shows what might be survey work performed to finalize a site for, and the early stages of the construction of, Camp Century, an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland. Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts and a base for scientific research. The film begins with footage of what might be either the Camp Century site, or a supply area set up to support the construction of the facility. At (1:46), personnel muster outside of a red painted trailer that is marked with a sign reading "U.S. Army Signal Corps Weather Station". At 3:57, the metal gantry for a weather station and likely also a radio antenna, is assembled. At (4:20) a long train of trailers on skis is shown, with a large snow tractor, probably a Caterpillar S-D8 arctic dozer, at one end. The large, spherical building shown on skis at (4:30 / 5:28) is a prefabricated arctic research station building. At (4:53) a helicopter buzzes over the tractor train traverse system. At (5:46), a U.S. Air Force Convair C-131 Samaritan is shown at a snowy runway. At (6:30), an airport building with a radar dish on the top is shown; a group of men come out of it and launch a weather balloon. At (7:26), a large assemblage of equipment is shown including some of the tractor train traverse system components such as the research station (7:25). At (8:04) individuals in snow gear are seen moving through white out conditions. At (8:40) a snow depth gauge is used to assess snowfall. At (9:24) a weather station is shown automatically taking air temperature recordings. Crew are shown actively monitoring the weather station including wind speed and direction at a remote location. At (12:12) the interior of what might be a C-131 cockpit is shown, and then aerial views of Greenland. At (13:40) bulldozers and other equipment is shown lined up and ready to be put to use in the construction of Camp Century. At (15:10) more aerial footage. At (16:20) the train is shown on the move across the frozen snow and ice sheet. At (17:40) more snow core samples are shown being taken. At (18:58), more aerial footage of Greenland. At (20:47), more footage of the remote weather station, followed by interior shots in the station trailer. At (22:08) a radio antenna is erected. At (22:50) a bulldozer carves into a snowbank. At (23:35), one of the characteristic snow tunnels that helped define the look of Camp Century is shown. At (24:00) a large folding antenna is seen being emplaced by crane, followed by shots of a snow bank with a large door visible on it (24:24). At (24;31) a weather balloon is launched. At (24:48) a snow machine blasts snow into the air. At (25:28) the machine cuts a tunnel into the snowbank. At (26:27) personnel are seen building out the antenna / weather station tower. At (27:32), a Snow Cat moves at high speed across the landscape. Camp Century was a preliminary camp for Project Iceworm whose end goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites that could survive a first strike. This was according to documents declassified in 1996. The missiles were never fielded and necessary consent from the Danish Government to do so was never broached. The camp operated from 1959 until 1967. It consisted of 21 tunnels with a total length of 9,800 feet (3.0 km), and was powered by a nuclear reactor. Project Iceworm was aborted after it was realized that the ice sheet was not as stable as originally assessed, and that the missile basing concept would not be feasible. 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