1953 HOME MOVIES U.S. NAVY SNOW COMPACTION RESEARCH & PARADE FOR GEN. MARK CLARK XD13884

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Shot by an unknown amateur filmmaker, this 1953 color home movie offers rare footage of U.S Army snow compaction trials in Kapuskasing, Ontario Canada; a U.S. Navy expedition of the USS Tanner to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago / Greenland; and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan for General Mark W. Clark, decorated veteran of three foreign wars (TRT: 27:21). This footage dates from the time of a 1952-1953 study by the U.S. Army of snow, ice, and permafrost conditions in Kapuskasing, which analyzed an extensive series of snow compaction trials. This research informed the U.S. top secret 1960s “Project Iceworm” in Greenland, an ill-fated attempt to create underground nuclear weapons silos during the Cold War, the remains of which pose a continued ecological threat. A snowy landscape dotted with trees, hills, and telephone poles in Kapuskasing, a town on the Kapuskasi