Title:PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL OPERATIONS OF SOCK PROJECT BY COMMANDER FLEET AIR, QUONSET POINT, RI (REEL ONE) [Main Title]
Film Number:BFM 502-1
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Silent footage with captions of the US Navy Sock Project of 1944, an artificial floating seadrome, 1800 feet long by 173 feet wide, and made up entirely of T6 and T7 type pontoons. The seadrome also features a parking strip attached to the main “sock” by seven bridges which act as taxiways.
Description: Aerial views of the seadrome with its main runway, parking strip and bridges. Scenes on board the open runway: two aircraft – a Curtiss SOC Seagull biplane and a North American SNJ-3 Texan – are seen landing, followed by a third aircraft labelled “Commander Torpedo Training”. Also shown are trials in the operation of an eighteen-plane Squadron and an aircraft carrier sized group comprising nine Grumman Avengers and twenty-four Grumman Hellcats. Aircraft land on one by one, fold their wings and taxi to the parking strip.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
