Operation Blue Jay
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Operation Blue Jay |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 28 minutes |
| Rod | |
| production | Signal Corps Pictorial Center |
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Operation Blue Jay is an American documentary film in the The Big Picture series . The short film covers the facility at Thule Air Base in Greenland . It was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Film category at the Academy Awards in 1954 .
content
The film shows the establishment of Thule Air Base from the training of engineers to the opening of the military airfield in Avanersuaq , Greenland. The original code name of the secret project was Operation Blue Jay .
background
The film is part of The Big Picture , a propaganda series commissioned by the United States Army and broadcast by ABC . The film was documented by cameramen from the United States Army Signal Corps . The opening and closing words are from Sergeant James Mansfield.
At the Academy Awards in 1954, the film lost to The Alaskan Eskimo from Walt Disney .
Web links
- Operation Blue Jay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Operation Blue Jay as a complete film on the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Operation Blue Jay as a complete film in the Internet Archive . Retrieved January 8, 2019
- ↑ The 26th Academy Awards | 1954. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .