Secret city : a history of the Navy at China Lake / produced by Technical Information Department, Video Projects Branch, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division ; produced, directed, and edited by Mark Pahuta.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Pahuta, Mark, producer, director, editor, author.

Doig, Leroy L., III, narrator, author.

Naval Air Warfare Center (U.S.). Weapons Division, producer.

China Lake Museum Foundation, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval Weapons Center--History.

Naval Air Warfare Center (U.S.). Weapons Division.

Naval Weapons Center.

Weapons--History--Research--United States.

Weapons.

History.

Research.

Proving grounds.

United States.

Proving grounds--California--China Lake--History.

California--China Lake.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

2 videocassettes (approximately 3 1/2 hrs.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

Other Title:

History of the Navy at China Lake

Place of Publication:

Ridgecrest, CA (P.O. Box 217, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-0217) : China Lake Museum Foundation, [1994?]

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

History and evolution of the U.S. Navy's largest weapons research and development center, notable as collaboration between civilian and military; established in 1943 as the Naval Ordnanace Test Station, first at Inyokern, later at China Lake, then renamed and reorganized as the Naval Weapons Center, and later made a site of the Naval Air Warvare Center, Weapons Division.

Participant:

Narrator, Leroy L. Doig III; technical advisor, Franklin H. Knemeyer.

Credits:

Writers, Leroy L. Doig III and Mark Pahuta.

Notes:

Part 2 includes 9-minute segment on the 50th year celebrations at China Lake, Nov. 5-7, 1993.

OCLC:

63548627