NORTHROP AIRCRAFT CO. 1950s SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RECRUITMENT FILM SM-62 SNARK CRUISE MISSILE 42184

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. “Design Your Living“ is a late 1950s color film to recruit engineers for Northrop Aircraft Inc. The first half of the movie highlights the engineering marvels that Northrop has produced, while the second half presents a wonderful look at SoCal living in the mid to late 1950s, with Disneyland, Hollywood and many other attractions, modern freeways and new suburbs offering a high quality lifestyle to a well paid aeronautical engineer. Movie opens on a rotating satellite dish. A missile is about to take off from a range in Florida. It is the Northrop SM-62 Snark, an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead. The Snark is jet propelled and guided by a self-contained, non-jammable guidance system - it soars through the air 1:25. Radar and telemetry systems monitor eve