The 20th Century (CBS) - "City Under the Ice" (1961)
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[0:26] this is water K kite on the Greenland
[0:28] ice camp Beyond the Horizon lies the
[0:31] North Pole soon under this ice and snow
[0:35] some 100 men will be able to live in
[0:37] warmth and comparative Comfort while
[0:40] above them the temperature drops to 70°
[0:42] below zero and the wind howls at 160 m
[0:46] an hour studying how men may live work
[0:50] perhaps even fight in this Frozen
[0:52] Wasteland they will be Pioneers on one
[0:55] of the world's last Frontiers their
[0:57] nuclear powered Frontier home will be
[1:00] Camp Century the city under the ice this
[1:04] is our story as the credential Insurance
[1:06] Company of America presents the 20th
[1:08] century
[1:19] [Applause]
[1:23] [Music]
[1:40] [Music]
[1:47] the Greenland ice cap a fantastic
[1:50] Glacier older than man himself only a
[1:53] few gos survive in these Frozen wastes
[1:56] many hundreds of feet thick the ice cap
[1:58] covers almost 85% of this the world's
[2:02] largest island it is deadly and desolate
[2:05] a hostile shifting Mass endlessly
[2:08] pushing outward from its Center to the
[2:09] coast rarely traveled even by the 25,000
[2:13] native
[2:14] [Applause]
[2:16] greenlanders at the top of the world is
[2:18] the Danish island of Greenland with the
[2:20] consent of Denmark a fellow NATO member
[2:23] this vast land houses a vital US radar
[2:25] station and the important American Air
[2:27] Base at Tuli 14 miles away the Army's
[2:31] Camp tuto 138 Mi further out on the ice
[2:34] cap Camp
[2:37] Century this is Camp tuto Greenland
[2:40] headquarters for the Army Engineers
[2:42] polar research and development center
[2:44] jumping off point for the big tractor
[2:46] trains that carry equipment food
[2:48] medicine and men out to isolated Camp
[2:51] Century here the sled trai