PG
Early 1999
Large Release.

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October Sky

October Sky is a 1999 movie based on the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (note that "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys"). The book was based on Hickam's real childhood though the writer admits to taking some creative liberties.

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:00:03

[ Radio Static ]

:00:06

[ Man On Radio ] While most
of President Eisenhower's advisors--

:00:08

- [ Static Continues ]
- [ Woman Singing ]

:00:10

- [ Man On Radio ] Today are ominous.
- [ Man On Radio ] Washington--

:00:12

[ Static, Music Continues ]

:00:15

[ Man On Radio ] If you have
just tuned in to this special bulletin,

:00:17

Washington has confirmed
that, yesterday,

:00:20

on the fourth
of October, 1957,

:00:23

the Soviet Union
successfully launched...

:00:25

history's first
man-made satellite...

:00:28

into space orbit
around the Earth.

:00:30

- [ Switch Clicks ]
- [ Motor Humming ]

:01:11

The satellite which the Russians
have dubbed Sputnik...

:01:14

is being hailed
as a milestone in history.

:01:17

No one in our nation's capital
could deny that the satellite...

:01:19

has ushered in a grim
new chapter in the Cold War.

:01:22

And indeed,
a wave of national anxiety...

:01:25

already seems
to be sweeping the country.

:01:27

[ Man ] Still maintaining
its speed of 18,000 miles an hour,

:01:30

completing an orbit of the Earth
every 96 minutes.

:01:42

Doctor Wernher von Braun,

:01:44

Chief Engineer of the Army
Ballistic Missile Agency,

:01:47

expressed the hope
that the United States...

:01:49

would soon be following
the Russians into space...

:01:51

with our own
artificial satellite.

:01:53

Mister von Braun confirmed...

:01:55

that there has still been no
actual sighting of the Soviet satellite,

:01:58

but the U.S. expects
to be tracking it very soon.

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