#HUGO MEYER LOW LIGHT MOVIE#

His entry for this occasion read:ДЄugust 19, 1949. Berger was of the mind to keep a log, with entries for each time he operated the searchlight. But as a volunteer he would be the man at the helm for each of the incidents in the following months. Donald Berger, assigned to the ROTC Unit at the University of Cincinnati.Д«erger's relationship with the church is unknown, including if he was a parishioner. Operating the 800-million candlepower behemoth - capable of shooting a beam nearly 6 miles into the night - would be T/Sgt. For the moon was fast receding as a waning crescent, and in fact did not even appear in the night sky until an hour and a half past midnight. Left: A local newspaper article for the August 19th event (top) and a later photo of T/Sgt Donald Berger operating the searchlight (bottom).Д¬ONTRARY TO THE CLAIM of the news article, the evening of Aug- when the searchlight was fired up for the Saints Peter and Paul Carnival and Jitney Dance - was not 'moonlit'. William Winkler, president of the Winkler Offset Color Service and dabbler in things scientific came up with this theory: 'Aerodynamic impossibility,' one of its experts said.ДЄLL OF WHICH FAILED to stop speculation in Norwood. And still the questions go unanswered.ДЇLYING SAUCER STORIES have turned to old stuff since June 24, 1947, when an Iowa man reported 'I saw a chain of nine saucer-like objects playing tag at fantastic speeds.' Nine times since then the searchlight has found the object. Flying saucer? Something from Russia? Or Mars? a circular glowing object caught squarely in the long finger of light. Berger, at the controls of a searchlight owned by SS Peter and Paul Church turned its beams to 1600 mills (straight up). It started on a moonlight Norwood night in August, 1949.ДЄrmy Sgt. From an April, 1950 article in the Cincinnati Post: And certainly there was money to be made: the good Reverend's searchlight would make many appearances in the coming months.Д«ut what the Reverend couldn't have known was that the searchlight itself would become an event in the news.

Perhaps he got a particularly good deal from a parishioner. Why Father Gregory Miller of Saints Peter and Paul Church of Norwood (a separate city bounded as an enclave within Cincinnati) decided to buy one is not known.

#HUGO MEYER LOW LIGHT MOVIE#

Known as a staple of glittering movie premieres, they were equally ubiquitous at sales, carnivals and any event seeking a flashy dash of special attention. And at least one of those items spawned a new industry: the outdoor advertising searchlight. WITH THE WAR'S END came a booming business in the selling of war surplus items. allowing any intruder aloft in the night sky to be seen from the ground.ДЄbove: Searchlights sweep the sky at the premiere screening of 'The Sands of Iwo Jima' in Los Angeles in 1949. In World War II, radar was one such technology, and it allowed an outnumbered - and near collapse - English fighter plane force to overcome wave after wave of fierce German attacks in the Battle of Britain, the first modern battle campaign fought almost entirely by air forces.Д«ut part of that too was a different technology: a 60-inch parabolic mirror which could focus a brilliant beam of light miles upwards. For the story of modern war has also been the story of the progression of the technology developed in the never-ending pursuit for military advantage. THE STORY OF MODERN WAR cannot be found solely in ideological struggles and ethnic divides, or in the witch's brew of ignorance, fear and anger writ large, or even in the baser human instincts of aggression and dominance. Saturday Night Uforia: Caught In The LightДЄbove: Vertical searchlights form Albert Speer's 'Cathedral of Light' at a 1937 Nazi rally at Nuremberg.

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