Forty-five films (reformatted from the original 16mm) from the collection of Will Forman on U.S. Navy submersibles, particularly the development of Deep Jeep at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) at China Lake, California.
Will Forman Navy Submersible Film Collection, 1961-1970 (SMC 190)
Extent: 21.35 GB of digital files (45 films)
Digital Content
This collection is available for viewing on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website.
Willis "Will" R. Forman was a submersible designer, engineer, and project manager at the Naval Undersea Research & Development Center in San Diego, California. He participated in the development of the Deep Jeep and Deep View submersibles in the 1960s.
Forman loaned his films documenting submersible development work to the Library in 2010 for digitization; the original films were returned to him.
Forty-five films (digitally reformatted from the original 16mm) from the collection of Will Forman on U.S. Navy submersibles, particularly the development of Deep Jeep at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) at China Lake, California. The collection also includes footage of Deep View; Denise, the Cousteau soucoupe submersible; and travel in Japan and Japanese submersible technologies.