Them! premiered in NYC 71 years ago today at The Paramount Theater, on June 16, 1954. The NY Times review called it 'one ominous view of a terrifyingly new world' and 'definitely a chiller'... #otd | Classic Movie Hub

The 1954 Paramount film starring William Holden and Mickey Rooney dramatized events that took place just a couple of years earlier with actual footage from aircraft and ships used in those days. What a difference with today's operations ! The helicopter are Sikorsky HO3S-1 (equivalent to US Air Force H-5F) from Helicopter Utility Squadron HU-1 Pacific "Fleet Angels", tail code UP, the very first US Navy operational helicopter squadron established in 1949 and based at NAS Imperial Beach in Califo