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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221520-03
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: Germany,USA
Location: New Mexico,Pennemunde,White Sands
TC Begins: 15:38:58
TC Ends: 15:52:16
Duration: 00:13:18
Pt. 2 of 2 Large X-Ray camera to detect flaws in metal castings & other materials. Medical research using x-ray & motion pictures. Polarized light used to record stress points. 15:40:20 Supersonic shock waves filmed. Ship propeller efficiency studied w/ strobe photography. 15:41:00 Man at electron defraction camera filming in vacuum chamber w/ photographs of results. 15:41:28 Large astronomy observatory w/ astronomers & telescopes. Stills of universe; man looking thru viewing lens. Stills of moon surface. 15:43:05 Photographer w/ large wooden camera w/ bellows photographing crystal structure w/ macrophotography. Microphotography camera w/ woman looking thru viewfinder. Photographer at microscope. CU of crystal & color photograph of crystals. 15:44:33 Snail Fever parasites seen thru magnification, filmed. 15:44:55 Electron microscope w/ technician adjusting. View of diatom magnified; crystals. 15:45:37 X-Ray diffraction camera used in atomic research; taking pictures of atomic structure. Atomic bomb explosions from above in Pacific test. 15:46:43 Geiger counter telescope lighting patterns of neon tube. 16mm film record shown in CU. Man at cloud chamber, placing camera & photographs showing cosmic rays. 15:47:50 CU of clock of US Naval Observatory. Man adjusting (?) machine operating clock. Woman at microscope w/ slide. CU of clock. 15:48:24 Woman at Navy large, long photoheliograph in yard of building studying sunspots. Photograph of sunspots, CU finger pointing. ECU of sunspots. 15:49:00 Man threading up 35mm film for spectrograph camera in steel chamber; used in V-2 rocket to film in ionosphere. Hand holding spectrogram. Man adjusting unid. equipment in lab w/ lenses mounted. 15:49:53 Rocket on side being worked on in hanger. Engine attached; nose cone of V-2 rocket moved into place. Vertical rocket on launch pad at night; in morning light. Lifting off in daytime in New Mexico. Good lift off & follow. 15:50:51 Testing at Pennemunde w/ failures & explosions, in air & on launch pad. 15:51:32 US launch of V-2 rocket at New Mexico. POV from V-2 at 100 miles of earth surface. The End. Research Method; Military; Analysis; 1940s; Color; Rocketry; 1949ca;