1960 - Color, Science, USA: Research By Rockets Pt. 1 of 3

1960 - Color, Science, USA: Research By Rockets Pt. 1 of 3 Rocket test firing in California canyon. Load grenades into rocket in Canada for testing. Rocket prepared & launched in California for testing w/ sound. View from camera in spinning rocket in New Mexico. 07:08:16 Credits US National Academy of Science 07:08:33 Surf against rocky coastline; time-lapse of clouds moving. Animation of space, drawings of Icarus & DaVinci inventions. Balloons. 07:09:44 Stratospheric balloon ascending. Jet fighter plane, multi-stage test rocket on small gantry. 07:10:40 Boy launching balloon propelled by gas escaping. Animation of steam propelled revolving sphere; illustrations of firing rockets in China. 07:11:38 Man strapping rockets to back of man on ice skates and fired. Rocket plane launched on ice covered lake. Testing liquid fueled rockets by Goddard in 1930s. 07:12:49 Germans during WWII testing swept wing rocket plane w/ KE + SW markings. 07:13:16 V-2 Rocket firing at Pennemunde. Captured V-2s tested in USA as two-stage system. 07:14:18 Viking rocket tested & fired. 07:14:50 Drawing of rocket explaining components. Engineers constructing parts of rockets. CU electronics. 07:16:04 Small rocket rolled out and readied for firing. Stages assembled for two stage rocket and raised. CU man watching. Siren and red light at firing as men run into bunker. Continued Rocketry; Physics; Inventions; Science; Scientists; Military Air Force; 1960s; US National Academy of Science; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.