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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221410-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1958
Country: USA,USSR
Location:
TC Begins: 18:00:09
TC Ends: 18:16:28
Duration: 00:16:19
Titles. 18:00:34 Diagram of Russian rocket launch, over earth, Sputnik 1 satellite. Various newspaper headlines in CU w/ sound effects. 18:01:26 US assembly of rocket & Explorer I. Main frame computers working, scientists working. Centrifugal example of boy & ball on string. 18:02:03 Diagram of spinning satellite around earth. Boy & ball. Diagram of gun fired from high mountain top showing effect of gravity on shell, seen from outer space. Various trajectories. 18:04:06 Rocket being raised for launching, beside gantry. Diagram of layers of earth’s atmosphere, stratosphere & ionosphere. 18:05:24 Vanguard satellite being formed & turned (”spun like a ball out of metal”) polished & fabricated. CU electronic components. Soldering circuits & solar batteries attached; tested on oscilloscope. Explorer satellite fitted into tube & hoisted to top of Jupiter rocket. 18:07:06 Fueling w/ liquid fuel & fog around base. Technicians in control room in blockhouse during countdown w/ actual track. Launch w/ lift-off. Radar & antenna tracking. 18:08:35 Animated diagrams of rocket & releasing various stages. Nose cone off & satellite section fired; satellite into orbit. Discussion of speed & distance necessary from earth of satellites & the effects of distance. 18:11:00 Control room & electronic recording instruments. 18:11:45 Diagrams showing future use of satellites for weather & tv broadcasting. 18:12:06 Launch of rocket from desert w/ mice into space, pictured in flight. Rocket aircraft dropped from high speed, high altitude plane. Centrifugal test machine & testing of man w/o space suit. Man in space suit tested in chamber. CU hands on knobs. 18:13:54 Man in space suit shown in diagram along w/ space platform & described. 18:15:11 Space ship construction in diagrams & drawings. The End. Futuristic; Rocket Ship; NASA; Space Exploration; Solar System; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.