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Technician inserts camera in fin of rocket and rocket launches for flight over Earth's surface from White Sands, New Mexico.

Rocket being launched from White Sands in New Mexico. Technician inserts camera in fin of rocket. He inserts cover over lens and screws casing securely in place. Rocket starts to rise from platform and takes off. Mountains in the background. Rocket disappears into the sky. It leaves vapor trails. Rocket in flight over the earth. View of curvature of the earth. Craters seen on Earth's surface. Aircraft with folded wings aboard United States Navy ship Midway.

Date: 1950, April
Duration: 6 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072765
German V-2 rocket takes off from launching stand at White Sands in New Mexico.

German V-2 rocket being launched from White Sands, New Mexico. Rocket takes off from launching stand. Exhaust from rear of rocket before it takes off. Trail of rocket in sky. Technician woks on radar screen.

Date: 1950, April
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072766
Some points of interest in New Mexico, United States, in 1920

Film opens showing a picturesque stone church in Arizona. Camera pans up the church, to cross on the top. Man holds slate reading, “New Mexico, May 30th.” Then Pueblo buildings are shown (possibly in Pueblo of Isleta). Next, two women are seen walking away from the Palace of the Governors, in Albuquerque.

Date: 1920, May 30
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072791
The Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River in New Mexico, 1920

(Glimpse of misleading slate referring to Colorado River and Texas.) Next the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River, near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It is seen from the spillway side, with large amounts of water being discharged. Several persons walk along a stone wall overlooking the spillways. Closeup of the water being discharged

Date: 1920
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072793
The Elephant Butte Dam across the Rio Grande River in New Mexico, with car driving on its roadway, in 1920

Opening scene shows lake formed upriver of the Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande River in New Mexico. Camera focuses on hilly islands in the lake. Views from upstream, of the dam, with water levels fairly low. A touring car drives on the roadway above the dam and passes a lone pedestrian walking across the dam. Next, swirling waters are seen in the river below the dam. Some form a whirlpool, of sorts. Others are seen simply flowing in rough waves. View of several dam-related buildings on high ground beside the river. The dam looms above them. Closeup of water surging from dam discharge. Brief view of a dam (unidentified) with water overflowing it.

Date: 1920, May 24
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072794
Thomas Edmund Dewey announces his candidacy for President in 1940 to the gathering in New York, United States.

Thomas E. Dewey announces his President candidacy in New York, United States. Thomas Edmund Dewey announces his candidacy for President of the United States in the 1940 election. Posters in the background. Photographers take pictures.

Date: 1939, December 4
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072845