Scenes from the production, during 1928, of the German science fiction movie, Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) that premiered in 1929. The director, Fritz Lang, received technical advice from rocketry and space flight theorist, Hermann Oberth. Two men walk to a large mockup of the film spacecraft rocket sitting in an open field. A hinged model of the spacecraft rocket opens showing its interior. Shots of the rocket moving in a hangar and then moving out of the hangar. The rocket firing and racing into the sky, and a booster rocket detaching from it. Other rockets depicted moving across the night sky.
A film depicts scenes of the rise of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in Germany from 1921 to 1933. Early parades of Nazi Party and crowd in Germany. Adolf Hitler arrives at Nazi Party meetings. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels speaks. Party members gives a salute. Demonstration and riot in Munich in Marienplatz area, between Communist KPD members and NSDAP browshirts, and police, known as the Beer Hall Putsch or Munich Putsch in November 1923. Newspaper headlines of Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler jailed. A man writes on a Nazi Party card. Joseph Goebbels at his office. Baldur von Schirach exits a building. Italian members of the Fascist Party arrive by car on visit in Germany.
10th Republic Day Celebration in Berlin,Germany. Aerial view of the city. Large crowd of civilians gathered in front of the Reichstag building. President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg inspects troops.
A man in driver seat and a woman in the back seat sit of Volkhart R1 rocket propelled car during a test drive in April 1928 at Nürburgring race course speedway in Nürburg, Germany. The words "Sander-Raketen" (Sander rockets) painted on side of the car. A man near the automobile presents flowers to the woman, just before they start. Photographers take pictures and a man in foreground is seen hand cranking a motion picture camera to record the event. Car on the speedway track. Rockets ignite, propelling the car along the track. Spectators watch.
Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz set a flight record (1927) in Dessau,Germany. The crowds wave at a W-33 Junker plane in air. A sign on the ground reads '9 o' clock, 51 hours and 12 minutes'. The plane comes in for landing. The crowd rushes towards the plane. The W-33 junker plane lands. Pilots get out of the cockpit of the plane. Flowers are presented to the pilot, Cornelius Edzard and the copilot, Johann Risticz. They drink from cups. They hold flowers and bystanders wave.
Exterior of hangar constructed for LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Interior of hangar.