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Rocket motor designs by International scientists and inventors, reflecting early work by German rocket researchers
Designs by various international scientists and inventors who have contributed to solving the problems of rocket motor development, based on the German preparatory work. Their combustion chamber designs owe much to the German pioneers in the field. Shown are design sketches by Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Ziolkowsky) in 1914; French inventor Henri Melot, in 1920; German Friedrich Zander, in 1931; Bull, 1932; The American Rocket Society, with several designs from 1932; and The Cleveland Rocket Society. Views of rocket combustion research activity by Ernst Loebell of the Cleveland Rocket Society in 1933. He is seen outdoors in the snow with his apparatus. View of Loebell's test firing stand, and a picture of an actual test firing, outdoors. Ernst Loebell with model and rocket motor from his spaceship projects of 1934 and at the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris, 1937. Cutaway views of the spaceship. The rocket motor wrapped in cooling coils. Rocket motor design by John Shesta of the American Rocket Society, from 1934. Design by Rene Armengaud of France, in 1934 and Deich in 1935.
Newsreel restrospective produced following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (WW2)
Opening scene shows the White House in Washington, DC. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt seated, ready to address the Nation by radio. View of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. FDR with his entire family posing, in front of the family home "Springwood" at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, seen in a sail boat, in 1929. FDR in his car at his Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He is speaking with a man associated with the Institute, who then greets several polio victims in wheel chairs there. Crowds celebrating Roosevelt's election, in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, in 1932. Roosevelt, at the Democratic Headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel on November 8, 1932. He is standing, supported by his son James, as he remarks: "It looks my friends like a real landslide this time." Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol. FDR taking the oath of office on March 4, 1933. Brief view of New York Stock Exchange trading floor. A man looking at stock market ticker tape. A group of people raising a National Recovery Administration member flag. Glimpse of "Springwood" and then view of President Roosevelt sitting next to his mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. Next, as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in the garden, their grandchildren, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie") come past riding horses, with granddaughter Sara, behind them on a pony. FDR pets the pony and talks with Sara. FDR being nominated for a second term as President, in the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt, riding in an inaugural motorcade as he begins an unprecedented 4th term as President in 1941. Glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in an open car. West point cadets marching in the inaugural parade. Military trucks towing artillery pieces in the parade. President Roosevelt speaking at the dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association at the Willard hotel in Washington, DC, March 15, 1941. He extols the virtues of Winston Churchill and the British people. And he promises that America will supply them with the war materiel they need in World War II (This is known as the Lend Lease Speech.)
Workers work at Los Angeles stadium during preparation of 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Preparation for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The opening scene is a flashback of footage from the 1932 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A group of men play long horn bugles. Olympic competitors walking on stadium track during opening or closing ceremony of the 1932 Olympics. Scene changes to modern day 1983 views of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA). The entrance door reads 'Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum'. A truck picks up cylindrical containers from the grounds. The truck spreads red paint on the floor and the workers work by the side. Red stone gravels. A worker sprays water on the ground. A stone fence reads 'University of Southern California'. Men stand near an Olympic swimming pool. A crane digs mud. Men work at the construction site.
Montage of scenes related to Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Point of view shot from rear car of railroad train being pulled by a steam locomotive over the South Manchuria Railway in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. View of railroad tracks stretching out over plains and flatlands behind, and smoke from the locomotive drifts behind. The train is stopped at a sign reading Manchuria (in Cyrillic) and in Chinese. The locomotive emits steam. Camera pans to a railroad station building at the side of the railroad. Next is seen, a small Japanese graveyard containing several stone monuments and a number of upright grave markers. The ground is snow-covered. Change of scene shows two groups of high-flying military aircraft in V formations. The next scene is an aerial view from an airplane flying over a river valley surrounded by rugged terrain. Next is seen a column of Japanese Army vehicles moving across snow-covered terrain. An armored car moves ahead of the column. (It is a Secherad-Panzerkraftwagen Sumida, Model 2590, armored car.) A long column, of mostly army trucks, follows. Japanese soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets,escort a soldier carrying their unit colors, furled and in a case. An informal group of Japanese soldiers, watch from nearby. A long column of Japanese infantry, move across desert terrain. A troop column interspersed with vehicles, continues over rugged desert terrain. A column of military vehicles. Aerial view of Japanese bombers in loose V formation. One circles slowly. An unidentified Japanese twin engine high wing monoplane (possibly amphibian) with open cockpit, drops a torpedo, or bomb. Sudden scene change to a bomb falling and explosions on the ground as bombs strike. Pursuit aircraft maneuvering. Three Japanese Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87 bombers in formation, dropping many bombs. Aerial views of bombs striking, and ground views of explosions.
Fa Tan University student group boards train to reach Nanking and lay their objective before President Chiang.
Fu Tan University students gather and select a group representing them for journey to Nanking and lay their objective before President Chiang. Crowd gathered outside a railroad station. Police guards keep a watch. The selected people move ahead to board a train for the capitol without paying fares followed by police guards. Train leaves the station.
Rape of Nanking during 2nd Sino-Japanese war
Massacres in Nanking during second Sino-Japanese war. Japanese army troops and Type 89 I-Go tanks enter city gates to occupy Nanking, China. they break into a building and take away a Chinese man on a rope tether. Chinese inhabitants confined by the city walls are unable to escape brutal treatment by Japanese soldiers who are seen dragging men, women and children to be shot. Many are herded into a pit where Japanese soldiers standing above, execute them with rifle fire, as others fill the pit with earth, burying any survivors, alive. Two Chinese kneeling with arms tied behind them are summarily executed by soldiers with rifles. A Japanese officer follows with a pistol to assure their death. Bodies of slain Chinese civilians litter an alleyway. Many scenes of dead Chinese. (Narrator states that Japanese troops murdered 40 thousand men, women and children.) Japanese Field Marshal Count Terauchi Hisaichi is seen stepping from a transport airplane, followed by Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Count Terauchi looks pleased as he is greeted and exchanges salutes with other officers. Next, the scene reverts, again to the horrors of Chinese peoples' suffering in Nanking, at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Views of injured and wounded Chinese civilians, at a hospital, in pictures taken by an American Missionary, and smuggled out of china. A woman holding her injured husband as he lies against a cushion in a street. A small child stands near them. Scene shifts to a smiling Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, greeting local commanders, while photographers record the event in background. Views revert to the destruction and human tragedy in Nanking. A picture of Chinese leader, Sun Yat Sen. Chiang Kai-Shek speaking at a podium, and other Chinese political leaders speaking to gathered people, throughout unoccupied China, encouraging them to unite and resist Japanese aggression. Chinese people parading with banners to encourage resistance. Chinese soldiers and political leaders collaborating to raise armies. Chiang Kai-Shek ascending to Political leadership, exhorting Chinese to unite and fight the Japanese. Numerous scenes of rallies calling for unity and resistance. Chinese military officers standing as Chiang Kai-Shek enters a planning session. He sits and then they do. Behind him on the wall is a map of China. Closeup of Chiang as he outlines a strategy to slowly yield territory to Japanese invaders, to buy time for developing and arming Chinese forces. One of his staff goes to a wall map and gestures as he speaks. Next, Chinese soldiers are seen setting dynamite charges and blowing up lines of communication (roads). Chinese people pour petrol on grain fields and set them ablaze. Factory buildings being blown up and similar destruction as China pursues a "scorched earth" policy to hinder the Japanese invaders. Millions of Chinese people on the move to Western parts of China. (Narrator calls this the greatest human migration ever recorded.)
