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Reinhold Tiling's recoverable rocket demonstrated at Tempelhof airdrome in 1932.

View of the Tempelhof airfield. One of Reinhold Tiling's recoverable rockets is fired and rises high above the field. As its fuel is exhausted, it levels off and begins to glide down to earth on its extended fin-wings. Tiling, his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, examine and pick up the recovered rocket as official observers gather around them. Tiling and his team pose, with the revovered rocket, for cameramen and reporters, Closeup of the rocket as Tiling touches the expended fuel cylinder. They then unfold fins and Tiling explains their function to reporters. Tiling and his team carefully raise another rocket on its launch frame at a different location, on sand dunes.Angela Buddenboehmer sits on the sand with the launch control as Tiling gives her the signal to close the circuit. The rocket fires and rises rapidly until its fuel burns out, when it begins to glide down on its wings.

Date: 1932, November 13
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024389
German engineer, Reinhold Tilling, conducts the first successful mail-rocket flight, on Dümmersee near Osnabrück,Germany

Men carefully move a Tiling mail rocket from a boat on a canal, handing it up to others on shore. Row boats are seen in the canal and sailboats on the lake (Dümmersee) in the background. The rocket is carefully carried with fins folded and placed on the ground. Reinhold Tiling with his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, prepare the rocket for launch. View of rocket, being held,sitting on its nose. In next scene, the rocket is placed on its launch pole,in the marsh, behind a man sitting in a boat.The launch team raises the rocket. In next scene,viewed at a safe distance, the rocket emits smoke, rises rapidly, and slowly turns toward the lake (Dümmersee). Next, the rocket is seen on the surface of the lake with its wings open, as the team, standing in a boat, recovers it. A completely new sequence begins on Sunday, August 21, 1932,with more rocket launches at Atterheide-Osnabrück. Several Tiling rockets are seen laid out on the ground, with their wings opened. Closeup of a single rocket. Still photographs of show a rocket early in launch and another of rocket curving away later in the flight.

Date: 1931, April 15
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024388
Flashbacks show USS Wakefield being christened as SS Manhattan, and famous passengers aboard in the early 1930s

Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070724
Mix of moving images and still photos showing events in life of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling

Film opens showing large cloud of white smoke rising from a rocket propelled rail car. That is followed by a series of still pictures showing various designs of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling. Next, the airplane used to test fire Tilling's rockets at altitude, in 1933, is seen, with rockets slung beneath its wings. Pilot is seen climbing into the airplane cockpit. This is followed by series of photographs taken from the ground as rockets are fired from the plane. The airplane is seen small, at altitude, in some. Scene shifts to fire raging at one of Reinhold Tilling workshops, at Osnabruck, Germany, where he and two assistants were fatally injured when gunpowder charges they were compressing for rocket engines, exploded on October 10, 1933. Slate (in German) reads German rocket pioneer engineer Reinhard Tilling shot one of his rockets, on Tempelhof Feld near Berlin, 800 meters into the air. The rocket landed 500 meters away from the launch site, on November 13, 1932. Change of scene shows men standing in a boat on Lake Dümmersee as they retrieve a Tilling postal rocket from the water. Its wings are extended in the glide position. Views of other boats on the lake and of men holding several folded postal rockets.

Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675072679
Scenes of World War 1 and the period between the wars, illuminating career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold.

Newspaper headline in Washington post reads 'United States and Germany at War'. Civilians recruited into the army. American pilots of the 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron, in France, with their Spad aircraft. American airplane production factories in operation, with manny women war production workers seen assembling aircraft. People celebrate in the streets at end of World War I at time of armistice. Airplanes, under command of General Billy Mitchell bomb obsolete warships in demonstration of aircraft power in warfare. 1920s: Postwar flyers and stunt wing walkers perform in the roaring twenties. Developments and improvements in parachutes, and view as stunt men parachute from high buildings and airplanes. Aircraft flying forest fire patrols. Aerial view of burning forest fire below. Lieutenant Colonel Arnold commands emergency airlift and drop of food to snowbound Native American Indians in American Southwest, in 1932. World War I scene of American 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron Spad airplanes taking off, in France. Lieutenant Colonel Hap Arnold with his family, including two young boys and a young girl (his sons and daughter) and his wife.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042990
Crown Prince Friederich Wilhelm of Germany is interviewed by an American reporter in Salzburg, Austria

Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, being interviewed by an American reporter. Asked about unemployment in Europe, he blames the Treaty of Versailles and opines that until the Treaty conditions are fundamentally changed there will be no peace and no quiet, commercially or economically, in Europe. Questioned about the future of Germany, the crown Prince affirms his confidence in Germany's future, suggesting that if America had not entered the war, Germany would have defeated the Allies. The interviewer asks if he had ever visited America. He responds that he had hoped to go for the Olympic games, but the political conditions prevented him from leaving Germany.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071556