V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during World War II. Various stages of the pre-firing preparation. Technicians work on the rocket. Installation of equipment in the war head of V-2. Jeep carries instruments to the launching area. The V-2 rocket in the launching tower. A truck carries the trailer for hauling the V-2.
V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The truck carries liquid oxygen for fueling of rocket. Personnel work on the rocket. Vapors of liquid oxygen coming out of pipe from the V-2. The rocket standing alone as the tower is removed.
V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Red smoke comes out of the control blockhouse. The rocket ready for launch. People gathered around the rocket. Last minute adjustments made by the technicians. V-2 rocket fired. Smoke trails emitted by the rocket. The V-2 lands 30 miles away. People move around it. Wing of camera ship visible. (World War II period).
Cars drive by American Airlines terminal at New York's Idlewild airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport). Views of Parkway and cars in front of passenger terminal. 'American' written on a wall. Boeing 707 passenger aircraft of American Airlines arrives, carrying passengers Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren who pose for pictures at aircraft door. They walk through airport terminal corridor. Other people walk behind them. Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren sit in a room. Animal trainer Ray Berwick positions a bird on Ms Hedren's shoulders (promoting film "The Birds"). Cameramen take photographs. Hitchcock and Hedren walk through the airport terminal and enter a car to leave followed by photographers. Animal trainer, Ray Berwick, leaves the airport, followed by Uniformed porters carrying containers of birds. He personally carries one large black bird on his left arm.
Aviatrix Elinor Smith escapes a plane crash in Mineola, New York. Her plane crashes in height flight trial. Elinor Smith is unhurt. A plane in the background. A man stands near her. Several men gathered around her. A man smokes. Elinor Smith wears her sun glasses.
The launch of United States nuclear submarine Thresher. Newly developed deeper nuclear submarine Thresher is launched by Fredrick B. Warder at a ceremony in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Naval officers applaud at the launching. Thresher underway at sea.
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