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German rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel and associates testing an Achenstaber rocket in 1931

First test of a precursor to the Mirak rocket in Germany. Diagram of the so-called Achenstaber rocket.. Rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel, and an associate, hold the long slender rocket. A barn with sandbagged window is seen behind them. The men lower the rocket through guidance brackets in a wooden pole. The rocket fuse is ignited and the rocket rises fairly high into the sky but tilts over and dives, crashing into the ground. Riedel and associates stand near a truck carrying metal framework designed to guide a rocket.

Location: Germany
Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024409
Scenes in an Inner mongolian town during 1931.

British flag flying over a walled compound. Signs on compound wall in Russian and Chinese. French flag flies over a building of the "Thrift and Investment, Finance and Trust Corporation." A chinese man shines shoes of a Westerner. A Chinese traditional health practitioner works at a table covered with cloth containing an image of a human figure with various points on the body annotated. The cloth contains many other Chinese formulaic writings. He appears to be writing a prescription for a woman. Several Chinese boys play on a windswept sidewalk. An infant crawls behind them. Two Chinese women walk in a deserted street, with their toddler children. A bird sits in a cage hanging over the sidewalk. A horse and wagon stand at the curb, Two horses and wagons are seen at a curb with a foal apparently sleeping between them. Views of men playing Mahjong inside a sidewalk parlor. Others watch. Farmers filling barrels of water while their cattle-drawn wagons stand in a stream.

Location: Mongolia
Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Chinese
Clip: 65675025070
Scenes in rural France

Quiet rural scenes in France. Clouds gather over a windmill used to grind grain into flour. Bells toll in a church tower. A priest walks past a Crucifix on a stone wall, outdoors. Bells toll in various churches. A thatch-roofed house near a stream. Pets move around the outside of the house. Hens on the path. A farm woman near a cow, leading the cow to drink from a canal. A water wheel in motion. A castle with a bridge over an adjacent stream.

Location: France
Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031145
Baseball player Babe Ruth exercises during the 1931-32 offseason

Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1932, January 7
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026479
Aged waiters participate in the Annual Wine Race in Paris, France.

Elderly waiters participate in the Annual Wine Race in Paris, France. Man fills glasses with wine. Group of aged waiters run to participate in the competition. Waiters rush to the booth to get wine glasses. Elderly waiters jump out of a restaurant window. They laugh and enjoy during the competition. 65-year-old veteran Pierre Jacques de la Fontaine wins the race in Montmartre.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1931, November 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022474
M Farge after winning annual wine barrel rolling championship in Vincennes, France.

French wine market workers take part in annual wine keg championship in Vincennes, France. Spectators in stands. The participants roll wine barrels on end around a racecourse. M Farge is the new champion after the barrel sprint.

Location: Vincennes France
Date: 1931, June 25
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035136
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