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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
The start of outdoor testing for Johannes Winkler's liquid rocket fuels in Germany

Outdoor views of Johannes Winkler's beginning work to test liquid rocket fuels. A camp with a tent, and various apparatus set up in a deserted area outdoors. Views in warm weather and also in snow. Winkler working with assistants. A policeman standing nearby. A rocket fuel test device is fired and travels a short distance close to the ground. Winkler and team walk to the landing place, accompanied by a policeman with an Alsatian dog. Winkler holds up the test device.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024402
Rocket testing by German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, at the lake lake Dümmersee in Germany

Still pictures of early German rockets on tripod launchers. A number of small rockets laying on the ground partially covered with a tarpaulin. Several men on a hillside with a rocket launcher pointed horizontally. Fleeting glimpse of the work shop of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, followed by views of several men holding a Tilling postal rocket nose down with its wings folded. They are standing in tall marsh grass near lake Dümmersee. Next, Reinhold Tilling is seen with his assistant, Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, making adjustments to a rocket, with its wings open. Men carry the rocket with its wings folded and place it on a tall pole. Next, the rocket launches straight into the air. Men maneuver in a sailboat and other boats in the Dümmersee, preparing to retrieve a Tilling rocket. Closeup of the men in the sailboat. Several men in a long boat near marsh grass where a Tilling rocket has landed.

Date: 1931
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072682
Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on U.S. census from 1820 to 1931 in USA; also some Wall Street depression scenes

George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census around 1960. A slide of U.S. map appears on the screen. 1820 and population figures are marked on part of the map inhabited at that time. The reasons for the increase in the population are discussed by George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser. In the next slide census figures of 1830 appears. Concern for the handicapped lead to including of deaf, dumb and blind category in this census is shown. Dr Philip Hauser shows cartoons appearing in newspapers of that time to George Stone. In the next slide, census figures of 1850 and 7 classes of occupation of people are seen. A percentage representation of various occupations in the population is given in the next slide. The stress on accuracy of 1850 census is seen in the next slide. A comparison of number of occupations of males and females from 1840 to 1870 is shown in the next slide. Census of 1930 is mentioned in the next slide. 1931 is shown as a Special Unemployment Census. Newspaper headlines about stock market crash is seen. Around clip timecode 8:13 are images of Wall Street New York Stock Exchange floor near time of stock market crash. Wall Street region in New York City filled with people and views of lines or queues for homeless, unemployed, or food during the Great Depression.

Date: 1929
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023756
US baseball players visit Japan in 1931; also anti-Japanese propaganda circa 1941-1942 during World War 2.

Huge crowd attends baseball game between visiting American players and Japanese team in Tokyo, 1931. Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons and Lefty Grove mentioned by announcer but not seen. American representatives walk out to pitcher's mound to greet pitcher. Shots of Babe Ruth hitting. Shots of Japanese player rounding third, sliding safely into home. Film suddenly morphs into anti-Japanese propaganda circa 1941-1942; shows Japanese newspaper publisher who was murdered. Scenes of sumo wresting and judo seen and compared to alleged acts of Japanese diplomatic and military treachery and spying. Shots of fishermen, tourists, barbers and others said to be spies and soldiers for Tokyo. Closeup of a Japanese man gardening. Japanese men on small fishing boats, raising boat sails, and pulling in heavy loads of tuna fish in nets. Japanese tourists supposedly taking photographs of American ships in Hawaii. Female Japanese barbers giving haircuts. Japanese military officials in Japan organizing papers, films, and incoming information. Japanese industrialist figure emerging from car. Scenes of Japanese industry supporting war preparations: Exterior views of Japanese factories in Osaka, textile mill operations in Tokyo, chemical plant operations in Nagoya, steel mills, and a large newly completed ship being launched in Nagasaki. Overhead view of steel mill operations. View of a slum town area in Japan and simple living arrangements of Japanese citizens. Japanese laborers at work in small home factories for textiles, pottery, and other goods, said to be in "semi-slavery." Workers include men, women, and child labor. Shows production of goods said to be produced in other countries that are pirated, mislabeled by Japan, and dumped abroad to undercut competitors. Products shown include factories and production lines for spark plugs, scotch whiskey, matches, silk, cotton, bottled beer, toothbrushes, hair brushes, hair combs, and American flags. Shipping dock areas in Japan showing large ships at docks, cranes in use, and importing of oil, rubber, scrap iron, tin for war materiel.

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040808
Optical illusion to aid aerial warfare in Berlin, Germany.

Men spread a large piece of cloth which shows dark figure of an aircraft painted on cloth. Aircraft parked in the background on field. Aircraft in flight with the cloth hanging beneath which looks like two planes in flight. Cloth is detached from plane while aircraft flies. Piece of cloth falls down.

Date: 1931, January 5
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051978